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, ...

Latin American downloads of the top 20 short-drama apps have increased by roughly 402% year-on-year in 2025, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That's on top of a 4,300% year-on-year ...

One of China’s most popular short-video and streaming platforms was flooded with porn and violent content earlier this week, sparking outrage and bafflement in a nation where the internet is tightly ...

Kuaishou’s text-to-video model Kling introduces new short video generation feature, results go viral in China. Credit: Kuaishou Chinese short video platform Kuaishou unveiled three AI-generated sci-fi ...

With micro-short dramas, however, the content has traversed these traditional markets to reach even North America, marking a ...

Kuaishou expects the new model's abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers Chinese short video platform Kuaishou on Monday launched a new ...

Artsy film critics are unlikely to be impressed by China’s micro-dramas. Even so, the roughly two-minute episodes, which cram soap-opera plots into a short-video format, are wildly popular. Watched ...