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Kakao's Japanese webtoon service Piccoma [KAKAO ENTERTAINMENT]

Piccoma No. 1 grossing app in Japan in September

Piccoma, Kakao's global webtoon service, was the No. 1 grossing app in Japan in September on both Google and Apple’s app stores, according to market tracker data.ai on Friday. This is the fourth time for the Kakao app to top the two Japanese ...

2022.11.4

Naver Webtoon's French service [SCREEN CAPTURE]

Naver, Kakao webtoon services have big hopes for French market

Naver and Kakao’s webtoon services are facing off in France as the two companies seek to take the lead in the growing digital comics market in Europe. Naver’s web content subsidiary Naver Webtoon will establish a webtoon company in France within ...

2022.3.21

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Kakao began the service for its global webtoon platform Piccoma in France Thursday, local time. [KAKAO PICCOMA]

Kakao's Piccoma goes live in France

Kakao's Piccoma was made available in France Thursday, signaling the start of its “Beyond Korea” mission to expand internationally. Piccoma is a webtoon service run by Kakao Piccoma, the Japanese webtoon subsidiary 75-percent owned by Kakao. It ...

2022.3.18

Naver Webtoon's ″All of Us Are Dead″ series garnered 80 times more weekly views compared to before a Netflix original series based on the content was released last month. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

Korean webtoon companies post record-high sales

Korean webtoon companies continue to post record-high sales and user numbers globally after a series of cross-border investments and deals aimed at broadening the user base of their platforms. The monthly transaction volume on Kakao ...

2022.2.17

Kakao Entertainment hopes to triple in size, considers IPO

Kakao Entertainment, a webtoon company 75-percent owned by Kakao, plans to triple transaction volume over the next three years ahead of a possible listing. The focus is diversifying the revenue of its webtoon business to Europe, Southeast ...

2021.12.8

An image promoting Piccoma, a comics platform run by Kakao Japan [KAKAO JAPAN]

Record net for Kakao as content takes off

Kakao pulled in record profits in the third quarter, driven by strong performance in the webtoon and gaming content businesses and gains from acquisitions and an initial public offering of Kakao Bank.

2021.11.4

Kakao posts record-breaking and expectation-busting profit

Kakao’s net profit rose 117.5 percent on year to 315.9 billion won ($276.4 million) in the second quarter, far above the market expectations.

2021.8.6

Kim Jae-yong, president of Kakao Japan. [KAKAO JAPAN]

Piccoma rides high offering manga, webtoons in Japan

Piccoma started business on May 15, 2016, and on its first day it pulled in 200 yen ($1.81) from 300 users. Nearly five years later, on May 5, 2021, the Japanese webtoon app saw revenues of 4.37 billion yen — a daily record. Two days later, it ...

2021.6.22

Kakao Japan sells 7.8 percent stake to private equity group

Following the investment, Kakao Japan is valued at 8.8 trillion won, according to the company.

2021.5.20

Kakao's Piccoma rules the manga app world

Piccoma, Kakao Japan’s manga subscription service, ranked first among all comic and novel apps in the world in terms of September sales, the company announced Monday.

2020.11.9