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Company reports revenue reached US$348.3 million<\/p>\n
\u00a9 WEBTOON Entertainment<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
WEBTOON<\/a><\/cite> Entertainment significantly narrowed its operating loss in the second quarter of 2025 thanks to growth in both the U.S. and Japanese markets.<\/p>\n According to a filing on Aug 12, the company reported that revenue reached US$348.3 million, up 8.5% from US$321 million a year earlier. Net loss also shrank to US$3.88 million, down from US$76.57 million in the prior-year quarter.<\/p>\n By segment, revenue increased across paid content, advertising, and intellectual property businesses. Paid content \u2014 the company’s largest revenue source \u2014 rose 5.4% year-over-year to US$274.9 million, boosted in part by a 13.2% sales increase in Japan, one of the world’s biggest comics markets. Advertising revenue grew 11.9% to US$45.2 million, while IP business revenue surged 41.8% to US$28.1 million.<\/p>\n WEBTOON<\/cite> has been focusing on expansion in North America and Japan. The company revamped<\/a> its English-language app with AI-powered recommendations and trailer videos, which helped drive<\/a> a 19% increase in monthly active users (MAUs) in the first quarter of this year, and drove another 19% increase in the second quarter (global MAU numbers declined 7.6% to 156.1 million compared to the same quarter last year, however). In Japan, its service LINE<\/a><\/cite> Manga ranked<\/a> No. 1 in the country’s overall app market during the first half of the year, according to data.ai.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, WEBTOON<\/cite> intellectual property is finding new life in adaptations worldwide. The Naver web novel Marry My Husband<\/i> inspired<\/a> a Japanese live-action series<\/a> that became the all-time most-watched Amazon Original drama in Japan. Other popular titles, including Omniscient Reader<\/a><\/cite><\/i> and ELECEED<\/a><\/cite><\/i>, are currently being developed into anime projects.<\/p>\n