Chapter 218 The first video website is online
The video website is online in winter, so Qin Shaoyan can only aggrieve the Internet entrepreneurs.
Anyway, this is all the fault of Xiong Xiaoge. If he hadn’t been so urgent, the video website could have been delayed until summer.
Back then, playing the ice bucket challenge was a thrilling experience, but now it’s the same thing.
Moreover, it was Xiong Xiaoge who proposed this kind of marketing promotion, so it would be appropriate for him to call on everyone to participate.
Internet entrepreneurs who have suffered so much will be blamed for their infamy.
Xiong Xiaoge also realized that it was a bit inappropriate for entrepreneurs to play the ice bucket challenge now, so he hesitated for a moment and said: "Maybe we should do it in spring when it is not so cold."
"Mr. Xiong, you don't want the website you invested in to lose popularity, right?" Qin Shaoyan said with a smile.
“It’s just launched, it doesn’t need so much popularity.” Xiong Xiaoge struggled internally, and finally decided to just be an individual, “Wait until the New Year is over, and then make a big splash on the video website.”< br>
“Let’s focus on testing before the New Year, so that brothers can have a good New Year.” Xiong Xiaoge hesitated, “It will take some time for me to contact the mobilization team.”
"Then I'll trouble Mr. Xiong." Qin Shaoyan said, "I'll urge my subordinates to come up with more marketing plans."
"The marketing and promotion aspect depends on Qin "Absolutely." Xiong Xiaoge asked casually, "What is the name of our video website?"
"Quavo." Qin Shaoyan replied, "Our video website is called Kuaibo.com."
< br>"Quick broadcast?!" Xiong Xiaoge's eyes lit up, "This is a good name."
"The slogan of the website is that everyone is the director of life." Qin Shaoyan continued, "Our video website is Taking UGC as the model, that is, user-generated sharing, we actively encourage users to create and upload interesting content, so that everyone can share the wonderful moments of life and show everyone’s good times.”
"Everyone is the director of life." Xiong Xiaoge savored it carefully and nodded, "It's interesting. You decide the specific development direction of the website, and I just invest the money."
"Mr. Xiong, you too You think highly of me." Qin Shaoyan sighed, playing with the recorder in his hand, and said, "Video websites are still a new thing, and it seems to be a vast blue ocean, but how to explore its commercial value is still being explored. "
"I am still trying to cross the river by feeling the stones, and I dare not make a promise with you. I just say that this thing will work."
"It doesn't matter, just go ahead and do it boldly." He said calmly, "We venture capitalists are mentally prepared before investing in projects. Venture capital, what is venture capital without risk? Even if we fail, we will admit it."
Qin Shaoyan suddenly felt at ease. Daxi, this is what you said, Mr. Xiong, don’t blame me when the video website can’t make money.
But since Mr. Xiong has spent money, Qin Shaoyan must add emotional value to make Mr. Xiong feel that the money is worth spending, so that he will continue to spend money on you.
Qin Shaoyan personally took Xiong Xiaoge to visit the team of Qvod.com and opened the website for a while.
After speed limit testing, the video loading speed is quite acceptable. As long as fast forwarding is not frequent, it is enough for users to watch a video smoothly.
However, the clarity of the uploaded video is a little less interesting. On the one hand, it is related to the current hardware, such as the pixels of the shooting equipment and bandwidth limitations, and on the other hand, it is a software problem.
As long as you can watch the videos on the current video websites, there are not so many requirements.
Xiong Xiaoge tried it out for a while and was very satisfied with the performance of Qvod. All that was left was to see if the server could hold up when a large number of users poured in.
“Now everything is ready and all we need is east wind.” Xiong Xiaoge sighed, “The rest depends on the acceptance of domestic users for video websites.”
What is the development prospect of video websites? , Xiong Xiaoge actually has no idea. Although YouTube is developing rapidly abroad, no one can guarantee whether it will be equally popular in China.
Many foreign website ideas are often acclimatized when transplanted to China.
Qin Shaoyan also knows this. Internet users are very receptive to new things. Whether the video website can be promoted is not a problem.
The problem is that this thing is new to everyone at the beginning, and how to ensure user stickiness is the main problem.
"Video websites are mainly about content. There are not only content created by users themselves, but also some other things." Qin Shaoyan opened the video website classification list as he spoke.
“I discovered a phenomenon when I was on YouTube. Users not only upload their own content, but also upload some TV movies and variety shows. These film and television variety show contents are particularly popular, with playback volume and Sharing data is ranked at the forefront.”
