The native ad specialist TripleLift recently finished testing and hit the market with a cinemagraph format, in which there’s an instant of motion within a static image. The cinemagraph format has ...

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Last year, we told you how cinemagraphs — GIFs in which only a small part of a still photo is animated, creating an eerie effect — would become the hot new creative vehicle for advertisers. In March, ...

Mario Sahe-Lacheante began creating cinemagraphs (still images with animated elements) in 2015. “The first cinemagraphs I saw were probably three or four years ago … I remember the feeling of being ...

GIF, a filetype that celebrated its 25th anniversary this past June (don’t you feel old now?), won’t die. And the animated GIF, in particular, has seen a notable resurgence recently, as a newer, ...

Over the last while the proliferation of cinemagraphs has been unmistakable. You can’t scroll thru Facebook or Twitter without catching one. Even the new iPhones want to make your pictures move. So it ...

You'll recognize a cinemagraph the moment you see one. They're hypnotic, mostly still images with artistically rendered, subtle motion—kind of like the moving photographs and paintings in the Harry ...

For marketers, piquing consumers' interest online is now harder than ever. Internet users rarely click on banner ads and their favorite websites and social media services are rapidly filling up with ...

When a mere photo just isn’t enough, a video seems like too much, and nothing seems quite right, it’s time to contemplate creating a cinemagraph. This medium combines still photos and video in a ...