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Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. Snapchat’s quirky Bitmoji ...

Quick: if you had to pick one app that had the-best-year-ever in 2016 what would you pick? Pokémon Go? Super Mario Run? Instagram? How about Bitmoji? That's right, the Snapchat-owned app for making ...

Snapchat just announced a new feature called Bitmoji Deluxe, adding hundreds more options to customize your avatar, including new skin tones, hairstyles, eye and hair colors, facial features, and ...

You've probably seen a Bitmoji floating around on Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram. You might even have the Bitmoji app. But what are these adorable full-sized avatars for, anyway? As it turns out, a ...

Snapchat is doubling down on its biggest differentiator by turning its personalized avatar Bitmoji into a revenue stream and a new source of content. Snapchat is launching a Bitmoji merchandise store ...

Emoji provide us with a whole new world of expressiveness when we’re online, but they aren’t exactly personal. Fortunately, Bitmoji allows us to customize our characters to create incredibly realistic ...

Snap on Tuesday added a new feature to Bitmoji called "Bitmoji Deluxe." Bitmoji are customizable avatars that you can add to your Snaps or use outside of the app — you can add them to messages or use ...

Adidas and Snapchat have joined forces to launch a Bitmoji Fashion Drop allowing app users to dress their Bitmoji avatars in branded virtual merchandise, per details shared with Marketing Dive.

Ralph Lauren is coming to Bitmoji closets. The brand has partnered with Snap to create a virtual wardrobe for Bitmoji, an application in which users create avatars of themselves. The collaboration ...