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24 vertical drama intelligence capsules, updated continuously

2026-W26
Lebara Play: when African telecom becomes a microdrama distributor
2026-W25
"The billionaire-werewolves era is over": AI micro-drama enters its genre wars
2026-W25
'Billionaire Werewolves Are Over': AI Micro-Drama Enters Its Genre War
2026-W25
Microdrama → movie theaters: aTwist × National CineMedia, 18,500 screens
2026-W25
The ReelShort-Showbox deal is the most consequential structural signal this format has produced in months — and the consumer charts make clear why it was inevitable.
2026-W21
Hektik App, the first Africa-first microdrama platform to go live
2026-W17
Week 17 — When Bollywood Finally Stops Watching and Starts Making
2026-W16
TikTok Drama: the predator lying in wait
2026-W16
Week 16 — The Billionaire Formula Hits Saturation Point
2026-07-05
The chart that didn't move is the tell, not the anomaly
2026-07-04
The consumer chart didn't move because the audience isn't watching a chart
2026-07-03
Two charts, zero overlap, one industry pretending not to notice
2026-07-02
The ad-spend chart just turned over completely, and nobody noticed
2026-07-01
The chart nobody trusts is the only one nobody can buy
2026-06-30
Niche wins where scale fails.
2026-06-28
Pocket TV's exit is the clearest argument yet that distribution alone is not a business model in vertical drama.
2026-06-27
The money and the audience have stopped talking to each other.
2026-06-26
The rankings froze, and that's the story.
2026-06-25
Brand is the new studio, and the Interfel case proves it works at micro-scale.
2026-06-24
AI is entering vertical drama from the wrong end, and the week just showed it.
2026-06-23
The A24-DeepMind deal exposes a fault line that micro-drama has been circling for two years without naming.
2026-06-22
The Netflix-TF1 integration is the quiet argument that micro-drama has been losing.
2026-06-21
The ad-spend charts reveal a format that no longer trusts its own product.
2026-06-20
Southeast Asia is no longer a growth promise — it's where the format's next architecture gets built.