{"id":2310,"date":"2019-09-12T12:38:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T01:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2022-02-18T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T09:39:29","slug":"wattpad-introduces-new-monetised-program-reports-rise-in-user-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2019\/09\/12\/2310\/wattpad-introduces-new-monetised-program-reports-rise-in-user-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Wattpad introduces new monetised program; reports rise in user base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-publishing platform Wattpad has announced a new monetisation program amid a 23% rise in its user base, <a href=\"https:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2019\/08\/industry-notes-wattpad-jumps-to-80-million-users-cengage-sued-again\/\">reports <em>Publishing Perspectives<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In July, over 130 authors were participating in the Paid Stories program, which remains invitation-only. Contributors are judged on their \u2018storytelling capability, writing quality, originality [and] personality\u2019, as well as other factors such as their relationship with the Wattpad community. While the company declined to cite specific rates of pay, a spokesperson said some writers are making \u2018tens of thousands of dollars\u2019 in the program. Content produced by Paid Stories authors is reportedly getting around 5.5 million reads per month.<\/p>\n<p>Wattpad has also reported a total of 80 million monthly active users\u2014up from 70 million per month in 2018\u2014and now has support for about 50 languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-publishing platform Wattpad has announced a new monetisation program amid a 23% rise in its user base, reports Publishing Perspectives. In July, over 130 authors were participating in the Paid Stories program, which remains invitation-only. Contributors are judged on their \u2018storytelling capability, writing quality, originality [and] personality\u2019, as well as other factors such as their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}