Stickers in messaging apps are very popular. Whether it’s a simple emoji, a Pusheen cat sticker in Facebook Messenger, or an Animoji in iMessage, stickers are a fun and often cute way of displaying an ...

The cutesy stickers that messaging app Line is famous for are not just popular — they help to rake in the money. After all, Line makes over $10 million a month just from selling stickers. Line further ...

Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...

Line did not disclose who the market’s best performers are, but it did say that the makers of the top ten selling individual sticker sets earned an average of JPY 50.5 million (about $421,000). Many ...

Thailand ranked as the world's third-largest market for Line sticker download revenue and is the first country where Line stickers are available from offline channels, with users able to buy Line ...

Update: Today, the same feature was added to the Line for iOS app. While typing, you should now see a series of auto-suggested stickers and emoji just above the on-screen keyboard. Hoorah! Original: ...

Throughout history, every form of communication has developed its own shorthand. Northern Renaissance paintings were rich in symbolism; even the most mundane detail, like a vase, was a rich allegory.

Kanahei was 17 years old when she started drawing tiny digital pictures that her high-school friends could text to one another. They only had feature phones back then, so the images had to be simple ...

SINGAPORE -- Japanese messaging app Line has kicked off celebrations for the island nation's 51st birthday with a brand new animated sticker set coming. Singapore's National Day falls on Aug. 9 and ...

The government’s plan to offer stickers on popular mobile-messaging app Line to promote its 12 “core values” for Thais has critics coming unstuck over its 7 million baht price tag. The Information and ...