Chapter 157 Ask Lao Lu (4/6)
I don’t know which TV series started, but the main focus of the starring pay during the promotion...
Zhao Yanzi's salary for "Tiger Mom and Cat Dad" was 35 million yuan, and then, "The Hot Mom" was rumored to be Sun Li's salary for "30 million yuan"...
Then it was reported that Zhou Xun's salary was 30 million...
Then I couldn't hold on. In "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", the main focus of the two leading actors was to split 150 million...
Maybe the producer wants to reveal to the outside world that he is not short of money!
But, what are you guys who are the ones who are the young and handsome guys join in the fun?
Recently, it was reported that Tianbao was 80 million and Pao Ge 120 million...
Brother Pao is really innocent. The quote is obviously different from the actual transaction price - did he act in TV series in those years?
Lu Xiaoran's external quotation has exceeded 100 million in 12 years, so no one invited him!
Zhong Lifang also said: "It is still a bit difficult for an actor to make a comeback. Generally, young actors with a little fame are at least 25 years old. They still have to be lucky enough and have high talent enough... They don't need to spend so much time cultivating young actors, and the results are faster..."
"We can't blame the capital. If you want to find young and handsome actors, the prerequisite is that there must be actors who have become famous before the age of 25, and the number cannot be too small. There must be a few young and handsome actors. We are just those young and handsome actors..."
Brother Song: "I really think it's because of the market... Our movie-watching group is too young..."
Lu Xiaoran waved his hand: "That's why we have to guide the audience, we have to tell them good works; 'This is a good movie, you can watch less trash!"
“The box office of “Dear”…is a bit low!”
"…You should laugh at this subject for such a high box office!"
"That's right, what else do you want to have a high box office in realism?"
"...The main market is not mature enough. If you wait for the launch in two years, you will definitely be able to sell for 2 billion... Okay, I'll leave first!"
Lu Xiaoran got up and left the office...
"Where is he going?"
"I don't know, it must be a private matter..."
...
Zhang Yiming is preparing to bet on video!
He found that in the headlines, users spend more on video than they watch information...
In fact, at this stage, there is a bad news and a good news in front of all Internet companies.
The bad news is that the traffic dividend brought by the demographic dividend has reached its peak; the good news is that users spend more and more time on their mobile phones.
Last year, China spent 186 minutes per day on online media, which accounted for one quarter of a person's awake time. It may not be easy to make a big increase.
This has led to the primary goal of each app being how to allow users to spend more time in their apps.
This means that after the demographic dividend decreases, how to better serve individual users and enhance the value of individual users becomes the key, which requires manufacturers to convert from traffic operations to user operations.
Why do this?
Wherever the user’s time is, the money is wherever he or she is!
ByteDance is really profitable!
Revenue reached 12 billion last year...
Zhang Yiming originally decided to make short videos, but Xigua Video was released in advance, and the registered users had exceeded 20 million - without much promotion, he was a little confused whether to make short videos or long videos...
By the way, some time ago, ByteDance finalized nearly US$1 billion in Series D financing, and its valuation increased to US$11 billion.
Lu Xiaoran's equity has been diluted a little, but he still has 29% of the equity, the largest individual shareholder...
...
Izakaya, Lu Xiaoran sat down, Zhang Yiming poured him a glass of wine, and then talked about the short video...
"In 2014, we wanted to do short videos, but we experienced a lot of storms at that time and couldn't take care of our energy. By the end of the year, Meipai and Kuaishou had already started, and we felt that we had missed it."
"But two days ago, we felt we still had to do it, and we had to fight from top to bottom..."
Lu Xiaoran waved his hand: "Do whatever you want to do? Let's discuss it with me? I'm not an Internet player, and I can't understand what you say..."
"You are the major shareholder, which is a big event related to ByteDance's business all in..."
"I only know that there will be three to four years in the 5g era. The iteration of technologies such as network transmission, bandwidth resources, and upstream downloads of data will definitely provide considerable dividends to the prosperity of video products... But you should pay attention, don't say anything like "algorithms have no values" and remember to maintain a relationship with the official!"
After thinking about it, Lu Xiaoran continued: "Wait for another two years, I will make big online movies!"
"…ah?"
"The bonus of theaters has disappeared, and the ceiling of Chinese movie box office is only 80 billion, and this venue is too small!"
"It's a bit small, such a small place, and so many dirty things..."
Boss Lu was stunned for a moment: "Dirty things?"
"Don't we all say something about the unspoken rules..."
“…Your Internet circle is very clean?”
"No, we're all clean!"
Lu Xiaoran gave him a look with contempt: "Internet company annual meeting = Love and Welfare Girl + Non-conscientious performance. I don't understand, are you all Guo Moruo?"
"Guo Moruo?"
"Even if the place has been left with traces by countless people, we still yearn for it!"
"...No...No!" Zhang Yiming strongly explained: "What's wrong with love...I love and guard girlfriend? It reflects the general open and inclusive corporate culture of the Internet industry. Ma Yun played the role of the white-haired witch at the annual meeting, and Lei Jun also played the role of the God of Wealth! This shows that we are having fun with the people!"
"Then why Apple, Amazon will not go to Fernando Valley to invite people? Vulgarity means vulgarity, and they still enjoy themselves with the people?"
“…”
Zhang Yiming shut up...
If someone else was talking to him, he could think of some plots, such as 'The tree-lined path you thought was already full of traffic'...
But Lu Xiaoran is too serious, and she really has no black information at all...
"By the way, be careful with the inner jokes, I'm really afraid I'll be shut down!"
“…No way?”
"No? Now that I have crossed the boundaries, I have gone down three ways. Do you think the above will turn a blind eye?"
Zhang Yiming swallowed his saliva: "No way?"
"No? Brother, what do you pay attention to now? Positive energy, do you understand positive energy?"
“…Oh, I really regret it!”
"What's wrong?"
"I interviewed me two days ago and I said a lot of things that I shouldn't say..."
"You only know..."
Lao Zhang received a round of D financing some time ago and then accepted an exclusive interview with Caijing. He answered this way: The media must have values, it must educate people and output opinions, which we do not advocate. Because we are not a media, we pay more attention to information throughput and diversity.
Big brother, Wang Xin from Quick Broadcast also said so...
Is technology really neutral?
Technology is inanimate, algorithms have souls!
Also, whether Toutiao is a media platform is not up to you. What is it if you have the final say in more than 200 million users?
Chapter completed!