Chapter 204: New Girl Group Plan
The next day, Lin Yi came to Starship Entertainment, and the main purpose of his visit this time was to talk to Cui Ruzhen about the company's combinations, as well as the company's plans for the next year.
It's been a year since EXID's debut, and although the company has invested a lot of resources in them, so far, this girl group is still tepid, and they are crushed by the girl group that debuted at the same time.
The group's album sales that were just released last month were also unsatisfactory, although they also got a hit, but they were surpassed by other groups in the second week.
Not to mention the boy group Boyfriend, which is basically in a translucent state in the entertainment industry, and now they are rarely invited to variety shows, and the company has also let them go to RB for development.
At present, Starship Entertainment's hottest combination is still the acquired T-ara. After experiencing the last incident, the members of the group have become more united, and after coming to Starship, they have shown great enthusiasm, and several members are active in various fields of the entertainment industry, including variety shows, TV dramas, dramas, etc.
Now the income of Starship's music department is mainly supported by T-ara, EXID also has some income, and Boyfriend is barely flat.
Soon after Lin came to the office, Cui Ruzhen came over.
"President Cui, sit down first."
"President, when did you come back?"
"I just came back, and I've been busy with other things for the past two days, so I haven't come over. Is there anything important on the company's side?"
"Everything is going well on the company's side."
"Well, if it goes well. I'm here to talk to you about the company's portfolios."
Hearing that Lin Yi was going to talk about this, Cui Ruzhen also showed an embarrassed look on her face, the business she is mainly responsible for, the results achieved are really not very good, and fortunately, Starship Entertainment now has the combination of T-ara, otherwise, the results will be too ugly.
"President, I'm not doing a good job in this area, I.
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"President Choi, I'm not going to criticize your work this time, I know that the current situation is also caused by many reasons." Lin Yi raised his hand and interrupted Cui Ruzhen's words, he didn't come to Xingshi today to ask for guilt.
Originally, the competition among the various brokerage companies in the Korean entertainment industry was very fierce, there were dozens of large and small brokerage companies, and there were many groups in the activity, and basically many groups with poor results would be disbanded every year.
"Thank you, President, for your understanding."
"You let others take care of the work of the company's men's band. As far as I know, the boy groups of the three major entertainment agencies will return recently, and there will be new boy bands launched, so there is a lot of competition pressure in this regard, so we still have to focus on the girl groups."
"President, do you mean to launch another girl group?"
"Yes, I have inquired clearly, none of the three major agencies will launch a new girl group this year, and we must seize this rare opportunity. Since the results of the existing girl group are not satisfactory, then we will launch another one, but this time the girl group will have to set the style from the beginning."
The reason why Lin Yi said this is also because EXID's style was a bit chaotic at the beginning, saying that it was pure and not pure, saying that it was sexy or not, and there was no fixed style, which was not conducive to the development of the group.
The style of a versatile girl group like T-ara is not something that all girl groups can learn.
"President, do you have any ideas?"
"Most of the girl groups that are active now are sexy, so we have to do the opposite and launch a youth-style girl group."
"Youthful style? Like Apink?"
"No, it's not the same as them, we want a school girly style this time."
"Campus style? This.
。 Will it work?" Cui Ru was a little hesitant in her heart, there have been girl groups of this style before, but the market response was not very good, and now they have all disappeared.
"If you want to stand out from the encirclement, you have to be different from others, and the girl group that goes with the crowd will never get out
head."
Seeing that Lin Yi had already made up his mind, Cui Ruzhen couldn't say anything more, so he could only continue according to Lin Yi's thoughts:
"President, now start selecting the members of the group?"
"Well, it takes half a year to select members, three months to debut practice, you let Li Haoyang create a few songs according to the style I said, and strive for this new girl group to be released at the end of this year or early next year."
"Okay, I got it, I'll do it right away." Cui Ruzhen agreed.
"Since the company has a Boyfriend, then the name of this girl group is Girlfriend, and you select the members according to the standard of this "girlfriend", and the age of the members is best between 16~20 years old."
"Yes, I understand."
After talking about the new girl group, Lin Yi asked about the acquisition of BigHit some time ago, and he asked with some uncertainty:
"What's going on with BigHit, I remember Fang Shihe said he was going to launch a boy group, right?"
"Well, there's such a thing, but I didn't ask about the specifics."
BigHit, as an independent label under Starship Entertainment, still has the specific operation as Fang Shihe said, that is, Lin Yi has the right to meddle in the company's operation, and Cui Ruzhen only has the right to financial supervision.
"Okay, I know, wait for me to ask him, you will arrest the company's girl group business in the future." Lin Yi also put Cui Ruzhen in the position she does best.
As for the men's team, Lin Yi doesn't plan to let Starship Entertainment interfere for the time being, and will consider it after the company's results are good. Now let BigHit compete with other companies' boy bands.
"Yes, President, I see."
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In just one day, many female trainees of Starship Entertainment knew the news that the company was going to launch a new girl group, which also made these little girls a little overjoyed, and they didn't expect the company to launch another girl group so soon.
These female trainees began to practice and practice desperately in the practice room, practicing late every day, striving to seize this rare opportunity.
However, the company soon issued a discipline that the practice room was open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day, also for the sake of the children's bodies.
The day after the news of the new girl group came out, Jin Shizheng couldn't help but be curious, and secretly came to the office to find Lin Yi.
"Oba, is the company really going to launch a new girl group?"
"Well, it's true, you're going to work hard this time, and I hope I can see the news of your debut." Lin Yi smiled and encouraged Jin Shizheng and patted her head.
"Mm-hmm, don't worry, Oba, I'll definitely redouble my efforts." Kim Se-jeong is serious about the color road.
"Then I was expecting you to be in the debut spot." Lin Yi also plans to participate in the debut planning of this girl group this time, but he will not go through the back door to anyone, everything must be based on strength.
After Jin Shizheng agreed, he ran back to the practice room with a smile and practiced.
After Starship Entertainment's work ended, Lin Yi came to KaKao again.
Several projects that Kakao is currently operating are developing step by step in an orderly manner, and the results are getting better and better.
Needless to say, KaKaoTalk has been promoted to the Korean National Software, and the number of registered users has exceeded 45 million.
Overseas results are also good, RB, Southeast Asia, and even Australia, New Zealand have users who use KaKaoTalk. The total number of registered users in these places is almost 200 million, which can already rank among the top 20 social software in the world.
KaKao Taxi has also been operating in several major metropolitan cities in South Korea, and it is developing very well, with the number of registered taxis and users growing rapidly. The cash flow in the company's account is also growing every day, and the resulting precipitation funds can also allow KaKao to carry out more projects.
KaKao takeaway is advertised and lined
At present, the number of contracted merchants and registered users is also growing by a leap every day, but the various problems caused by this are also emerging.
However, Lin Yi doesn't plan to intervene more in these small problems, since he knocked on these executives last time, the efficiency of these people in dealing with problems has also improved a lot, if this kind of problem has to be solved by Lin Yi himself, then these people are not far from being laid off.
Lin Yi has now begun to delegate a lot of power, and he just needs to grasp the general direction of the company.
KaKao has also adopted a responsibility system, which has led to the main responsibility of the person in charge of any link, which has also improved the company's efficiency a lot.
After dealing with the work of the two companies, Lin Yi was also relaxed. He is going to fulfill the promise he promised to Bae Joo-hyun some time ago and accompany her back to Daegu.
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