the state of microdrama
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2026 edition
inside the microdrama audience
the first time a microdrama operator has published this much first-party data — from two of its own apps — in one place.
read what we found
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the report
the bet
two years ago, HOLYWATER TECH made a bet: that microdrama would become a category, and that ai would bepart of it.
to find out, we built two apps and ran them in parallel — then learned from in-product behavioral data from both, plus two dedicated user surveys. the most first-party microdrama data published in one place.
My Drama
live-action
My Muse
ai-generated
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pages of findings
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distinct findings
2
apps, run in parallel
4
data sources
what's inside
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the audience
who actually watches — and how fast it’s changing.
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watch habits
when, where, and how intensely the audience watches.
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what makes users watch — and stay
discovery and the levers that move them.
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the genres demand
what they watch, what they ask for, where the gap is.
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ai microdrama has found its audience
how ai-generated series perform against live-action.
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