Chapter Seventy-One: Cooperation
When he returned home, Xia Ziyu found that Mu Wanqing was actually at his house, and his expression at that time, he recalled it, it was probably the kind of embarrassed and very uncomfortable with a strong smile.
"Hello Aunt Lin, Ziyu, you're back!"
Mu Wanqing sat quietly in the living room, saw Lin Wu and Xia Ziyu coming back, got up and greeted Lin Ziyu sweetly, and then looked at Xia Ziyu, the happy expression was like Wang Jiang who saw his master go home, and his eyes did not hide his joy at all.
If it was before, Xia Ziyu would definitely greet her without thinking too much, and maybe he would tease, "I haven't seen you for a long time, and my breasts have become bigger again." ”
But now Xia Ziyu can only smirk and nod, "Come back, you sit first, and I'll talk to my mother." ”
In the car, he had already told his mother not to unravel the misunderstanding first, keep the previous relationship, just do what it should be, his mother also thinks so, if the simple Wanqing knows that her so-called love is actually unrequited love, and it has lasted for many years without knowing it, she will definitely cry.
Xia Ziyu could imagine that scene, and she could only be busy beside her, but she didn't know what to say to comfort her.
Mu Wanqing is still quite smart about issues other than feelings, she heard Xia Ziyu say that she wanted to discuss things with his mother, so she consciously sat back on the sofa, planning to continue watching the TV series that was being replayed.
Lin Wu knew that Xia Ziyu was going to talk about the company's affairs, and she was also very serious, so she walked in front, "Go to the study and talk about it." ”
Xia Ziyu came to his mother's study, the environment here was completely different from his father's, that study had a faint aromatic smell, which was his father's only favorite cigar smell, and his mother's study was like a small flower shop, which was planted with more than thirty kinds of dahlias, which was his mother's favorite flower.
"Anyway, you don't like the lazy worm of the management company, and suddenly come back and say that you want to discuss important things, what difficulties is the website encountering?"
Lin Wu sat in her custom-made sofa, her expression was leisurely and relaxed, her graceful figure was half-reclining and leaning on the armrest, since she was old, she always liked to lean back on the sofa like this.
Xia Ziyu casually found a place opposite to sit down, picked up the tea on the table and poured himself a cup, it was a little cold, but he just habitually moistened his throat before speaking.
"The website is running very well, and the manager you found for me is very capable, and I don't have to take care of things. I came back this time, mainly on behalf of Blue Star Entertainment, and I want to cooperate with Star Card Video. ”
"Oh, it's cooperation?"
Lin Wu raised her eyebrows in some surprise, waiting for Xia Ziyu to continue.
"That's right, Chairman Lin, we at Bluestar Entertainment currently have a total of 62 complete copyright comics, of which one has a collection of more than 800,000, two more than 300,000, and 11 ......."
He first said the number of comics that P station has signed so far, and then talked about the data of comics, and his mother listened quietly.
"Now, the Animation Association of the Federation has announced a partnership with the Comics Association to jointly develop valuable comic IP ......"
"Wait, the IP you mentioned is what I told your uncle last time I came back, right? It's very interesting, I proposed it at the board of directors, and it was approved by many directors. ”
Lin Wu interrupted him, it seems that his mother also paid attention to the conversation with his uncle.
Xia Ziyu nodded and said, "Yes." ”
What he thinks this time is that the time has come for the development of IP, "I don't know if you know that the content of this cooperation between the two associations is to select valuable works and adapt them into animations based on comic magazines that hold copyrights." ”
Lin Wu nodded a little understandingly, "That is to say, the comic website under Blue Star Entertainment wants to learn from the Comics Association and find an animation company to cooperate in the production of animation, so you have to find Xingka Video to cooperate."
Well, this is indeed a good cooperation project, but, to be honest, apart from Ziyu's own comics, at most plus those two comics with 300,000 popularity, there are no works worth adapting at present, right?"
As the chairman of a video network of comprehensive media and entertainment, Lin Wu naturally knows a lot about new entertainment culture, in fact, after she knew that her son could also draw comics, she also began to catch up with "Madoka Magical Girl".
Later, I found out that there was also a "Takuya and Xiao Wujun" that was very good, which suited her appetite very much, and she also rewarded a big cute master.
Xia Ziyu nodded, it is true that in the comic library of Station P, there are only those three that are worthy of being adapted into animation, and the rest of the comics are just a few words, and they don't have much value.
Lin Wu continued to analyze: "As far as I know, the Comics Association will provide more than 20 comics every year for animation adaptation, and Sakura Satellite TV in District 11 is just a cooperative TV station to test the waters. ”
She first talked about the current cooperation between the two associations and the possibility of future animation development, and then told Xia Ziyu about her concerns.
"Blue Star Entertainment's influence in the comic industry is not even comparable to the three major comic clubs, and Xingka Video is not a professional animation production company, and the animation we make may not get a good schedule on the TV station. ”
Xia Ziyu smiled, "Chairman Lin, first of all, let me state that I am not studying the Comics Association, but I originally had this plan, and even have a more detailed animation development plan than them, but it has not yet been implemented."
Although the cooperation between our two companies is indeed a small fight for the two major associations, we have a very big advantage when comparing a certain publishing house and a certain animation production company alone. ”
He took another sip of herbal tea and continued to blow, "Moreover, my plan this time is not going to sell to TV stations after adapting the animation." ”
Lin Wu was very surprised, and she didn't plan to sell it, "If you don't sell the TV station, will you put it on the Internet?"
