238. Off-site tidbits
The convening of this year's Hanzhou G12 Internet Summit is not much different from the previous five sessions. The venue is still held in the elegant West Lake Opera House. The time still starts at 1 p.m. and ends at 5 p.m.
The main tone of this program is based on the clear talk and debate of the CEOs. In between, there are occasional small number of individual speeches, as well as public questions from some domestic and foreign media and live audiences. In other words, the presidents of each company on the big stage need to publicly answer various questions in person.
The biggest attraction of this show is naturally some witty remarks from the celebrity presidents on the spot, as well as some cutting-edge exploratory insights on the trend of Internet exhibitions in their countries. Sometimes they will look back on the past and sum up their experience. Sometimes they predict the future and make all kinds of long-term visions.
The words spoken by the daimyo are naturally heavier. And this is exactly what the audience wants to see and hear the most. In a word, it is to use celebrity presidents to create various topic effects in the domestic Internet circle. What are the future black technologies that the CEOs of major Internet companies are most concerned about? Naturally, this is a big attraction.
This TV program did not broadcast live nationwide this year, but was recorded with a one-hour delay.
When the first and second sessions were held that year, it was broadcast live across the country, and it was very popular. Later, the popularity was not as good as the one.
Because, the audience's eyes have always been bright.
A total of 12 Internet companies participated in the conference, which were ranked and screened according to the size of the commercial market value of each company and invited to participate in the competition. The people who eat melons soon appeared, and almost every year, those who appeared on the stage were those traditional veterans and old faces, and there was nothing new at all.
What Ma Yun, Ma Huateng, Li Yanhong, Ding Yangzhu, Rebus, Sect Leader Zhou, these six Internet old-timer faces will always be there. That's half of the country. What else Zhang Chaoyang, Liu Walldong, Shi Xifeng, Cao Guowei, Cheng Weiwei, Zhang Yi and others have long been familiar to everyone.
Every year, the topics of public debate are almost the same old ones, such as mobile payments, bike sharing, online ride-hailing, online shopping, etc., and lack more trendy new stimuli. Some topics, even if they are new, are often filled with old wine.
This won't work! The legendary back waves of the Changjiang River push the front waves, and the front waves die on the beach, why is there no shadow at all?! Always sells the 1982 Sprite to the audience, no matter how sweet the taste is, you will get tired of drinking too much!
As a result, the people who eat melons soon became aesthetically fatigued. They are no longer willing to pay a premium for admission tickets. And the advertisers are no longer flocking in, squeezing their scalps and throwing money wildly.
From the third edition, the commercial popularity of this TV show began to dive. The big brother of the domestic TV station, China Tobacco TV, also had a brilliant eye, and resolutely stopped doing live broadcasts, and handed over to the local station, that is, Hanzhou TV, for recording and broadcasting.
The organizing committee also began to feel that the situation was a bit bad, and felt that it needed to inject fresh blood and fresh air into the conference. So, this year, under the pretext of supporting the innovative industry in the new era, they directly invited Bu May, the president of Noah, to replace Cao Guowei, the president of the "That Wolf" portal.
Otherwise, if you want to participate in the G12 summit with the specific data indicators of Noah's temporary business volume, not only will there be no door, but also no window.
It's a country where seniority is almost everything. A rookie is a rookie, and it is rare to have such an opportunity to wrestle with the seniors in person. They won't even let you in at the gate, you can only stare at the door.
According to authoritative media publications, Noah's exclusive and peculiar online game model has aroused great interest from the official organizing committee.
They believe that this world-created, unprecedented and novel online game has a very immediate and refreshing effect in guiding college students' enthusiasm for cultural learning in various disciplines. Moreover, it is full of sunshine and positive energy, which plays a good role in expanding the learning interest of college students in various disciplines. Its game world structure fully guides college students to love the school like home, and stimulates their wolf competitive genes. It is likely to be a new business model for online education in the future, and the long-term development potential is very huge.
Then, Noah finally got the rare entry ticket of the official organizing committee.
What no one will know is that behind the high-sounding and very convincing official public explanations, the hidden truth is actually like this:
The newly appointed director of the G12 Summit Organizing Committee happens to be one of the shareholders behind Noah and a close childhood friend of billionaire Mr. Liu Zifu. He was very sympathetic to his old friend Mr. Liu Zifu, who was middle-aged and grieved by the loss of his only son, so he quietly stretched out a warm friendship hand to chat with his hardcore buddy.
This year, the official organizing committee injected new companies to attend the small reform of the venue, and the adjustment measures were effective, and the sensational effect was very significant. It is said that this year's audience area tickets, the off-site hype price of scalpers, have doubled compared to last year. The number of domestic and foreign news media who came to sign up for the conference more than tripled. Among them, there are many big-name foreign media.
The official organizing committee was very satisfied with this. Everyone also praised the reform courage and sharp vision of the new director of the organizing committee.
Just after 12 o'clock in the afternoon, a large number of enthusiastic spectators began to come from all directions, and came to the main square outside the West Lake Opera House, ready to check their tickets and enter the venue.
The West Lake Opera House is a classical old theater, and the auditorium is distributed in a semi-circle, which is divided into three tiers, which can almost accommodate more than 3,000 audiences. At this time, outside the square, there are many crowds of people who arrive early.
The staff of the local Hanzhou TV station, which is responsible for the video recording and broadcasting of the conference, was also dispatched very early, and a number of on-site video recording teams planned to shoot some small tidbits of face-to-face interviews with the audience outside the venue.
Somewhere in the outer square, a team of three began to record video outside the venue. They include a location host, a photographer, and an assistant director. This is the standard configuration of the work squad.
The young and beautiful hostess, with the microphone in her hand, began to speak to the camera. In the background of her standing figure is the façade of the West Lake Opera House building. In the lens, you can see the splendid appearance of the opera house, and you can also see a lot of people entering the venue.
The hostess held the microphone and said with a smile: "Dear audience in front of the TV, I am now in the big square outside the West Lake Opera House in Hanzhou City. The much-anticipated 6th G12 Internet Summit will be held in the opera house behind me in an hour. ”
After a slight pause, she continued, "This year's G12 is very different from last year. In terms of audience popularity, it has shown great progress. For example, as you can see, the number of people in the enthusiastic audience behind me is very large. I think it's at least several times more than last year. ”
"Why did Crooked Nuts come to see our G12 live? Naturally, it is because China's Internet exhibition industry is in full swing, sparks are in the prairie fire, and a large number of outstanding original achievements have been made. Therefore, they also came here to make a pilgrimage and worship! ”
"Next, let's go and interview those crooked nuts behind me in person. Let's listen to what they have to say! LeT’s-go!”
Then, in the camera, you can see that the host is holding the microphone while moving and walking to a crooked nut passer-by not far from her, with hurried steps.
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