With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, add some love to your SMS marketing campaigns with an emoji.

Emojis add personality and emotion to the most mundane text messages, and they make them more fun and memorable. Plus, love emojis are some of the most popular emojis in the world.

Here are some interesting stats:

  • People are 4 times more likely to respond to a message with an emoji (Intercom)

  • 3 of the top 10 emojis used on an iOS device contain a heart (Emoji Stats - January 2019)

  • People use 60 million emojis on Facebook and 5 billion on Messenger on any given day (Adweek)

By the way, check out our SMS Templates for Valentine’s Day if you need ideas for your next SMS campaign.

How to add emojis to your text messages

Highlight and copy the emoji of your choice from the Emoji column below, and then paste it when you compose an SMS. If you’re looking for more, check out the master list.

You can also click on the smiley face emoji that’s immediately under your Sender ID drop-down menu when composing an SMS in Kudosity.

Valentine's Day Emoji List

Valentine's Day Emoji List
Emoji Unicode Description
😍 U+1F60D Smiling Face with Heart-eyes
😘 U+1F618 Face Blowing a Kiss
😻 U+1F63B Smiling cat with Heart-eyes
💋 U+1F48B Kiss Mark
💌 U+1F48C Love Letter
💘 U+1F498 Heart with Arrow
💝 U+1F49D Heart with Ribbon
💖 U+1F496 Sparkling Heart
💗 U+1F497 Growing Heart
💞 U+1F49E Revolving Hearts
💕 U+1F495 Two Hearts
💟 U+1F49F Heart Decoration
U+2763 Heart Exclamation
💔 U+1F494 Red Heart
🧡 U+1F9E1 Orange Heart
💛 U+1F49B Yellow Heart
💚 U+1F49A Green Heart
💙 U+1F499 Blue Heart
💜 U+1F49C Purple Heart
🖤 U+1F5A4 Black Heart
💯 U+1F4AF Hundred Points
💏 U+1F48F Kiss
👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 U+1F469 Kiss - Man, Man
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 U+1F469 Kiss - Woman, Woman
💑 U+1F491 Couple with Heart
👨‍❤️‍👨 U+1F468 Couple with Heart - Man, Man
👩‍❤️‍👩 U+1F469 Couple with Heart - Woman, Woman
💐 U+1F490 Bouquet
🌹 U+1F339 Rose
🥀 U+1F940 Wilted Flower
🌺 U+1F33A Hibiscus
🌻 U+1F33B Sunflower
🌼 U+1F33C Blossom
🌷 U+1F337 Tulip
💍 U+1F48D Ring
🍫 U+1F36B Chocolate Bar
🏩 U+1F3E9 Love Hotel
🔥 U+1F525 Fire
🎁 U+1F381 Wrapped Gift

Keep in mind that as soon as you add an emoji, your SMS campaign switches to support Unicode, which is larger in size. Instead of getting 160 characters per SMS, you now get 70 characters. Your message needs to be brief unless you don’t mind sending an extra message or two for each recipient.

Emoji Keywords

Did you also know that you can create emoji keywords? They function similar to a regular SMS keyword, but they’re much more creative and fun for your customers. For example, your customers can send you a pizza emoji to opt into your SMS list.