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WEBTOON Entertainment Announces Unified International CANVAS Platform, Helping Creators Grow Their Audience and Earnings
WEBTOON will unify its regional UGC services into a single platform, introducing a suite of features and tools for Creators and fans, including new
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nWEBTOON will unify its regional UGC services into a single platform, introducing a suite of features and tools for Creators and fans, including new monetization opportunities, performance insights, personalization, and a Translation Program enabling Creators to reach global audiences across seven languages\n\n\nWEBTOON is making it even easier for Creators to share their stories and reach new readers all over the world\n\n\n LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nWEBTOON Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq: WBTN), a global entertainment company and home to some of the world’s largest storytelling platforms, today announced a unified international CANVAS platform, bringing together WEBTOON’s regional UGC services into a single global experience for the first time. Launching in spring 2026, and with new features rolling out throughout the year, CANVAS will support global distribution across seven languages — English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Thai, Traditional Chinese, and German — making it easier than ever for Creators to share their stories, grow their fandoms, and monetize their work all over the world.\n\n\nAlongside global distribution, CANVAS will introduce a powerful set of new Creator tools, including access to expanded monetization opportunities and deeper performance insights. The unified CANVAS platform will include a new Creator Dashboard with improved insights into series performance, deeper analytics to understand readership, and new tools to manage community engagement in one place. WEBTOON will also expand its Ad Revenue Share to all supported CANVAS languages. Readers will also benefit from a revamped CANVAS homepage experience, with improved discovery and personalized recommendations tailored to reading history and preferred languages — making it easier to find new stories to fall in love with.\n\n\nCreators will gain more control over their international distribution and localization with a new opt-in Translation Program that allows Creators to translate and distribute their series to readers in English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Thai, Traditional Chinese, and German. The Translation Program will begin rolling out in beta in Spring 2026 to eligible English-language CANVAS Creators before expanding to additional markets later this year.\n\n\nPowered by AI technology, the Translation Program is designed to help CANVAS Cr...