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100 Million Strong

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Over the weekend, Wattpad celebrated its 100 millionth upload. Every one of those uploads have now become a part of the Wattpad story, and we couldn’t be happier about sharing this story with all of you who have shared your own stories on Wattpad.

If you haven’t yet posted your story to Wattpad, now is the perfect time. Every day we hear the same story from successful Wattpad writers: that they started off as Wattpad readers, and they never thought they’d write a story.

Until they did.

Now it’s your turn to share your story, and we want to help you write it. Take the Just Write It pledge and take advantage of how-to videos from some of Wattpad’s most successful writers. Tell your story, and help us on our way to our next milestone: 1 billion uploads.


Wattpad Ratings: It’s easy

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We’ve simplified the way we handle ratings for stories on Wattpad. Every story that is currently R-rated will now be called Mature. All other stories will no longer display a rating; these are appropriate for all readers.

This is the first step in our process to simplify rating. Now writers only need to rate their stories when they contain mature content.  This change works with existing systems Wattpad uses to detect and appropriately label mature content. For a complete list of what is considered mature content, check the Wattpad Content Guidelines.

If you’d like to keep up to date with future changes to ratings in the coming months, follow News & Updates on the Wattpad profile.

New story from Anna Todd in support of Free2Luv

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Today, New York Times best-selling author and Wattpad celebrity Anna Todd will begin serializing a new, original story titled Free. Anna is writing the story to support the award-winning LGBTQ advocacy group, Free2Luv. She is an official ambassador for the group. Her story Free will increase awareness about the #Free2Luv campaign that encourages young people to take a pledge of kindness and tolerance in response to bullying.

To read Free on Wattpad, visit Anna Todd’s Wattpad profile. You can learn more about Free2Luv on their Wattpad profile and official website.

Announcing After Dark: a new app for romance readers 17+

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Wattpad has recently launched After Dark, a free app that offers a curated reading experience for mature romance fans. After Dark was designed specifically for readers over the age of 17 who are looking for quality contemporary romance reading. The app’s sleek new interface presents a specific set of stories such as LGBTQ, Urban, and Fanfiction from the romance category—stories that have already proved popular with Wattpad users and Wattpad staff. Readers can comment and vote on After Dark stories just like on Wattpad.

After Dark was conceived of by a team of Wattpad employees at Hack Friday, our monthly hack-a-thon event. On Hack Friday, Wattpad developers and designers join forces with other employees to bring an idea or product update to life in a single day. The Hack Friday concept for After Dark was transformed into a full-fledged app in just two short weeks.

After Dark is available in the App Store for people 17 years of age and older in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Wattpad Partners with SoundCloud to Add Audio to Stories

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We’re excited to announce a new way to experience Wattpad stories – with sound! The new feature available on our Android app lets Wattpadders add audio clips to their stories. They can create their own clips, or choose from the millions of sounds available on SoundCloud.

This new feature lets Wattpadders create audiobooks, narrate dialogue, add soundtracks to their stories from their mobile device, and much more.  At the tap of a button, readers can enjoy a more immersive storytelling experience with sound effects and recorded messages from their favorite writers.

“Audio clips can bring stories to life. Wattpad writers can use sound effects to add impact to a story, narrate an excerpt, or share a playlist to entertain their readers in a new way,” said Tarun Sachdeva, head of product at Wattpad.

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Wattpadders using the most up to date version of the Android app can start enjoying audio right now. Check out the following reading list showcasing Wattpad stories with sound

 

Wattpad Introduces Redesigned iOS App

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Today, we are excited to announce that we have launched a new version of our popular iOS app.  The latest version features a simple and more intuitive interface to help connect readers to relevant content, encourage story creation, and make it easy to manage social updates and interactions.

The updated app helps new users understand core Wattpad functions, and encourages existing users to engage in activities beyond reading. The new design introduces a navigation bar, which is always on screen and highlights the five core Wattpad experiences: Discover, Library, Write, Social Updates, and Profile.

It’s now even easier for readers to find great stories. The updated app showcases story cover images and story descriptions more prominently, and highlights user-curated reading lists. The new navigation bar places the Write option front and center to prompt existing writers to continue stories they’re already working on, and encourage new writers to try their hand at starting a story.

