Chapter 407 Gunshot in 2011 AD
Hang up the phone with Nazha, Guan Ling called Gong Yu.
"Mr. Gong, I think we need to sit down and talk together."
"What does Director Guan mean?"
"Although the current environment is not optimistic, But there are some things that I think we need to prepare now."
Gong Yu narrowed his eyes at Guan Ling's words.
Gong Yu and Guan Ling had already finalized cooperation before. Guan Ling invested in the early stage to avoid burning money, so he didn’t ask for many shares.
But Guan Ling also knows very well that if he does not hurry up and enter the game this year, it will be very easy for his shares to be kicked out in the next one or two years.
Gong Yu is the CEO of iQiyi and iQiyi’s own boss, but he was separated from Sohu before. Sohu’s Lao Zhang trained three apprentices as knife masters, one of whom became a cool man. Six, one made 56.com and the other made iQiyi.
In theory, there is not much connection between Guan Ling and them, just like the connection between a theater operator and a director. The goal of iQiyi has always been just a platform, or it can be called Downstream theaters on the Internet.
However, when Guan Ling brought up this topic, Gong Yu felt awe-struck.
"Director Guan is in Hollywood now. I just heard that Director Guan won an award two days ago. We can meet at any time, but I hope that what Director Guan wants to talk about will not be a dud."
“I never drop dumb bombs.”
Hanging up the phone, Guan Ling thought for a long time.
At this stage, it is time to enter the video website.
From Tudou.com in 2005 to the present, there have been countless popular video websites, including a player that has the largest market share in the country. It became popular all over the Internet because of Abin's unsatisfactory college entrance examination results.
Before K-Bo was established in 2007, there were already a number of player components in the video field such as Baofeng, Tudou, and LeTV.
As a professional theater that integrates TV series, movies, animations and music videos, kbo has a market value of nearly 10 billion yuan.
Of course Guan Ling knew his history. In the end, Guangmingding was besieged by many professional and genuine software, and it was reduced to nothing.
The genuine version is a rolling torrent that cannot be stopped in the course of history,
As for the means of video websites, although entering video websites at this time is not as good as Tudou, LeTV and others, it is the best time to buy the bottom.
It’s not that Guan Ling is timid, it’s that he couldn’t get into the video website in the early stages.
Zhu Xiaohu is a professional gambler who makes big bets, but this guy doesn't dare to bet on video websites because video websites require bandwidth, and until now, bandwidth has only spread to more than 100 million households.
2008 was originally a big year for news. Various major events happened in this year. PPTV bought the Olympic broadcasting rights with a huge investment of more than 20 million yuan. The original plan to raise funds ended up leading to a great famine in the video industry. Performed this year.
After more than two hundred video websites were launched, a large number of websites starved to death in the winter of 2008.
In 2009, after Kuliu raised funds, it was going to be legalized. Tudou also purchased genuine copyrighted content, and Youku followed suit.
The topic of genuine content has just been ignited, but the copyright disputes they left behind have become the original sin of these websites.
Suddenly, the entire industry was plunged into a copyright war.
Last year, 2010, was the beginning of the copyright war.
And the swarm of copyrights has caused the price of cabbage to rise directly to the price of white rice flour.
This is also Guan Ling's greatest confidence.
What he has in hand now, or even what he doesn’t have, can make him sit as firmly as a rock on this card table.
As for iQiyi, there is no original sin. Guan Ling cooperates with a group of people who have just started to go on the road. They don’t have to worry about the boss style after Penguin has not yet entered the poker table, and they can just do it before Baidu enters the game. , taking part of iQiyi’s shares.
Before going public, he was already a capital, but he was only insignificant compared to the Internet giants.
And he is too lazy to play business.
Where can I find female stars in business to have fun? Although making money is the best beauty for men, it is enough to have fun on one side, and Guan Ling is too lazy to go to the Internet to scheming on the other side.
But being on the poker tables of video websites is what he has to do. He will not allow his content to be targeted in the future, just like when he co-founded Dadi Cinemas.
And now, the time has come.
It would be time-consuming and laborious for Guan Ling to be distracted by building a video website belonging to Lingyun Media, so it is better to choose a successful partner now.
In exchange for more shares, let iQiyi follow the path of LeTV in its previous life, buying the copyright with real money, and then broadcasting its own content exclusively on iQiyi, attracting a large number of legitimate viewers. In this way, he will land early.
After all, last year, major video websites began to test paid services, which became the starting point of China’s paid video market.
A large number of exclusive copyrights, self-made content, online content and account-sharing dramas have gradually begun to become important labels for the development of the industry.
If the development of video websites is a bullet that develops rapidly along with the Internet,
Guan Ling believes that this deafening gunshot was naturally in 2011.
Perhaps this gunshot,
without the content of Guan Ling, would not have been so loud.
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The communication between Guan Ling and Gong Yu must meet offline, and Gong Yu did not mention coming to the United States.
This matter will naturally have to wait until returning to China.
Guan Ling believes that if the drama "The Beginning" is launched on iQiyi, it will not necessarily attract a particularly large number of genuine viewers.
But his appeal, coupled with the promotion of the TV version of "Source Code", may become the leading work in the beginning of online dramas like "Mao Liar".
In the next few days, the filming of "Scarlet Witch" began again.
The preparation work for "Gone Girl" has also begun.
When Zhang Ziyi came to the crew to express his gratitude to Guan Ling, he saw Liu Yifei and Fan Bingbing. He felt envious and at the same time felt a little bitter for no reason.
Guan Ling inspires thousands of people.
But he refused to use it on her.
Although she won the role in the new movie written by Guan Ling, this feeling of disparity in her heart made her quite unhappy.
"Director Guan, I have to return to China first. "The Grandmaster" still needs some finishing work, but if director David Fincher contacts me to prepare for filming, I will come to Hollywood immediately."
“Don’t forget your English lines during your free time.” Guan Ling reminded me.
There is no problem with simple daily communication and sign language.
Although the lines are not that difficult for Zhang Ziyi, he still needs to get into the rhythm first.
"Thank you, Director Guan, for your concern. I will not delay the shooting, and I will not be sorry for your support, Director Guan."
She leaned close to Guan Ling's ear, "If Director Guan when If you need me, I will cooperate at any time."
Guan Ling smiled.
For Zhang Ziyi, he had expressed his uninterested attitude many times, but when she saw the other party's rushing attitude, instead of being absolutely disgusted, she found it a bit ridiculous.
For him,
even if it is a symbol of the international film industry like Zhang Ziyi,
as long as he is willing,
the other party can only Wagging his tail and begging for mercy.
(End of this chapter)