"Obviously, we have been developing abroad, but I didn't expect that we would suddenly become celebrities in China, listen...... The Chinese side said that many media outlets have been reporting on our participation in Victoria's Secret recently, and Ms. Crapp has also talked to us about planning to let us return to China in the near future, and they have arranged a lot of work for us, and we may have to be busy until the Spring Festival. ”

"That's the benefit of having a big brokerage behind you, otherwise no one knows what you've done. ”

"Simon, do you want to take advantage of the Chinese New Year to go over there, it's very lively?"

"Look at the schedule, it's been a busy time lately. ”

Simon and Jane Xin were chatting, and the two black helicopters had landed on the tarmac on the banks of the River East.

He got out of the helicopter with the four girls who were spending the weekend with him in East Hampton, said goodbye to them, and put them in a car before Simon himself drove to the Westeros headquarters in Rockefeller Center in Midtown.

Today, I will discuss with James Raybould and the heads of Cersei Capital the coping strategies before and after the bursting of the new technology bubble, including some recent IPOs or bond issuances of Westeros-related companies, the hedging strategies of the hedge fund team during this time, and the old money capital of various parties in contact with Richard Mellon Scaife at various levels in Washington, D.C. and other levels.

Frankly, no matter what happens next, the Westeros system is invincible.

The first is on the hedge fund side.

Simon has been shrinking his hedging early on, and will only be more conservative in the future, expecting to keep his hedging funds in the new technology sector under $2 billion. So the worst-case scenario would be to lose the money, which would be insignificant for the vast Westeros system.

The main thing is that with the current size of the Westeros system, there is no need to take all kinds of adventures at all, and the right way to do it is to develop it in a dignified way.

Secondly, there are the IPOs of Westeros-affiliated companies such as Instagram and LinkedIn, as well as the long-term bond issuance of up to $5 billion by Daenerys Entertainment Group in December, which is still to hoard as much money as possible and prepare for the bottom after the economic cycle turns in the future.

Thirdly, it is to play with the Mellon family, Tiger Fund and other capital forces that are currently bearish on technology stocks.

After the U.S. election in early November, both parties in the U.S., in order to avoid a major economic shock in the election year, no longer insist on certain things, which gives the bulls and shorts room to maneuver.

At present, all parties are in the stage of foreshadowing and building positions, and it is expected that there will be an outbreak around the New Year.

Simon had intended to sit on the sidelines, at most to do something that was in the interests of the Westeros system. As Richard Mellon Scaife contacted a large number of old money capital to short the new technology industry, Simon also took advantage of the situation, planning to use this game to crack down on old money capital in the United States and further consolidate the influence of the Westeros system in Washington and the media circle.

When Simon arrived at Rockefeller Center to begin his day's work, Jane and her daughters, along with Roberta and Anélies, who belong to different agencies, soon arrived at Elite's headquarters at the intersection of 27th Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown.

As soon as they joined the company, Amanda Wren, the agent in charge of the two women, took them to Grace's office.

After greeting the female head of ELite, who was uncommon but still felt that her temperament had changed recently, Jian Xin and the two girls had just sat down, and Grace said: " An Chen, the person in charge of Elite's China side, sent a message that China's CCTV will interview the two of you, scheduled for two o'clock this afternoon, the status of this TV station in China, I think you two know better than me, so wait for you to prepare immediately, first hold a video conference with An, and then prepare the materials that the other party needs. ”

After Grace finished speaking, she handed a copy of the information that had been sorted out to the two women, seeing that they were still stunned, she motioned to Amanda, the agent next to her, to take the information, and looked at the two women with a smile: "Is there any more problem?"

There are so many questions.

The biggest problem is, how can my two little models be on CCTV?

Even though they have been interviewed or reported by the Chinese media during this time, the two girls have never fantasized about it, after all, they certainly know what CCTV means in China.

Hearing Grace's question, Jian Xin reacted first and asked, "Gray, what kind of program is this interview?"

"It seems to be a news program, you can wait to say hello, she knows better. ”

It won't be "News Network", right?

Then it will be even more heavenly.

Grace saw the two girls stunned, but she didn't have the heart to accompany them to be stunned, took a document next to her and opened it, and hurried to the people: "Go to the conference room downstairs, if you have any doubts, you can ask yourself, since you all know that this is a good opportunity, don't mess up." ”

When the two girls heard Grace say this, they had to get up, even though they were still full of doubts.

