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DramaBox - Stream Drama Shorts

iOSv6.9.2, 2026-10-02dramabox.comApp Store
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What it is

DramaBox is a mobile app that streams vertical micro-dramas, short episodic series, to a global audience. Viewers unlock episodes by watching ads, buying coins or subscribing.

Maker
STORYMATRIX PTE. LTD
Launched
Apr 2023
Category
Entertainment
Price
Free, subscriptions $4.99 to $19.99
US ratings
867K, 4.8 avg
Best rank
#64 grossing, US
  • Operated by StoryMatrix, a Singapore-based company and subsidiary of China's Dianzhong Technology [Business Insider, Wikipedia]
  • Reported $323 million in revenue and $10 million in net profit in 2024 [real-reel.com]
  • CEO Ruiqing Chen says it has 50 million-plus monthly active users [The Ankler]

How DramaBox got its users

Installs likely come from short drama ads on social feeds plus code-driven partner creators; no source states a channel split. Confidence: low

Main channel: Creators and UGC, as the reading above names it
Creators and UGCOwn accountsYouTubeApp Store search and chartsGoogle adsPress and articles
Chartjump's reading of the evidence per channel, not install shares. Install-share estimate per channel with Pro
How it happened
  1. 2023-04App Store: App released by STORYMATRIX PTE. LTD
  2. 2024Instagram ads (user report): Paid social ads that brought at least one user in
  3. 2025Creators: Exploring creator deals
4 more steps:
Creators and UGC Top creator posts about DramaBox
64 creators; tags and links first
64 creators, 4 tag or link the app; 100K likes on their best postsAll creators

Overview

Every channel we found, then the numbers behind it.

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How DramaBox gets users, channel by channel
Chartjump's reading of the evidence
Creators and UGC
64 creators, 4 tag or link the app; 100K likes on their best posts
Shown at the top of the page.
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Own accounts
@dramabox_us: 33 TikTok posts, 3.7M views, 2 past 100K
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YouTube
20 videos about DramaBox, 896K views
App Store search and charts
1.9M ratings, 4.8 average; in a top 100 in 25 of 25 stores
  • United States 868K ratings, #9 grossing
  • Brazil 189K ratings, #7 grossing
  • Indonesia 152K ratings, #4 grossing
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Google ads
200 ads for dramabox.com in Google's Ads Transparency Center
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Press and articles
12 articles found
The list:
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Reddit
17 threads name DramaBox, 516 comments
The list:
Posts on X
10 posts name DramaBox, 113 likes
The list:
Bar length: how much evidence we found for the channel, on a log scale (ad-days for ads, likes for creator posts, views for own posts and YouTube, articles, episodes, ratings). It shows where the evidence is, not a measured install share.
Organic, own postsCreator posts
Category colors match on every tab
Own TikTok views per post
33 posts of @dramabox_us
2 of 33 posts passed 100K (dashed). Median 3,027. Nothing after 2026-09-30.
0100K200K300K400K500K600K700K800K900K1M1.1M1.2M1.3M1.4M1.5M1.6M1.7M1.8M1.9M2M2.1M2.2M2.3M2.4M2.5M2.6M2.7M2.8M2.9M3M3.1M3.2M3.3MJun 25Oct 25Feb 26Jun 262025-06-05: 3,300,000 views2026-07-07: 12,600 views2026-07-08: 30,900 views2026-07-13: 5,389 views2026-07-14: 30,900 views2026-07-20: 11,100 views2026-07-21: 35,200 views2026-07-27: 138,600 views2026-07-28: 10,700 views2026-08-03: 34,200 views2026-08-03: 3,027 views2026-08-05: 2,961 views2026-08-10: 2,511 views2026-08-11: 3,782 views2026-08-12: 3,598 views2026-08-13: 3,002 views2026-08-18: 4,267 views2026-08-19: 7,321 views2026-08-21: 5,513 views2026-08-21: 5,453 views2026-09-01: 1,441 views2026-09-02: 2,206 views2026-09-07: 2,089 views2026-09-08: 1,675 views2026-09-09: 2,413 views2026-09-15: 1,134 views2026-09-16: 1,642 views2026-09-21: 882 views2026-09-22: 1,551 views2026-09-23: 1,181 views2026-09-28: 1,160 views2026-09-29: 561 views2026-09-30: 755 views
Posts per month: Jun 2025: 1, Jul 2026: 8, Aug 2026: 11, Sep 2026: 13
Engagement per 1k views
thin data: 6 of 33 posts measured
Shares range 0.13 to 0.64 per 1k across the measured posts.
0.41
0.13
0.14
0.2
0.1
0.23
Comments
median 0.17
26.76
10.88
11.16
10.23
7.18
9.22
Likes
median 10.555
0.62
0.45
0.34
0.64
0.13
0.39
Shares
median 0.42
Bars, left to right: posts with 3,300,000, 138,600, 35,200, 34,200, 30,900, 30,900 views
6 measured27 not opened
Creator posting patterns
posting patterns of 64 creators; 24 profiles checked so far
25 of 64 creator profiles checked: 10 with "several posts within a month", 8 with "one post", 5 with "posts mostly about the app", 2 with "4+ posts over 30+ days".
Posts mostly about the app 58%
4+ posts over 30+ days 23%
Several posts within a month 1016%
One post 813%
0 of 64 creators show a promo code (0%)Creator timeline
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Top videos

What the top ads and own posts say, from their transcripts.