When Xia Ziyu saw her mother's appearance, she knew what she was worried about, and felt that the animation might not be able to recover the cost if it was put on the Internet.
"I have instructed the company's website department to divide the P station into an animation station and a comic station, of which the comic station remains the same, and the animation station needs to use the resources of Xingka Video to provide me with technical support.
Bluestar Entertainment and Xingka Video have set up a joint venture animation production company, which is responsible for the adaptation of the works of Station P, and the animations made are all put into the new pikapika animation for playback. ”
"Do you want to buy it in the form of a per-episode fee like a manga?" thought my mother, which is not surprising, because even if it is a TV, there are many programs that need to be purchased.
"No, I plan to use the membership monthly and annual subscription system, and the users of the P station are in the animation station, and they can choose to open VIP members, and they ...... every month. Well, it's tentatively set at 10 yuan, there is a discount for annual members, 100 yuan per year, and you can watch unlimited animations on the site during the membership period. ”
Because there must not be much animation at the P station in the early stage.,So ten yuan is not cheap.,But compared to the comic single word charge,It seems to be quite cheap.。
Lin Wu shook her head, and couldn't help complaining: "Ten yuan per month, for animation production costs, it's too little, even if your P station has 100,000 members who are willing to open a monthly subscription, the monthly income is only one million, which is only enough for the production cost of an animation, right? Removed site maintenance, royalty sharing, after-tax estimated liabilities. ”
Xia Ziyu hurriedly explained: "No, no, Mom, you're wrong. "Originally, he planned to make this business negotiation formulaic, but he habitually called out his mother.
"Although the animation station is named in pikapika animation,But in fact, the server is on the star card video network,The homepage of the star card video only needs to set up a new animation channel,With the star card video's more than one billion user base,Not to mention millions of users who like to watch animation, right?
This not only adds a new business to Xingka Video, but also expands the user base for Xingka Video. ”
Xia Ziyu's most important trump card has not yet been taken out, and his mother has almost been convinced, after all, Xingka Video is now competing with the other two major video networks, fighting various price wars to grab users from the other party, if Xingka Video can have one more unique animation in the future, then the competitiveness will definitely be stronger than the other two.
"Mom, Xingka Video is now burning money with two video networks to grab users, right? I'll tell you a way to defeat them......"
Lin Yu was very interested when she heard her son say this, but she knew that her son had no talent in business management, and he was more like that kind of R&D talent, so she asked with some expectation: "Oh, what method is so powerful?"
Xia Ziyu grinned, and took out the manuscript paper that had been prepared from his bag, in order to explain this small function to his mother, it was a little difficult to explain it without an image.
What he took out was a picture taken from a random online video, which was the scene of the male protagonist kneeling down and thinking about the female protagonist proposing marriage in a bloody TV series, and there were many subtitles popping up in the picture and video box, it can be seen that these words were written by himself.
For example, it is written: "If the male protagonist fails to propose marriage, then God has done it", "If the ring falls into the sewer next to it, then God has done it", "If the female protagonist says that she likes the male protagonist's father, then God has done it"......
There is also a column of writing fields that are being typed, with a few numbers written "666", and the arrow of the mouse is facing the command box sent, everything here Xia Ziyu will mark it with a red arrow, and explain what it does with text.
That's right, that's the barrage function of the barrage video network!
Lin Wu took this picture, and at first she seemed to understand something, but after seeing the subtitles on the picture being added with those funny words, she couldn't help but laugh out loud, "What are you writing here! The male protagonist failed to propose, the ring fell into the sewer, and the female protagonist likes his father, what kind of mess is this!"
Although she was complaining about Xia Ziyu, the amused expression on her face was very obvious, but her expression gradually became focused, no longer lazy and casual.
"Mom, let me explain to you, this is called a video barrage, mainly ...... ¥%……#”
With Xia Ziyu's explanation, Lin Yu's eyes became brighter and brighter, and she seemed to see the way Xingka Video crushed the other two websites.
After that, Xia Ziyu talked to his mother about his future development prospects for the animation industry, persuaded his mother, and then Blue Star Entertainment got 50% of the shares of the joint venture without paying a penny, and the share of P station animation was also five to five.
He said that the biggest trump card of moving mom to make an animation network is the idea of adding barrage plug-ins to the video!
In the federal, such ideas are protected by patent law, as long as Xingka Video applies for a patent in the patent office after developing the barrage function, then, other video networks cannot make plug-ins with the same function.
Unless authorized by the patent holder, someone else can make a plug-in with similar functionality.
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This time the business negotiation between mother and son slowly became commonplace, in fact, even if Xia Ziyu's website would lose money, Lin Wu also planned to support his decision, and his son was willing to put his mind into it, what is the loss of more than 10 million.
The important thing is that the interesting idea called 'barrage' will definitely greatly improve the stickiness of users for Xingka Video and create opportunities for Xingka Video to be promoted to the No. 1 video website in the Federation.
After talking about cooperation, my mother brought up Mu Wanqing's question again, "What is your attitude towards Wanqing, even if you didn't have a relationship before, you can still date now!"
Xia Ziyu wailed: "Alas, Mom, can you not mention this, I have a big head, I don't know what expression to use to face her......"
Lin Wan: "At this time, you just need to smile." ”