Blog Posts

June 18, 2018

The first of its kind deal in Europe brings data and new voices to Germany’s entertainment market Munich/Toronto, 18 June 2018: Bavaria Fiction has become the first and exclusive production partner of Wattpad for German-speaking territories. The ...

June 07, 2018

Wattpad’s annual writing competition kicks-off with a new category celebrating diversity The Wattys are back and trailblazing for ...

June 06, 2018

Ramey Joins Wattpad Studios on Heels of Continued International Entertainment Expansion TORONTO - June 6, 2018 - Wattpad, the global multiplatform entertainment company for original stories, today announced the appointment of Lindsey Ramey as ...

June 01, 2018

Wattpad to donate $1 for every story shared during Pride Month as part of the Pen Your Pride write-a-thon  TORONTO -- June 1, ...

May 31, 2018

I started at Wattpad very close to the Winter holidays, and the first thing that struck me about the company was the strong sense of community that is so deeply embedded at HQ, extending to user’s of Wattpad and Tap. After a flurry of new ...

May 22, 2018

Looking back at my first year at Wattpad, I am amazed at all the memories packed into just 12 months. You truly never know what you are going to get from one day to the next at Wattpad, which—I have to admit—is one the reasons I love working here so ...

May 15, 2018

Wattpad Studios is excited to announce that Hulu has picked up Light as a Feather from AwesomenessTV and Wattpad in a straight-to-series deal.Based on Zoe Aarsen’s (@zaarsenist) supernatural thriller of the same name, Light as a Feather is ...

May 04, 2018

Wattpad today announced that Sony Pictures Television has acquired the rights to Katarina E. Tonks’ (@katrocks247) Death is My BFF. Paul Shapiro, who brought the project to Sony, will executive produce under his All In Media banner, along with ...

April 05, 2018

Ong Joins as Wattpad Continues its International Entertainment Expansion with New Roles for Europe and Publishing TORONTO - April 5, 2018 - Wattpad, the global multiplatform entertainment company for original stories, today announced the appointment ...

March 07, 2018

For close to 12 years, Wattpad has been disrupting entertainment and transforming how people find and experience stories. Our roots are in social storytelling--something we continue to dominate in nearly every market on the planet--but today, we are ...

February 14, 2018

This following post is written by Aron Levitz, Head of Wattpad Studios Just a few weeks ago we announced a ...

January 17, 2018

New funding will be used to expand the company’s global entertainment footprint and machine learning capabilities TORONTO - Jan. 17, 2018 - Wattpad, the global multiplatform entertainment company for original stories, today announced USD $51 ...

December 13, 2017

Wattpad’s global community of readers and writers supported social causes with stories, love fantastic narratives that mix genres What do werewolves and K-Pop have in common? They are both among the biggest Wattpad trends that inspired readers ...

November 10, 2017

WONDER Author R.J. Palacio and Film Director Stephen Chbosky Selected Winning Stories of When Kindness Prevailed for the #ChooseKind Campaign Los Angeles, CA—November 10, 2017— In anticipation of its upcoming film WONDER, global content leader ...

October 18, 2017

Since Wattpad was founded over 10 years ago, we’ve always prided ourselves on our commitment to listening ...

October 02, 2017

Today we are thrilled to announce a partnership with Entertainment One (eOne)! The content partnership will see eOne source original television, feature film and virtual reality projects from the more than 400 million story uploads on Wattpad. ...

September 29, 2017

Year over year, we at Wattpad HQ aim to evolve The Wattys in a meaningful way. From the look and feel of ...

September 28, 2017

This week we announced that our partnership with Mashable has taken another step towards bringing Wattpad stories to life on screens all over the world. Mashable will be adapting the Wattpad hit No Capes by Elizabeth A. Seibert (@joecool123). The ...

August 08, 2017

The following post comes from Allen Lau, Wattpad's co-founder and CEO.I often say that building Wattpad in Toronto was the best decision I ever made. Since our early days, more than 10 years ago, our community of story-lovers has been international ...

July 28, 2017

Since the launch of Tap by Wattpad, the world has devoured hundreds of thousands of captivating and ...