The redesign also combines several social elements into a single view. Now users can find their Newsfeed, Notifications, and Private Messages under one Social Updates tab.

All of these updates have resulted in an app that is simpler, more intuitive, and more engaging for the millions of people who share stories on Wattpad everyday.

To download the new Wattpad iOS app, visit the iTunes store.

Hackday Culture at Wattpad

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This post is brought to you by Wattpad Co-Founder and CEO Allen Lau.

Hackdays are the best way for a startup to support innovation. They give everyone a break from their normal day-to-day, and optimize the use of time and work. At Wattpad, some of our most popular features and products started as a hack.

Limited resources are common in most startups, and even in an environment of abundance it’s important to make the most of your resources.  The optimal hack project has a purpose. The best way to start thinking about your hack is by asking yourself two questions:

How is the product currently supporting user growth?

What can I do to strengthen the product and accelerate that growth?

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The diagram above visually demonstrates the best kind of hack project. Going with an idea that falls in the top left quadrant is obviously a safe choice. Unfortunately, most ideas fall in the other three quadrants.

The trick is to pick some interesting ideas that exist in the bottom left quadrant, where the green dots fall in this diagram. Invest a little in those ideas and test them through small experiments. Optimally, working on these ideas should push the dots toward the top left quadrant while avoiding a movement towards the bottom-right.

You might be surprised to learn how many important in-app features and related Wattpad apps started off as small experiments. Our recently launched SoundCloud audio integration for Android, and stand-alone apps like Covers and After Dark app, are all great examples of what a small team can do given the right structure.

The structure looks something like this:

Set a clear goal up front

  • what assumption are you trying to validate?

Form a small team 2-4 people max

  • this is key. It optimizes speed and decision making

Set a time limit of a week or two

  • time limits get things done faster and reduce risk

Always remember, the best hacks support your users in some way. The collective intelligence of your users is an endless supply of insight. Creating boxes, where users have to use things a certain way, keeps you from spotting how users are developing their unique behaviours.

These two questions and simple structure can help you set up a successful hack by uncovering opportunities to accelerate user growth. Recognizing those opportunities, however, requires knowledge sharing across the startup.

At Wattpad, our hack teams are user-obsessed and we have a strong record of rolling out new products and features that build off ideas that support user engagement and experience. Every employee is challenged to bring an idea to life in a single day as part of our monthly Hack Friday event

I encourage you to hack in a way that supports your users. Reduce risk by thinking in low-effort, high-reward, it will put you on the path to success.

Happy hacking!

 

 

Wattpad Launches App for Apple Watch

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We’re excited to announce our new app for the Apple Watch. The new app helps Wattpad writers visually understand how their readers are reacting to their work anytime, anywhere.

Apple Watch owners who love to write on Wattpad have a new way to connect and view their fan engagement, checking story momentum as easily as they’d check the time.

The Wattpad team created this app for on-the-go writers who love keeping tabs on their latest stats. For writers, votes and read counts serve as a way to understand a story’s momentum, and seeing a spike in votes and reads often encourages them to keep writing.

The Wattpad app for Apple Watch gives writers real-time story analytics including total cumulative read and vote counts, as well as percent increases between app checks so they can keep track of readers’ reactions to their stories.

After downloading the app users can set their Wattpad profile or any of their uploaded stories to the Apple Watch glance view. At-a-glance, Wattpadders will be able to view both total and percentage increases in reads and votes for any of their uploaded stories. By setting the glance view to profile, user will be able see updates on their follower counts.
The Wattpad Apple Watch app is available to iOS users with the Wattpad app installed on their mobile device. To download the Wattpad app, visit the iTunes store.


Mary Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends Report

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This year marks the 20th anniversary for Mary Meeker’s annual report on Internet Trends. Since the mid-90s, Mary has provided key insights into the evolving Internet; earning her the title of “Queen of the Net.” Her “must-read” report frequently nails the up-and-coming trends and identifies the most innovative startups.

We’re honoured to be one of the few Canadian companies profiled alongside Facebook and Twitter. For us, the inclusion in the user-generated content section is a great acknowledgement of our work and the contributions of Wattpadders around the world. Together we are realizing a future where anyone, anywhere in the world can read and write stories from the devices they already own.

