{"id":159435,"date":"2026-10-29T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159435"},"modified":"2026-10-29T02:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:00:06","slug":"chinas-microdrama-war-heats-up-as-tencent-bytedance-fight-for-eyeballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159435","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s microdrama war heats up as Tencent, ByteDance fight for eyeballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostShen Jiaoqi, a banker living in southern China\u2019s Guangdong province, cannot stop watching microdramas. The shows are so addictive that she sometimes spends entire days gazing at her phone. One time, she even kept watching while she showered.<br \/>\n\u201cHonestly, I was watching for the eye candy rather than the plots,\u201d she said. \u201cThe AI has really made the characters look stunning.\u201d<br \/>\nShen is far from alone. Microdramas have exploded in popularity in China over the past few years, offering viewers a quick&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3372463\/chinas-microdrama-war-heats-tencent-bytedance-fight-eyeballs\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostShen Jiaoqi, a banker living in southern China\u2019s Guangdong province, cannot stop watching microdramas. The shows are so addictive that she sometimes spends entire&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159435"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}