Live edition Vol. I · No. 35 Tuesday, 25 August 2026
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Vertical Drama Apps · ReelShort vs ShortMax

ReelShort vs ShortMax

Two vertical drama platforms, compared on their numbers and catalogs.

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The global leader in vertical drama
70M+ MAU · $1.2B gross consumer spend 2025 · 22 languages
629 titles tracked here
Crazy Maple Studio, a COL Group company. 70M+ monthly users and 2.7M daily (up 125% year over year), ~3,000 titles in 22 languages, and roughly 70% of the US market. Gross consumer spend reached $1.2B in 2025 (Appfigures / Sensor Tower); parent COL Group booked CNY 5.72B (~$800M) in its FY2025 accounts — the gap is the app-store cut and refunds. The catch sits in the same books: about $27M of monthly user acquisition against $30M of monthly revenue.
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The AI drama pioneer
AI-first · Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines
20 titles tracked here
Leading the charge on AI-generated live-action dramas, and the first platform to send an AI production to the top of its own chart (Too Late! The Daughter of Olympus, April 2026). Its centre of gravity is Southeast Asia — Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines are its top markets — where revenue hit $7.2M in May 2025, up 279% in a single month (InsighTrackr).
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What the numbers say

ReelShort posts 70M+ MAU · $1.2B gross consumer spend 2025 · 22 languages; ShortMax answers with AI-first · Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines. On the catalog we index, ReelShort lines up 629 titles against 20 for ShortMax — two different plays on the same coin-based freemium model.

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ReelShort vs DramaBox: The Full Comparison
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ReelShort Revenue 2026: $1B+ Breakdown
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The full head-to-head lives in the report. Revenue, UA spend, coin economics, forecasts — Vertical Invasion 2026.
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