Together, these two leading comics, entertainment, and storytelling companies, will reach a combined global monthly audience of more than 166 million people. The company’s Story DNA Machine Learning technology has revolutionized the art and science of understanding and finding great stories to adapt for TV, film, or to publish as books.Īs previously announced, the acquisition will align Wattpad with Naver’s WEBTOON, and the company's monthly average of 72 million users around the world. Wattpad has created a new type of online writing influencer, catapulting a new generation of authors to international fame. Along with sponsored brand partnerships, and TV, film, and book adaptations, Wattpad Paid Stories are just one of a growing number of paths for Wattpad writers to earn money from their work. The company recently celebrated a key milestone: since launching in 2019, writers in Wattpad’s Paid Stories program have earned more than a million dollars. Wattpad’s creator-first approach to nurturing and supporting reading and writing communities has helped authors around the world build a global audience and make money on the platform. With a global community of 94 million people-including five million writers-who have written more than one billion uploads on the platform, Wattpad is a global leader in social storytelling and entertainment. Wattpad’s core app will continue to operate independently, while exploring new ways to collaborate with WEBTOON and other Naver brands.
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The acquisition strengthens Naver’s leadership in social storytelling and entertainment, adding Wattpad’s expertise in machine learning, IP discovery, and data-backed TV and film development to Naver’s world-class roster of entertainment and content brands like WEBTOON.
Wattpad will grow its teams by nearly 50% in 2021, adding close to 100 new roles in engineering, marketing, content, and other parts of the company to continue to execute its vision to entertain and connect the world through stories. CEO & co-founder Allen Lau will report to WEBTOON CEO Jun Koo Kim.Īs part of the Naver family of world-class brands, Wattpad will focus on its continued growth and innovations, expanding its teams, and developing new initiatives to reward writers on the platform. The company will remain headquartered in Canada under the continued leadership of founders Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen. TORONTO and SEOUL, Naver, South Korea’s internet conglomerate, and Wattpad, the global multi-platform entertainment company for original stories and a leading social storytelling platform, today announced that Naver has completed its acquisition of Wattpad in a cash and stock transaction valued at more than an estimated USD $600 million. Wattpad plans to grow its team by nearly 100 people in 2021 Please note that it’s also not possible for Wattpadders to add the #texttospeech to their stories as this tag is reserved for stories that had the feature enabled by us.Ĭurrently, there are no plans to release this feature more widely, but this is something that might be revisited in the future.Wattpad, the world’s leading social storytelling platform, and WEBTOON, the global leader in webcomics, are now both Naver brands, with a combined global monthly audience of more than 166 million peopleĪcquisition sets up Wattpad for continued growth and global leadership, including new investments in user initiatives to help Wattpad authors build an international audience and make money While you can still find stories with text-to-speech by searching with the tag #texttospeech, we’re no longer adding the feature to more stories at the moment, as this feature is still in beta phase. This allowed us to explore this feature and understand its potential to improve the reading experience on Wattpad. Text-to-speech is a beta feature on Wattpad and it was added to thousands of stories written in English.
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It can also make it easier to enjoy stories at your own convenience, especially if you can’t give your full attention to a screen. For those with visual impairment or difficulty reading, text-to-speech can be a useful tool for accessing the story.
Text-to-speech (TTS) is a type of assistive technology that reads digital text aloud.
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