Kinema
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Kinema for branded series
Americans spend more time in microdrama apps than in Netflix[1] 35.7 minutes a day, hunting the next episode[1]

Your client’s own show. Delivered in a workday.

Your brand, starring in its own show.

Kinema produces branded series: ten to thirty vertical episodes with one story, one locked brand world, and product placement written into the plot. A format your clients haven’t been offered yet, delivered in one to two working days.

Turn a brand into a series
The brand is the plot.
35.7min a day in the leading microdrama app, more than Netflix on mobile[1]
733M microdrama app downloads in a single quarter[2]
The next big offering, before it’s on every rate card

Most of your clients haven’t even heard of the format yet, and that’s the opportunity. Branded series are where social-first content is heading, and agencies and brand teams use Kinema to offer the format first, and own the conversation. Kinema is how you offer it this week, not after the market catches up.

Five genres, one production line.

Bigger downloads than Netflix. This quarter, not someday.

If microdramas are new to you, start with the numbers, because they end the debate: viewers spend 35.7 minutes a day in the leading microdrama app, more than in Netflix, Prime Video or Disney+ on mobile.[1] Last quarter, microdrama apps out-downloaded every long-form streamer on earth: 733 million installs.[2] The category’s revenue grew 115% in a single year, the third-fastest of any app category tracked.[9]

The US market alone is headed from $819 million to a projected $3.8 billion by 2030,[3] TikTok is building its own microdrama app, and Hollywood executives are investing in the genre.[4] This is a new television format, not a platform gimmick, and the mainstream has already adopted it. The only thing missing from those 35 minutes a day is your clients’ brands.

733 million downloads a quarter. A new television format, already mainstream. See where the minutes went
01 115% category revenue growth in a single year, the third-fastest of any app category tracked[9]
02 16M impressions from one five-part branded series, and 5.6M video views[5]

The audience binges it voluntarily. That’s the whole pitch.

A branded series solves the problem every client complains about: nobody wants to watch their advertising: 41% of marketers now flag ad avoidance as a major concern, up from 29% just a few years ago.[10] Here, the audience presses play on purpose, and keeps pressing. The brand sits inside the entertainment.

The early proof is loud: a department store’s five-part branded series drove 16 million impressions and 5.6 million video views,[5] the network behind it expanded its slate after its microdrama programming crossed a billion views, growing nearly 50% quarter over quarter,[11] and CMOs entering the space say it plainly: consumers want content that feels like entertainment.[6]

And unlike a media buy, a series is an asset: when the campaign ends, the show remains: characters, world, and audience your client owns, ready for a second season. The market’s own critics note that most brands are “renting the format” with no real plan.[7] That’s exactly the gap: walk in as the one with the plan, and the production capability to match.

Ten episodes a night with the brand in frame. No media buy delivers that. Pitch a show, not a spot
03 71% of audiences recall the brand featured in branded content without prompting[12]

The product isn’t in the ad slot. It’s in the plot.

In a traditional production, placement means negotiations, licensing, creators, and a platform holding the keys. In Kinema, placement is a screenplay decision: it’s your client’s show, so you write the product into the story: a prop the characters use, a setting the brand owns, a detail that splits the cliffhanger of episode three. The viewer remembers it because it matters to the plot, not because it filled a slot. 71% of audiences can recall the brand featured in branded content without prompting.[12]

And because every episode is generated inside the client’s locked brand world, the placement is never off-brand: palette, . The whole series is unmistakably theirs, frame by frame. No third party to pay. No creator to brief. No platform to ask.

Placement as dramaturgy: written in, not bought in. Write the product into the plot
A product you never held.
04 $300k what a season on the leading microdrama platform costs, and months of production[8]

A season used to cost $300,000. Now it costs a workday.

An average season on the leading microdrama platform runs around $300,000 and months of production.[8] In Kinema, a branded season is one to two working days of direction: from one sentence to a series your audience binge-watches.

The hard part, the reason generic AI can’t touch this format, is consistency: thirty episodes that feel like one story, same characters, same world, same tone from the first cliffhanger to the finale. That’s Kinema’s core mechanic, not an aspiration. Add rights-clean AI actors speaking 42 languages, cleared for the EU where portrait rights actually matter, and one master season localizes into every market your client operates in. Price it as the premium offering it is; deliver it inside a week.

Thirty episodes that feel like one story, in one to two working days. Start a season from one sentence

The compliance answers, before legal asks.

Your data stays yours

Content you upload is never used to train AI models.

GDPR-ready

Built for European companies and European rules.

EU AI Act ready

AI-generated content transparently labeled, with rights-clean AI actors, ahead of Article 50 requirements taking effect in August 2026.

Accessible by design

Captions and subtitles on every version.

Sdílená komponenta napříč LP; claimy čekají na potvrzení.

Bring your gatekeepers along

Somebody will offer your client their first series. Be the one.

The audience is already there, thirty-five minutes a day. The format is proven, the placement writes itself, and the season takes a workday. The pitch starts with one sentence.

Turn a brand into a series

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Sources
  1. Omdia, Q4 2025: US ReelShort users spend 35.7 minutes a day in the app, against Netflix mobile 24.8, Prime Video 26.9 and Disney+ 23.
  2. Omdia via CNBC: microdrama apps generated 733M downloads in Q4 2025, against 658M for long-form streamers.
  3. Variety: the US microdrama market reached $819M in 2024, projected $3.8B by 2030.
  4. Marketing Brew, May 2026: TikTok runs PineDrama and is testing a microdrama feed; executives from Showtime, NBCUniversal, Fox and Miramax are investing in production.
  5. Marketing Dive: JCPenney with TelevisaUnivision, a five-part branded micronovela — 16M impressions and 5.6M video views.
  6. Marketing Dive: Crocs’ CMO on consumers looking for content that feels like entertainment.
  7. Marketing Dive: agency Via’s CCO on brands renting the format without a real plan.
  8. TIME: an average 60–90 episode ReelShort show costs around $300,000.
  9. Sensor Tower: short drama apps took $2.98B in in-app purchases in 2025, up 115% year on year, the third fastest-growing app category.
  10. Mediaocean, November 2024: 41% of marketers name ad avoidance and ad blindness a major problem, up from 29% in 2022.
  11. Marketing Brew, May 2026: TelevisaUnivision is expanding its slate after passing 1B views from microdrama programming, growing nearly 50% quarter on quarter.
  12. Capital One research (via eMarketer): 71% of audiences recall a brand from branded content unprompted.