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Build a character, give it a story, and let it compound. Animated vertical video is the brand strategy Korea and Japan proved - and here's how you run it.
Casting, collaboration, creative additions, and speed. Five creators on what animated vertical video production actually feels like.
The global audiobook market reached $11 billion in 2025, and it is on track for $58.5 billion by 2033. And the best catalogs has never been unlocked.
Most publishers treat localization as a translation problem. The publishers growing fastest are rebuilding the audience experience from the ground up. Animated vertical video is how they do it at scale.
While countless manga and webtoon titles remain just out of reach for eager new fans, forward-thinking publishers are already winning big by using animated vertical videos.
Most IP owners treat video as individual assets - a trailer here, a clip there. The top publishers building engaging audiences run a single production that feeds every stage of the viewer journey at once.
Manga’s finished character design and world-building make it the fastest source material to turn into animated video, no development phase required.
Microdramas are an $8 billion format, and nearly every minute is live action: two leads, a mansion, a contract marriage. Here's why the next phase of the vertical boom is animated.
Vertical animation is animated storytelling produced natively for the 9:16 screen. Here's what it is, where it came from, and who should be paying attention.
For most of entertainment history, a story was trapped in the language it was born in. That wall is finally coming down.
A 16-year-old made a horror short on free software. Four years later, it's an A24 feature film. The best stories now start with creators and audiences. The real gap is production.
Vertical video is now a $100B business and every major platform is investing. For anyone with IP, it's a new way to bring stories to life at scale.
There are more serialized visual stories being created right now than at any point in human history. Almost none of them will ever be adapted.
