Is it worth it to post on webtoon?

[Zyephen]

I see many people talking about line webtoon in the forums, but I have not posted my comic there, mainly because I don't want to have to go reduce the page sizes on 340 pages of comic and I don't really want to have to post in 3 different places every Wednesday(smackjeeves, tapas, webtoon) but, if I can gain a good number of new followers... What do you guys think? Is webtoon more active than smackjeeves and tapas? Is it worth the pain in the ass of going through 340 pages to save as a smaller file?

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Here's my comic too... because I'm shameless.

Chaotic Nation | Tapas

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EDIT: So I posted my entire 340 page comic on webtoons, thought this might be interesting to anyone who is also curious about it.
I have been on Tapas for 8 months, and i currently have 465 subscribers, 8.3k views and like... 6 comments or something stupid like that. Mind you I paid for ads to drive traffic to my tapas as well. I posted on webtoons today and I have, in about 7 hours, gotten 1.3k views, 71 subscribers, and about 3-4 comments too.

I guess numbers don't lie. Thanks for the ones telling me to post there.

My one complaint is I really hate their site. No customization at all, and there's nowhere to post my social media links, or any sort of info at all really. Smack jeeves is still my favorite site, as an artist. so customizable, adding links and buttons is so nice, and I get quite a few comments and feedback over there compared to tapas. Why can't our powers combine?! Smackjeeves' customization, tapas' ad revenue and forums, and webtoon's audience and discover-ability.

[69Michi]

It's all up to you. But personally I would say it might worth it! Webtoon is reported to have around five times total visit compare to Tapas. It's not rare to see creators that struggles to grow on Tapas gain hundred, thousand subscribers in a short pan of time. (Of course there are some who couldn't seem to find the right niche of group on Webtoon to grow and end up with Tapas still yielding more subs and views.)

I suggest skimming through this topic

https://forums.tapas.io/t/line-webtoon-opinions/2578

It has all your webtoon needs. Although maybe skip 1/3 of the early posts since they are very old news.

[zigmenthotep]

Well, I've been on Tapas since January and gained 38 subscribers using Tapas as my primary site where I send traffic, I've been on Webtoons since late August and gained 48 doing nothing put posting my backlog once per day. So it seems like the viewership volume is definitely there.
And I'm sure there's a way to batch resize the pages. I had to go bigger, that was a pain.

[Zyephen]

I see. well maybe it's worth a try. Thanks for the response.

[charliepeppersoap]

think about your comic like cake; you want to offer that cake to as many people as are looking for it, but they can't eat what they can't see, so no use in keeping your cake to just one storefront. distribute your cake to every bakery and cafe and more people will be able to get the thing they love!

i know from a personal standpoint it feels redundant and like maybe too grabby for attention, but a viewer only has so much time in their day and probably only visits one webcomic site regularly - they shouldn't have to miss out on your great thing.

: )

[Zyephen]

Yeah, it's just such a pain in the rear to have to save 3 different file sizes for 3 different websites XD But I thought as much too.

[ISNEKO]

If you like interacting with fans, prepare to check every page you ever upload because there's no notification system.

[fighterxaos]

I just joined webtoons, but I noticed at this point my comic Mixtape has a few subs and it's only been there for a week. Whereas on tapas, it had 0. It's not rocket growth like other people are experiencing so, it's up to you. Doesn't hurt to have your comic on more places but it is kind of a pain to make sure everything is only in jpeg and have even your pages be in smaller width than tapas maximum.

[ryoko]

I know your pain. I started posting my comic on Webtoons back in May and have been slowly resizing all 425 pages to work over there. I'm slowly getting Webtoons caught up to what I've been posting on Tapas. Having a huge buffer of pages has made posting there pretty much stress free. I've also been able to fix text and any errors in my pages as i've been going through them, then I replace old pages here on Tapas with the fixed ones.

For views, Tapas has the most for me, but I've been on here since Oct '15. Webtoons views aren't as high, but the sub to view ratio is much higher than Tapas.

For me it's been worth it to resize everything, mostly so that I'm forcing myself to go back and fix stuff, but also it'll help when I start my patreon this month. The more exposure, the more potential backers. I only earn minimum wage, so if I can get enough people on patreon to pay the equivalent of one afternoon a week, I can use that time to focus on drawing. So, being both places is worth it.

[scythe]

If you have Photoshop, just do a batch automation to reduce the image dimensions. If not, it'd be worthwhile doing a free trial considering you've got 340 files.

[joannekwan]

For me I'm not opposed to posting there, but I feel like I'll only do it when at least one of my longer series is done since A. I don't do webtoons vertical scrolling format and B. they prefer longer updates. So I would post maybe 5 pages at a time, once a week. I don't wanna do it now because I'd catch up to Tap too quickly.

[GoldenPlume]

Yeah, Webtoons has a much bigger readership. Like @joannekwan said, we currently don't post there though because of the larger update demands. What we will end up doing is time it so that a 200 page series ends up reaching the end of the volume at the same time at both Tapas and Webtoons.

At a one page per week update schedule, what this would look like is around page 168 to start posting at Webtoons, that way when page 200 is posted to Tapas, Webtoons is getting pages 196-200 posted. Then you can pitch your print pre-order Kickstarter to both communities simultaneously.

Also some Webtoons readers who take interest in your series may jump over to Tapas and gobble up all 160 pages at one time which would do wonders for you on trending.

Hopefully maybe by then Tapas can also get their CPMs up so that all those ads that Webtoons readers will see while binge reading your series will generate a better income for you.

[bluemorpho]

I'm someone that reads a lot of comics, both on Tapas and Webtoon, and I have to say I'm much more likely to go scrolling through the discover section on webtoon than search through tapas. For one thing there's not much of an organizational system on webtoon when it comes to how popular things are, so even brand new stories are more likely to be found by people.

[MisterGrey3000]

I certainly feel like it's worth it, mostly because I think it's crucial to have your work represented on every platform that can host it, but also ...
...I've been on tapastic for about 9 months now (posting in the forums and whatnot) and have BARELY managed to hold on to or get past 10 subscribers, in contrast I've only been on webtoon for 2 months and I've basically tripled that number with 30+ subscribers.
Now it could be that my upload speed has something to do with this (I was basically re-uploading 7 comics every 2 days when I joined webtoon), but the readership on that site just seems bigger and way more active/hungrier for undiscovered content.
Hell I'm even getting random comments that are both helpful and complimentary, that rarely happens here.

So yeah, I think it's totally worth it. You might just gain a bigger following.

[Zyephen]

Definitely. I posted today and the numbers don't lie. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.

[lilydusk]

I'm using the same files on tapastic that i use to post on webtoon (800x1280). Eh.

[boloneytimemachine]

I have been wondering this myself as I continue to try and figure out where I should be posting my comic strip. Currently I am on Tapas, FB, Instagram, Tumbler, Twitter, Reddit and Imgur but all my time goes into promoting it on Instagram.

I personally don't think the other platforms are compatible with my strip so I was debating on spending more time on Tapas, which lead to possible loading my stuff on Webtoons.

[modrawmanga]

Webtoon has enough random readers browsing around that your comic is being found somehow, so you can still post there just as a mirror and not worry about extra promotional effort imho.

[zigmenthotep]

Well yeah, that's because you can post am image to Tapas smaller than the max image width.

[lilydusk]

Oh right, i missed that out. My bad. I thought TS wanted to post a webtoon sized image on tapas.