Inside the Tech Powering the $20B Vertical Microdrama Boom

Last month alone, over 10,000 titles, completely AI-made dramas were published. This is Sophia Xing. Her company PlotParty produces AI microdramas plus sells the tools for anyone to make them. In this episode, we get into the economics of vertical dramas and how much of what you're watching is already AI. People are actually paying more than they would for a

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Sophia, nice to meet you. Great to meet you. So tell me about Plot Party. Plot Party is an AI microdrama company where we have a tech platform, and we allow anyone who wants to make microdramas to easily do so with AI. We also have our own studio, so we make our first party content and we also help others making microdramas with their hybrid AI production.

And so what does this landscape look like? And if people are making the AI microdramas, like where are they getting distributed? So microdramas as an industry, it really came out of China since- Mm-hmm ... 2019, 2020, from nothing to now a $20 billion industry. AI microdramas started getting really popular starting from last year.

But yeah, right now it's- it's taking over really fast. Last month alone, over 10,000 titles, completely AI-made dramas were published in largely in China, India and Southeast Asia, but it's coming to the US, Latin America and Europe as well. So the industry is really growing like crazy. And traditionally microdramas are these one to two minute episodes optimized for a vertical mobile centric format.