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56 articles – accelerating

Shutterstock’s $53M cash plan to buy Giphy from Meta closed a three-year arc in which UK regulators forced Meta to unwind its acquisition.

Who they are

Giphy is a GIF-content and distribution service whose value in this coverage lies in its integrations across social and messaging products. It appeared as the asset Facebook, later Meta, sought to buy and integrate with Instagram, while platforms including Reddit and TikTok used its library and tools for GIF comments and creator features.

The recent arc

Coverage peaked around Facebook’s 2020 purchase announcement and then shifted decisively from product integration to merger scrutiny. Early stories focused on Facebook keeping Giphy’s brand while integrating it with Instagram, alongside concerns that the deal could give Facebook insight into GIF sharing beyond its own apps. The UK Competition and Markets Authority opened an investigation soon afterward.】【”】【},{

Giphy has appeared in 56 articles since 2015-03. Coverage peaked in 2020Q2 with 6 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Facebook, CMA, Meta, Snapchat.

Articles
56
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.500
velocity change
Sources
19
publications

Coverage Timeline

2023-05-23
Reuters 8 related

Shutterstock plans to acquire Giphy from Meta for $53M in cash, after the UK CMA blocked Meta's acquisition in 2022; Meta can still access Giphy content

Stock photos repository Shutterstock Inc (SSTK.N) said on Tuesday it would buy animated-images platform Giphy Inc from Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) for $53 million in cash.

2022-10-18
TechCrunch 15 related

Meta confirms it will divest itself of Giphy globally after UK's CMA gives a final order to sell the company, following a court-ordered reassessment in July

Bye-bye: Meta has again been ordered by the UK's competition watchdog to sell animated GIF platform, Giphy.  And this time it's final.

2020-05-17
Protocol 2 related

John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March

@ow https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... @vivekxk : 1/5 Seems like the Giphy deal is strategically great for FB and probably gave Giphy the lifeline it needed. FB gets valuable intel...

2020-05-16
Protocol 2 related

John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March

John Borthwick was one of Giphy's first believers.  The company, which Facebook just bought for a reported $400 million, launched in 2013 out of Betaworks …

Axios 50 related

Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal is worth ~$400M, while Giphy was valued at ~$600M in its latest round

Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources.

OneZero 59 related

Facebook's purchase of Giphy gives FB insight into how and where gifs are shared outside of its own apps, including device IDs and keystrokes in Giphy tools

GIPHY joins Facebook's data collection arsenal  —  Facebook announced on Friday that it will buy Giphy, a popular GIF search engine …

2020-05-15
Axios 31 related

Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal is worth ~$400M, while Giphy was valued at ~$600M in its latest round

Facebook has agreed to buy Giphy, the popular platform of sharable animated images, Axios has learned from multiple sources.

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TEXXR tracks 63 tech news articles mentioning Giphy, dating back to March 2015. The biggest stories include Facebook's purchase of Giphy gives FB insight into how and where gifs are shared outside... and Facebook to buy Giphy, keep its branding, integrate with Instagram; sources say the deal.... Frequently covered alongside Facebook, CMA, Meta, Instagram, and Snapchat.

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