0200 Play with a price increase?
Rosalind looked at Wu Qian with a grateful expression, she was glad to follow Wu Qian, a boss who could see the essence of things, not the kind of impulsive and angry boss.
"Mr. Robridge, what do you say?" Wu Qian asked, he didn't know if there was a price increase in the rules of the game.
Robridge smiled awkwardly, this kind of business competition is of course the final word.
Wu Qian saw Robridge's smile and understood what the other party meant, the rules of the game are simple and rude, and it seems that there is no way to easily win the HBO copyright like Penguin, which shows how important it is to be forward-looking.
"Then let's add a little bit, add 500, add 500 pounds per episode. Wu Qiandao, the current copyright price is much lower than he expected, the cost performance is very high, and there is no fear of competition at all.
Robbridge hadn't reacted yet, Manager Wang's face changed first, he looked at Wu Qian with a calm expression, and knew that this matter would not be easy today, this guy who jumped out of the sky was extremely strong!
"What do you mean by this!?" Assistant Hu, who was standing next to Manager Wang, asked Wu Qiandao angrily.
Wu Qian spread his hands, and didn't bother to look at Assistant Hu at all, the meaning is obvious, how can you say anything here, your boss didn't squeak, so he allowed you to increase the price, and didn't allow me to increase the price? I'm afraid it's arrogant......
Manager Wang raised his hand and signaled Assistant Hu not to say anything, it was originally a competition, and he could increase the price, and of course the other party could too.
"Mr. Robbridge, I'll also raise the price by 500 pounds!" Manager Wang said not to be outdone, he got permission and knew the bottom of his heart, he didn't believe that the other party was capable of him.
Manager Wang said that he would add 50 pounds, but that was because he thought that adding 50 pounds would be enough, and if he could save money for the board, he would not be rewarded. But now that the situation has changed, he can't help but think about other things and win this battle.
Robbridge is almost so beautiful that his nose bubbles, he really didn't know that the copyright of the film and television dramas under the company was so valuable in the Celestial Empire, because of some cultural differences, they really didn't pay much attention to the market in the Celestial Empire. After pulling back and forth, the price of a single episode changed from 50,000 pounds to 51,050 pounds, an increase of 2%, and the results are gratifying!
In the small conference room, the most calm is the lawyer invited by Wu Qian, there is no penny of him in this, whether it is 50,000 an episode, 5 million an episode, the commission he gets is the same, there will be no change, so he is indifferent to the shouting of both sides.
Wu Qian glanced at Manager Youke Yiwang, smiled slightly, and said, "Rosalind, add another 5,000 pounds per episode." "Wu Qian's bottom line for the exclusive broadcast right of each episode is 800,000-1 million soft girl coins, that is, more than 100,000 pounds, and there is still a certain gap, so he is not in a hurry at all.
Rosalind once again conveyed to Robrich what Wu Qian meant, and if it weren't for the fact that Robridge didn't have a healthy knee, he would have been able to jump up and laugh.
When the manager of Youke Yiwang heard the other party's offer, the green tendons in the corners of his forehead burst out, and the top gave him a certain amount of permission, but that was also limited, as Wu Qian said, the permission given by the top was to increase by 10%, that is, the budget for 200 dramas was increased by 10% on the basis of the original price.
Wu Qian increased the price by 5,000 pounds, and now the copyright fee for a single episode has reached 56,050 pounds, which instantly exceeds the authority at the disposal of Manager Wang.
Wu Qian's heart is very calm, he will participate in Sotheby's auction tomorrow, he has seen so many lots, and there are some very hot and sought-after, the competition will definitely be much more fierce than now, this will be a practice of hands, practice endurance.
"You...... I'll ......" Manager Wang stammered angrily, his face was flushed, he would be even more angry than Assistant Hu before, he was originally full of confidence, but he didn't know that his confidence was given by the other party at a fixed price.
Manager Wang has no authority to raise the price anymore, but he is really unwilling to lose the copyright competition like this, this is a very delicious cake.
Manager Wang doesn't understand why the above is only willing to increase the budget by 10%, according to his ideas, now the exclusive broadcast fee of domestic popular dramas has risen to 7 million per episode, seventy or eighty episodes of a drama, and the copyright fee of five or six hundred million, which is good in the short term and grabs the popularity, but in the long run, it is really not as good as well-made British and American dramas.