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Here’s three things in the report you may find interesting:

Internet growth slowing:

Internet user growth is still healthy but slowing:

  • Internet growth is down to 8 percent, single digit for the first time
  • Smartphone growth rate is also slowing:
    • 65 percent in 2012 to 23 percent in 2014

India’s growing Internet penetration:

India – the next big country of large scale Internet adoption after U.S. and China.

  • India has 232M Internet users. They added 63M in 2014 alone
  • India is already FB’s second largest country
  • 65 percent of India’s Internet traffic is mobile (higher than almost all other countries)

Advertising spending:

Print remains way over indexed relative to time spent:

  • People spent 24 percent of their time on mobile, yet advertisers spent only 8 percent of their dollars in that space
  • This gap is a $25B opportunity in the U.S. alone

Obviously there are many more interesting trends. What else do you think is worth highlighting?


Sprouting Emergent Behaviour

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This post is brought to you by Wattpad Co-Founder and CEO Allen Lau.

When I first met Ben Ling of Khosla Ventures I asked him one question: How did YouTube expand into so many different categories? I knew Ben had worked for YouTube and Facebook in their early days, so I took this opportunity to relate his knowledge back into my product.

His answer was quite simple:

We didn’t start these new categories.  It is extremely difficult to “cold start”. These categories emerged organically and we spotted them early. Then we poured fuel on the fire.

For any startup looking to create a supportive environment for user generated content, it is important to consider this statement. YouTube did not create how-to videos. Users started creating them and YouTube oriented their product around it, adding support and focus to manage it properly.

Pouring fuel on the fire is an exciting way to think of growth. In the early days of Wattpad, however, growth was much more gradual and required the kind of care and attention you would apply to a new plant.

At launch, your first users are your first seeds. As any good gardener knows, seeds are naturally dormant until the right conditions facilitate germination. The environment you create for onboarding users should be like rich soil, cable of supporting and nurturing organic behaviours.

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From rich soil, a seed will begin to sprout roots usually not visible from the surface. On Wattpad, we didn’t create real person fiction. Our users did. In this way, they began to sprout their unique behaviours and categories. A sprout is a good sign of growth.

When a sprout begins to show through the soil, more attention must be paid to it. As we spotted trends, we amplified them. We took the time to assess what was happening naturally on the platform and encouraged it, making it easier for users to do what they were already doing.

It was not our job to create new Wattpad categories that didn’t exist before. Our job was to create the environment where emergent behaviour could be created organically.  In other words, we avoided building our services too tightly around particular use cases, thereby choking good seeds.

When your startup reaches enough users, you should leverage their collective intelligence.  Cold starts are extremely difficult for user-generated content companies. By limiting how creative users can spread their roots, you prevent growth. Always pour water on sprouting behaviours, always pour fuel on the fire.


Why authors love Wattpad

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Increasingly, authors are looking to build meaningful connections with fans online so that they can attract loyal readers who are engaged with their work. Unlike other social networks, on Wattpad we have a massive community of engaged users who are predominantly readers. They come to Wattpad to read stories and engage with their peers and the writers they follow. The writers on our platform are the celebrities and their fans are deeply engaged in their work. The connection between reader and writer is what matters most, and this is what sets Wattpad apart.

On Wattpad, readers represent 90% of our community of over 40 million monthly active users, and the average reading time is an astounding 30 minutes per session. According to an eMarketer study, the only two social sites who boast longer average time spent are Facebook and Tumblr, with Instagram not far behind. This represents an enormous opportunity for authors.

Wattpad is the place where many successful published authors come to find an audience and engage with readers. We have a number of best selling authors on our platform; Dan Brown, Margaret Atwood, and Ellen Hopkins to name a few. And we continue to build relationships with publishers and agents. But the magic of Wattpad is that we welcome all authors from all walks of life and stages of career.

Published authors continue to come to Wattpad to share their work and find great success. They engage with their audience in a new way – often to share exclusive content, post essays or articles, and to share themselves with an audience who is excited to offer thoughts and opinions. Wattpad provides a unique opportunity to connect readers and writers together in a meaningful way.


