Four years ago, the microdrama industry as we know it didn’t exist. Today, it’s a global juggernaut racing toward $26 billion in annual revenues by 2030, fundamentally reshaping how audiences consume serialized storytelling on their smartphones. Hollywood tried and failed to crack the microdrama code first. In 2020, Jeffrey Katzenberg launched Quibi with $1.75 billion in funding, A-list talent including Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro, and episodes under 10 minutes designed for mobile