What’s New on World Emoji Day 2024
Happy World Emoji Day 2024! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its eleventh year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of this year's celebration!
Happy World Emoji Day 2024! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its eleventh year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of this year's celebration! 🌎📅🥳
🛝 Emojipedia's New Emoji Playground
To celebrate our 11th annual World Emoji Day, we here at Emojipedia have launched a brand new section of our site: the Emoji Playground.
Debuting with a selection of emoji quiz games alongside the classic Emoji Mashup Bot, the Playground will be our hub for emoji-based experiences going forward.
- Play the new Guess the Flag quiz game 🎌🎌🎌
- Play the new Older Or Newer quiz game 👶🧑🧓
- Play the new Odd One Out quiz game 🦆🦆🪿
- Play the new Guess the Animal quiz game 🦁🐯🐻
- Explore the classic Emoji Mashup Bot creation tool 🔀🔀🔀
💖 New Emojis for 2024-2025
Emoji 16.0 is due for approval on 10 September 2024 alongside Unicode 16.0, and there's no better time than World Emoji Day to look ahead to the final candidates and get a feel for what new emojis will likely be arriving on our phones in 2024-2025.
Emoji 16.0 is set to be approved in September. Ahead of #WorldEmojiDay 2024 (July 17), here’s every emoji in the final draft 👇https://t.co/S23SBWf9TX pic.twitter.com/XAlrrHIOlo
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) July 15, 2024
This is our ninth year releasing our Emojipedia Sample Designs ahead of Unicode's official recommendations later in the year. As always, these designs have been created by Emojipedia's Head of Emoji Design Joshua Jones.
- 👀 Emojipedia coverage of when to expect new emojis on your phone
- 🖼 Emojipedia's Sample Images for how these might look
- 📑 Unicode Draft Emoji Chart for more implementation details
☄️ Semrush x Emojipedia Emoji Marketing Minicourse
We here at Emojipedia have collaborated with the digital marketing platform Semrush's Academy and Gen Z copywriting agency Word Tonic to create the world's first Emoji Marketing Mini-Course.
The first 50 people who complete the course today on World Emoji Day 2024 and share their certificate online will receive a custom-designed emoji image commissioned by Semrush.
🦄 JoyPixel's 9.0 Debuts
JoyPixels have released version 9.0 of their freemium emoji set. This new update contains support for Emoji 15.1, as well as a series of design changes that include the majority of flag and symbol emojis
🏆 World Emoji Awards
The 2024 World Emoji Awards results are in, and here are all the winners!
- The Most Popular New Emoji from last year's Emoji 15.1 recommendations is the 🙂↔️ Head Shaking Horizontally.
- The 🙂↕️ Head Shaking Vertically in second, and 🐦🔥 Phoenix in third. The 🍋🟩 Lime emoji came in 4th place, followed by the ⛓️💥 Broken Chain emoji in 5th.
- The Most Anticipated Emoji amongst the current draft candidates for Emoji 16.0 is the Face with Bags Under Eyes.
- Next, the ✨ Sparkles emoji has been awarded our annual Lifetime Achievement Award.
- This has been awarded based on its enduring popularity (it has been amongst the world's top 10 most used emojis since June 2015) and its recent adoption as the go-to symbol to encapsulate the "magic" of many tech platform's innovative new A.I. features.
- Finally, The Most 2024 Emoji is the 🫠 Melting Face, beating out the 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears in the final round.
- This year's contest between 🫠 Melting Face and 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears was a re-run of the final of our Most 2022 Emoji Award. This is also the third year running that the 🫠 Melting Face has won this award after also beating the plain 🩷 Pink Heart emoji in 2023.
👀 More on World Emoji Day
The more playful side of World Emoji Day isn't generally covered in detail here on Emojipedia, but to see what's been happening the best place is the #WorldEmojiDay hashtag on your social platform of choice.
Or check out the official World Emoji Day accounts:
- World Emoji Day on X (Twitter)
- World Emoji Awards on X (Twitter)
- World Emoji Day on Instagram
- World Emoji Day on Facebook
- World Emoji Day on TikTok
...and of course the websites: