{
  "id": 16997077,
  "title": "China’s microdrama war heats up as Tencent, ByteDance fight for eyeballs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/chinas-microdrama-war-heats-up-as-tencent-bytedance-fight-for-eyeballs",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-29T02:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Tech",
    "slug": "scmp-tech",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3372463/chinas-microdrama-war-heats-tencent-bytedance-fight-eyeballs"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Shen Jiaoqi, a banker living in southern China’s 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. “Honestly, I was watching for the eye candy rather than the plots,” she said. “The AI has really made the characters look stunning.” Shen is far from alone.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}