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- Game Companies’ AI Drama Projects Struggle to Prove Returns
DoNews reports that game companies that entered AI short dramas and comic dramas are now testing their ambitions against performance data as short-term KPIs and uncertain returns pressure the projects. The report says most entrants lack rigorous attribution, operation, and settlement standards, although isolated examples include billion-level views and campaigns that successfully fed users back into games. An authorized reprint by 创业邦 carries the same analysis rather than providing independent corroboration.
DoNews · 🔥 0 - Second Guancha Conference Held in Hangzhou With First Jincha Awards
The second Guancha Conference was held in Hangzhou’s Longwu area from October 23 to 25, according to a single report. It featured more than 100 AI booths and six experience sections, including product displays, talks and founder AMAs. AI artists and robots also performed. On October 24, the first Jincha Awards were announced: Ant Afu received the Annual Best Reputation Product award, while WorkBuddy received the Annual Emerging Product award. Six strategic cooperation agreements covering commercialization, technology access, talent development and knowledge exchange were also signed.
品玩 实时要闻 · 🔥 0 - AI Short Dramas Test Themes for Long-Form Series
An analysis from the Bone Editorial team at the Chinese WeChat account “骨朵” says live-action short-drama categories expanded from 44 to 65 within 10 months in 2025. In 2026, AI short dramas added themes such as high-concept premises, food and restaurant businesses, stockpiling, science-fiction mecha, and social issues. The analysis argues that AI short dramas use large-scale content experimentation to test whether a theme can work in weeks or days, while long-form productions continue to operate on a multiyear timeline for planning, filming, and release. It examines no-CP female-led stories, system-based farming, high-concept premises, cyberpunk, and infinite-flow as subjects short dramas can test while long-form projects consider whether and how to pursue them.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - Mango TV launches five native AI artists with long-term agency model
A report by Wenyu Xiansheng, authorized for publication by TMTPost, says Mango TV announced five native AI artists—Cheng Du, Fang Yu, Lin Enna, Qi Xu and Zhan Yan—and released the series 《了不起啊朋友》 starring them. Each has a distinct persona, social account, human screenwriters and agency support, with the platform treating them as long-term artist assets. The report does not provide monetization data for these five artists specifically. It examines the wider AI-artist sector, where public cases mainly involve custom videos and brand co-creation; quoted rates, brand activity and related-product sales have not established a reproducible, sustainable profit model.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - China's AI virtual artists: Fang Taozi's $25,000 ads and platform-owned digital talent
A Zinc Moment feature published via TMTPost traces how China's AI virtual-artist business has assembled a revenue chain: Fang Taozi, an AI-native performer, broke out with the drama "The Laid-Off Girl," which passed 200 million views on a single platform, and now carries 558,000 Douyin followers with ad quotes of 168,000 yuan for 1-20 second videos, 208,000 yuan for 21-60 seconds and 258,000 yuan for 60 seconds or more. Her first brand deal, a scripted contact-lens endorsement, was pulled days later after viewers asked how an AI performer could vouch for a "wearing experience." Mango TV launched five native AI artists on October 12 with a drama following two days later, while Yaoke Media signed two AI artists in March alongside an AIGC drama; iQIYI's claim that more than 100 actors had authorized its AI artist library was disputed by several named actors, to which iQIYI said the listing only signals willingness to discuss AI projects. The piece cites an iiMedia Research report putting China's digital-human core market at 33.92 billion yuan in 2024 and a projected 93.56 billion yuan by 2030.
