The Business Of Stickers. Line is spending a lot of money to transform its messaging app into a “lifestyle platform” filled with features like grocery deliveries and streaming music.Similar to ...

Stickers aren’t the only surprising form of income for Line: the company also disclosed that it made over JPY 2 billion ($18.8 million) from sales of merchandising and licensing deals last year ...

The cutesy stickers that messaging app Line is famous for are not just popular — they help to rake in the money. After all, Line makes over $10 million a month just from selling stickers.

Today Kanahei has more than 82,000 Twitter followers and is one of the most popular sticker illustrators on LINE, the Japanese messaging app that has 170 million monthly active users mostly in Asia.

Update: Today, the same feature was added to the Line for iOS app. While typing, you should now see a series of auto-suggested stickers and emoji just above the on-screen keyboard. Hoorah!

Stickers = $$$ Sticker are big business for Line. Sales of the amped up emoji made over $280 million for the messenger app last year.. Line told us over 2.4 billion stickers are sent and received ...

Thailand is just behind Japan after becoming the world's No.2 country in terms of Line stickers downloaded and growth in Line sticker creators.