Type of site Reading app, Headquarters, Area served Worldwide Owner Wattpad Corp. Allen Lau Ivan Yuen Employees 130 Website rank 641 (January 2017 ) Registration Required to create and modify books and stories Launched December 2006; 11 years ago ( 2006-12) Current status Active Wattpad is a community for readers and writers where one can discover new user-generated stories spanning across different genres including classics, general fiction, historical fiction, non-fiction, poetry, spiritual, teen fiction among others. It aims at removing the traditional barriers between readers and writers by building social communities around stories. It’s a model that’s not only working for amateur writers but also for established writers.

Sep 28, 2010. The way I often explain Wattpad to people who are not familiar with who we are or how we fit into web fiction, is that Wattpad is “YouTube for eBooks + Facebook/Twitter for. If you know that you can get paid to write, it can be difficult to rationalize doing any type of writing, even casual conversations, for free. Read The Bet *Deal from the story The Bet (Just The Way You Are) by ilurvbooks (Kim) with 2102435 reads. Family, love, drake. PLEASE DO NOT ADVERTISE YOUR ST.

It provides the writers with an opportunity to write, promote and help their work reach across a wide and varied audience of more than a million users. The Users are actively engaged in the entire process and are able to directly interact with the writers and share their opinions with fellow readers. Although available in over 50 languages, 77% of its content is written in English. To help these stories reach a larger part of the community, a number of Wattpadders are volunteering their time to translate stories.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Wattpad originated in 2006, as the result of a collaboration between Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen. Growth and funding [ ] In February 2007, Wattpad announced the addition of over 17,000 from making them available to mobile users. According to a June 2009 Wattpad press release, the mobile application had been downloaded over 5 million times. In March 2009, an iPhone version was released.

This was followed by the launch on BlackBerry App World in April 2009, Google Android in June 2009 and Apple iPad in April 2010. In December 2015, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile Version was released. Currently, Wattpad has around 45 million users who as part of the Wattpad community collectively spend an incredible 15 billion minutes each month using Wattpad. To date, Wattpad has received almost $70M in funding from investors. In 2011, Wattpad announced that it received $3.5M in total funding from its current investors, and from W Media Ventures, Golden Venture Partners, and.'

Then in June 2012, Wattpad raised $17.3M from a group of venture funds led by Khosla Ventures. The latest round of financing happened in April 2014, where Wattpad announced $46M in Series C funding led by OMERS ventures. Awards [ ] In December 2011, Toronto-based Wattpad was selected as the hottest Digital Media company in the country at the Canadian Innovation Exchange. In the same year, co-founder and CEO Ivan Yuen was also recognized as a top Canadian entrepreneur at the Impact Infused Awards, sponsored. Wattpad in the Philippines [ ] In March 2014, Wattpad signed a contract with Pop Fiction, an imprint of, to print Filipino Wattpad stories in the.

Other publishers from the Philippines also publish stories from Wattpad. Since then, some Wattpad stories have also been adapted into. Filipino television network, in partnership with Wattpad and Life is Beautiful Publishing Company launched Wattpad Presents, a series of Wattpad stories turned into TV dramas. (Wattpad stories aired on the show are usually those that were published by LIB Publishing.) also made several adaptation of Wattpad stories such as 'My App Boyfie' by Noreen Capili (noringai), starring and, and the coming-of-age series starring, and. Pop Fiction's best selling book, 'She's Dating the Gangster', written by Bianca Bernardino (SGWannaB) as a Wattpad original, became the first Wattpad story adapted into a full-length motion picture starring and. Sanitary Pipe Fittings Autocad Lt. The movie adaptation was produced by ABS-CBN's film production arm, Star Cinema. And also starred on the film ', based on the Wattpad story 'The Bet' by Ilurvbooks.

Also, Chasing Red was published by a wattled user which got more than 10 million views. Wattpad After Dark [ ] In February 2015, Wattpad launched a second standalone app called 'After Dark'. The app focuses specifically on the romance genre and is intended for adult readers. Cover artwork for one of Tap's biggest Original Series, The Babysitter. On February 21, 2017, Wattpad launched a chat stories app called Tap. Tap offers stories in the form of text messages as if reading a private conversation on someone else's phone. The app was an early success, with over 240 million taps in the first few weeks after the launch.

On July 28, 2017, Tap launched 'Tap Originals', a series of original stories produced by its top-tier writers every single week, with some of those series working on an episode-by-episode basis. Some of Tap's most successful original series include HIDE, The Babysitter and Charlie, Charlie. Usage [ ] Statistics [ ] As of April 2014: • 85% of its traffic and usage comes from mobile devices, • the site has 35 million unique visitors per month, • there are over 100,000 chapter uploads per day, • there have been over two million writers. New authors and teens [ ] The most frequently voted stories appear on the 'What's Hot List'.

According to the profiles visible on the site, many of these authors are teenagers. Wattpad section also has a Featured Story list, which promotes content reviewed and approved by staff and an editorial review board. Many of these featured stories are written by self-published and professional writers from different genres. Lately famous authors like, and have also joined the professional bandwagon of authors currently active on wattpad.

Wattpad also encourages the writers to interact with their audience and promote their stories across social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Instagram. Contests [ ] Wattpad holds several smaller contests a year and one major one. The largest is the annual Watty Awards. The second largest is Just Write It. In 2011, The Watty Awards introduced three entry levels (Popular, On The Rise, and Undiscovered) to allow greater chances of winning for every type of writer.

Are open to anyone who has a Wattpad account. During the summer of 2012, Wattpad in collaboration with, Canadian poet/novelist/literary critic, held the 'Wattys': the first major poetry contest offering a chance to poets on Wattpad to compete against each other in one of two categories, either as an 'Enthusiast' or a 'Competitor'. It has been going ever since. Publishing [ ] Wattpad has formed ties with publishing houses to try and help Wattpad authors to receive compensation for their works.

A new branch, Wattpad Studios, was developed to connect popular writers to both the publishing and film industries. Wattpad has, in the past, teamed up with publishing groups such as to help Wattpad authors receive book deals, and get their work into hard copies. More traditional publishing houses such as and have approached popular Wattpad writers to negotiate publishing deals, allowing the website to serve as a springboard into the more traditional publishing industry. Author, whose work After has received over a billion reads on the site, was given as publishing deal with to turn her online work into a multiple-book published saga, and purchased rights to the story to develop a film based on the novels. Copyright issues [ ] Early in its history, some of the large volume of user-uploaded material hosted on Wattpad was created by authors who did not grant republication rights. In May 2009, an article in 'The New York Times' noted, ' Sites like and Wattpad, which invite users to upload documents like college theses and self-published novels, have been the target of industry grumbling in recent weeks, as illegal reproductions of popular titles have turned up on them'. The Wattpad website notes, 'We do not welcome upload of material that violate its copyright terms,' but also states 'it is simply not possible to screen and verify all posted content.'

In response to industry criticism, in April 2009 (before the publication of the New York Times article that named Wattpad as a vehicle for user-generated e-book infringement) Wattpad announced an 'Authors In Charge' program, designed to allow authors or their representatives to identify and directly remove infringing content from the site, but this program is designed specifically for 'authors with published books for sale.' Competitors and similar sites [ ] and the long-established and popular sites and (a spin-off site for original fiction) also serve as hubs for online prose. An alternative site which is free and open source is, or, although some will publish a chapter on, indicating the rest is on Wattpad. References [ ]. •, Wattpad, retrieved 2013-11-26 • •.. Retrieved 2017-01-30. The Literary Platform.

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