“So Qvod.com will also encounter this situation. The content of film and television works is more attractive to users, such as popular idol dramas, popular MVs, and popular variety shows. , these high-quality contents will become the main force of the website."
Xiong Xiaoge frowned, "Will this cause copyright issues?"
Qin Shaoyan immediately replied, "YouTube was sued not long ago for copyright infringement of content uploaded by users, and the California court ruled that the plaintiff lost the lawsuit."
Xiong Xiaoge breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "Well, it's okay."
What does this mean? Qin Shaoyan didn't ask in detail.
If you want to ask Mr. Xiong whether he supports this approach, he will definitely not answer you directly.
If you continue to ask, Mr. Xiong will emphasize to you that you must abide by the law.
"Qvod.com has made tag classifications based on the different origins of the content and user preferences." Qin Shaoyan opened the website interface and explained, "For example, Japan and South Korea, Europe and America, Hong Kong and Taiwan are divided into categories, so that users can find it more conveniently."
Xiong Xiaoge thought for a while and said slowly: "We, Kuaibo.com, want to build a regular website."
"Of course it is a regular website." Qin Shaoyan said confidently, "Don't worry, Mr. Xiong. We have dedicated content reviewers and will never allow harmful information to appear on the website."
"That's good." Xiong Xiaoge nodded.
Qin Shaoyan took Xiong Xiaoge around, and after sending the satisfied Mr. Xiong away, he immediately rushed to meet another Mr. Xiong.
Xiong Jiajia, who was hiding in the community, was playing with a cat climbing frame and thinking about how to install it.
Qin Shaoyan stepped in and saw a cat litter box and several bags of cat food on the ground. He was suddenly very surprised, "You have a cat?"
"Soon." Xiong Jiajia was confident Manman said, "I'm going to talk to the proprietress of the pet shop and ask her to lend me the cat for a few days."
"Then will she be willing to lend it?" Qin Shaoyan asked curiously.
“I haven’t asked yet.” Xiong Jiajia pointed to a pile of pet supplies on the ground, “I have bought so many things, and she can’t justify not borrowing them.”
"What do you think, Lao Qin?"
Qin Shaoyan chuckled and changed the topic directly, "How is the job I asked you to do?"
"It's working." Xiong Jiajia said casually Said, "My Internet speed is not good and uploading videos is very slow. There are thousands of movies and TV series. I have to upload them to the year after next."
"Didn't I give you money to upgrade your bandwidth? "Qin Shaoyan was a little surprised.
“The operator won’t do it for me.” Xiong Jiajia said cursingly, “They only upgrade the broadband for Internet cafes and ignore me.”
"Did the gift come?" Qin Shaoyan asked.
"Sent it away, but not sent it out." Xiong Jiajia said with an ugly face, "I can't find a way now."
"Then I will find someone to do it for you later." Qin Shaoyan looked at it Take a look at other employees' work. These employees are sorting out the film and television resources they have, and then uploading them one by one to Qvod.com.
“I can only upload now, and the downloads are all from outside Internet cafes.” Xiong Jiajia cursed and said, “Damn, I’m thinking of renting accommodation in an Internet cafe cheaply, so that a few people can I went to download something, but the network administrator of the Internet cafe got scolded by our people.”
"Later I simply took over the entire website and did nothing all night long. I turned on the computer and downloaded movies, hum."
Qin Shaoyan nodded, "This is a good method, and it makes effective use of the Internet cafe. We already have broadband resources.”
“Why don’t we just buy an Internet cafe?” Who do you think is willing to sell?" Qin Shaoyan glared at him and thought that opening an Internet cafe is not impossible.
Internet cafes can make money secondarily, but mainly by engaging in offline activities, such as e-sports competitions and new game trials.
But there's no rush in this matter, and it's not as easy to open an Internet cafe now as it used to be.
Qin Shaoyan checked the film and television resources that Xiong Jiajia had downloaded, "It's almost enough for domestic ones. Do less to avoid someone suing you for infringement. Do more idol dramas from Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as Japanese and Korean dramas and so on."
“There are resources translated by subtitle groups on the Internet. If you don’t know how to find them, go to the forums and ask, there will be kind people who can give you directions.”
“European and American ones. There are a lot of resources. Don’t you have a few translators? They must be watching European and American programs. Just ask them directly.”
Xiong Jiajia nodded, “Don’t worry, I still have to do this job.” Capable and clear.”
"We still have resources sent by YouTube, should we also make subtitles and send them up?"
"Stop it, you are just a porter of resources, stop working on the subtitle group." Qin Shaoyan immediately Discouraged Xiong Jiajia from this idea.
