{"id":83294,"date":"2020-07-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-webtoon-reaches-six-years-of-us-operations\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:03:16","slug":"webtoon-llega-a-seis-anos-de-operaciones-en-estados-unidos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/webtoon-llega-a-seis-anos-de-operaciones-en-estados-unidos\/","title":{"rendered":"Webtoon Reaches Six Years Of US Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><i>The\u00a0world&#8217;s number one webcomic platform now has 10 million monthly readers and over 100,000 English series<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">LOS ANGELES<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 27, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <b>WEBTOON Entertainment Inc.<\/b>, today announced it has reached six years of operation in the US. This latest milestone reflects another year of strong growth for the webcomic platform &#8211; the largest in the world &#8211; not just in terms of viewership, but also creator participation and creator revenue. The service plans to celebrate its anniversary with a series of reader and community events and &#8220;Coin&#8221; giveaways across August.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgdc02left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgdc02left\" title=\"WEBTOON Logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"WEBTOON Logo\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1219436\/WEBTOON_Logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Readership of WEBTOON&#8217;s English language service, launched six years ago, continues to rise rapidly. Page views on the ORIGINALS English service in <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 2020<\/span> were just over 680 <i>million <\/i>\u2013 up 52% from <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 2019<\/span>. Global page views (excluding Korea) for <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 2020<\/span> crossed the 1.5 billion page view mark for the first time in company history, a 40% increase on the same period. <\/p>\n<p>WEBTOON&#8217;s CANVAS platform, which allows anyone to share their stories, has just reached 100,000 series. WEBTOON ORIGINALS &#8211; only available on WEBTOON &#8211; is home to some of the biggest names in webcomics, including <i>Lore Olympus.<\/i> <span class=\"xn-person\">Rachel Smythe&#8217;s<\/span> Eisner Award-nominated series has four million subscribers worldwide, and is scheduled to return in August for season two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We owe all our progress so far to our loyal readers and passionate creators,&#8221; WEBTOON Entertainment Inc CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Ken Kim<\/span> said, &#8220;We&#8217;re just getting started in taking our steps towards becoming a deeper entertainment service as hits like <i>Tower of God<\/i> and <i>The God of High School <\/i>make the leap to animated series. We&#8217;re hoping to have more exciting news to share later in 2020 \u2013 stay tuned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Note for press: <\/b><br \/>Attached is a brief graphic with significant figures relating to both the US and global WEBTOON markets. <\/p>\n<p><b><u>About WEBTOON<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>WEBTOON<\/b>\u2122\u00a0has become a cultural and global phenomenon, pioneering the distribution and consumption of web-based comics.\u00a0 With an average of 64+ million monthly active users, 16.5+ million of whom read daily, more people consume\u00a0<b>WEBTOON<\/b>\u00a0series than watch most television shows.\u00a0\u00a0<b>WEBTOON<\/b>\u00a0features a broad and diverse catalog of content from all over the world &#8212; including romance, thriller, fantasy, comedy and more.\u00a0 Launched stateside in 2014,\u00a0<b>WEBTOON<\/b>\u00a0has thousands of creator-owned series with episodes updating daily.\u00a0 Also boasting partnerships with Legendary, POW!, Top Cow\/Image, and more,\u00a0<b>WEBTOON<\/b>\u00a0takes storytelling to the next level.\u00a0 Creators have been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards, as well as winning a multitude of Ringo Awards.\u00a0 The\u00a0<b>WEBTOON<\/b>\u00a0app is free to download on Android and iOS devices.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Press queries<\/u><\/b><b>:<br \/><\/b><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Justin Kranzl<\/span> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:justin.kranzl@webtoon.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">justin.kranzl@webtoon.com<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>SIGNIFICANT FIGURES:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Monthly US users on the WEBTOON service: 10+ million <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Monthly users on the WEBTOON global service: 64+ million<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Creator revenue* to date from WEBTOON to 12,000+ CANVAS creators: $5+ million <\/b><br \/><b><i>(*includes ad revenue; <\/i><\/b><b>WEBTOON<i> temporarily increased creators&#8217; net ad revenue share to 100% until end 2020)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-chron\">May 2020<\/span>* global page views for <i>Lore Olympus: <\/i>34+ million<\/b><br \/><b><i>(*note: <\/i><\/b><b>Lore Olympus<i> has been on hiatus since June and returns August)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>US WEBTOON ORIGINALS creators: 260<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Global ORIGINALS creators: 2000<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Page views of the ORIGINALS series on the English service for <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 2020<\/span>: 680+ million<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Global (excluding Korea) WEBTOON app views for <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 2020<\/span>: 1.5+ billion <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2867269-1&amp;h=1373685276&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1219436%2FWEBTOON_Logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1219436%2FWEBTOON_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1219436\/WEBTOON_Logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  WEBTOON<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><i>The\u00a0world&#8217;s number one webcomic platform now has 10 million monthly readers and over 100,000 English series<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">LOS ANGELES<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 27, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <b>WEBTOON Entertainment Inc.<\/b>, today announced it has reached six years of operation in the US. This latest milestone reflects another year of strong growth for the webcomic platform &#8211; the largest in the world &#8211; not just in terms of viewership, but also creator participation and creator revenue. The service plans to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entretenimiento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}