Ludovic Bostral
Founder & Analyst, Streaming Radar / verticaldrama.tv
Ludovic Bostral is the founder and analyst behind Streaming Radar and verticaldrama.tv. He covers the vertical drama / micro-drama industry: market sizing, platforms, business models, generative AI and distribution.
Background
Twenty-five years in video tech and streaming, from broadcast to OTT. Ludovic Bostral went through the R&D team at M6 Web, where he was R&D Manager on M6 Replay. In 2014 he co-founded Afrostream, a streaming platform for African and diaspora cinema that went through Y Combinator in summer 2015. The full path is on the Streaming Lens about page.
What he publishes
Streaming Radar is a newsletter on streaming, published every week since 2023; its research covers 37 countries. Vertical Invasion 2026 is its vertical drama market report: it maps a market of 1,549 tracked apps and 17,600+ produced titles. verticaldrama.tv is its public editorial index: 4,143 titles catalogued with cast, episodes and weekly rankings.
The base behind all of it is queryable by machine too. The Streaming Lens MCP server is this house's only agent door: an AI assistant reads the datapoints themselves there, each with its source and date, instead of scraping pages. verticaldrama.tv exposes no tool surface of its own: a second door would have served the same data.