He inspected the area and gave Xiong Jiajia some careful instructions, asking him to pay attention to the uploaded content and not to upload anything that should not be uploaded.
It is nothing new for video websites to transfer content from other places. This is what the early video websites did.
In fact, it is simply not feasible for video websites to implement the UGC model now, that is, user-generated sharing cannot retain people. Moreover, given the current economic level in China, there is a threshold for video creation.
The country in 2004 was different from the era of smartphones twenty years later. Without widespread shooting equipment, video content would naturally not be produced.
Although the number of Internet users is growing rapidly, the base is still not high, and those who can actively engage in video shooting are rare.
At this time, the UGC creation ecology in China is also much inferior to that in the United States.
Different from YouTube’s early popular online videos shot through cameras, such as “Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bun” and “Chinese Team Wins the World Cup”, the popular online videos in China are basically re-edited Film and television content is used as raw material, and there has always been a lack of sufficient high-quality supply of filmed content.
So almost all video websites were engaged in piracy business at that time.
In fact, for a long time afterwards, all major platforms used the name of "user upload" to broadcast pirated overseas TV series and movies.
Not only do we obtain pirated resources from the Internet and upload them, we also directly transfer videos from our peers.
This habit has been passed down until more than ten years later, there will be companies that will move the content of their peers, and it will be a large-scale move.
Qubao.com has no peers to use as a resource library, so we can only do it ourselves.
As a pioneer in the video website industry, pioneering is a difficult thing.
Fortunately, there are many selfless sharers on the Internet who package and upload film and television resources so that people can browse these contents on the Internet.
Of course, I would also like to thank Bram Cohen for his invention of BT download technology and his great contribution to the dissemination of resources.
When I was working on YouTube, I brought him on board. On the one hand, this master’s skills are really great, and on the other hand, it’s a way to repay his contribution.
Looking at the gradually enriched content library, Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Now everything is really ready, all we need is traffic."
Qin Shaoyan picked up the phone and called Chen Guangxia , "Brother Chen, be prepared, the website will be officially launched tomorrow."
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“I am already a useless person.”
Xiao Xiaomeng, who had just completed the final exam, collapsed on the dormitory bed, feeling as if he had been ravaged by knowledge several times and then drained dry. , I can no longer raise any strength.
Looking at the sluggish roommate, Xiao Xiaomeng’s good friend Song Ya said helplessly, "Cheer up."
"It’s no longer possible, Aya, give me some spiritual food quickly. Otherwise, I will really be hopeless." Xiao Xiaomeng hugged Song Ya's arm and begged, "Show me another episode of "Lost""
"No more. What I showed you yesterday was the final inventory. New resources have to be downloaded online." Song Ya said helplessly.
"Then go and get off." Xiao Xiaomeng shook Song Ya's arm, "Aya, please."
"The Internet speed in our school is not good, we have to go to the Internet cafe "Song Ya frowned, "I'll ask the male classmates in our class to help me, and let them know when they have time to go to the Internet cafe."
"Oh, there is really no other way. "?" Xiao Xiaomeng lamented, "It seems that I can only wait until I go home for the holidays."
Xiao Xiaomeng muttered while turning on the computer and logging in to the campus network every day.
She had won this computer in the last campus network lottery, which made her happy for a long time. Although the computer configuration was not very good, there were no major problems except that it could only surf the Internet, listen to music, and play games.
Xiao Xiaomeng scrolled through the homepage updates, told a few classmates and friends to like and comment, and then transferred to the European and American film and television group, preparing to join the daily discussion.
As soon as I clicked into the group, I saw a pinned post in the group.
“The first video website in China is online!”
“Watch the latest resources of Japanese dramas, Korean dramas and American dramas online, don’t miss it if you pass by!”
Watch online? !
Xiao Xiaomeng was stunned, he couldn't be a liar, and while thinking about her, he clicked on the website link inside.
The website quickly popped up, and the first thing that caught my eye were three big characters - Qvod.com.
Under the LOGO of Qvod.com, there is a line of small words written, everyone is the director of life.
The light yellow color scheme of the website is eye-catching, and rows of videos on the homepage are displayed in front of users.
Xiao Xiaomeng entered the word "lost" into the search bar with the intention of giving it a try, and the search results quickly appeared on the website.
All the resources of the American drama "Lost", including the latest episode, were displayed in front of Xiao Xiaomeng, which immediately made her excited.
Xiao Xiaomeng quickly clicked on the video, and after a few seconds of loading, the video played smoothly.
"Wow!" Xiao Xiaomeng exclaimed, her eyes shining, "This is really a treasure house!"
(End of this chapter)