Wadiz, Growing 231% Annually in Creator Category Over Past 5 Years... 'Creator Festival' Held

Wadiz, Growing 231% Annually in Creator Category Over Past 5 Years… ‘Creator Festival’ Held

- Wadiz Space ‘Special Exhibition’ and Total 30 Million Won Worth of Online/Offline Marketing Support… Wadiz's ‘Largest Scale’ Curated Exhibition This Year
- Connecting Creator Makers and Fans from Fine Art, Illustration, Goods, Publishing, Webtoon, IP, Photography, Board Games, and More

Wadiz is hosting a festival for creators and supporters who want to showcase, appreciate, and enjoy creative works both online and offline.
Wadiz (Representative Shin Hye-sung, www.wadiz.kr), a Lifestyle Design Funding Platform, is recruiting makers in the creator category which shows recent high growth and demand, and is holding a ‘Creator Festival’ for 3 weeks in August where supporters and  makers can meet both online and offline, the company announced on the 23rd.

According to Wadiz, the total funding recruitment amount in creator-related fields such as publishing and classes, goods, and culture is increasing significantly by more than 2 times every year since 2018. This popularity can also be confirmed in recent funding projects. Official goods funding projects targeting the fandoms of the films <Suzume's Pillar Lock> and <Your Name> successfully closed with approximately 16,000 participants raising 720 million won, the highest amount ever for goods funding. The ‘Yuhwa Company’s rookie representative painter Myunghwa Collection Funding also raised approximately 57 million won, proving supporters' high interest in art.

Leveraging this interest, Wadiz is holding the ‘2023 Creator Festival’ open to any makers in the creator category. This festival will be held as Wadiz's largest-scale curated exhibition this year, and any makers preparing to open projects in fine art, illustration, goods, publishing, webtoon, IP, photography, photo studios, board games, and more can participate by using the dedicated pricing plan or detailed page creation service.

Participating makers will receive marketing benefits worth a total of 30 million won, including exposure on Wadiz's main advertising channels from August 21st to September 10th for approximately 3 weeks and curated exhibition coupon support, and will also have the opportunity to promote their creative works and meet fans directly through a ‘Special Exhibition’ at the Seongsu-dong Wadiz Space both online and offline. Applications for participation can be made through the ‘Wadiz Homepage’ by June 12th, and detailed information can be found on May 23rd  Online Festival Briefing Session.

A Wadiz official stated, “Creative-related funding is establishing itself as one of the fields that 5.6 million supporters are most focusing on with recent high growth,” and added, “Since the opportunity to hold a special exhibition is provided at the recently established ‘Wadiz Space’ in Seongsu-dong, a dedicated space for creators, we expect many interested creators to participate.”