The head of the Chinese branch of the Shanghai-based Elite modeling agency is named An Xiaohan, a fashionable short-haired woman in her early thirties, who has also contacted Jian Xin and them a few times before, and when the two women came to a conference room downstairs with their agent Amanda, An Xiaohan was already waiting online.

After a detailed introduction, I realized that it was not a news broadcast, but CCTV's comprehensive news and information program "Oriental Time and Space" at 7 o'clock in the morning.

The two girls were not disappointed in the slightest.

At this stage, the popularity of "Oriental Time and Space" in China is basically similar to the morning 'news broadcast', and no one can show their faces.

In short, Jian Xin already wanted to quickly notify her relatives and friends in China to pay attention to watching, compared to those marginal reports, in this way, the two of them are really going to become big celebrities in China, at least in the domestic model circle, there is no one who can compare with them.

I couldn't help but inquire.

An Xiaohan did not hide it, saying that this was the opportunity that Miss Chen gave them.

Chen Qing.

I also know this, but I haven't met yet, mainly from people in China, Jill Peckett and Zhu Momo.

Sure enough, she is a very powerful woman.

I didn't know that I would finally get a few minutes to show up, but then I was solid and busy all day.

The theme of CCTV's report on them is to take advantage of this Victoria's Secret show to promote Chinese girls to the world and conquer major fashion weeks and Victoria's Secret catwalks, the core of which is, of course, to win glory for the country.

Balabala.

The afternoon interview lasted two hours, recording conversations, exchanging footage, etc., and was followed by a video conference with the Chinese side to discuss the follow-up PR strategy that would accompany the interview. reacted and found that An Xiaohan, the person in charge of the Chinese side, stayed up all night there, just to accompany them.

He did not return to his residence on the Upper West Side until about six o'clock in the evening.

The two girls took a bath together, had dinner, and then huddled in front of the TV on time to wait for the fifth Victoria's Secret show that ABC will broadcast tonight.

That's the key.

Eating apple salad with Tao Yuelei in order to avoid overdose, looking at the last advertisement on the TV screen before the Victoria's Secret show started, Jian Xin said: "If you know about this, Mo Mo must be crazy with envy in China." ”

Tao Yuelei carefully held the glass bowl and said: "Momo participated in Zhang's movie, you don't know that movie stars have much better development prospects than our models." ”

Simon just asked her to show her face in that movie, remember what Simon and Roberta said yesterday? Models aren't that easy to mix in the film industry, let alone Momo's height. And, heh, it's already time to leave Simon, and the future is even more uncertain. ”

Tao Yuelei felt Jian Xin's schadenfreude, remembered one thing, and asked, "Is it true that you deliberately flashed Momo's name in the morning, most of the things we were reported by the media in China were told by her." ”

Jian Xin paused, but still nodded: "Yes, Xiaolei, didn't you notice that the two of us are actually just right? Simon forgot Momo, it is in our best interest." ”

Tao Yuelei hesitated for a moment, but still didn't say anything.

Jian Xin looked at Tao Yuelei's expression, realized that she had figured it out, curled the corners of her mouth, and leaned over to kiss her on the face affectionately.

on the TV screen.

At eight o'clock, the picture switched, in the brightly lit New York City overlooking the shot, with the passionate music and a quick explanation by a male voice, the fifth Victoria's Secret show TV broadcast officially began, and the two girls in the villa on the Upper West Side immediately put away their thoughts, just like the tens of millions of American viewers who were in front of the TV at this time, and focused their attention on the TV screen.

After the opening credits, there is a ten-minute montage of six Victoria's Secret spokespersons, getting up, exercising, eating, and trying on...... And in the last minute of the clip, more Victoria's Secret angels converged and ended up in the backstage of the Lightsington Avenue Arsenal.

The six spokespersons are Victoria's Secret's six daughters, of course, there is no comparison.

Fortunately, compared to other Victoria's Secret angels who flashed by, Jian Xin was still very satisfied with the two-second focus shot they could get at the end.

Because this year's Victoria's Secret show was extended by half an hour, the beginning seemed a little long.

