Instagram adds emoji slider stickers to spice up polls
If you’ve been meaning to ask your friends just how eggplant emoji your new summer cutoffs are, you’re in luck. Today, Instagram is introducing a feature it’s calling the “emoji slider,” a new audience...
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Google’s Gboard now lets you create a set of emoji that look like you
Last summer, Google introduced its own take on Bitmoji with the launch of “Mini” stickers in its keyboard app, Gboard, which leverage machine learning to create illustrated stickers based on your...
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Venmo woos retailers with branded, animated stickers for its newsfeed
Venmo’s newsfeed is about to get more interesting. Historically, the PayPal-owned app’s users would comment on their transactions using text, or, as is more common, emoji. But now the company is...
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Google’s Gboard introduces Emoji Kitchen, a tool to mash up emojis to use as...
If you’ve ever felt like there just weren’t enough emoji options to express how you’re feeling, a new addition to Google’s Gboard keyboard, launching today, aims to help. Gboard for Android is...
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Chat app Line makes over $270 million a year from selling stickers
You may have heard of stickers, the cutesy, cartoonish version of emojis, but did you know that they can also be a money-spinner? Japanese mobile messaging app Line is banking more than $20 million per...
View ArticleChat app Line targets $1.14B raise in what could be 2016’s largest tech IPO
Line, the messaging app from Asia famed for its cutesy yet expressive emoji-like stickers, is on track to hold 2016’s largest tech public listing. The company today announced pricing for its dual...
View ArticleTwitter introduces ‘promoted stickers’ for brands, with Pepsi as first partner
Twitter made its stickers for photos available to everyone at the end of last month, and now the company has quickly followed that up with the launch of its first branded stickers. Twitter calls them...
View ArticleImoji prepares to open its sticker and emoji platform up to brands
At this point I think the world knows that stickers and emoji aren’t frivolous. There are certainly plenty of examples to suggest that this new kinda of media type is being taken more seriously than it...
View ArticleThis crazy iMessage app lets you prank friends by putting words in their mouth
Got iOS 10? Want to mess with your friends? A hilarious new iMessage App called Phoneys lets you prank others by sending stickers that look exactly like iMessage text bubbles. And thanks to the new...
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Instagram Stories launches overlaid Stickers for locations, emoji, and seasons
Instagram is launching its answer to Snapchat geofilters, offering a way to spice up your photos and videos with Stickers that display basic location names, time, weather, and emoji. There’s also...
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Tumblr brings photo filters and stickers to its iOS, iMessage and Android apps
Tumblr today is launching two new tools for creative expression, stickers and filters, which could become another revenue stream for the Yahoo-owned company, if it chooses to go in that direction in...
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Giphy is getting into the sticker business with 12 artist-created iMessage...
Remember when Emojis were niche? Now, everyone and their mom (literally) uses them. Messaging stickers seem to be in the middle of a similar transition, slowing but surely becoming more regularly used...
View ArticleGiphy quietly acquired imoji to build out its emoji and sticker business
Last week, GIF-finding platform Giphy revealed a new line of business offering artist-created stickers in Apple’s iMessage app. But what it didn’t announce was that it also made an acquisition to...
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Amazon adds shoppable stickers to its iOS app
Using stickers to decorate your photos is a common feature found in social apps like Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and others. But today, stickers have started showing up in a more surprising...
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Prisma’s next AI project is a fun selfie sticker maker called Sticky
What do you do after garnering tens of millions of downloads and scores of clones of your AI-powered style transfer app? Why, keep innovating of course. Meet Sticky, the next app from the startup...
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Google brings stickers and Bitmoji support to its Gboard for Android
Gboard for Android is getting support for stickers for all those times you just can’t find the right GIF. Words, after all, can’t always express how we really feel. Gboard will allow you to insert...
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Skype launches Photo Effects – sticker suggestions powered by machine learning
Not content with merely launching its own take on Instagram and Snapchat’s Stories, Skype today is adding another copycat-like feature to its app: photo stickers. The company says it’s introducing new...
View ArticleRaden is betting sticker mania will stick in the physical world
While smart suitcase startup Raden is inarguably a hardware company, they’ve decided to test the social waters by diving headfirst into the world of stickers. The company is launching a sticker store...
View ArticleTile rolls out ‘Lost and Found’ QR code stickers to complement its hardware...
After getting Sherlocked by Apple’s AirTag and exiting to Life360 late last year, lost item tracker Tile is launching a new product — and it’s not a hardware device. Today, the company introduced new...
View ArticleInstagram jazzes up its DMs with stickers, photo editing, and themes
Meta-owned Instagram is jazzing up the inbox by adding new features for photo editing, sticker creation and themes. The company is trying to make Instagram more appealing as a messaging app with...
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