Mega Trends and the future of reading and writing

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This post is brought to you by Wattpad Co-Founder and CEO Allen Lau.

It is a golden era for technology companies. In the past, new technologies emerged as people built from existing ideas; improving and iterating on old designs and knowledge. From the mid-2000s to today, we have seen the rise of three simultaneous mega trends:

  1. mobile technology
  2. social media
  3. cloud-computing

Billions of dollars have changed hands as a result of these three mega trends.

2015 marks the second half of this golden decade for technology. It is the perfect time to reflect on the past and make prediction about the future. Mobile, social, and cloud are all still big things in our society, but I believe these 4 emergent mega trends will define the rest of the decade:

1.) Decentralization

The Internet is very good at Decentralization. To see this, one has only to look at how Facebook and Youtube affected broadcast media.

These startup companies grew dramatically thanks to increases in the capabilities of connected devices and high speed WiFi. Facebook and YouTube also benefit from a largely centralized Internet. Today, data is the new oil. These companies use internal data and monetize from it. On a scale that large they seem invincible, but are they?

The decentralization of the Internet is far from over. Just like they don’t resemble the traditional companies that they disrupted, they can also be disrupted by innovators that decentralize data and provide different values like improved privacy.

2.) Fragmentation of the Internet

The number of Internet users zoomed past 2 billion and it’s become apparent that this global village might not be as homogenous as we might have envisioned.  We have already seen the increasingly regulated Internet arise, as well as the fragmented Chinese Internet.

The next billion Internet users will likely be accessing the Internet very differently (different type of devices, payment models, apps and content).  This poses new challenges, but also opens new opportunities for entrepreneurs to create applications that work on a global scale.

3.) The Internet of things

Everyone (except me) is now building a lightbulb or bathtub that connects to the Internet.  Although we haven’t seen the “killer apps” for “The Internet of Things” yet, when all your devices are all interconnected, the network effects will be greatly increased and disruptive magic will happen.

4.) New Platforms

As web 1.0 (read-only) evolved to web 2.0 (the social web), the importance of the underlying operating systems (OS) diminished as the browser became the new OS (which is partially responsible for the resurgence of Macs).

Mobile is now the dominant platform, the operating system is moving up the stack and evolving. Nowadays almost all popular apps are available on both Android and iOS.

While most of that data is now stored in the cloud, switching from Android to iOS and vice versa is quite seamless if you choose to switch. This lessens the importance of the underlying OS.  Where people spend their time will become the new operating system if these apps allow people to build things on top of them. In other words, messaging apps can become the new browser.

Truly, magic happens when multiple mega trends occur simultaneously. As someone looking to connect the world through a shared love of stories, I’m excited by the prospects of the future.

Of course, nobody knows exactly what the world will look like in December 2020. All I know is that if history is any indication, exciting times are ahead.


Wattpad updates its web experience

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Consider this a new page in the Wattpad story. Today, Wattpad rolls out a major update to the look and feel of our Discover, Library, Browse, Reading List, Genre, and Home pages on the web and mobile-web.

On the web, Wattpadders can access the most robust Create experience with writer-specific tools and features like Casting and the Writers Analytics Dashboard.

The new interface incorporates all the functions Wattpadders love, and improves the speed, usability, and overall design for Wattpad users on desktop and mobile-web browsers.

Come explore the pages of our latest web experience and get into the pages of your next favorite story.

If you’re interested in learning how we improved the web experience, you can read about it here on our engineering blog.


Announcing The Wattpad Scholarship

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Today we’re thrilled to announce the launch of The Wattpad Scholarship. It’s an opportunity for five students in the US and Canada to receive a $1,500 scholarship towards their educational aspirations.

“At Wattpad we know stories can change lives. They have the power to entertain, connect, and most of all inspire people to achieve their dreams,” said Wattpad Co-founder and CEO Allen Lau. “The Wattpad Scholarship gives students an opportunity to use the power of stories to further their education. Every Wattpad story takes you on a journey, and now we hope it can even help take you to university.”

To apply for the scholarship, students are asked to share a true story on Wattpad about something that has impacted their life. Students are encouraged to be creative and write in a format of their choice, be it essay, biography, letter, confessional, or any other form they like. Applications are accepted until August 15th, 2015.

