🙋♀️ FAQ
Why is World Emoji Day on July 17?
July 17 is the one date that is shown in its own emoji. Famously displayed in the 📅 Calendar Emoji, this makes July 17 the perfect date for 🌏 World Emoji Day.
Why does the Calendar Emoji show July 17?
This is the date that iCal for Mac was first announced at MacWorld Expo in 2002. We now use this for World Emoji Day.
Who created World Emoji Day?
🌍 World Emoji Day was created by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge in 2014. World Emoji Day will be celebrating ten years of celebration all things emoji in 2023. 📙 Emojipedia is the custodian of this global holiday and responsible for this very website.
Emojipedia serves over 45 million emoji lookups each month and we spend our time updating 📃 emoji definitions, tracking emoji 🔄 changes, and keeping the world informed about the latest emoji additions and ✅ approvals.
Emojipedia® and World Emoji Day® are brought to you by Zedge, the #1 phone personalization app in the world.
What is the purpose of World Emoji Day?
We 💖 love emojis. You 💙 love emojis. Let’s 🎉 celebrate them! The purpose of 🌎 World Emoji Day is to promote the use emojis and spread the 😋 enjoyment that they bring to all of those 👬👫👭 around us. Emojis are for 😊 all of us.
Anyone can join in the celebration using the hashtag #WorldEmojiDay.
When was the first World Emoji Day?
The first 🌎 World Emoji Day was celebrated on July 17, 2014 and the first tweet about #WorldEmojiDay was on July 11, 2014.
Prior to the existence of 🌏 World Emoji Day people would sometimes post 📲 the Calendar Emoji on July 17, too!
What happens on World Emoji Day?
People celebrate 🌏 World Emoji Day in different ways. Some people hold 🎉 parties or 🙌 events, others like to get 🎨 creative sharing emoji art online.
What else happens on World Emoji Day?
🏢 Companies use 🌏 World Emoji Day to launch emoji-related promotions, and host emoji events.
In 2020, Google announced plans to bring back some classic emoji designs, and we got a look at new emoji coming to iOS, including a Ninja!
For 2019, Apple previewed a host of new emoji designs, the British Library held a talk on all things emoji, and Google offered a glimpse at 65 new emoji coming later that year.
In 2018, we got a look at some new emoji designs, Kim Kardashian launched new Kimoji fragrances, and the world premiere of ‘Emojiland the Musical’ took place in New York City.
In 2017 the Empire State Building was lit “emoji yellow”, Saks Fifth Avenue hosted an Emoji Red Carpet in New York, and Google retired its emoji blobs.
Where can I read more about World Emoji Day?
You can find a selection of articles from over the years about World Emoji Day on our press page.
What is the best emoji?
The 👌 best emoji is the one you like the most. Or the 🐢 turtle. You decide.
Who can I contact with a media enquiry?
🙆 For media enquiries about 🌏 World Emoji Day, or Emojipedia, please get in touch. We can’t get back to all enquiries, but we try our best!
We have high resolution versions of our emoji sample images and Globe-moji, the World Emoji Day mascot available upon request.