PRODUCT RESEARCH
ShortMax
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One-line positioning
ShortMax is the overseas vertical micro-drama platform operated under the Hong Kong entity SHORTTV LIMITED and affiliated with Jiuzhou Culture. Available in 200+ countries and regions, it ranks among the global leaders by downloads and registered users thanks to industrial-scale production and heavy AI-assisted creation.
Product & company
Store and privacy-policy records identify SHORTTV LIMITED / SHORTMAX LIMITED as the overseas operating entities for ShortMax. Multiple public reports link ShortMax to Jiaxing Jiuzhou Culture Media Co., Ltd., while direct equity linkage is not yet visible in public registry records. We therefore mark the relationship as related but still subject to further verification.
Business model & format
ShortMax offers tens of thousands of roughly one-minute vertical dramas in 19 languages, spanning romance, werewolf, CEO, revenge and rebirth themes. Monetization is mixed — free preview, coin unlocks, subscriptions and in-app advertising (the App Store flags it as containing ads). Its defining trait is industrial-scale output: a 7–10 day per-title production line, with monthly AI-drama output peaking above one thousand titles in 2026 and a notably high AI share.
Growth & market
ShortMax relies on large-scale TikTok/Facebook/Meta buying and region-by-region (“one policy per market”) targeting, fueled by thousands of in-house web-novel IPs in an “IP + AI” pipeline. It has over 90 million registered users and 200–300 million downloads, and its co-production with Japan's TV Asahi signals deepening localization.
Risks & watchpoints
ShortMax is suitable for public listing, but the page should note that the equity link between the overseas operator SHORTTV LIMITED and the domestic parent Jiaxing Jiuzhou Culture is not yet directly shown in public registries, and we keep a pending-verification note. Also worth watching: whether the iOS/Android publisher names unify (SHORTTV vs SHORTMAX), whether historical overseas-unit restructuring affects the publisher entity, and copyright/compliance risks from the high AI-drama share.