SM Leisure artists will be part of HYBE’s fan platform Weverse subsequent week on September 12.
Round 13 teams and solo artists will transfer from SM Leisure’s proprietary fan platform Kwangya Membership to Weverse. SM Leisure confirmed that fan membership memberships bought on the primary platform will routinely switch to Weverse. Followers can then use Weverse to speak with each other, watch livestreams on the platform, and buy official merchandise utilizing Weverse Store.
Artists from SM Leisure have been utilizing YouTube and Instagram Reside over the previous couple of months following the closure of VLIVE. VLIVE was acquired by HYBE in 2022.
“We welcome artists of SM Leisure, who’re liked by followers all over the world, to Weverse,” provides Weverse CEO Choi Joon-won in a press launch. In the meantime, Kwangya Membership will finish its providers on September 11. The artists becoming a member of Weverse embrace:
- Aespa
- Boa
- EXO
- Ladies’ Technology
- Kangta
- NCT 127
- NCT Dream
- Purple Velvet
- Riize
- Shinee
- Tremendous Junior
- TVXQ
- WayV
Weverse permits artists to work together with their followers immediately since 2019. Initially, it was solely utilized by HYBE artists like TXT, BTS, and Seventeen. Nonetheless, the platform has turn into a vacation spot for artists from different leisure corporations—together with Blackpink and Stayc. Weverse presently hosts round 80 artists and actors from across the globe, permitting followers to see textual content posts, images, movies, and dwell content material.
“We don’t restrict our boundaries or fandom solely inside Okay-pop,” CEO Joon Choi advised Mashable lately. “We name our service a fandom enterprise and also you could be a fan of something. The factor we’re actually digging into is the psychological mechanism of falling in love with one thing or somebody.”
“When there’s a fan that’s captivated with one thing or somebody, we perceive what they need and supply them with an all-in-one bundle. For artists, we’re the most effective instrument for cultivating their tremendous followers, and we offer a monetization ecosystem.”