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New York City's first microdrama film festival, Alza, showcased vertical-screen content and industry optimism about the format's future, though questions remain about audiences' willingness to watch phone-first content on large screens.
短视频创业公司 Vurt 将垂直微短剧从手机端拓展到智能电视平台，推出 Apple TV 和 Android TV 应用，用户量自 3 月上线以来从 1 万增至 67.5 万，主打真人制作与免费观看模式。
The Verge explainer examines the rise of 'microdramas' — cheap, mobile-first vertical soap operas popularized in China by ReelShort and DramaBox — and questions whether Hollywood's use of the term for projects like RoseBerry Media's AI-recut 'Neighbours' clips for Epis is a genuine new category or just buzzword hype.
The tweet announces that DaVinci Resolve Studio's native MCP feature can generate 9:16 vertical video clips, suggesting a significant advancement for video editors.
A developer released a free tool called 'lanshu-create-ai-presenter-video' on GitHub that uses AI to create vertical videos with a talking presenter from a script and a photo.
Introduces a hand-drawn style video generation skill: story-to-handdrawn-video, suitable for children's bedtime stories, ancient poetry, science, and other scenarios. It supports automatic sentence-splitting and storyboarding from text, or sequential image uploads, and outputs a 3:4 vertical video track with 20 built-in hand-drawn styles.
HBO Max is launching a vertical video feed called 'HBO Max Shorts' that uses AI and human editors to surface trailers, clips, and bonus content tailored to users, initially testing with select iOS users in the US.
The article chronicles the rise of vertical video from Snapchat Stories to a dominant format across Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms, driven by smartphone usage and ad integration.
Character.AI launches c.ai Series, AI-generated microdrama short videos with interactive chat features, starting with three series in romance, horror, and sci-fi genres.
AutoShorts is an open-source desktop application based on Tauri 2 + React + Rust + SQLite that can automatically convert long videos or audio into vertical short videos, and uses AI (supporting DeepSeek, Claude, or local Ollama) to evaluate the viral potential of clips. It supports multiple platforms.