ByteDance, owner of popular short-video app TikTok and its Chinese sibling Douyin, has launched a short-drama app in Southeast Asia in an attempt to replicate the genre's success at home. Melolo, ...

On October 26, 2025, on a fall Sunday afternoon in New York, the independent multicultural nonprofit platform PINEASE joined ...

As studios rush to feed China’s short-drama craze, web novel writers say their work is being taken, rewritten, and sold ...

Chinese creatives are refining a new trend in entertainment: the super-short streaming series. Each episode in the series typically lasts less than two minutes, making them easily consumable on mobile ...

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The show opens with a dramatic scene. A young woman stands alone in a bar, drinking away her bad memories: her fiancé demanding his engagement ring back in the wake of her family’s bankruptcy and her ...

In what seems like no time at all, TikTok has become one of the most successful mobile services in the world. One reason behind its success was how it gave ordinary people a platform to showcase ...

In the first quarter of 2025, global in-app purchase revenue for short drama platforms surged to nearly $700 million - a staggering fourfold increase compared to Q1 2024, according to data from Sensor ...