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Kakao Entertainment Acquires Tapas and Radish Media, Two Leading U.S.-based storytelling platforms
May 11, 2021 GMT
Kakao Entertainment Acquires Tapas and Radish Media
SEOUL, South Korea, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Kakao Entertainment signed definitive agreements on May 7 to acquire two storytelling platforms based in the U.S., Tapas Media, Inc. (hereafter Tapas) and Radish Media, Inc. (hereafter Radish). The acquisitions pave the way for Kakao Entertainment to expand its original content business in North America and other English-speaking regions. The company has already secured a dominant market share in Japan through its affiliate comic platform Piccoma.
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Fashion Institute of Technology New York, NY
The ideal candidate will be an industry leading story artist, concept artist, modeler animator and/or character designer with professional experience in the fields of illustration, comics, graphic novels, animation and/or game design. Within this field we are looking for two specialists to teach during the Fall 2021 semester. Teaching will most likely be in person at FIT in NYC.
Tapas Media, Los Angeles
We are seeking for an experienced VP of People for our Los Angeles office to lead our people operations function. This role is expected to be hands-on, balance the strategic with the tactical, and require you to build and create the most effective and efficient processes and team. This person will report to the CEO and work closely with other internal key leaders to help achieve key priorities while helping to position the company to grow.
Tapas Sees Big Gains for Digital Comics By Rob Salkowitz | Jan 20, 2021
Digital comics delivered via mobile devices are starting to take significant creative and commercial steps forward. Last year Webtoon, owned by Korean tech giant Line, posted dramatic user and revenue growth, driven by large investments in attracting new customers. That was not a fluke: Tapas, a smaller U.S.-based mobile comics startup, has also announced impressive recent growth, along with plans to partner with traditional print publishers like Scholastic.
Founded in 2012, Tapas has grown a dedicated community of readers and creators through a popular mobile app, Tapas.io, which features “snackable” vertical-scroll episodic webcomics and stories. In the last year, the privately-held company announced it had reached 100 million episode-unlocks (paid content transactions) and saw total 2020 payments to Tapas creators rise to $14 million. Though the company does not make its financi