As short-form video begins to dominate global viewing habits, a new monetization playbook is emerging — one driven by watch time, scalable content formats and increasingly, AI-generated storytelling.

People still tend to overlook just how powerful organic content can be. The thing is, if you actually pair that content with a bit of real personality (not just buzzwords and fake smiles), weird stuff ...

The viral short dramas are increasingly being created entirely with AI, with hundreds of new shows spun up each day. In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, ...

But hey, who cares? If we are going down in flames as a species, let’s have fun putting dumb videos together. I’ll tell you how to do it in this short guide on how to make Seedance 2.0 videos. Time to ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with the business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts, livestreams, and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how videos are created, and finding the best free AI video generators can completely transform your workflow. In just a few minutes, you can now create a video ...

They may first see it in a 12-second video while scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts or a creator’s feed. Before they read a description or compare reviews, they may already be asking ...

Last week, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s AI studio Primordial Soup and Time magazine released the first two episodes of On This Day… 1776. The year-long series of short-form videos features short ...

Certainly, one of the most interesting ways to enjoy this world of AI is through image or video generation. The second case is particularly special, after all, creating a video would be really complex ...

Latin American downloads of the top 20 short-drama apps have increased by roughly 402% year-on-year in 2025, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That's on top of a 4,300% year-on-year ...