Wattpad
Sign in to saveWattpad is a website for reading and publishing original fiction and connecting with fellow writers and readers. Its most popular genres are romance, teen fiction, and fan fiction. As of September 2023, Wattpad has a global audience of more than 90 million users, the majority of whom are younger women. There are over 665 million story uploads in total.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Wattpad.com
- Website.logo
- Wattpad-logo-vector.svg
- Website.logo_caption
- Current, rebranded logo since 2019
- Website.type
- Reading app, social networking service
- Website.founder
- Allen LauIvan Yuen
- Website.president
- Aron Levitz
- Website.owner
- Webtoon Entertainment
- Website.registration
- Required for nearly all actions.
- Website.language
- Multilingual; stories available in more than in 50 languages
- Website.num_users
- 500 million (2020)
- Website.company_type
- Subsidiary
- Website.area_served
- Worldwide (except blocking countries)
- Website.location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Website.num_employees
- 145
- Website.native_clients
- Web, Android, iOS
- Website.current_status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.wattpad.com
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- inception
- 2006-11-00
- Commons category
- Wattpad
- Alexa rank
- 512
- search formatter URL
- www.wattpad.com/search/$1
- social media followers
- 1040048
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Article
22 sectionsContents
- History
- Acquisition by Naver
- Platform Overview
- Sister apps
- Paid stories
- Wattpad Books
- Statistics
- Platform usage
- Publishing
- Fan fiction
- Contests
- Entertainment
- Criticisms and controversies
- June 2020 data breach
- Countries restricting access to Wattpad
- China
- Russia
- Turkey
- Concerns over Generative Artificial Intelligence in writing
- Copyright issues
- Effects on writers
- References
Wattpad is a website for reading and publishing original fiction and connecting with fellow writers and readers. Its most popular genres are romance, teen fiction, and fan fiction. As of September 2023, Wattpad has a global audience of more than 90 million users, the majority of whom are younger women. There are over 665 million story uploads in total.
Some stories originally published on Wattpad have been adapted into mainstream novels, TV series, and films, including After and The Kissing Booth series. In January 2019, Wattpad launched its own publishing division, Wattpad Books, to simplify publishing for authors. In January 2021, Naver Corporation announced that it would acquire Wattpad, and the deal was completed in May 2021.