Chapter 157: Asking Lao Lu if Everything Is Undecided (4/6)
I don't know which TV series started, and the main starring salary during the promotion...
"Tiger Mom and Cat Dad" Zhao Yanzi has a salary of 35 million, and then, "The True Story of Hot Mom" came out with Sun Li's salary of 30 million...
Then it came out that the weekly news paid 30 million...
Then I couldn't stop it, and when it came to "The Legend of Ruyi", it was even promoted that the main theme was that the two leading actors took 150 million...
It may be that the producer wants to reveal to the outside world that he is not short of money!
But what are you doing with the excitement of those who mainly eat small fresh meat?
Recently, it has been rumored that Tianbao is 80 million, and Brother Cannon is 120 million...
Brother Pao is really innocent, the quotation is obviously different from the actual transaction price - in those years, did he act in a TV series?
Lu Xiaoran's external quotation has exceeded 100 million in 12 years, and no one invited him!
Zhong Lifang also said: "It's still a bit difficult for an actor to get ahead, generally a young actor who is a little famous is at least 25 years old, and he has to be lucky enough and talented enough... It doesn't take so much time to cultivate small fresh meat, and the results are faster..."
"You can't blame the capital, if you want to find a little fresh meat star actor, the premise is that there must be an actor who is famous before the age of 25, and the number can't be too small, you have to pick it, let's just have a few little fresh meat..."
Brother Song: "I really think it's because of the market... Our moviegoers are too young..."
Lu Xiaoran waved his hand: "That's why we have to guide the audience, we have to have good works to tell them; 'This is a good movie, you watch less garbage!'"
"The box office of 'Darling'... It's a bit low!"
“… This theme can have such a high box office, you should be snickering!"
"That's it, realistic theme, what do you want to high box office?"
“… The main market is not mature enough, and if it is launched in two more years, it will definitely sell 2 billion... Alright, I'll go first!"
Lu Xiaoran got up and left the office...
"He... Where to go?"
"I don't know, it should be a private matter..."
……
Zhang Yiming is ready to bet on the video!
He found that in the headlines section, users spent much more time on videos than they did on news...
In fact, at this stage, in front of all Internet companies, there is a bad news and a good news.
The bad news is that the traffic dividend from the demographic dividend has peaked, and the good news is that users are spending more and more time on their phones.
Last year, the average Chinese spent 186 minutes a day on online media, which already accounted for a quarter of a person's waking time, and it may not be easy to improve significantly.
This leads to the primary goal of each app being how to get users to spend more time in their app.
This means that after the demographic dividend is reduced, how to better serve a single user and enhance the value of a single user has become the key, which requires manufacturers to transform from traffic operation to user operation.
Why?
Where the user's time is, the money is there!
ByteDance is really profitable!
Last year's revenue reached 12 billion...
Zhang Yiming originally decided to make a short video, but Watermelon Video came out ahead of schedule, and the number of registered users has exceeded 20 million - or under the premise of not promoting it much, he is a little unsure whether to make a short video or a long video...
By the way, some time ago, ByteDance finalized a Series D financing of nearly $1 billion, raising its valuation to $11 billion.
Lu Xiaoran's equity has been diluted a little, but he still has 29% of the equity, the largest individual shareholder...
……
In the izakaya, Lu Xiaoran sat down, Zhang Yiming poured him a glass of wine, and then chatted about short videos...
"In 14 years, we wanted to make short videos, but at that time, we experienced a lot of turmoil, and we couldn't take care of our energy. ”
"But two days ago, we felt like we still had to do it, and we had to fight from the top down..."
Lu Xiaoran waved his hand: "Do what you want to do, discuss it with me? I'm not engaged in the Internet, I don't understand what you say..."
"You are the majority shareholder, this is a big deal related to ByteDance's business Allin..."
"I only know that there are three to four years left in the 5G era at most, and the iteration of technologies such as network transmission, bandwidth resources, and uplink data download will definitely provide considerable dividends for the prosperity of video products... But you have to be careful, don't say anything like 'algorithms have no values', and remember to keep in touch with the authorities!"
After thinking about it, Lu Xiaoran continued: "Wait for another two years, and I will make a big online movie!"
“… Huh?"
"The cinema dividend has disappeared, and the ceiling of the Chinese film box office is 80 billion, this field is too small!"
"It's a little small, such a small field, and there are so many dirty things..."
Boss Lu paused for a moment: "Dirty things?"
"It's not all unspoken rules..."
“… Your internet circles are clean?"
"No, we were all clean!"
Lu Xiaoran glanced at him with disdain: "Internet company annual meeting = love and defend the girl + undisciplined performance." I don't understand, you're all Guo Moruo?"
"Guo Moruo?"
"Even though that place has been left traces by countless people, we still yearn for it!"
“… No... It's not!" Zhang Yiming forced to explain: "Love... What happened to Aiwei's girlfriend? It embodies the generally more open and tolerant corporate culture in the Internet industry, Ma Yun has played the white-haired witch at the annual meeting, and Lei Jun has also played the god of wealth! This shows that we have fun with the people!"
"Then why don't Apple and Amazon go to the Fernando Valley to invite people? Vulgar is vulgar, and they still have fun with the people?"
“…”
Zhang Yiming: Shut up...
If someone else sprays with him, he can still think of some bridges, such as 'The tree-lined path you thought was actually full of traffic' and so on...
But Lu Xiaoran is too serious, there is really no black material at all...
"By the way, be careful with the connotation paragraph, I'm really afraid of being shut down!"
“… Wouldn't it?"
"Won't it? Now that you've crossed the line, you're all going down three ways, do you think the top will turn a blind eye?"
Zhang Yiming swallowed his saliva: "Won't it?"
"No, big brother, what are you paying attention to now? positive energy, do you understand positive energy?"
“… Alas, I regret it!"
"What's wrong?"
"Interviewed me two days ago, I said a lot that shouldn't be said..."
"You just knew..."
Lao Zhang took the D round of financing some time ago, and then accepted an exclusive interview with Caijing, he replied like this: The media must have values, it must educate people, and export ideas, which we do not advocate. Because we are not a media, we pay more attention to the throughput of information and the diversity of information.
Big brother, Wang Xin of the fast broadcast also said so...
Technology, is it really neutral?
Technology is inanimate, algorithms have a soul!
Also, is Toutiao a media platform, it's not up to you to decide, more than 200 million users, what is it if it's not a media platform?
Of course, the interview with Caijing was a bit unfair to Zhang Yiming, and the whole interview looked like the two were raising each other's bars...