ByteDance, owner of popular short-video app TikTok and its Chinese sibling Douyin, has launched a short-drama app in Southeast Asia in an attempt to replicate the genre's success at home. Melolo, ...

One of the most prominent streaming platforms for Asian dramas and movies is Rakuten Viki, which exclusively hosts some of ...

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 ...

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 show opens with a dramatic scene. A young woman stands alone in a bar, drinking away her bad memories: her fiancé demanding his engagement ring back in the wake of her family’s bankruptcy and her ...

My partner recently confessed something to me about his screen-time habits: When he’s giggling at his phone, he’s often watching short English-language soap operas that have begun showing up on his ...

BEIJING: The click of a computer, or the pressing of a TV remote, is now all it takes for a global audience to watch Chinese ...

The summer I was 8, I discovered Chinese dramas for the first time. I was at my grandmother’s house in Cincinnati, where my brother and I often spent part of our break. When my grandmother wasn’t ...