Every year new emojis get approved, but sometimes its worth looking back at how well they are recieved. 398 new emojis were approved in 2019, a large number mostly due to the skin

New emojis are coming to iOS this year, and for World Emoji Day Apple has revealed to Emojipedia its first preview of how these will look. Ninja, Boomerang, Piñata and Bubble Tea are

For World Emoji Day, Google has announced a number of classic emojis returning to Android this fall. Promising to "protect this perfect tortoise with our lives" (a reference to the popular

Six years ago I decided to create a global holiday, and in 2020 it's still with us: World Emoji Day. In fact, as of this week, the 📅 Calendar emoji now shows July 17

JoyPixels has released version 6.0 of its freemium emoji set. This update includes the latest batch of new emojis and a wide-ranging series of design changes. All 117 new emojis approved in

Following the death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests against racism and police brutality, Emojipedia experienced a signification increase in lookups of the ✊🏿 Raised Fist with Dark Skin Tone emoji.

Twitter has begun rollout of its latest emoji update. Versioned as Twemoji 13.0, this update includes all of the new 2020 emojis such as Smiling Face with Tear, People Hugging, Bubble Tea

What does equality look like on the emoji keyboard? Much progress has been made in recent years, with emojis that were once white and male[1] now offering a choice of skin tones

A sentiment analysis performed by Emojipedia finds that positive emoji use is on the decrease, while the total number of emojis sent in our communications continues to rise. Analyzing 68 million unique tweets,

In just two short years one emoji has captured our imaginations like no other. Of every 100 tweets sent in April 2020, one of them contained a relative-newcomer on the emoji scene: 🥺 Pleading

When Jameela Jamil posted a tweet with a single ‘shocked face’ emoji last week, she didn't expect to see blowback. Much to Jamil's confusion, many responses felt the (since-deleted) single-emoji-tweet was inconsiderate, or

The Unicode Consortium is delaying Unicode 14.0 by six months due to COVID-19.  This means that emojis that would have arrived on phones in 2021 will instead roll out in 2022. Does

The number one news story around the world right now is the spread of the latest strain of coronavirus, COVID-19. While we don't have much to say about the spread of the virus

The Unicode Consortium has today released version 13 of the Unicode Standard. The release includes 55 new emoji characters and 5,875 non-emoji characters. This follows last month's announcement of the final list

Google has begun its rollout of support for Emoji 12.1, at least for Pixel owners, providing 168 new emojis to those on Google devices. This update brings the latest gender neutral emojis

Instagram has begun testing a change to how emojis appear on Android phone, with some users now seeing Facebook emoji designs (instead of system-wide emojis provided by Google or Samsung in comments) DMs

Of the 117 new emojis approved last month, Pinched Fingers, Transgender Flag, and Smiling Face With Tear were the most popular on social media. Least popular? Bucket, Placard, and Elevator. Above: Engagement on

Spelling out words with emojis is not the most typical use of these tiny images, but it is fascinating. On September 24, 2019, Lizzo tweeted a peach emoji. This is an extremely common

Last week the freemium emoji vendor JoyPixels released its latest emoji update, JoyPixels 5.5. The update features new gender neutral emojis, additional combinations of people holding hands, and a number of design

The emoji list for 2020 is now complete, with 117 emojis making the final cut for release this year. Additions include Bubble Tea, Smiling Face With Tear, bottle-feeding parents and the Transgender Flag.