Today I have some great animated content resources to help you improve your marketing campaigns. Here’s four links with tips and tricks to kick start your work week.

Your brand reach can be greatly enhanced with eye-catching visuals — especially for mobile audiences. Would you like to attract more followers? Take advantage of these GIF tools, and let me know how these work for you!

1) Share and create catchy animations – GIPHY

Gone are days of popular moving images once seen everywhere on AOL, MySpace, and the Internet. Video has changed the way we share content. Giphy includes hundreds of animated GIFs to choose from in different categories. Not only do these images create a great conversation, they give brands an opportunity to grow their audience and spark some excitement. Choose from their collection or create your own fun animation.

2) Customize your content into GIFs – PicMonkey

Improve your likes, retweets and comments on social media with eye-catching visuals. PicMonkey is an easy design tool that will help create your own GIFs whether this be from a photo, video, text and more. Start with their pre-sized templates, which offer multiple variations. Their filters and effects will help you create something that is unique to your branded content and audience.

3) Create simple brand visuals – Ezgif.com

If your business wants to hook your audience’s attention through visual marketing then this free tool will do just that very easily. Ezgif.com helps turn your images and videos into GIPHs that can be used on your website, in an email, or on social media. Simply upload your files and use their controls to crop, adjust speed, add special effects, and more. Once you are finished download the graphic and preview on your computer or mobile device.

4) Animate images into GIFs – Canva GIF Maker

Quickly and easily enhance your photos from your computer to make a high-quality visually appealing image. Canva GIF Maker allows you to express a message, spark a conversation, and encourage feedback online. Their extensive library includes unique templates that can be customized, downloaded, and shared online.

Hopefully you will find these visual content tools useful to your marketing strategy. Are there any that you would like to add as well?

Have fun with these tips and tools.

Wishing you a FAN-tastic week!

Susan