Mobile GIF platform Tenor is out with the list of its top 5 gifts this year. The company's co-founder and CEO David McIntosh explains what they say about sentiment in 2017.
The top five GIFs of 2017 are the guy blinking, baby crying, Jonah Hill's "yay," Shaq laughing, and Obama's "Oh yeah." McIntosh says negative emotion searches went up 31 percent in 2017. Meanwhile, positive emotions decreased 18 percent.
"We can get a great sense of how people are actually thinking and feeling," says McIntosh. Though GIF searches were more negative overall, searches for "laughing" nearly doubled since 2017.
Between Bells: Motor Trend's Car, Truck, and SUV of the year, the top entertainment stories of 2017, and gearing up for recreational cannabis legalization in 2018. We're joined by Cannabis Culture, Rare Media, PCMag, Hollywood Life and more.
Instagram is filled with "dogfluencers," but not all those viral pets are helping to make a difference in their communities. Melissa Molomo and her dog, Clyde the Bully, join Cheddar to discuss how they're helping the Bully breed bust stereotypes.
Kentucky's long history of bourbon production is mostly dominated by male executives, but that's changing thanks to one distillery. Michter's Distillery's Andrea Wilson joins Cheddar to discuss what it took to crash one of the spirit industry's most notorious boys' clubs.
By many accounts, 2017 may be the marijuana industry's best year ever. Cannabis Culture's Jodie Emery joins Cheddar to review the many strides made across the legalization movement.
From Oscar mix-ups to ice dragons, there were no slow news days this year in the world of entertainment. Hollywood Life's Lauren Cox joins us to recap the 2017's biggest pop-culture stories.
With high-quality cameras built into every smartphone, it has never been easier to snap a photo. Now, Neomodern wants to help you turn those beautiful pics into printed and framed pieces of art.
The experience economy is on the rise as consumers are trending toward spending money on events rather than things. Velocity Black wants to capitalize on the shift with a subscription service app catering to the elite.
It's no surprise that the year "fake news" entered our vocabularies was a controversial one for media. NewsBusters' Curtis Houck joins Cheddar to break down the year's most polarizing press events.
Now that the holidays have passed, we are officially in return season! Americans return about $380 billion worth of merchandise each year, and around 1/4th of the returns happen around the holidays. With shipping, storage, and re-sale complications, returns can be a major headache for retailers. Tobin Moore is the CEO and founder of Optoro, a reverse logistics technology company that helps major retailers manage their returns.
Champagne isn't the only type of alcohol perfect for New Year's Eve. The Brass Tap's Calvin Boayue joins Cheddar with some holiday beer pairings perfect for washing down your leftover holiday cookies.
