WEBTOON Entertainment Inc.
For the period ended Sep 30, 2025. Filed Nov 13, 2025.
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Sep 30, 2025 · Filed Nov 13, 2025
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As used in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Report”), unless stated otherwise or the context otherwise requires:
“amateur creator(s)” means creators who do not currently monetize their content as Paid Content on our platform as they are subject to our standard terms and conditions without Paid Content revenue sharing provisions. Amateur creators may monetize through other methods, including advertising if they meet certain viewership and subscriber thresholds.
“Coins” means our in-app currency, which our users can purchase, earn by completing certain advertisement-associated actions or receive during in-app promotional events.
“creators” means individuals who upload content to our platform and whose content remains available on our platform. Total creators include both amateur and professional creators.
“Daily Pass” means a digital pass that provides users with access to locked episodes primarily from a series that is no longer publishing new episodes.
“eBookJapan” means our eBook (including digital manga, which is manga in a digital format), web-comic and web-novel offering in Japan dedicated to professional creators.
“episode” means a periodically uploaded chapter or installment of a web-comic or web-novel title.
“Fast Pass” means a digital pass that provides users with early access to upcoming episodes for ongoing series of content on our platform, which must be purchased with Coins.
“IP Adaptations” means adaptations of certain content on our offerings into other media formats such as film, streaming series, games and merchandise.
“LINE MANGA” means our web-comic and digital manga offering in Japan dedicated to both amateur and professional creators.
“manga” means a style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels typically presented in print format.
“MAU” or “monthly active users” means users who visited our offerings at least once in the applicable calendar month, averaged over each month in the given period.
“MPU” or “monthly paying users” means users who have paid to access Paid Content in the applicable calendar month, averaged over each month in the given period.
“Munpia” means, as context requires, Munpia Inc., one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries in Korea, or Munpia, the namesake web-novel offering and web-novel creator community in Korea run by Munpia Inc.
“NAVER” means NAVER Corporation, a global information communications technology (ICT) company and our parent, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, excluding WEBTOON, unless context otherwise requires.
“NAVER SERIES” means our eBook, web-comic and web-novel offering in Korea dedicated to professional creators.
“NAVER WEBTOON” means NAVER WEBTOON Ltd., one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries in Korea that operates our offerings including WEBTOON and WEBTOON Korea.
“offering” means our mobile applications, websites or specific sections within such applications and websites where our creators post content, including WEBTOON, WEBTOON Korea, LINE MANGA, NAVER SERIES, eBookJapan, Munpia and Wattpad.
“Paid Content” means content on our offerings that our users need to pay to access, including through the use of Coins.
“Paid Content Average Revenue per Paying User” or “ARPPU” means the average Paid Content revenue in a given month divided by the number of monthly paying users for such month, averaged over each month in the given period.
“Paying ratio” means, with respect to a given period, the ratio of MPU divided by MAU.
“Paying user” means, with respect to a given period, a user who has paid to access Paid Content on our platform.
“professional creator(s)” means creators who monetize through Paid Content on our platform under formal creator agreements with Paid Content revenue sharing provisions.
“title” means a sequential web-comic or web-novel story that is comprised of episodes.
“Wattpad” means, as context requires, Wattpad Corp., one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries in Canada which was acquired by NAVER in May 2021 and subsequently acquired by us from NAVER in June 2023, or Wattpad, the namesake global web-novel offering with a global community of creators who are mostly amateur creators that is run by Wattpad Corp.
“web-comics” means digitally created and serialized stories expressed through vertical, continuous and graphical content.
“web-novels” means digitally created, serialized and text-based stories.
“WEBTOON” means, as context requires, WEBTOON Entertainment Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries, or WEBTOON, the namesake global web-comic offering run by NAVER WEBTOON.
“WEBTOON Korea” means NAVER WEBTOON, our web-comic offering in Korea
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