After Li Yan read the comments, he went to Weibo again. Qing Yishui's positive comments made him feel itchy. If he becomes a member, he can watch it all at once. If he doesn't subscribe, he will get a free episode every week.
20 weeks, 5 months out.
"I'll just take a look, I'll just take a look and see how to rush!"
"Well, look!"
Li Yan finally couldn't control his hand and clicked on that damn recharge channel. There were big discounts and rewards. All he had to do was use Wechat to pay for recharge:
The original monthly price is 15 yuan, now the first month is at a special price of 5 yuan!
The original price of a quarterly package is 45 yuan, now the first discount is 15 yuan!
The original price of the annual package is 180 yuan, and now the first discount is 68 yuan!
"so cheap?"
Li Yan was greatly surprised, and his position quickly collapsed. Forget it, it was only five yuan, and the worst he could do was cancel it next month. So, he opened WeChat payment and clicked to pay.
The page jumps and a QR code appears.
"Um?"
He read the text carefully: "Use [Scan] to scan the QR code..."
"scan it?"
Li Yan found this function in the upper right corner of the latest version of WeChat. He pointed at the QR code rather awkwardly and heard a beep sound before a payment page appeared on his phone.
6-digit password, done!
"Hey, this is much more convenient than before!"
Li Yan was very satisfied with the WeChat payment. He couldn't wait to return to the video page and watched the second episode. As a result, a series of barrages flew by:
"What brought us to meet here?"
"Don't be formal, everyone, we are all noble paying members!"
"I'm so nervous. It's my first time to spend money. Is there anything I need to pay attention to?"
"These idiots!"
Li Yanshao stayed with him, turned off the barrage, and concentrated on watching the show.
…………
"It's gone up, it's gone up!"
"It's up again!"
At Maili Video Headquarters, a group of people were like idiots driven crazy by A-shares, shouting and shouting at the big screen. There were two shining curves on the screen climbing all the way:
One is the total number of views, which has reached 120 million. Fortunately, Xu Meng was well prepared, otherwise the server would have been blown up.
The other is the number of orders for members, 2.6 million!
"yeah!"
Xu Meng jumped up and down excitedly. For the first time, he didn't care who was 1 or 0. He actually hugged Yu Jiajia and kissed her. Everyone's eyes widened and they had to pretend not to notice.
"Breaking 2.5 million!"
"I originally thought it would be good if it exceeded 2 million!"
"Yes, yes, you succeeded, you succeeded!"
Yu Jiajia was also surprisingly not angry, but instead encouraged her heartily. Yao Yuan clicked his tongue beside you, and you knew that you were running around so much that you couldn't be such a wanderer anymore, and you had to settle down sooner or later.
When the number of members reaches 2.8 million, the curve stops climbing and becomes stable for the time being.
"More than 100 million people watched it, and more than 2 million people paid. This ratio is really not surprising."
"It's like this all over the world. It's much better than Hugelive. We worked hard to reach 4 million members. In China, we got 2.8 million members in one night. It's still better in China."
Xu Meng also calmed down and asked: "I want to release the membership data truthfully."
"It's up to you, you make the decision!"
"Then let's truthfully publish the number of members and add some water to the number of views?"
"I told you that you make the decision, don't ask us."
Yao Yuan also said: "If you feel that your background is not enough, you can learn from Liu Qiangdong to further your studies. We are only consultants at most, so don't care too much."
"Then I will make an announcement tomorrow!"
Xu Meng nodded, these two bosses at the stall were lucky.
The next day arrived in the blink of an eye.
Maili posted a message on Weibo: "As of now, the number of paying members is 3.01 million! The total number of views of "Jingjue Ancient City" has exceeded 300 million!"
In 2013, the total number of paid members of domestic video platforms was only 1 million.
Video has long been out of the spotlight. In everyone's eyes, it is a bottomless pit that burns money. The profit model is too monotonous and can only rely on advertising and membership.
After several years of suffering, until the industry chain of traffic star creation + IP adaptation + self-produced drama + platform control + money laundering matured, video ushered in good times again.
Celebrity salaries have skyrocketed, platforms wantonly rape audiences, a group of bad fans support idols without any bottom line, and the market for false popularity has expanded to its maximum.
…………
The Ghost Blowing Deng trio returned from the ancient city of Jingjue.
Hu Bayi suddenly felt a little uncomfortable on his right shoulder. He took off his clothes in the mirror and saw that there was an eye-shaped mark there.
This is the curse of the ghost cave on people, which can only be eliminated by using Muchen Beads.
"Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is composed of adventure stories, but there is also a main thread that connects the story, that is, the trio is looking for the Muchen Bead to break the curse.
"Damn, I'm finally done chasing!"
"The next one will be "The Mystery of Longling", ah, I'm really looking forward to "Yunnan Worm Valley"..."
After staying up all night for two days, Li Yan seemed to have completed some task after finishing "Jingjue Ancient City". He felt relaxed all over his body, and his young body did not feel any discomfort. They just stayed up all night, and it was much weaker than fighting in an Internet cafe.
After breakfast, he didn't want to go to bed yet, so he lay on the bed and scrolled through his mobile phone.
The rating of "Jingjue Ancient City" has exceeded 8, with mostly praise. People are not dissatisfied with paying. The consumption concept of young people is different from that of the older generation.
What’s more, it’s really fun to pluck wool!
"You can't buy it for 5 yuan, and you can't be fooled. I found out that several of Maili's new movies are only available to members. This will be a trend in the future, so I decided to get an annual membership!"
"I did it too, 68 yuan per year is acceptable!"
“If you do it early, you may not get such a big discount in the future.”
“It’s been so exciting lately! 99 is promoting Wechat payment. I’ve browsed the mall and picked up games, finished picking up games and picked up videos, and I’m soooo poor Commander Yao.”
Then came the general praise for WeChat Payment, praising how simple the payment process is and how perfect the experience is. Even industry insiders commented that WeChat Payment is the best product design this year!
"Um?"
After scrolling and scrolling, Weibo suddenly refreshed the hot search list, and the number one ranking was very strange: Yuetuan Flash Benefit!
"What is this?"
Li Yan clicked in and found that Yuetuan.com had launched a new event called Flash Benefit. He clicked on the link again and jumped directly to the Yuetuan interface.
After looking at it for a long time, I figured it out.
He excitedly sent it to his friend and said: "What a big boy, look at this, look at this, let's go eat it tomorrow, daddy treats you!"
"..."
No response.
He posted again: “This discount is so big!”
This time I replied: "I've already seen it and I'm looking for a hotel."
Emmmm!
Li Yan was depressed.
There is a saying in later generations called "Internet roving dog".
It means: When you share interesting things on the Internet with friends, it is very similar to the kind of puppy that picks up a bone outside and brings it back to its friend. But your friend doesn't look at it at all. After a few days, he picks up a bone and follows it.
Let me show you the exact same thing again.
Of course, what's even more outrageous is that when you share the good stuff excitedly, the other person will say, "Oh, I've already seen it."
No sense of accomplishment at all!
However, Li Yan still made an appointment to go to dinner tomorrow and pluck Commander Yao’s wool!