LINE & GIPHY Fuel Creativity to Build a True Global Language

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- With a shared vision for defining today's collective visual language, LINE Euro-Americas Corporation (subsidiary of LINE Corporation, owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE) and the world's largest .GIF search engine, GIPHY, have partnered to announce the inaugural sticker design competition, The Sticker Shop Contest.

Stickers are digital communication, evolved. They are communication tools in this mobile-first world and are the next evolution towards a true global language. A sticker, simply put, is worth a thousand words.

In the spirit of self-expression, LINE & GIPHY invite artists across disciplines to craft fun and new stickers that will help define today's digital language.

WHAT:    The Sticker Shop Contest

WHO:      LINE & GIPHY & the best digital artists

WHEN:    Submissions start 9/25-11/3. Winners are announced 12/23.

HOW:      Go to giphy.com/stickershop

PRIZES:  $10,000 cash to the Grand Prize Winner, 20 Cintiq 24HD Touch Displays, The opportunity to have your art reach over 490 million people                      

"Digital communication has moved far beyond texting—now our global users rely on stickers to communicate emotions to friends and family. Through the contest, we're prompting new-age self expression by giving participants a platform and the artist in all of us to create personal, expressive stickers," said Jeanie Han, LINE USA CEO.

LINE and GIPHY have enlisted an all-star team of digital partners, such as Tumblr, Fox ADHD, Frederator, Cut & Paste, New Museum, Eyebeam, Museum of Moving Image, Rhizome, The Webby Awards, Pratt, NYU ITP, The Huffington Post, Thought Catalogue and Dribbble to support The Sticker Shop Contest and recognize the sticker artists creating breakthroughs in today's visual language.

"GIPHY has always worked hard to support the world's best GIF artists," said Alex Chung, Giphy, Inc. CEO. "We're excited to partner with LINE to be able do the same for the world's best sticker artists."

To learn more and participate in the contest, visit http://www.giphy.com/stickershop

To download LINE for great sticker contents and more: http://line.me/D

About LINE Corporation
LINE Corporation is based in Japan and develops and operates the LINE app for smartphones. Since launching in June 2011, the LINE app has grown into a global service used in 230 countries, ranking first in the free app category in 60 countries. LINE offers free one-to-one and group messaging, as well as free domestic and international voice and video calls. LINE also includes a wide array of social elements such as fun and expressive stickers, a personal Home, a Timeline, and numerous LINE family apps, including LINE games and LINE camera. For more information about LINE, please visit http://linecorp.com/en/

About GIPHY
Giphy is how you search, share and discover GIFS. GIPHY is the world's largest GIF search engine and a pioneer responsible for the technology that gets GIFs into our favorite apps and social networks through the world's only GIF API. About 20 million visitors rely on giphy.com each month for an endless, curated array of the best memes, tropes & touchstones of pop culture created by some of the most talented artists on the web.

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