Wattpad is a website for reading and publishing original written fiction[6] and connecting with fellow writers and readers.

[18] In January 2018, Wattpad announced USD $51M in funding from Tencent Holdings Limited, BDC, Globe Telecom's Kickstart Ventures, Peterson Group, Canso, and existing investor Raine.

[19] In December 2011, Wattpad was selected as the hottest digital media company in the country at the Canadian Innovation Exchange.

[20] In the same year, co-founder and CEO Ivan Yuen was recognized as a top Canadian entrepreneur at the Impact Infused Awards, sponsored by Deloitte.

[26] Liza Soberano and Enrique Gil also starred on the film Just The Way You Are, based on the Wattpad story "The Bet" by Ilurvbooks.

[27][28][29] In 2021, He's Into Her, a novel written by Maxinejiji (Maxine Lat Calibuso), will premiere on iWant TFC, starring Belle Mariano and Donny Pangilinan.

The incident exposed extensive personal information including names and usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

In April 2024, Wattpad announced that it would be removing a private messaging (PM) feature from the platform in response to a report on sexual grooming in PMs.

[46] Wattpad has stated that the feature has "only been relevant to a small percentage of our user base"[47] and removing it could foster "transparent dialogue.

[59] One of the most notable stories on the platform is the After series by Anna Todd, which was originally published as a Harry Styles fan fiction.

[61] By crafting a spot for fanfiction alongside its other genres, Wattpad prioritizes its teen readers and gives the platform a twist.

This makes it more fluid for readers of an original fiction to discover a new fanfic, or inspire a fanfiction writer to start a new story and bring their audience along with them.

[64] In 2011, The Watty Awards introduced three entry levels (Popular, On The Rise, and Undiscovered) to allow greater chances of winning for every type of writer.

A film version starring Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Selma Blair, Jennifer Beals, Peter Gallagher, and Shane Paul McGhie was released by Aviron Pictured on April 12, 2019.

[70] The acquisitions team looks to Wattpad's large and existing digital library (over half a billion titles) in order to select notable material for publication.

[70][71] According to Wattpad Books leader Ashleigh Gardner, this is in an effort to combat bias inherent in human editors.

[68][11][73] Outside North America, Gardner has sold the rights to Hachette (France) for Deanna Cameron's What Happened Last Night.

[74] Additionally, Lauren Palphreyman's rights to Cupid's Match have been sold in French (Hachette) and German (S. Fischer Verlag).

[75] The QB Bad Boy & Me by Tay Marley (28.8 million reads) will be their lead title and was slated for release on August 13, 2019.

"[79] Since The Kissing Booth premiered on Netflix on May 11, 2018, Ted Sarandos called it "one of the most-watched movies in the country, and maybe in the world".

According to a study, online writing communities like Wattpad help young writers learn and grow their craft from constructive feedback and criticism.

[84] Wattpad as well as similar online writing communities help young authors build and construct their self-perception as writers, as well as establishes an audience and interact with readers.

Registered readers can add comments and feedback by individual lines and paragraphs as they are reading rather than after the chapter or story is finished.

[86] If a guest attempts to view replies to a comment, or wishes to give feedback themselves, they will be prompted to create an account or log in to do so.

In May 2009, an article in The New York Times noted, "Sites like Scribd and Wattpad, which invite users to upload documents like college theses and self-published novels, have been the target of industry grumbling in recent weeks, as illegal reproductions of popular titles have turned up on them".

[87] The Wattpad website notes, "We do not welcome upload of material that violates its copyright terms," but also states "it is simply not possible to screen and verify all posted content.