The phenomenon that Manager Wang can see, Wu Qian can also see, he is a senior fan of British and American dramas, and he knows very well that the number of viewers has increased over the years, and the number of people in post bars, forums and other fan gathering places has soared, and the expansion trend is very obvious. Even many people ask for film sources everywhere but can't get them, and some pirated versions are on the shelves today and will be gone tomorrow, which is very bad to watch.
"Manager Wang, what do you say here, do you want to compete?" Robbridge asked very implicitly, he is not a skillful auctioneer, and he does not know those emotional language skills, but his dry words also blew up Manager Wang's barrel of explosives.
"Plus, I'll add 5,000 pounds too!" Manager Wang roared in a low voice, his expression was very gloomy, and he was a little out of control, he finally said that the board of directors agreed to the plan, and he wanted to rely on British dramas to rush the performance in the last quarter.
5,000 pounds is not much, but if it is magnified 1,000 times, it is 5 million pounds, more than 40 million soft sister coins, Manager Wang is a very dangerous behavior to cut first and then play, but at the moment he can't care about so much. Manager Wang believes in his forward-looking vision and believes that his judgment will not be wrong.
The previous time was Manager Wang signaling to Assistant Hu to calm down, but now it's the other way around, Assistant Hu patted Manager Wang's back and told him to dissipate his anger and not get angry in a hurry.
Wu Qian didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Manager Wang's behavior, after all, it was a legitimate commercial bidding, and whoever had the strength would win the contract. But Rosalind hated Manager Wang, it was this guy who made a block for his boss, so that he couldn't earn that counteroffer.
A woman's hatred is sometimes very terrible, especially a powerful woman. Rosalind covered it up well, she didn't show the slightest hint, but if Yao Xinlu was here, through some of Rosalind's micro-expressions, she would know that this person had already moved to kill.
The price of a single episode has risen from 50,000 to 61,050, and the total turnover has increased by 1.05 million pounds, which is enough to send out a small mercenary to tackle the opponent in the shadows. Rosalind came from somewhere, although she is an assistant bodyguard, she still has that set of concepts in her bones.
"Well, 61,050 pounds per episode, 530,000 yuan, it's not enough to buy an episode of a second-tier actor's palace fighting drama at this price, it's really cheap. Then I'll add a little more, the exclusive right to broadcast an episode of 70,000 pounds. Rosalind, let the lawyer remember that if you sign a contract at this price or above, add a clause to the contract, and if you breach the contract, I will ask for compensation of 100 times the copyright fee for me!"
It's easy to say that the exclusive broadcast right is won, but if there is no strong shackle constraint, others can snatch it away at a certain price. Wu Qian can't guarantee that he will not be snatched away by the other party, in case any big guy burns too much money, he just wants to ask for a generous compensation when his interests are infringed.
If you follow 70,000 pounds per episode, 1,000 episodes are 70 million pounds, almost 600 million soft girl coins, this price Wu Qian thinks it is not high at all, he understands that a TV series that was hyped very hot last year, when one of the three giants spent 890 million to win the exclusive broadcast copyright, but the response was a mess, and it did not have the effect that 890 million should have.
Wu Qian believes that the response of 200 British dramas must be stronger than those hyped traffic star TV series, or even a lot stronger.
When Wu Qian shouted out the price of 70,000 pounds per episode, Manager Wang of You Keyi was directly stunned, that is money, not numbers, Oh, his mouth went out with a hot breath? Manager Wang wanted to shout and ask, did your money come from the wind? Wu Qian would answer him, no, but almost.
According to Manager Wang's business experience, if it reaches 70,000 pounds per episode, at least for Youkeyi video website, the benefit is very low. But it's different for Wu Qian's video website, because Wu Qian's website is now very thin, and it's still lying at the bottom, and the percentage increase will be very terrifying.
For example, the current daily number of visitors is 5 million, and if you win the copyright of these British dramas, you can increase it by 50-800,000, that is, 10%-16%, the effect is there, but it is not very impressive.
But the video website under Wu Qian's name now has less than 100,000 daily visits, if you do a good job of promotion after winning the copyright, it is easy to increase the number of daily visits by 200,000, that is 200% growth, Wu Qian is now very much in need of hard-core copyright, otherwise the website is not competitive at all.
After Robrich learned Wu Qian's offer, he jumped up on one leg regardless of the old disease of fluid accumulation in his left knee and although he was happy in his heart, he did not forget that Manager Wang was still on the side.
"Manager Wang, are you here?" asked Robridge.
Rosalind saw that Manager Wang picked up the phone again, and she couldn't wait to take out the HK USP that was pinned to the back of her waist and was warmed by her body temperature, but reason told her that this was a shopping mall, not a battlefield, and she couldn't do that, it would affect the boss.
