KakaoPage

KakaoPage (Korean: 카카오페이지; RR: KakaoPeiji) is a monetized content platform optimized for mobile devices, launched by Kakao Corp. in 2013 and currently owned by its subsidiary Kakao Entertainment. The service launched on April 9, 2013, as a digital content marketplace, allowing brands and individuals to create and distribute visual, audio, and written content such as webtoons, manhwa, and genre fiction. It entered the Indonesian market in 2018 and Taiwan in 2020.

KakaoPage is famous in South Korea for its "free if you wait" system that allows readers to view one episode of a webtoon or web novel for free if they wait for a certain amount of time after reading.

The service's then-operator, Podotree Co., Ltd. (which changed its name to KakaoPage Corp. in 2018), was founded on July 20, 2010, as a subsidiary of Kakao.

KakaoPage was deemed a failure by mid-2013, but after adding Legendary Moonlight Sculptor and several other popular works, the service bounced back. By April 21, 2014, they had started their free webtoon and web fiction service. In 2014, they announced that they would add over 100 different webtoon series before the year was out.

Any individual can create content, upload it to KakaoPage, and sell it directly to other consumers on the platform. The total revenue for any sale is distributed as follows: 30% to Google Play, 20% to Kakao, and the remaining 50% to the publisher.

By September 2019, KakaoPage had recorded over 66,000 contents in total and 22 million accumulated members.

KakaoPage Corp. owned 19.8 percent of Haksan Publishing, 22.2 percent of Seoul Media Comics, and 19.8 percent of Daewon C.I., all of them publishers of comics. It also owned 21.9 percent of the stock in drama production company Mega Monster, which is a subsidiary of its then-sister company Kakao M.

In 2018, the company acquired Neobazar, Indonesia's top webtoon platform company, for 13.8 billion won.