

Animated GIFs are enjoying a renaissance both on the web and in email marketing. In the internet’s early years, GIFs (and the marquee and blink tags) were the primary method of adding movement to a web page.Ī lot has changed since the 1990s. Similar to how a flipbook works, GIFs rapidly display a series of images to produce the illusion of motion.

More importantly, though, GIFs can be animated. Due to wide support across browsers and email clients, GIFs have been a popular image format since the early days of the internet. GIF, which stands for Graphics Interchange Format, is an image format developed by CompuServe in 1987.
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How to make animated GIFs with Adobe Animate.

So how can you get in on this action? In this blog post, we’ll cover: According to our 2020 State of Email data, 51.28% of marketers said they’re using animated GIFs at least sometimes in their marketing emails. Enter: Animated GIFs in email.Įmail marketers are increasingly turning to animated GIFs in email to provide extra visual interest in their messages. But with so much competition for subscribers’ attention, you need to get creative about how to entice readers to click through and care about your message.
