Your logo, animated at the top of every issue
How do I add an animated logo to my email newsletter?
Upload your logo to LogoAnimator, pick a motion, and export a looping GIF masthead to place at the top of each issue in Substack, beehiiv, Mailchimp and similar tools. Its first frame is a clean, complete logo, so Outlook on Windows, which shows only that frame, still gets a crisp mark. GIF export needs Pro ($5/month).
A newsletter's masthead is the first thing subscribers see when they open it. A small animated loop of your logo at the top of each issue gives your publication a signature that a flat header can't.
Animate your logoAt the top of every issue.
Rendering live, right now — not a video.
How it works
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Upload your logo
Drop in a PNG or SVG. LogoAnimator samples it into a dot-matrix model right in the browser.
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Pick a motion
A wide masthead reads best with a calm, horizontal loop — a wave or shimmer keeps the header refined rather than busy.
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Export the loop
Export a GIF, host it somewhere you control, and drop it into your newsletter's header image block or reference it with an <img> tag.
Where it works
Most newsletter platforms — Substack, beehiiv, Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Ghost — let you place an image in the header of a broadcast. An animated GIF sits in that same image slot, so your masthead can loop without changing anything about how you send.
The Outlook first frame
Email clients handle animation differently: Apple Mail, the iOS Mail app, and Gmail play GIFs, while desktop Outlook on Windows shows only the first frame. LogoAnimator’s loops are built so that first frame is a clean, fully-formed logo — subscribers on Outlook see a crisp static mark, everyone else sees it move. You never ship a header that looks half-drawn.
Sizing & hosting
Keep the masthead modest — a header a few hundred pixels wide keeps the GIF small enough that it loads before the reader scrolls past. Because many clients strip inline image data from attachments, host the exported file somewhere you control (your CDN, an assets bucket, or your site) and reference it with an <img src> in the header block, exactly as you would any other newsletter image.
Free vs Pro
Animated GIF export is a Pro feature: a clean, looping masthead with no watermark. The SVG-based presets — README embeds, spinners, and favicons — stay free with a watermark.
Bring your logo to life
It takes about ten seconds. Upload a logo and pick an animation.
Animate your logoHost the downloaded GIF somewhere you control and reference it with an <img src> in your newsletter’s header block — most email builders accept a pasted image URL.
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