stickers
With the rise of smartphones and messaging apps, emoji and stickers have also grown in popularity, and are now a part of our everyday conversations. But the standard set of emoji…
Yesterday Apple released a new ‘Stickers’ ad for the MacBook Air. I found it interesting for a few reasons.
Talkz Thinks Talking Stickers Will Be The Next Big Thing For Mobile Messaging Apps
Sticker packs and emoji have become a go-to means for mobile messaging companies to generate revenue from what are otherwise free applications. Today, one such service, a former TechCrunch Disrupt battlefield…
Line Starts Letting Users Make And Sell Their Own Stickers On Its Messaging Platform
Mobile messaging platform Line, which is gunning for a billion registered users by 2015 and is also reportedly considering an IPO later this year, has added a new feature aimed…
BBM Gets Stickers, Larger File Attachments And Group Photo Sharing
BlackBerry’s dedicated messaging app is growing at a decent clip, and now has a larger active audience than Tango did when it raised its recent $280 million funding round, with…
Line To Open Its Sticker Market To All Designers, Launch Skype Competitor
Line announced today at a press conference in Tokyo (covered by TechCrunch Japan) that it will open its sticker marketplace to all designers and companies. The platform was previously available…
Global Mobile Android/iOS Messaging App Map Dominated By WhatsApp — But BBM Bags A Foothold
The mobile messaging app landscape continues to be highly geographically fragmented, with different messaging services doing well in different global regions. Despite ongoing localised variety, messaging veteran WhatsApp remains dominant…
Hey Kids, React Messenger Lets You Send Your Own Winking Smilie Selfie With Every Text You Send
Selfies aren’t done yet. Not by a long chalk. But neither are stickers — and in a battle between selfies and stickers which comes out on top? The LA-based startup…
Scringo’s Community-Builder SDK Now Lets Developers Add Stickers & Paid Sticker Packs To Any App
Israel-based startup Scringo, which offers a cross-platform SDK to help developers add social elements such as messaging to their apps to increase user retention and boost in-app engagement, has added…
Zuck’s Adorable Sheepdog Beast Is Now A Facebook Messages Sticker Pack
Now you and Facebook’s CEO can unwind in the same way: playing with Beast. The billionaire’s Puli dog just got his own Facebook Stickers pack, which lets you forgo typing…
Hike, India’s Mobile Messaging Upstart, Expands Language Support & Adds Offline Messaging, Stickers & More To Fuel Growth
There’s no room at the digital inn for more mobile messaging apps, but that’s not stopping them crowding in. Hike, an Indian mobile messaging app that’s only been around six…
After Pivoting To Be U.S. Only, Mobile Messaging App Lango Adds Topical Emoji To Piggyback On Trends & TV Chit-Chat
Lango, the U.S. mobile picture-messaging app formerly known as Zlango and backed by Benchmark and DAG ventures to the tune of $20 million in total, is sharpening its focus on…
Messaging App Line’s Virtual Currency For Sticker Gifting Falls Foul Of Apple’s App Store Rules
Messaging app Line, which recently announced it has passed 150 million users, has withdrawn a function from its iOS app that allowed users to gift paid-for stickers to each other…
Line Reports Q1 2013 Earnings Of $58.9M: Half From Game In-App Purchases, 30% From Stickers, 80% From Japan
Line, a free-at-the-point-of-use messaging app made by NHN Japan Corp which recently passed 150 million users, has announced earnings for Q1 2013 — revealing for the first time how much…
Aviary Turns Photo Filters And Stickers Into Ads, Partners With GapKids To Promote Diane Von Furstenberg Collection
Today, photo editing platform Aviary is unleashing the creative ad platform that it soft-launched last week with GapKids. Coinciding with a wider campaign for Diane von Furstenberg’s collection of clothing…
Warning Stickers For Newspapers
If newspapers came with warning labels, they might look something like the ones Tom Scott came up with. The British “geek comedian” created warning stickers you can print out and…
I don’t think you are. If you’re willing to plop down $14.99 for some red hot stickers then I suspect you might be, however, and you’d do well to do…
Over on the official GMail blog, they’re giving away GMail stickers. I know you’ve always wanted that “m-velope” icon to adorn your laptop. Act quick.
The Echo is a mirrored iPhone, iPod touch and 3G nano screen protector that drops to glossy chrome when the screen is off. The sticker is easy to apply and…
The Dutch want you to pimp out your satellite dish and I’m inclined to listen. Who doesn’t want a kitten sticker to brighten up that ugly grey dish? Seriously. If…