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Original title card: Hongguo tops 200 million daily users as WeChat's Lvpaopao grows and FlareFlow enters Thailand: distribution choices for short-drama creators (Oct 29–30)

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2026-11-01 · Beijing time edition

distribution choices for short-drama creators (Oct 29–30)

QuestMobile figures cited by Chinese media put ByteDance's Hongguo at about 203 million daily users in September, ahead of Kuaishou on the same basis and fourth among China's apps by time spent; the same week, Tencent's in-WeChat service Lvpaopao was reported near 90 million weekly users, and FlareFlow announced a November 2 launch in Thailand on operator AIS's AIS Play at THB39 a month. Short-drama writers, web novelists weighing adaptation and teams distributing overseas can use this to compare free ad-supported apps, social distribution and telco bundles. All user figures are third-party estimates relayed by media with differing definitions; we did not see QuestMobile's report, and the numbers say nothing about revenue or creator pay.

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QuestMobile figures cited by Chinese media put ByteDance's Hongguo at about 203 million daily users in September, ahead of Kuaishou on the same basis and fourth among China's apps by time spent; the same week, Tencent's in-WeChat service Lvpaopao was reported near 90 million weekly users, and FlareFlow announced a November 2 launch in Thailand on operator AIS's AIS Play at THB39 a month. Short-drama writers, web novelists weighing adaptation and teams distributing overseas can use this to compare free ad-supported apps, social distribution and telco bundles. All user figures are third-party estimates relayed by media with differing definitions; we did not see QuestMobile's report, and the numbers say nothing about revenue or creator pay.

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