"Mr. Robbridge, let me make a call first. After Manager Wang finished speaking, he took his mobile phone and walked aside.
Manager Wang called the director of his department in the board of directors, and when he told the matter of the 70,000 episodes, the other party was silent for a long time, and finally replied with two words.
"Give up. ”
The directors of the board of directors are much more than Manager Wang, and there are winners and losers in the competition, how can there be a winning general. For the Youke B video website, there are many aspects that can be laid out, not limited to British dramas, more is the icing on the cake, and less is harmless.
"Do you know which company the other party is?" Forget it, you'll know when the series is released...... "The director finally asked himself a question and then hung up the phone.
Manager Wang was still worried about his first cut and then the prelude two minutes ago, but now he is not even qualified to be worried.
"Hu, let's go. ”
Manager Wang walked towards the outside of the conference room with Assistant Hu dejectedly, and when he passed by Wu Qian's side, he looked at Wu Qian viciously, as if he was going to eat Wu Qian.
Wu Qian smiled, didn't care about the other party's eyes, said in his heart, angry and can't be used as money, what are you doing so angry, idiot.
Manager Wang was very depressed, this trip to London was a very failure, the director didn't care about the gains and losses of a city, but as the head of this separate department, he cared, and even he could already foresee that after Wu Qian's unknown video website obtained so many drama copyrights, the click-through rate would show a certain degree of blowout.
Manager Wang is jealous in his heart, the division of the part of Youkeyi Video Network Company is very fine, his part has been eaten away so much, and it is not easy to make achievements, this is the gap between working for people and taking ideas for themselves.
Robbridge felt a little regretful, shook his head slightly and watched Manager Wang and Assistant Hu walk out of the conference room, and then immediately changed to look at Wu Qian with a smiling face.
You don't have to worry about the rest of the matter, the lawyer and Rosalind will take care of it. In the end, he did not breach the contract 100 times the compensation as Wu Qian requested, but when it came to 50 times the compensation, this amount was already very terrifying.
Robbridge felt that there was basically no possibility of a default. Even if calculated according to a contract with a total of 1,000 episodes and 70 million pounds, 50 times is 3.5 billion pounds, and ITV will not take the initiative to breach the contract, but who will take the initiative to bear this liquidated damages, it's almost stupid.
Wu Qian also felt that it was acceptable, if someone really did this stupidly with a lot of money, it was okay for him to take the liquidated damages compensated by the other party and shoot it himself.
In addition, among the 200 dramas, there will definitely be a part of it that has sold the copyright to a certain video website company in the Celestial Empire, and this aspect of the problem is of course solved by ITV, and it has nothing to do with him.
Wu Qian didn't pay attention to the selection of dramas, he only designated a few classic dramas that he had watched from pirated websites, such as "Downton Abbey", "Inspector Morse Prequel", etc., and the rest could only be handed over to Yuan Bingqing, even if she didn't understand, there would be people in the company who specialized in collecting data in this area to know which dramas were highly anticipated and which ones were more in line with the environment.
Wu Qian glanced at the time, it was about 9 o'clock in the capital, and he made a call to Yuan Bingqing. Yuan Bingqing was in the elevator, she had just gotten off work and was about to go home, and the moment she stepped out of the elevator room, her mobile phone rang.
"Wu Qian, what's the matter at such a late hour? Oh, yes, it's just past noon over there. Is things going well in the UK?" said Yuan Bingqing, leaning against the wall next to the elevator.
"There is good news, I have negotiated the copyright with ITV, and I have purchased the copyright of 200 dramas, of which 100 can be selected, I picked 10 of them, and you can arrange the rest over there to see which data is more popular......"
Wu Qian's words sounded in the earpiece, and when Yuan Bingqing heard the words 200 dramas, her eyes flickered, and her brain had a short circuit.
“200...... 200 parts, not 200 episodes, I ...... OMG!%@#¥......@#" Yuan Bingqing held her phone and muttered to herself, she couldn't believe her ears, but she chose to believe Wu Qian's mouth.
Although Yuan Bingqing doesn't know the specific copyright fee of the British drama, it must not be cheap. Bought the copyright of so many TV series at one time, what a lot of money this must be, it is not for nothing that the entire Tianchao video website company can do this level, but there are only three or five of them.
Yuan Bingqing never thought that her video website would enjoy such treatment one day, although the website no longer belongs to her, but in her heart, the video website she created will always be her child.