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 ...

The viral short dramas are increasingly being created entirely with AI, with hundreds of new shows spun up each day.

“God of Wealth, when will you finally side with me?” One rainy night, after finishing overtime, the female protagonist Xuanle, exhausted, looks up at the sky and mutters this as she heads home. Xuanle ...

Gripping series themes spanning romance to revenge have lured investors with their low costs, speedy turnarounds and fast pay-offs The massive success of China's mini dramas at home has prompted the ...

There's another short video trend from China drawing views in the U.S. - microdramas. These are shows cut up into short episodes, just 60 or 90 seconds long or shorter than the theme music BJ ...

A screenshot of mini-drama platform 99TV, which is part of Chinese company Jiuzhou Culture's efforts to target Southeast ...

China’s micro drama industry has witnessed an extraordinary boom over the past couple of years, attracting hundreds of millions of viewers with its manic soap operas divided into bitesize episodes.