📰 Press

Here’s a selection of articles from over the years about World Emoji Day. Press Enquiries? Contact [email protected] and we’ll do our best to help.

2022

• Emojipedia — Microsoft Teams’ 3D Fluent Emojis

• The Indian Express — New emojis up for approval in 2022, include symbol of Sikh faith Khanda

2021

• Emojipedia — Emoji Use At All Time High

• Google — Polishing up emoji and making them easier to share

• Microsoft — Why we refreshed out 1800+ emoji to support the new landscape of work

• CreativeBloq — Microsoft's new emoji is a surprising blast from the past

2020

• Emojipedia — First Look: New Emojis coming to iOS in 2020

• Google — New Emoji for Android, plus some returning classics

• Evening Standard — How we fell in love with emoji over the past 10 years

• The Mirror — Huge Smiley projected onto London’s Houses of Parliament

2019

• Emojipedia — Apple Reveals New 2019 Emojis for World Emoji Day

• Adobe — The Cultural Phenomenon of Emoji

• Metro — I’m one of the many volunteers creating the emoji you use every day

• Buzzfeed — Here's What 15 New Emojis Look Like On iPhone Vs. Android

2018

• NBC — World Emoji Day: Why It Falls on July 17

• Lightful — How charities marked World Emoji Day 2018

• BBC News — Apple unveils its latest emojis on World Emoji Day

• Fortune — World Emoji Day is Today. Here’s How (And Why) to Celebrate

• Adweek — World Emoji Day: Check Out the Most Odd and Clever Ways It’s Being Celebrated

2017

• Time — 7 Emoji Facts to Help You Celebrate World Emoji Day

• USA Today — Why emojis may be the best thing to happen to language in the digital age

• The Guardian — Apple marks World Emoji Day with beards, headscarves and breastfeeding

2016

• The Independent (UK) — World Emoji Day: Meet the Man Whose Life Work is Cataloging Emoji

• She Finds — We Finally Know Why Every Calendar Emoji Date Is July 17

2015

• Fox 11 — July 17 Is World Emoji Day

• Twitter Blog — Add a little colour to your Tweets on #WorldEmojiDay

• Newsmax — Millions Across Social Media Celebrate World Emoji Day

• Fast Company — Pepsi Celebrates World Emoji Day With More Emojis

• Campaign — Happy #WorldEmojiDay: How brands are celebrating

• Belfast Live — It’s World Emoji Day, how will you celebrate?

• Metro — It’s World Emoji Day and people on Twitter are getting really emojional

• The Next Web — Happy World Emoji Day iOS users!

• New York Times — World Emoji Day Letting Our Emojis Get in the Way

• Business Insider AU — #WorldEmojiDay is on the same day as emoji fan Julie Bishop’s birthday

• CBC — Why World Emoji Day is super confusing