Kassandra Tidland

Manager, Creative Advertising at Universal Pictures

Los Angeles, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Universal Pictures (Full-time · 5 yrs 3 mos)
    • Manager, Creative Advertising
      Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Creative Coordinator
      Apr 2021 - Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Wattpad Star / Wattpad Creator at Wattpad
    Aug 2015 - Nov 2023 · 8 yrs 4 mos

    I write and post content on Wattpad and Tap to over 50,000 followers. My writing has an accumulative 18,000,000+ views on the two platforms. Out of over 45 million Wattpad users, I was considered a "Wattpad Star." As a Wattpad Star, I was able to do commissioned work with many companies including Simon & Schuster, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers, Hulu, and Coachella, among others. (Full list of commissioned work can be found in the "Projects" section of this profile.) Novel The Famoux has generated over five million global views, is listed by the New York Times as a book similar to The Hunger Games, and was ranked in the Top 10 Online Stories of the Year in the year 2015. The Wattpad Star program was discontinued in August 2022. I am now referred to as a "Wattpad Creator."

  • Author - "The Famoux" at Wattpad Books / Penguin Random House UK
    Oct 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Debut novel "The Famoux" was published January 2021. "The Famoux" is a YA dystopian novel that was previously posted serially on the website Wattpad to a global audience of millions of readers. Since the first chapter was posted in 2016, "The Famoux" has won numerous online writing awards, has topped Best-Of lists, and stayed for several months ranked at #1 in the Science Fiction genre out of millions of novels on Wattpad. It was listed by the New York Times as a book "Similar To The Hunger Games". The novel's online success prompted its publication. "The Famoux" was published by Wattpad Books, and Penguin Random House in Europe and Australia. It is availably globally, wherever books are sold.

  • Scripted Development Intern at Live Nation Entertainment
    Jan 2020 - Mar 2020 · 3 mos

  • Development and Acquisitions Intern at Anton
    Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 · 4 mos