Finalists will be selected by a committee that includes Wattpad Co-Founders, Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen. Five scholarships worth $1,500 will be awarded. Winners will be announced this fall. Full details can be found here.


Wattpad and Harlequin team up for So You Think You Can Write contest

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Wattpad and Harlequin have teamed up for the 2015 So You Think You Can Write (SYTYCW) contest. For the first time ever, the annual romance writing competition has launched on Wattpad. Writers around the world are able to submit their manuscript on Wattpad for a chance to win a two-book publishing deal with Harlequin.

So You Think You Can Write brings out so much talent every year — and has made publishing dreams come true for many aspiring authors,” said Loriana Sacilotto, Executive Vice President of Global Publishing and Strategy at Harlequin.  “By joining with Wattpad we’re taking the contest to an exciting new level of engagement with writers and readers as well.”

The So You Think You Can Write romance writing competition is open to aspiring authors in the US, Canada (except Quebec), the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. To enter, writers must upload their manuscript on Wattpad and tag it with #SYTYCW2015, and one of the 18 categories they feel best represents their work. Writers must also submit a short pitch that outlines their story.

Submissions are accepted until September 21. Top submissions will then be short-listed for additional rounds of voting and judging by a panel of experts. Winners will be announced later this year in November.

“Wattpadders love opportunities that recognize and reward their efforts,” said Wattpad’s Head of Publisher and Writer Partnerships Ashleigh Gardner. “We’ve seen exceptional engagement when we hosted the New-Adult category SYTYCW contest in the past. Now that 18 categories are open to the community, we expect to see a flood of amazing submissions.”

Full contest details as well as complete category descriptions can be found on Harlequin’s official Wattpad profile: https://www.wattpad.com/HarlequinSYTYCW



Wattpad launches Brand Stories

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Native ad offering helps brands connect with an audience of 40 million millennials

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Wattpad Brand Stories, a way for brands to reach and connect with millennials and generation Z. Wattpad Brand Stories can quickly reach an audience of millions with entertaining content that drives huge lifts in brand awareness and affinity.

With Wattpad Brand Stories, brands have a unique opportunity to engage fans through entertaining story campaigns that Wattpadders love. High-performing native ad units drive users to branded content on Wattpad. Millennial and generation z users account for 80% of the Wattpad community; together they have spent close to 70 million minutes immersed in Brand Stories with Wattpad’s early brand partners.

There are many creative ways Wattpad helps brands share stories with millennials, including:

  1. Wattpad commissions influential writers to create original content for brands
    We connect brands with our most popular writers who are masters at social storytelling
  2. Wattpad drives fan engagement around the stories brands share
    We help brands serialize their own stories on Wattpad. We’ll promote it to millions of young people and encourage their participation and engagement
  3. Wattpad helps brands attach themselves to some of the most viral stories on the Internet
    We help brands curate existing Wattpad content through sponsored Reading Lists
  4. Wattpad encourages young people to share stories about their favorite brands
    We encourage the Wattpad community to write and share stories about the brands they love

Leading brands have successfully used Wattpad to connect with fans around the world:

  • Mondelēz International commissioned popular Wattpad writers to create stories that played with their brand theme: “Sour then Sweet” Love stories for Valentines Day. Check out examples here and here.
    • Millennials spent over 3-million minutes reading these original stories
  • Screenwriters of the popular USA Network series DIG, serialized the prequel of the show on Wattpad. The first episode of the hit show picks up right where the Wattpad story ends. Check out the official prequel here.
    • The prequel has close to one million reads and continues to attract readers every day
  • Unilever’s Eskinol brand used Wattpad to tell it’s “Face of the Day” brand message to a female, millennial audience.
    • Over 880,000 young females spent 3.3 million minutes reading the commissioned Face of the Day story on Wattpad. The campaign also drove more than 1.6 million views of websiodes that were based on the Wattpad story.

Check out what Adweek has to say about Wattpad’s Brand Stories here.

To learn more about Brand Stories click here.


Stories go viral with Wattpad’s Quote Art feature

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Over 35 million quotes shared using the exclusive feature

The right words can stop you in your tracks. We return to beautifully written passages and re-read all the funny parts in our favorite stories. When words excite and move us, we want to tell others.

