Does MailChimp support animated gifs?
While you can
technically upload an animated gif, some e-mail clients do NOT support animated gifs.
With Outlook 2007’s shift to HTML rendering in Word, rather than IE, animated gifs do not display. This is the biggest compatibility issue. In Outlook 2007, the first frame is all that appears; designers may want to produce their file so that the first frame contains all the information needed. And as with HTML emails in general, try to design any animated content in such a way that it will fail gracefully.
Additionally we have seen issues with animated gifs breaking if you upload them into our header designer and then try to edit them. The image will be sent through an image editor to physically alter the image (rather than constrain the size with HTML settings) and this process does not handle resizing animated gifs.
You'll want to look over this
detailed blog entry for more info on the use animated gifs in HTML email.
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