Xu Peng went from filming 15 hours a day to having no acting jobs and has now returned to his hometown in rural Shandong to ...

Recently, The Lady from the Northeast Season 2, produced by China's leading short drama label Heard Island, has officially premiered. The series continues the cross-border love story between Qian ...

New Video Studio workflow brings character, scene, prop, style, and continuity controls into a single AI-powered ...

China's short drama industry generated 470 AI-produced titles every single day in January 2026, and by March, roughly 50,000 AI-native episodes had hit Douyin in a single month — the first time in ...

The viral short dramas are increasingly being created entirely with AI, with hundreds of new shows spun up each day. In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, ...

In May, Chinese short drama Enemy took the internet by storm. This 13-minute low-budget work with zero promotion, set against the backdrop of the fall of Nanjing in 1937, tells a solemn and tragic ...

These apps are betting on low-budget productions, two-minute episodes, scripts adapted from Chinese web novels, and an aggressive marketing strategy. Until last year, Ty Coker, a 28-year-old voice ...

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 ...

Streaming mobile app DramaBox is now seeking talent for “Why Women Cheat” a vertical short drama produced by StoryMatrix. Los Angeles-based actors, aged 6–45, are wanted for various roles, including ...

One minute of drama. One shocking twist. One more swipe. That formula is turning China’s AI-generated short drama market into one of the fastest-growing segments in global entertainment. Known as ...

Michel Hausmann, cofounder and artistic director of Miami New Drama, is an artistic innovator whose mind is often aswirl with ideas about how to get broader audiences even half as excited about ...