Hong Kong-listed company Duiba Group Limited (Duiba Group, HKG: 01753) made a voluntary announcement disclosing that its end-to-end AI-native short drama business has scaled up rapidly since its launch in January 2026 and contributed to a significant increase in the company’s total revenue in the first six months of the year.
The announcement signals an evolution in Duiba Group’s business profile, from its early focus on reward points operation SaaS platforms and Internet advertising to the new growth areas centered on AI-powered content creation and enterprise services. It also points out that Duiba Group is among the first to achieve industrialization and large-scale commercial monetization from AI-led scriptwriting and AI-driven production to AI-enabled distribution. The company is now leveraging an AI-driven content industrialization system to reshape its business structure and unlock new long-term growth opportunities.
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With a focus on reward points operation SaaS platforms and Internet advertising in its early years, Duiba Group has provided services to more than 16,000 enterprises in total and built a strong foundation in data technology, user operations, marketing and content distribution. Recognizing the technological transformation taking place across the content industry, as well as enterprises’ growing demand for digitalization and intelligent upgrading, Duiba Group has strategically expanded into two new areas: AI short drama and intelligent enterprise services. This marks a transition from a traditional service platform towards a technology-driven content ecosystem.
According to sources, since launching its AI short drama business, Duiba Group has established an end-to-end AI-native pipeline covering scriptwriting, AI content creation, automated production and intelligent distribution. By integrating its proprietary models with multimodal technologies, the company has significantly reduced marginal cost of production, increased content creation frequency and improved distribution efficiency, while maintaining content quality and storytelling standards.
Early Adoption of an Industrialized System Supports Rapid Growth and Leading Position
According to the announcement, Duiba Group is among the first to operate an end-to-end AI-native pipeline and achieve commercial monetization at scale. From AI-led scriptwriting and AI-driven production to AI-enabled distribution, the company is transforming short-form drama into an industrialized, asset-light AI technology-driven high-growth business. This approach has significantly shortened production cycles and radically improved unit economics, enabling the company’s AI short dramas to be monetized across multiple platforms and channels.
According to publicly available data from Douyin, within six months of launch, Duiba Group’s AI short dramas has ranked fourth in terms of native play volume, rising to second place in July. On the distribution side, monthly distribution revenue from its AI short drama business exceeded RMB 100 million at its speak during the first six months of the year, making it a key driver of the company’s overall revenue growth and highlighting the business’s strong commercial potential.
Industry observers note that the AI short drama sector is entering a critical stage, characterized by rapidly expanding content supply and increasingly mature monetization models. Duiba Group, with its AI-native industrialization capabilities, enjoys unique advantages in production efficiency and cost structure. In addition, drawing on its extensive enterprise customer base and years of experience in Internet advertising, the company is expected to generate synergies across content distribution, traffic acquisition and commercial monetization , further amplifying the benefits of scale economies.
Strong Interim Revenue Growth Points to Revaluation Potential
Duiba Group’s disclosure of its AI short drama business performance is not only an early indication of the progress of its strategic transformation but also a clear signal of strong revenue growth in its upcoming interim report. Through an optimized revenue structure, the application of technologies and the formation of an industrialization system, Duiba Group is moving beyond the growth constraints of its traditional business and entering areas with greater growth potential and stronger profitability.
As its AI short drama business continues to scale and new enterprise service products are launched, Duiba Group is expected to further optimize its business structure and enhance its profitability. In the announcement, Duiba Group said that it would continue to advance the industrialization of its AI-native content pipeline, strengthen its core market advantage, enrich user content experiences, and create long-term value for shareholders.