However, also at the Daenerys Entertainment East Coast headquarters in the Upper West Side, the real-time feedback received by the staff who are responsible for tracking the ratings data of TV programs on duty is probably a complete **ODY firmly tied the audience's eyes, and in ten minutes, the opening ratings directly broke through the previous four records, but the follow-up did not fall back at all, and when the first theme began, there was another surge in ratings.

And so it is.

The finale of the first phase of the star-studded Victoria's Secret show has six themes, and even some interviews, behind-the-scenes, etc., which are interpolated compared with previous years, have not become the audience's urine point at all.

High energy throughout.

When the show that lasted for an hour and a half ended, the Eagle portal quickly released the news, and it was initially estimated that the average number of viewers in North America of the show would reach more than 50 million, compared with the previous highest average rating of 38.3 million in the fourth session. Early the next morning, the detailed data was released.

The fifth Victoria's Secret show, as the last fashion feast of the first stage, reached an average of 53.7 million viewers, with the highest viewership of 65.2 million, and the core viewers aged 18 to 49 had an astonishing 32.6 that night, equivalent to 73% of the 53.7 million viewers of the most valuable advertising groups who paid attention to this TV show.

With the TV broadcast of the big show, the popularity of the previous week, which had cooled down a little, rushed back to the highest.

Not only the more than 40 angels of the Victoria's Secret Army have once again become the focus of the media, but even the sales of Victoria's Secret brand underwear and Victoria's Secret show peripherals have increased significantly.

Since this show is not limited by the movie release window, on the second day of TV broadcasting, the big show videotape was directly put on the shelves, and at the same time, it also launched commemorative edition sets such as the fifth collection, Igret's Amazon e-commerce platform, and all five videotapes of Victoria's Secret, the number of orders in a single day reached 170,000 boxes.

According to online data and offline feedback, it is expected that the total sales of Victoria's Secret show videotape products on the second day of the 5th Victoria's Secret show will be more than 500,000 boxes.

Among them, the latest fifth Victoria's Secret show, the total sales of videotapes are expected to hit the 20 million box mark again.

So much so that many media can't help but ridicule that Victoria's Secret can change to be a media, instead of selling underwear, and at the same time, more media will inevitably regret it, no matter what, it is difficult to understand why Simon Westeros suspended this fashion feast at the peak of the Victoria's Secret show, it is simply not rich.

Of course, there is no shortage of discerning people.

After all, the fashion Super Bowl is not a real Super Bowl full of suspense every year, and it has been used for five consecutive years. If it continues, it is almost inevitable that the audience will gradually develop aesthetic fatigue in the future. Just like this time, if it weren't for the gimmick of the last edition, let alone creating a new ratings record, compared to previous years, it would be good if it didn't fall.

There are also videotapes.

If it lasts for more than ten sessions and is held every year, the audience's interest in the Victoria's Secret videotape will inevitably continue to decline. Now, the five sessions are over, just right, each session can be used as a very worthy collection, a set of videotapes can be sold for a long time, including various TV stations, if you want to rebroadcast it, you have to pay money, these are quite rich long-term benefits.

Some people rejoice, some people are sad.

Marché du Film.

In the first week of the Thanksgiving schedule that opened last week, as some industry media expected, I was thinking of grabbing the box office monster of "Wonder Woman 2" before the release of several new films that could receive as much box office as they could when they landed in theaters, and sure enough, they also suffered the impact of the Victoria's Secret show TV broadcast.

On Monday, the total single-day box office of all films in the North American film market was only $3.56 million, compared with $23.97 million on Sunday, a plunge of 86%.

It is natural that the box office plummets on weekdays compared to weekends, but the 86% drop is really shocking, let's say that the week before, Sunday and Monday were only 73% year-on-year. Obviously, the box office crash on November 18 was undoubtedly affected by the TV broadcast of the Victoria's Secret show.

The Victoria's Secret show is just the beginning.

The next Tuesday and Thursday will be the autumn end of the second season of "American Idol", because it is the top 32 dramas at the end of the preliminary audition, which is of great significance, and it is expected that the audience size of more than 30 million will inevitably impact the first week of the autumn file again.

These are still only secondary.

Wednesday, November 20th.

Los Angeles, in the strong anticipation of fans around the world, "Wonder Woman 2" once again chose the Holy Civic Auditorium to hold a grand premiere, announcing the arrival of the latest masterpiece of the DC Cinematic Universe.