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What they say
top 0 ads by variants, then days running; top 3 own posts by views
TikTok
Own post, @dramabox_esSkit
1,900,000 views201.2s2026-01-15
“Desbloquea todo con fwv61 | Jefe,”
What they say
“Jefe, aún no sabemos si es su hijo. No puedo quedarme aquí mientras lo tratan así.”
The first lines of every top video:
Storyline
Spanish dub of a drama scene at a Christmas party
TikTok
Own post, @dramabox_usSkit
138,600 views69s2026-07-27
What they say
What this video says:
TikTok
Own post, @dramabox_esSkit
38,400 views159.6s2026-09-25
What they say
What this video says:

Transcripts: Whisper, first 60 seconds of each video, as heard (names can be misspelled). No speech means silent, music only or a slideshow; then the on-screen text is shown. Storylines are read by AI from the frames and the transcript.

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Locales

Where it charts and how it rates, store by store.

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25 of 25
stores where it charts
top 100, category or overall
United States
biggest store by ratings
45.7% of the ratings in tracked stores
1.9M
ratings in tracked stores
25 App Store countries
19 of 25
stores in their main language
from the App Store listing languages
Free
ad languages
with a free account
Ratings by country
top 3 of 25 stores
United States holds 45.7% of the ratings in the 25 tracked stores.
United States US868.5K
Brazil BR189K
Indonesia ID152.4K
Best rank by country
category top 100, 2026-10-05
Best: #4 grossing in Entertainment, Indonesia.
Indonesia ID#4
Brazil BR#7
United States US#9
GrossingFreePaid
longer bar, higher rank
Store by store
3 of 25 stores, by ratings
CountryBest rankGrossingFreeRatingsAvgListing languageAds in it
United States US #9 grossing, Entertainment #9#12 868,497 45.7% 4.75 English-
Brazil BR #7 grossing, Entertainment #7#13 189,023 9.9% 4.83 Portuguese-
Indonesia ID #4 grossing, Entertainment #4#6 152,358 8% 4.80 Indonesian-
22 more countries
Every tracked store: ranks, ratings and language support.
Daily tracker, 2026-10-05: the rating count and average in each country's App Store, and the best position in Apple's top 100 for the category (overall when only that). A dash: not in that top 100. Listing language: whether the App Store listing is in the country's main language. Ads in it: share of the dissected ads in that language.
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Revenue and charts

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Sources

Where every number comes from, and what is missing.

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Collected by Chartjump
Meta Ad Library, logged out, 2 active creatives
TikTok Commercial Content Library, EU only
Google Ads Transparency Center, dramabox.com
TikTok organic: account pages, hashtag and code search
Daily tracker: ratings, App Store top charts per country
App Store listing and review feed, 50 reviews
Apple charts, ratings, public pages: input to the Chartjump estimate
App Store listing
apps.apple.com
Podcasts
Free account
1 episodes with the founder or team
Press and founder posts
0
12 press links
Every article and interview we read.
Data problems found
6
012 collected ads show no DramaBox content and are left out of every count.
02Engagement (comments, likes, shares) measured on 6 of 33 own TikTok posts.
03Creator types: 24 of 64 creator profiles opened; 39 creators stay "not checked yet" until checked.
04Creator post counts differ for 17 of 64 creators (search hits vs profile count). Tables use the profile count.
0510 accounts found in searches are left out of the creator counts: 2 point at another app or are named like the app without being it, 8 never name, tag or link it.
06No Meta video ads dissected yet.
Store data
secondary
867,468
ratings
4.75
average rating
#14 / #64
US free / grossing, 2026-07-30
25
countries charting
Caveats
10
The Meta Ad Library was read logged out by keyword
Both dissected ads carry an anomaly flag and were ignored for creative conclusions
EU reach was not read; the TikTok EU library returned 0, which does not show absence elsewhere
Instagram was not collected (profiles collected: none)
TikTok card counts for creator posts are likes or counts shown on the card, not views
@dramabox_us_0 (7.4M followers) is flagged NAME_ALIKE_NOT_THE_APP and its posts are not...
Only 2 partner posts were dissected, so the creator brief is not reconstructed
No founder statement was found; the CEO's remarks come only through press paraphrase
Channel shares are my estimate; no source states a split
Reviews (50) and Reddit threads (28) are small samples and skew to complaints

Paid: every active ad found for the advertiser in the Meta Ad Library with start date and variant count as Meta publishes them; videos fetched for analysis only and deleted after frames, transcript and OCR were derived; one model read per creative into a fixed schema. Organic: public profile counts only. Creators count only when a caption tags, links or names the app (graded per creator). Founder statements quoted verbatim and checked by code. Estimates labelled and linked. Not affiliated with the app or its publisher.

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2 Meta ads from the advertiser never name DramaBox, so none is counted (Meta Ad Library, logged-out keyword searches, 2026-10-03). No ads in TikTok's ad library (EU, 2 searches). Not shown for DramaBox, nothing to fill them: Winning ads, Teardowns, Ad categories, Creative families, Psychology. Data as of 2026-10-03.

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