The Vertical

Vertical won. Disney, Netflix, and Amazon just admitted it.

All three streamers caved on the format in 70 days.

FlareFlow hires from Disney. Vertical 2.0 begins.

A Chinese microdrama giant just staffed up out of Paramount, Disney, and Hulu.

ReelShort cleared $80M. Vertical isn't a side bet.

ReelShort's Q1 just changed the floor for every vertical drama pitch in town

TikTok paid out USD 82M.

ReelShort wrote a syllabus. Vertical just grew up.

The format now has a course code, and a platform's lead writer grading the work

Webtoon enters microdrama. It brought 155M readers.

Webtoon's biggest comics go vertical, and the genre wall cracks in Europe

Hollywood is shrinking. Its stages went vertical.

Microdrama is the only line still growing in a contracting Hollywood

An Oscar nominee went vertical. The union came with him.

Hollywood talent keeps arriving, and this time the paperwork arrived too

Disney opened its vault. TikTok creators walk in.

Opt-in creators get licensed Disney IP and a feed on both TikTok and Disney+