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Vertical Drama Weekly: UK & Turkey formalize slates; WGA clarifies coverage; Vigloo debuts…
Week of Sept 28–Oct 5, 2025
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Editorial lead at SHÙ Studio. Decoding Vertical Drama, mobile-first production & short-form storytelling.
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AI Short Dramas Move From Demos to Dollars
After a year of splashy model showcases and proof-of-concept clips, AI-native short dramas are starting to look like a business. App-store data indicates in-app purchases for short-drama platforms approached $700 million in Q1 2025, nearly four times the prior year, with the U.S. responsible for roughly 49% of that
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Community Notice: Call for Entries 2025 International Short Drama Festival
⦿⦿ This is an information-only listing shared by Real Reel for our creator community. Please refer to the organizer’s page for full rules & deadlines. Official announcement (WeChat) linked below. Join Real Reel About International Short Drama Association: International Short Drama AssociationInternational Short Drama Association is a global non-profit organization
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Vertical Drama Review: Falling for a Superstar 2
⚈ ⚈ The first Falling for a Superstar (2024) was a quick, fizzy pitch: an ordinary woman falls for a Hollywood A-lister and has to navigate the glare that comes with him. Season 1 found an audience across short-video platforms and on AltaTV, the pay-per-episode app built for bite-size storytelling. Join Real
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Vertical Drama Weekly: ReelShort starts buying IP and hiring real producers; Hollywood’s JV…
Week of Sept 21–28, 2025
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Friday Briefing | 2025’s Vertical Short Drama Export: Scale Behemoths vs. Precision Hunters
Framing for market observers The export wave is no longer a curiosity. It’s a bifurcated market with two winning logics: scale (library density + paid distribution) and efficiency (high RPD/LTV from narrowly targeted users). Understanding which game a company is playing explains the leaderboard and where margins come from.
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Short Drama Marketing 201: Make Your Ads Feel Like Episodes
Creator-first note: this piece is for writers, directors, and producers who want to understand short-drama marketing so you can build it into your storytelling. You don’t need to run campaigns. You do need to shape scenes and episode beats that marketing can lift, test, and scale without breaking your
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Vertical Drama Weekly: long-form goes vertical, Korea locks a slate, Disney feeds the IP pipe
Week of Sept 14–21, 2025
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Vertical Short Drama Writing Advanced 2: 5 Click-Me Scenes That Actually Convert
Advanced craft for vertical storytellers. Scene grammar over slogans.
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Vertical Drama Review: Miss You After Goodbye
⚈ ⚈ Watching Miss You After Goodbye felt like swallowing glass. Within a few episodes, I wasn’t just annoyed and then physically uncomfortable. My body wanted to quit, but my duty as a reviewer chained me to the screen. Join Real Reel What followed was a bizarre emotional rollercoaster: first nausea,
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Vertical Drama Weekly：DramaBox wants the crown, local media is finally paying attention, and the…
Latest News About Vertical Micro Drama Industry
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Why China’s Vertical Short-Drama Experiments Hint at Hollywood’s Next Disruption
▙ ▙ Actors won’t just get flat fees anymore, they’ll get revenue-sharing options, or guaranteed base pay plus upside, depending on how their projects perform. from “Actor Cooperation Plan” Join Real Reel On September 4, Chinese short-drama platform Hongguo Originals (红果自制) announced an “Actor Cooperation Plan.” The headline: actors won’