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Bitstrips Closes $8M Series B As It Launches Custom Emoji App, Bitmoji
What happens when stickers and emoji collide in a bespoke mash-up that uses your own self-image as the canvas? Bitmoji happens that’s what: a new Android and iOS app from personalized comic strips app...
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Chat App Line’s User-Generated Sticker Program Nets $30M In Its First Six Months
Line has revealed that it sold more than $30 million (¥3.59 billion) in user-generated stickers from independent ‘creators’ during the first six months of launching its Creators Marketplace service....
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Google Hangouts For Android Gets Smarter, Adds Video Filters And More
Google’s Hangouts app for Android is getting a major update today, as the company’s VP of Product for Google+ Bradley Horowitz announced at the LeWeb conference in Paris this morning. Some of these...
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Line Releases A Standalone Sticker App For Discovering New Stickers Because…...
If you think Facebook’s standalone app for adding stickers to your photos is overkill, then the Line Stickers app for iOS and Android is most definitely not for you. Read More
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Facebook’s Mobile Apps Now Let You Plaster Stickers All Over Your Photos
Facebook has raised its sticker game with an update to its iOS and Android apps that allows users to decorated new photos with stickers and post them to the social network. Read More
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Imoji Launches An SDK To Put Millions Of Custom Emoji In All Your Apps
Apple’s new set of ‘diversity’ emoji attracted a lot of attention when it was released in all of its glorious shades last week — but what comes next? What is beyond the emoji? The tiny animations have...
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Line’s User-Generated Sticker Market Made $75M During Its First Year
Last May, messaging app Line launched its Creators Market, a platform that lets all users make and sell stickers. Now Line has disclosed how the platform performed during its freshman year (a followup...
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Fleksy Partners With Imoji To Add Stickers To Its Popular iOS And Android...
⚠️ Warning ⚠️ You may be about to see a lot of gigantic emoji surface across chat apps and other mobile apps you use. That’s because popular keyboard Fleksy launched integrated stickers into its iOS...
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Snapchat seamlessly combines video, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Chat 2.0”
Say what you want, how you want. That’s how Snapchat’s reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Chat 2.0, a massive set of new features launching today. It lets private conversations morph between mediums...
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Spice up your Snapchats with Stickers, not just emojis
Snapchat just rolled out an update that lets users decorate their Snaps with the 200+ stickers they released as part of Chat 2.0. The new feature works exactly like emojis — they even live inside the...
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Lollicam is a real-time mobile video tool for adding cinematic effects to...
When will teens get tired of taking selfies? Probably never given the myriad ways they can augment what nature gave them thanks the power of the smartphone in their pocket. And YC-backed Lollicam is...
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Chat app Line makes over $270 million a year from selling stickers
Japanese mobile messaging app Line is banking more than $20 million per month selling sticker packs, which typically trade for $1-2 for sets of 6-12, according to data from the company. Read More
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Chat 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...
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Twitter 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. Read More
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Imoji 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...
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This 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...
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Giphy 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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