Webtoon Entertainment

WEBTOON Entertainment, Inc. engages in the provision of a global storytelling platform. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and currently employs 1,800 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2024-06-27. The firm operates a global storytelling platform, where a community of creators and users discover, create, and share new content. With its CANVAS UGC platform, creators tell long-form stories through serialized narratives in the form of short-form, bite-sized episodes. These stories are told in two ways: web-comics, a graphical comic-like medium, and web-novels, which are text-based stories. The company provides creators with an opportunity to monetize their creativity through various means, including Paid Content, Advertising and IP Adaptations. Its adaptations are available on Netflix, Prime Video, Crunchyroll, and other screens around the world, and the company’s content partners include Discord, HYBE, and DC Comics, among many others. Its IP & Creator Ecosystem of aligned brands and platforms includes WEBTOON, Wattpad, WEBTOON Productions, Studio N, Studio LICO, WEBTOON Unscrolled, LINE MANGA, and eBookJapan, among others.