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RoboYak
Feb '19

I see that some post on WebToons, and Tapas, some have their own website, and some post in multiple places.

I have been wondering what is your best liked strategy? Do you post on multiple sites or just one, and why?

Right now I only have a Tapas account, but have been considering posting to some other sites. These are the Pros and Cons to posting to multiple sites as I currently see, but maybe am missing some.
Plus:
1. More exposure.

Negative:
1. More sites to keep up with.
2. Harder to be part of all communities.
3. Splitting traffic between multiple endpoints.

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TheFalseVyper
Feb '19

When I first started posting my comic, I was only interested in posting to Tapas because I knew from experience that the community was amazing and very forgiving towards new content creators such as myself.

However, after a year of only posting to Tapas, I decided to post my comic on Webtoons as well. After all, exposure is everything for small creators. My original reasons for not posting to Webtoons, some of which you've already pointed out such as having more sites to keep up with and splitting traffic, included Webtoons' rating system and the vertical scroll format preference.

I didn't like the rating system because I didn't want to receive poor reviews and ultimately become discouraged with my story. I've been told many stories regarding users purposefully giving comics bad reviews to tank their rating. I don't know how true or not those claims are, but the thought of it happening to my comic really put me off posting to Webtoons.

As for the vertical scroll format, I do single pages once a week. This isn't ideal for Webtoons as they tend to prefer longer updates.

In the end, I can honestly say that posting to both Webtoons and Tapas has only improved my audience overall. I don't regret splitting my reader base because just having people enjoy my comic was enough for me!

I hope this helps with your decision!

xabelmind
Feb '19

I think the big pro about post in more than one site is to be able to compare.

Every site has its community with some range of age, from specific locations and a concrete behaviour about the use of the site. Also, every site is different, there are those that are pretty friendly with newies and those that treat them as crap, for example.

With that you can see what age ranges are more interested in your work, where are they from... Also can compare the number of visits vs the number of subscribers. If in some site the work is not having a good reception, you can see why is it.

It's a good way to not sink if your work doesn't have a good welcome in one site and not become conceited if you're having a warm welcome :smiley:

unknown_user
Feb '19

I agree with the point about the differences between audiences of different websites, but only partially. Yes, you could make a conclusion about your main audience from performance on different sites... in theory. At practice there are always unpredictable influences of different factors, which make extracting such a patterns harder.
I had discussions about placing my comics at different recourses with my boyfriend, when I have started it.
He had doubts that using Tapas as a main platform for it is rational. First of all, he have pointed out that the most popular comics here have completely different style, thematics and vibe from mine. So my comics unlikely will become popular here, and there is probably a wrong audience for it. I've noticed in response, that there still are some popular comics of uncommon styles on this site. Maybe not SO popular, as the most popular ones, but still.
But I've agreed that probably the Webtoons site has more potential for gaining readership, since there are more people in general, as well as more diversity in popular section.
Honestly, I was almost sure that I'll get more subs on Webtoons that on Tapas, even without advertising Webtoons version very much. Moreover, it would be consistent with the experience of most of the people on this forum, who have posted their comics on both resources. But no.
It has several times more subs here, on Tapas - probably because I've promoted it at this forum a lot, as well as read a lot of other's comics. So, since there is easy on Tapas to check, who exactly have subbed on your comics, some percent of their authors have visited my page and took a look on mine comics, too.
I.e. at the end, other factors appeared to be stronger than our primal thoughts about sizes and preferences of different audiences.

xabelmind
Feb '19

But you are talking about predictions before showing your work :worried:

I meant things that come out once you started. You never know how the community will welcome your work until you give it a try and what you see in the front page is never the real community behind it. In fact, people usually give a good welcome to content dissociated with the works the site promote the most, the usual "pay for the commercial content" vs "support the indie creators... and hope they don't abandon the work" :laughing:

About Webtoons, I don't know how is it inside, their politics claim they'll ban my work if I appear there :flushed:

Merle
Feb '19

I post on Webtoons and Tappas (and soon a third website). I feel the increase in traffic is worth the struggle of having to update on multiple places.
For unifying purposes of those different platforms I´m trying to use Instagram as a main social platform. It hasn´t picked up big time, yet, but feels like it could bring the "bigger fans" together in one place in the future. It´s also the only social platform that has ever stuck with me and is still kind of fun, haha.
I´d say it´s always good to have more than one platform, but always have the same names. Anything else will make you way to vulnerable and relient on something you have no control over.

thedarkblueworkshop
Feb '19

Thanks to a buddy of mine I know, he's been posting some of my stuff on the other sites and showing me how to write tweets and using apps to schedule them. I can forward you his email address privately if you like.