There’s room for more: How indie verticals are rethinking the format
Beyond the Billionaire: How Indie Verticals Are Rethinking the Format Here’s the pattern: He’s a CEO. Or a billionaire. Or a mafia boss. Or a vampire, an…
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Trümmerkind Shows What Vertical Drama Hasn’t Dared to Do Yet
No billionaire. No love triangle. No plot twist in second three. Trümmerkind: IMGBE — In Meiner Gegend Brennt Es (In My Neighborhood, It’s Burning) — starts where…
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Time Away: What This Drama Does Differently Than Anything We Know
No CEO. No secret baby. No contract marriage. No alpha male who’s cruel first and madly in love by episode twelve. Instead: 1881. The Civil War. A…
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EiLiN: The first German-language platform for vertical drama
With EiLiN, a German-language platform for vertical dramas is emerging. The planned series are intended to be vertical, short, emotional and made for mobile viewing. Instead of…
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The All-American Rejects – When Vertical Storytelling Becomes an Album Campaign
SuperFan is a self-aware branded vertical that shows how vertical storytelling can work beyond classic romance, CEO, or standard trope-driven formats. The series built around The All-American…
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Romantic or Red Flag? Body Shaming in Vertical Dramas
Why transformation stories can be powerful — but devaluation is not romance Vertical dramas love transformations. And that is not a bad thing in itself. A glow-up…
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AI in Short Dramas: A Tool, an Opportunity — or a Line We Shouldn’t Cross?
Artificial intelligence has long arrived in the creative industry. In the world of Short Dramas and Vertical Dramas, we are seeing more and more content created with…
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Holywater: How an Outsider Is Reshuffling the Microdrama Market
A company from Ukraine has become the most visible non-Asian force in the global microdrama business. The story behind it says more about the format’s future than…