DramaWave is a short-drama streaming app that offers vertical-video series and movies in brief episodes, with subtitles in several languages, for mobile viewers.
Maker
SKYWORK AI PTE LTD
Launched
Sep 2024
Category
Entertainment
Price
Free, subscriptions $6.99 to $36.99
US ratings
180K, 4.9 avg
Best rank
#100 grossing, US
Made by SKYWORK AI PTE LTD, which launched it in international markets in September 2024 [shortdramaagent.com]
Downloads in Q1 2025 soared more than 10x quarter-on-quarter, mainly in Southeast Asia and Latin America [shortdramaagent.com]
Reported annualized ARR exceeding $240 million and monthly revenue over $20 million [Dealroom]
How DramaWave got its users
today's Meta ads are drama clips in many languages. Confidence: low
Main channel: Meta ads, as the reading above names it
Meta adsOwn accountsGoogle adsYouTubeApp Store search and chartsCreators and UGC
2024-09App launch in international markets: SKYWORK AI launched DramaWave internationally; the App Store lists release 2024-09-23
2024-09 to 2024-12Paid ads, localized, Unity as main...: Localized advertising, early focus on Southeast Asia and Latin America, Android first. over 80% of downloads from paid advertising
2025-02 to 2025-03Hit titles plus paid: Launch of hit short dramas such as 'Married My Sister's Fiancé' in early February
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.
Paid, Meta adsOrganic, own postsCreator posts
Category colors match on every tab
Own TikTok views per post
31 posts of @dramawave_bl
6 of 31 posts passed 100K (dashed). Median 33,200. Nothing after 2026-10-02.
Posts per month: Aug 2026: 2, Sep 2026: 28, Oct 2026: 1
Engagement per 1k views
thin data: 6 of 31 posts measured
Shares range 0.25 to 1.69 per 1k across the measured posts.
0.2
1.21
0.63
0.43
1.37
0.83
Comments
median 0.73
32.61
111.18
75.57
18.13
122.36
76.43
Likes
median 76
0.25
1.42
0.69
0.31
1.69
0.63
Shares
median 0.66
Bars, left to right: posts with 742,100, 168,200, 153,500, 143,400, 118,500, 102,400 views
6 measured25 not opened
Creator posting patterns
posting patterns of 9 creators; 3 profiles checked so far
3 of 9 creator profiles checked: 3 with "one post".
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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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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0215 of 72 active creatives are distinct dissected videos; image and carousel ads are counted but not dissected.
0335 collected ads show no DramaWave content and are left out of every count.
04Engagement (comments, likes, shares) measured on 6 of 31 own TikTok posts.
05Creator types: 3 of 9 creator profiles opened; 6 creators stay "not checked yet" until checked.
06Reviews per month: 547 of 643 fall in the last four months. That is the review feed window, not real volume, so it is not used as a signal.
0715 accounts found in searches are left out of the creator counts: 11 point at another app or are named like the app without being it, 4 never name, tag or link it.
Store data
secondary
180,166
ratings
4.86
average rating
#20 / #100
US free / grossing, 2026-07-30
25
countries charting
Caveats
10
Meta Ad Library was read logged-out via keyword searches
Every entry in dissection.json and organic_dissection.json carries an 'anomaly' field
Ad frame reads cover only the opening part of each video; ad length fields run up to 25:01
EU reach and impressions were not read
Instagram was not collected (profiles collected: none), so the instagram share is a guess
TikTok counts are 'card counts' and do not always match views
@dramawaveapp, @dramawave996 and the other code-link accounts did not verify as the app's
The 643 reviews are dominated by 2026-09
No founder or executive quote about channels was found
The share table in 'mix' is the author's rough estimate and sums to 100
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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