PRODUCT RESEARCH
ChillShorts
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One-line positioning
ChillShorts is an overseas vertical short-drama platform owned by UJU Holding (01948.HK) and listed under Chengdu One Smart Technology Co., Ltd, with core markets in Japan, South Korea, the US and Southeast Asia.
Product & company
ChillShorts is an overseas short-drama platform owned by Hong Kong-listed UJU Holding (01948.HK), which signed an equity transfer agreement in November 2025 to acquire 100% of the operating entity and completed the deal in early 2026. The store operating entity is Chengdu One Smart Technology Co., Ltd (incorporated 2023, legal representative Liu Chuanfeng, listed under the UJU Holding group on Qichacha), with the group chain running UJU Holding -> UJU Interactive (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd -> Chengdu One Smart Technology. The iOS seller appears as One Smart Technology Company Limited, a legal entity under the same OneSmart brand as the Android developer One Smart Technology.
Business model & format
Paid-core model: iOS offers weekly (about EUR 14.99-22.99), monthly (about EUR 34.99-59.99) and annual (about EUR 229.99) subscriptions plus one-time purchases (about EUR 3.99-29.99); Android mixes in-app purchases with advertising, with third-party estimates at roughly 57% IAP / 43% ads, including daily rewarded-ads free unlocks. The app also displays ads (listed as Contains Advertising on the App Store) and integrates 13 ad-network SDKs (Mintegral, AppLovin, ByteDance and others) plus AppsFlyer attribution on Android. Third-party estimates put iOS monthly revenue around USD 30K and Android around USD 10K.
Growth & market
After UJU Holding completed the acquisition in Q1 2026, ChillShorts added over 200K new downloads and 100+ premium short dramas in the quarter, with the group calling the momentum clear and listing short-drama overseas expansion as a key pillar among six business segments. Daily active users had exceeded 100K at acquisition, covering Japan, South Korea, the US and Southeast Asia. Third-party estimates put cumulative Android installs above 1.5 million, with weekly adds of about 26K and four-week adds of about 83K in August 2026, showing growth; the group also completed an AI workflow upgrade for translation and dubbing, with AI live-action dramas and local exclusives as future priorities.
Risks & watchpoints
Entity and developer details may change during acquisition integration: the iOS seller name differs between iTunes Lookup (One Smart Technology Company Limited) and the EU trader display (Chengdu One Smart Technology Co., LTD), and both wording variants differ from the Android developer name (One Smart Technology), so they should be presented side by side; the store-registered address (Tianfu Fifth Street 200, Chengdu) also differs from the business-registration address (FuCheng Avenue West 399). The iOS rating is about 2.6 on third-party statistics, well below competitors; the app saw paid-chart visibility swings in mid-August 2026 that need continued tracking. Competition is fierce, user acquisition is ad-spend dependent, and third-party estimates put monthly revenue around USD 40K, far behind category leaders.