In Tokyo, vertical drama now has its own summit. The "Short Drama Summit JAPAN 2025 Summer," organized by LINE Yahoo!, brought together...

Amid the hustle and bustle of American studios, one actor quickly made the leap into duanju: Michael Vaccaro. A New Yorker living in Los Angeles, he started out as a child, working in films, commercials, and theater, before finding himself, like many others, interrupted by the health crisis and the strikes that paralyzed Hollywood. It was then that he discovered a new playing field: verticals, or duanju, short fictions designed for mobile devices. As the first American vertic

Dailymotion was born at a time when video was taking over the web. The platform quickly became a French-style testing ground: initially...