To help people share the words that inspire them, Wattpad recently expanded its Quote Art feature. Exclusively available on Wattpad, Quote Art is a favorite tool for many Wattpadders. Collectively users have created more than 35 million quotes using the sharing feature.

With Quote Art, Wattpad users can post snippets of story passages on image-based platforms like Pinterest and Instagram, as well as other social networks. Quote Art can help stories go viral and makes it easy for both writers and readers to promote and connect over stories online.

To create Quote Art users highlight text and select the Quote Art icon.

Then they choose from one of several curated images, or can upload their own.

The Quote Art is then ready to share on the network of their choice.

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The expanded feature offers a catalog of new images and a redesigned font.

Quote Art is yet another successful project launched from a Hack Friday event. On Hack Friday, the Wattpad team is given free reign to work on unique projects that support our users. Quote Art is available exclusively on mobile and has been fully integrated into the Wattpad iOS and Android apps.

 

 


3 BIG reasons why storytelling is crucial to your brand

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Storytelling is universal and can transcend language, race, gender and socioeconomic barriers. Humans have exchanged stories long before the formation of written language or the invention of the book. They are integral to who we are, how we express ourselves, as well as our collective experience of life and our relation to each other.

Does your brand use storytelling to create emotional brand impact? If not, here’s 3 reasons why you might want to reconsider:

Stories are Human
Stories are something that we can all relate to. Brands need to move away from hard sells and towards emotional connections. The humanization of your brand through storytelling is what provides people with an experience and an emotion to attach to. Without a story there is no element of human touch, no emotional impact, and nothing to relate to. Stories are inherently human and should be a big part of your brand expression.

Stories Shape Opinion
Stories have a lasting impact on people and help shape their opinions of the world around them. People’s opinions of brands change significantly when they hear about social good, recall a memorable campaign with a great story, or when a peer shares a positive story about their own experience with a brand.

The stories shared about your brand (both by you and others) have a strong impact on how you are perceived in the world. Brand affinity is what drives influence, loyalty, and sales. You don’t just want them to know about you. You want them to love you.

Stories Stay With You
Great stories are powerful and stay with you. The more relatable they are, the more likely they are to have significant impact. Stories provide the opportunity to create emotional impact in a meaningful way, and they are the culmination of creativity, experience, and emotion.  You remember great stories long after they’ve been told. They stay with you. This is why stories are excellent at driving brand affinity and awareness. People love stories.

We are living in the post-traditional-advertising era. People don’t have time or patience for obtrusive advertising anymore. They want to be inspired, engaged, and moved by great stories and by content that is entertaining, meaningful, and fun!

There is a way to do this gracefully, because Stories grow your brand.

To engage teens on Valentine’s Day, Sour Patch Kids created a campaign with Wattpad where Sour then Sweet Love stories were first created by popular Wattpad authors.  A consumer contest to submit more original stories followed.  By having the Sour then Sweet narrative come through the voice of active community writers, the brand came off as more authentic and garnered high engagement and response from consumers.  In a few short weeks, more than 3MM minutes were spent engaging with the brand on the platform and the stories were read over 800K times.

Wattpad works with with leading brands to create entertainment that connects and inspires our growing community of over 40 million people.


Wattpad’s Writer’s Hub demystifies the art of social storytelling

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Storytelling is evolving – social tools, mobile technology, and story serialization can turn a single chapter into a viral hit. This presents an opportunity so large that it can leave new and established writers wondering, how do I start?

With this question in mind, the Wattpad team crafted a visual experience that guides writers through essential moments for new, established, and aspiring writers. You can experience the Wattpad Writer’s Hub for yourself here.

Like our writers, we’ve crafted this story to engage and activate the imagination. The page showcases, step-by-step, the elements and features that any writer can use to stand out.

Wattpad Stars are influencers. They’re published authors featured in major press outlets, their works become screen adaptations and major brands commission their stories,” says Ashleigh Gardner, Wattpad’s Head of Writer and Publisher Partnerships.“The Writer’s Hub page provides a crash-course for anyone who wants to reach that level.”

