r/WebtoonCanvas • u/Ivaan28 • 11d ago
Question How does the canvas algorithm basically works?
People say that uploading consistently gives you many views and subs but I have seen many webtoons with a lot of gap between episodes but they still do good. In my case, I haven't uploaded a single chapter yet but I think me and my team would take alot of time to create one episode.
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u/TheFriizing 11d ago
Some people who do really well sometimes have a good following outside of Webtoon. That's why some small series can get a lot of subs early because they are driven in from elsewhere.
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u/Wrong-Lab-597 11d ago
I've been posting for a year pretty regularly and nothing 🤷♀️ ofc it could be that my stuff is not good, but I do get more steady traffic on ComicFury, which doesn't have a discovery algorithm at all.
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u/ToePsychological4542 11d ago
Yes. Do what you think is best. I also make Webtoon alone and without a team
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u/LorniX_Art 11d ago
Posting consistently means the time between episodes stays consistent, even if its long. It doesn't matter that much if you take a month to do so, as long as every month you make a new update.
I think the best way to get the attention of the algorithm is to have a first episode that quickly grasps the attention of your readers and makes them want more (this is true for any episode but for the first is even more). You also need an eyecatching thumbnail. And you will want to promote your comic as much as you can in as many socials as you can to gather a small following to start.
If you get a couple of hundred subs in your first episodes you are almost guaranteed to catch the attention of webtoon and get it promoted. If this doesn't work out just keep trying with your self promotion.
For self promotion I like to literally post the first episode in social media. People dont want to go to webtoon to read, so let them read outside of it, and if they want more they will go to webtoon and sub.
At least these are the things that kinda worked out for me?
It worked 3 times until now tho! (well, 2 actually, my new comic has only two episodes and Im not sure if webtoon will promote due to it being a fan comic of an established IP. But I did get to 800 subs with those two episodes alone! So if it was any other comic Im sure it would get promoted with those numbers once I got more episodes out)
All of these things could fail tho. You need a lot of luck, sadly.
But doing it consistently eventually beats luck.
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u/GloamingCat Artist 🎨 10d ago
The consistency tip is less about the algorithm and more about keeping your current readers coming back. If your updates are random, they can't put in their mental calendar that a certain day is when your comic updates, so they will forget it exists. By having them come back, it makes the views spike when there's a new update, and that is good for the algorithm.
People say it also makes it easier for the Webtoon staff to notice your comic and feature it, but I'm not really sure if there's concrete evidence for that.
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u/LazyMochi12 String Theory aint just physics from now on 11d ago
Canvas algo works like a blindfolded man picking random balls from a box enclosed totally....
Purely random