Available in English Website emojipedia.org | Editor Jeremy Burge Alexa rank 3,011 (December 2016) | |
Launched 2013; 4 years ago (2013) | ||
Emojipedia is an emoji reference website created by "the world’s pre-eminent emoji specialist" Jeremy Burge in 2013. Rising to prominence with the release of Unicode 7 emoji characters in 2014, The Register reported the "online encyclopedia of emojis has been chucked offline after vast numbers of people visited the site" in relation to the downtime experienced by the site at the time.
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The Emojipedia website documents changes to emoji symbols and their meanings in the Unicode Standard. The website receives over 140 million pageviews per year and has been called "the world’s number one resource on emoji".
World Emoji Day
World Emoji Day is a social media campaign created by Emojipedia in 2014 which is held on July 17 each year. According to the New York Times the choice of July 17 was "based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones”.
Emojipedia used the second annual World Emoji Day to release EmojiVote as "an experiment in Emoji democracy" on July 17, 2015.
Adopt an Emoji
Emojipedia launched "Adopt an Emoji" in September 2015 as "an attempt to make the site free of display ads" according to Wired. This preceded a similar program by the Unicode Consortium in December 2015. The Emojipedia "Adopt an Emoji" program was shut down in November 2016, citing "confusion for users and advertisers" due to the similarity with Unicode's fundraising effort.