Emojipedia

A screenshot illustrating the Emojipedia's listing for the "emoji reference website created by "the world’s pre-eminent emoji specialist" Jeremy Burge in 2013.

Emojipedia documents changes to emoji symbols and their meanings in the Unicode Standard has been called "the world’s number one resource on emoji".

Jeremy Burge created Emojipedia in 2013 and told the Hackney Gazette "the idea came about when Apple added emojis to iOS 6 but failed to mention which ones were new".

Emojipedia rose to prominence with the release of Unicode 7 in 2014 when 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.

Emojipedia told Business Insider in early 2016 that it served "over 140 million page views" per year, and was profitable. In mid 2016, Emojipedia “urged Apple to rethink its plan to convert the handgun emoji symbol into a water pistol icon” citing cross-platform confusion.

In March 2017, Emojipedia reported it had 4 million unique users, and served 18 million page views each month.

World Emoji Day is a holiday 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". In 2017, Apple used this event to preview new emojis for iOS and Emojipedia announced the winners of the World Emoji Awards live from the New York Stock Exchange.

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.

In 2015, Emojipedia entered its first partnership with Quartz to release an app that allowed users access previously-hidden country flag emojis on iOS.

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