ShortMax's verified operator is a Hong Kong company, ShortTV

The figure or the record

ShortMax, an export vertical-drama app, is listed on Google Play under the display name 'SHORTMAX LIMITED,' but the Play Store listing's verified 'About the developer' panel names a different legal entity: SHORTTV LIMITED, with a Hong Kong address at Room 2-J3, 1st Floor, Fuk Hong Industrial Building, 60–62 Tong Mi Road, Mong Kok, Kowloon. The company's own Privacy Policy, last updated 24 June 2025, confirms the same entity, stating it applies to 'SHORTTV LIMITED (collectively referred to herein as “ShortTV”, “ShortMAX”... )' — establishing that ShortMax and ShortTV are two consumer-facing brand names run by one company.

What the documents establish

The Play Store listing and the privacy policy corroborate each other on the operating entity and jurisdiction, the same cross-check pattern this site has used for DramaBox's operator. What neither establishes is any link to a company named 'Jiuzhou': the domain given as a possible lead to that connection, jiuzhoubooks.com, does not resolve to any server, and no document opened for this entry — the app listing, the privacy policy, or the company's own home page — names Jiuzhou, a mainland Chinese parent, or any other controlling shareholder.

Scope and caveats

These are the operator's own statements about itself, not an independent registry filing; Hong Kong's Companies Registry was not queried for this entry, so SHORTTV LIMITED's incorporation details, directors, and shareholders remain unverified beyond what the company discloses voluntarily. The privacy policy refers to 'affiliates' in the abstract without naming any, leaving room for an unstated group structure. This entry should be read as a correction of a lead, not a confirmation of one: a suggested connection to a company called Jiuzhou could not be substantiated with any source that could be opened, and the assumption behind that lead may simply be wrong, outdated, or based on a source this research could not locate.

What to watch

Editorially, worth tracking is whether a future funding announcement, court filing, or platform-partner disclosure ever names SHORTTV LIMITED's shareholders, since none of its own consumer documents currently do.

• Does an app's Play Store 'About the developer' name match the brand name a user sees inside the product?
• When a hinted source URL fails to resolve, does a corporate record exist under a different domain or company name entirely?
• Is an operator's registered address a working office, or a company-secretarial or serviced-office address?

Two consumer brands, ShortMax and ShortTV, trace to one declared operator, SHORTTV LIMITED of Hong Kong; a suggested further link to a company called Jiuzhou does not survive contact with the available documents, and this ledger records that as a finding in its own right.