{"id":66922,"date":"2016-02-02T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=66922"},"modified":"2016-02-02T02:02:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:02:42","slug":"kik-launches-branded-gifs-as-latest-way-to-advertise-on-platform","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/kik-launches-branded-gifs-as-latest-way-to-advertise-on-platform","title":{"rendered":"Kik Launches &#8216;Branded GIFs&#8217; as Latest Way to Advertise on Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/branded-gifs-header-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/>Kik&#8217;s latest product is branded GIFs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>The company launched a GIF emoji keyboard in November and now looks to make money from branded GIFs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We saw an interesting opportunity to enhance the GIF experience with fun and timely content,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kik.com\/2016\/02\/02\/branded-gifs-on-kik\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Canadian company says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These GIFs will be tied to custom emojis and will work the same way as other emoji-GIF options&mdash;just tap on an emoji to see a selection of relevant GIFs, and then tap on the GIF you&rsquo;d like to send.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SEE ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/company-directory\/kik-interactive-inc\">Kik is hiring in Kitchener-Waterloo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kik, founded in 2009, last year raised $50 million from Tencent, China&#8217;s largest internet company, and is valued at up to $1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kik&#8217;s latest product is branded GIFs. The company launched a GIF emoji keyboard in November and now looks to make money from branded GIFs. &#8220;We saw an interesting opportunity to enhance the GIF experience with fun and timely content,&#8221; the Canadian company says. &#8220;These GIFs will be tied to custom emojis and will work the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":66924,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-66922","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/66922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/66922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/66924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66922"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=66922"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=66922"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=66922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}