Our creative team pushed the boundaries of this design so that users are inspired by the writer’s journey. Through responsive animation and scrolling effects, the Writer’s Hub brings the Wattpad community experience to life.


Wattpad to attend Istanbul International Book Fair to celebrate growing Turkish community

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The Turkish community on Wattpad has flourished and the app has become a go-to entertainment destination for two million people in the country.

To celebrate the growth and success of the Turkish community on Wattpad, Co-founder and CEO Allen Lau will visit Istanbul during the International Book Fair (Nov. 7-15, 2015). For the first time ever, Wattpad will host an official community meetup on Saturday, Nov. 14. During the event, Turkish Wattpadders can connect with each other, meet their favourite writers, and speak with Allen Lau.

The Turkish community on Wattpad is extremely social and engaged. Collectively, they spend 14 million minutes a day on the platform and have shared more than seven million original Turkish-language story uploads. Popular Turkish stories like Ateş ve Su, Kalbime Fısılda  have millions of reads on Wattpad. The people of Turkey love to socialize and interact with one another, so it’s no surprise that Wattpad’s social storytelling experience has resonated with so many in the country.

Wattpad will also host a booth during the Istanbul International Book Fair. The booth will be a hub for people at the fair who wish to learn more about the global community, discover stories from emerging Turkish writers, and learn how to share their own stories about the things they love. The booth will be located inside Salon 10 at the Tuyap Fair Convention and Congress Center.

Wattpad is excited to celebrate with the success of the Turkish community and we look forward to November!  

The global Wattpad community spends 13 billion minutes a month immersed in free stories. With a person joining the community every second of the day, Wattpad has connected millions of people with the content and conversations that matter to them. Using any mobile device or computer, anyone, anywhere in the world, can access over 150 million story uploads for free.


Wattpad hızla büyüyen Türk topluluğunu kutlamak için İstanbul Uluslararası Kitap Fuarı’nda

Wattpad’teki Türkiye topluluğunun hızla büyümeye devam ederken ve Wattpad uygulaması ülkedeki iki milyon kişi için en popüler eğlence durağı olmayı başardı.

Wattpad’in Türkiyedeki büyümesini ve başarısını kutlamak için Wattpad CEO’su ve kurucularından Allen Lau Uluslararası Kitap Fuarı boyunca İstanbul’da olacak. Wattpad Türkiye’deki ilk resmi topluluk buluşmasını 14 Kasım Cumartesi günü gerçekleştirecek. Buluşma esnasında Türk Wattpadçiler birbiriyle tanışıp; sevdikleri Wattpad yazarlarıyla ve Allen Lau ile konuşma fırsatı bulacak.

Türkiye topluluğu Wattpad’te oldukça sosyal ve aktif.

Kollektif olarak Türkiye topluluğu günde 14 milyon dakika geçirirken ve yedi milyondan fazla Türkçe orjinal hikaye güncellemesi paylaştı. Ateş ve Su, Kalbime Fısılda gibi hikayeler Wattpad’te milyonlarca kez okundu. Türkiye sosyalleşmeyi ve paylaşmayı çok seviyor; bu nedenle Türkiye’de sosyal hikaye anlatıcılığını Wattpad aracılığıyla keşfetti ve çok sevdi.

Uluslarası İstanbul Kitap Fuarı sırasında Wattpad 10. Salondaki standında topluluğu tanımak, yeni hikayeler keşfetmek ve kendi hikayelerini nasıl paylaşacakları hakkında daha fazla bilgi almak isteyen ziyaretçilerin sorularını yanıtlayacak.

Wattpad olarak Türkiye topluluğunun başarısını kutlamak için çok heyecanlıyız ve Kasım’ı sabırsızlıklar bekliyoruz!
Dünya çapında Wattpad topluluğu ayda 13 milyar dakikasını ücretsiz hikayelere dalmış bir şekilde harcıyor. Topluluğa her saniye katılan insanlarla, Wattpad herkesi kendisi için önem taşıyan içerik ve sohbetlerle birbirlerine bağladı. Herhangi bir mobil cihaz ya da bilgisayar kullanarak dünyanın her yerinden, herkes, 150 milyondan fazla hikaye güncellemesine ücretsiz ulaşabilir.


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