라이키
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Likey is a platform where content creators build paid communities for their fans, offering monthly membership payments, exclusive communities, online classes, live video fan meetings, virtual gifts, and messaging. It provides creators with revenue analytics, payout dashboards, copyright protection, and merchandise tools, and accepts partnerships from agencies and MCNs.
Also known as Likey · LIKEY · TPC Internet · 라이키 · 주식회사 티피씨인터넷 · 티피씨인터넷
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026라이키 (Likey, likey.me) is a creator business platform operated by 주식회사 티피씨인터넷 (TPC Internet) that lets content creators monetize relationships with fans in one place. The service combines paid monthly membership plans, fan-only communities and feeds, customized and digital content, online classes/seminars, live video fan meetings, voice/video calls, messaging, virtual gifts and merchandise. Creator-side tooling includes revenue analytics, payout dashboards, a copyright protection system, content production support and social media archiving.
The platform is positioned as an all-in-one business platform covering content, communication and commerce, so creators of different types can choose how they interact with fans and generate income. A Creator Studio (studio.likey.me) provides a Store feature for selling both digital goods (photos, video, PDF and ZIP files, up to 200 files per product) and physical goods, with subscriber-only visibility toggles, price entry in KRW or USD with automatic conversion to the other currency, quantity limits, co-creator tagging, scheduled publishing and sales end times, and shipping/invoice management for physical items. Additional monetization and engagement features include membership promotions, post tips, fan tiers, scratch cards and collection roulettes.
Likey operates a detailed operational policy governing uploaded content, enforced through user reports and real-time monitoring with a four-step process (intake, account verification, review, action) escalating from warnings to permanent suspension. Accounts require users to be at least 15 years old, identity verification is mandatory, adult-oriented content requires creators aged 19 or older, and content unsuitable for minors is age-restricted; nudity, sexual content, hate speech, spam, impersonation and disclosure of personal contact information are prohibited.
Business model
Likey monetizes creator–fan transactions on its platform: paid monthly membership plans, sales of digital and physical products through the Store, virtual gifts, post tips, paid messaging and live/video interactions. Creators manage pricing and publication themselves in Creator Studio, and revenue from physical goods becomes withdrawable once the buyer confirms receipt. A revenue-sharing feature exists for store digital products, and creator earnings are tracked via revenue analytics and payout dashboards.
Revenue is generated from in-app purchases and creator monetization flows — paid subscriptions/membership plans, digital and physical product sales, gifts, tips and paid interactions — with the platform providing payout and revenue-share mechanics to creators.
Traction
The Android app shows 500,000+ downloads, a 3.5 rating and about 1,400 reviews. The company reports average monthly growth of 22% during its first two years and the achievement of monthly break-even, describing itself as the leading domestic creator business platform.
Latest developments
Recent help-center announcements describe a membership promotion feature, scratch cards created in Creator Studio, a collection roulette feature with customizable banners and the ability to activate multiple roulettes at once, plus store additions such as shipping fees and per-person purchase limits for physical goods, post tips and fan tiers. The Android app was last updated on 2026-08-26 with bug fixes, and the company was responding to user reviews in August 2026.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
The company describes Likey as Korea's first creator business platform and states it became the dominant domestic number-one platform within two years of launch. Google Play lists it alongside other Korean fan-communication and idol-community apps such as Lysn, BIGC and blip.
Technology
Likey runs a web service, a Creator Studio web console (studio.likey.me) and an Android mobile app. Platform components include membership and subscription management, a store supporting large digital file uploads (video, images, PDF, ZIP), scheduled publishing, automatic KRW/USD price conversion, voice and video calling, live broadcasting, messaging, a copyright protection system that limits content capture, and an automated content monitoring and filtering system. The app requests optional access to microphone, camera, album, phone, location and nearby devices, and states data is encrypted in transit with user-requestable deletion.
Go-to-market
Likey acquires creators both directly and through partnerships: the website offers partnership registration for agencies and MCNs, while individual creators can apply from within the app after logging in. The company's profile attributes growth to user word of mouth and high repeat-visit rates. Fan-side distribution is via the Android app on Google Play, which lists more than 500,000 downloads.
Content creators seeking recurring income from fans — including individual creators as well as creators represented by agencies and MCNs — and their fans, who pay for memberships, exclusive photos, videos, voice messages, live video chat, gifts and merchandise. The app is rated Teen; accounts require users to be 15 or older, with some content limited to users 19 and older.
Geography
The operating company, 주식회사 티피씨인터넷, is based in Seoul, South Korea; Google Play lists an address in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, while the startup profile lists an address in Seocho-gu, Seoul. The service is offered in Korean and English, supports pricing in KRW and USD, and the company states it is preparing for global expansion.
History
The company was established on 2019-11-06. Likey launched its web service in May 2019 and released its mobile app in February 2020. According to the company's profile, within two years of launch it grew an average of 22% per month on word of mouth and repeat visits, reached monthly break-even, and raised a 3 billion KRW Series A in March 2021, after which it began preparing for international expansion.
Risks & controversies
The platform hosts age-restricted adult-oriented material and therefore maintains extensive moderation, age-verification and content-restriction rules under Korean broadcasting/communications and youth-protection review standards; enforcement includes suspensions with no refunds for purchased items. Users on Google Play report functional complaints, including errors when switching to a creator account without an agency code and general request errors, and the app's average rating is 3.5 from about 1,400 reviews. Screenshot and image-saving restrictions tied to copyright protection are also a recurring user complaint.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
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Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsHelp-center announcements introduced a collection roulette feature with customizable banners and multi-roulette activation, scratch cards in Creator Studio, and a membership promotion feature.
A store policy dated 2024-09-19 was published in the help center alongside the Likey Store feature for selling creators' digital and physical products.
After reaching monthly break-even and raising a Series A, the company stated it was preparing to expand internationally.
Likey, described as Korea's first creator business platform, launched its web service in May 2019.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does 라이키 do?
- Likey is a Korean all-in-one creator platform for paid fan memberships, content, communication and commerce.
- Who are 라이키's investors?
- 라이키's investors include Laguna Investment.