钛媒体 · 🔥 0 - Changsha's AI comic-drama industry enters a shakeout after rapid expansion
Economic Observer (author Tian Guobao) reports that Changsha's Malanshan video park once hosted more than 40 AI-generated "comic drama" studios at its peak, and that Hunan government figures disclosed in September 2026 show the Malanshan AIGC-OPC incubator has hosted about 300 entities and released 349 original works. Wei Xu Network's "Du Chongsheng, Shui Zhuang Fu Er Dai" launched on Red Fruit in June 2026 with AI-generated characters, scenes and voice, reaching 12 seasons, six of which entered Red Fruit's AI comic-drama must-watch top ten; the company says it can finish a series in about eight days using the park's "Zhima Manying" platform. Neighboring Guanghe Xingmeng mainly takes production orders from overseas short-drama platforms and is a whitelisted partner of Kunlun Tech's overseas short-drama business; it typically uses five or six people per project, delivering 60-120 minutes in about a month, with around 60 collaborators working as "one-person companies" and splitting revenue by project. One comic-drama producer said only a dozen-plus active studios remain in the park, and Guanghe Xingmeng general manager Wei Lian expects the shakeout to continue into 2027.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - AI short dramas keep viewers on phones; China projector sales fall 26% in H1 2026
An analysis republished by TMTPost, citing RUNTO Technology, says China's smart projector market sold 2.056 million units in the first half of 2026, down 26.0% year on year, with revenue down 27.0% to 3.34 billion yuan; Q2 shipments fell below one million units for the first time since 2022. The article partly blames a shift in viewing habits toward phones, citing a Nomura report that ByteDance's Hongguo Duanju short-drama app reaches 168 million daily active users, up 107% year on year — more than the combined DAU of iQiyi, Tencent Video, Youku and Mango TV — at 125 minutes of use per day. It adds that 430,000 micro-dramas launched in China in the first eight months of the year, 13 times last year's total and over 90% AI-generated, while projector maker XGIMI is pivoting with its MemoMind One AI display glasses.
钛媒体 · 🔥 0 - Elderly Chinese users sink savings into AI short-drama apps
An article republished by Huxiu AI from the WeChat account Feifan Youtiao says a woman in her late sixties in Xinjiang made 4,887 top-ups across several short-drama mini-programs over two years, spending 225,800 yuan in total. It says the short-drama industry shifted rapidly toward AI this year, sharply lowering production costs, and that the savings went into paid traffic that pushes the most gripping clips into recommendation feeds; monthly active short-drama app users among older people reportedly exceed 46 million. It also cites QuestMobile figures putting free app Hongguo Duanju at 168 million daily active users with about 125 minutes of use per user per day, and describes apps that advertise a six-yuan five-day trial before charging 29 yuan a week through auto-renewal, with no anti-addiction-style protection for older users.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - AI short dramas reach 600 million users as long-video platforms join in
A FoST Future Narrative article published via TMTPost, citing DataEye Research Institute, says 128,000 micro-dramas launched in China in the first quarter of 2026, of which 122,000 were AI-made, more than 95% of the total, while AI short-drama users topped 600 million in the first half and the market exceeded 22 billion yuan. The article describes ByteDance's chain — Fanqie Novel for IP, Seedance for production, Douyin for traffic and Hongguo for distribution, with Hongguo at 168 million daily active users in July 2026 — and notes iQiyi's Nadou Pro, Tencent Video's WorkRally, Mango TV's AI-generated long drama 'Hou Xi You Ji' on Hunan TV primetime, and Youku's animation channel. It also reports that Douyin, Tencent and iQiyi adjusted AI short-drama revenue-sharing rules in July 2026 to favor 'live-action + AI' productions, with interactive content as the next area being tested.
钛媒体 · 🔥 0 - AI short-drama male leads build fan circles, raising face and voice rights questions
A DoNews feature looks at how AI-generated male leads in Chinese AI short dramas have attracted devoted fans: a Weibo poll ranked the "modeling" of leads such as Duan Yan, Gu Jingchen and Yan Jiming, and fans campaigned for their favorites in the comments. The article says these characters have taken on Tmall Qixi marketing roles, run character accounts, formed on-screen pairings and moved into follow-up dramas, mimicking human celebrity management. It also reports that many AI faces are built from real people's likenesses — through low-cost portrait licensing or by scraping actors', influencers' and ordinary users' photos as "visual anchors" and blending features — and that one drama, The Peach Blossom Hairpin, was pulled entirely from Hongguo and its producer barred from uploading for 15 days after a costume stylist recognized her own face. The piece adds that Douyin released more than 220,000 native AI short dramas in the first half of the year, 98.7% of which were below break-even, and that voice actor Sanshi publicly accused Duan Yan of using an AI voice highly similar to his without permission; Mango TV also unveiled five "debuting" AI artists shortly before publication.
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