"This is impossible!" Gu Yongjiang blurted out subconsciously.
"Think carefully!" Tang Ze didn't say much. Often the power of imagination can be shown more clearly.
Gu Yongjiang frowned and began to carefully weigh the value and status of both parties.
Youku was launched on June 21, 2006, with an initial financing of US$12 million, and it has only been in development for more than a year.
Even though a second round of financing is about to be held, in his mind, raising US$25 million would be the limit for Youku. In other words, the current valuation of Youku is less than US$50 million at most.
50 million U.S. dollars is just over 300 million U.S. dollars converted into Soft Girl coins. How much can a director with great potential be worth at least three movies in the next three years?
It's hard to say, after all, no one can say for sure about movies.
According to the current basic situation of Chinese movies, a movie with the highest box office can reach 300 million yuan, which is equivalent to one movie being worth the Youku.com he worked for more than a year.
At the same time, the revenue of a movie, in addition to the box office, the value of various copyrights, sequels, and adaptations will double the original box office.
If the movie can reach 300 million yuan, the specific revenue will definitely exceed 300 million yuan. In the long run, it is not an exaggeration to calculate it as 1 billion yuan.
In addition, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the movie base is expanding every year. In the future, there may even be 400 million or even 500 million movies, and the revenue from a movie will be even more amazing.
However, that cannot be said. No matter how great Tangze’s potential is, we can’t be sure that his future movies will not hit the market.
But as a film layman, Gu Yongjiang is not as sharp as Han Sanping, Ning Hao and others. At least he just watched the rough cut and thought this was definitely a movie worth the money spent.
As for the boring questions at the front, he thought the rough cut was just like that.
In his mind, this is the best movie in China in recent years.
So in fact, he couldn't figure out why Karasawa wasn't released in theaters, but was broadcast for free on the Internet.
To expand popularity?
Or is he not sure himself?
However, regardless of whether he was satisfied or not, he felt extremely distressed and hesitated when he thought that 20% of the shares were about to be transferred.
Seeing Gu Yongjiang's hesitation, Tang Ze struck while the iron was hot: "Mr. Gu, why did I say at least three movies? Have you ever thought about how long it took me to make this movie?"
Gu Yongjiang was shocked, and then he recalled that it only took Tang Ze half a month from shooting to completing basic post-production. This was too fast...
Karasawa continues to cast:
"Mr. Gu, I can make a promise here. Three films in three years is a base number. However, if Youku does not achieve the number one domestic market share in three years, I will provide unlimited shooting plans for Youku, including and without limitation.
It’s limited to movies and TV dramas, but it can also be variety shows, etc.”
Tang Ze's voice seemed to be bewitching, saying one sentence after another:
"These can all be written into the contract. Just like the promise I made at the beginning, if "This Man Comes from Earth" fails to reach 20 million effective clicks, everything will be void. Now this can also be used as a restriction that the share transfer will not take effect.
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"But when the contract comes into effect, I have to consider whether I can make Youku No. 1 in the market within three years, but you just have to wait for Jinshan."
"Even if you fail, compared to the gains, the risk you take is just a psychological gap. So, Mr. Gu, why are you still hesitating?"
Gu Yongjiang admitted that he was really moved.
This is tantamount to Tangze completely tying himself to the sorrow. If he continues to do this, he is a tortoise who has advantages that he does not want to take advantage of.
But at this time he was thinking about other things.
Tang Ze thought he was still hesitating, and immediately became a little unhappy: "Mr. Gu, if you are still hesitant now, I think I should see the guests off and send my plan to big websites like Tudou."<
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For Karasawa's series of publicity plans, he and this movie are the key, and he has no burden of being plagiarized.
Unless Youku also invests in making a movie, what's the difference between that and the current situation?
After they finish filming, Tang Ze will definitely cooperate with Tudou and other websites to release it.
When the time comes, Youku will not reap any benefits, and even offends a promising director.
"Hey, no, no, no, director Tang, I was wrong! I'm not hesitating, I'm just thinking about you and the Williams family..."
Gu Yongjiang carefully looked at Tang Ze and said, "Why don't you consider investing in them and build your own website?"
According to Williams' net worth of hundreds of billions, wouldn't it be trivial to invest hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in Tang Ze?
By then, which domestic video website will be able to compete with Tang Ze?
"Why do you talk so much? I only like to make movies, and I don't want to worry about other things. Do you understand?" Tang Ze's tone became more serious, but he did not directly explain his relationship with Williams.
"I understand, I understand very well, how about we sign the contract right now?" Gu Yongjiang thought it was Tang Ze's acquiescence that he had a relationship with the Williams family.
Finally, the contract was signed and both parties breathed a sigh of relief.
Gu Yongjiang is the kind of person who is relaxed and takes advantage without being questioned, while Tangze is the kind of person who relaxes secretly and finally fools people.
In three years, no matter how talented he is, it will be difficult to raise the upper limit of domestic films, and he dare not even say that he can surpass "Avatar", which will be released in China in two years.
Because he doesn’t have the money to make blockbusters.
It’s not a blockbuster movie, so trying to catch up with “Avatar” in the early stages is basically a fool’s errand.
As for Gu Yongjiang, even a director from the University of Southern California is cautious when facing him.
But three years later, by producing high-quality content, it quickly grasped the fast lane of smartphones, and Youku successfully went public in the United States on December 8, 2010.
As the world's first independently listed video website in the United States.
At the beginning of its listing, Youku's issue price was US$12.8, and it raised US$203 million. Its market value reached US$3.43 billion on the first day of trading, making it the well-deserved leading domestic video website.
More than 3 billion US dollars, at least it would be difficult for him to make money by just making movies for three years.
It can be said that he can be a "white wolf with nothing", and he has an information gap.
If Gu Yongjiang knew that Android would appear next year, which would completely push the stumbling smartphone era into a high-speed development track, I am afraid he would have regretted it slightly.
And if he knew the market value of Youku.com in the future, he would definitely feel regretful.
Fortunately, Gu Yongjiang is still just a new entrepreneur and not so dictatorial.
After the matter was accomplished, Tang Ze, who was in a good mood, did not mind discussing his film promotion plans with Gu Yongjiang and bragging to each other.
Among them, Tangze also revealed many development methods for video websites.
Gu Yongjiang was also in a good mood and couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Director Tang, just because of your publicity and marketing acumen, it's worth 20% of Youku."
"Science fiction movies, 0 yuan promotion, cheaper than movie theaters, etc., one after another, it is both appetizing and dizzying, and it is a hot search! In short, if I were to think about it, I would definitely not think of it."
Tang Ze kept smiling. Of course you wouldn't have thought that these are the skills that every netizen who has experienced the endless marketing accounts of future generations must have.
"And the interactive movie method is really wonderful!" Gu Yongjiang's face turned red with excitement:
"Why is it in the game, but we as video websites can't think of it?"
"The most amazing way to get netizens to immediately activate their ideas is called...interactive barrage, right? Director Tang, forget it, just this one idea can double the market value of Youku after the revision."
In fact, Gu Yongjiang always thought that Tang Ze's popularity was purely an accidental product of the Internet, but he did not expect that Tang Ze himself was the driving force behind it.
This is a bit scary. Is it possible that the level of foreign top students is so high? Are they still engaging in psychological marketing?
However, as they talked a lot, Gu Yongjiang confirmed that Tangze was definitely an exception and he should not be treated as an ordinary person.
"So Director Tang, when will Youku.com start publishing our cooperation statement and releasing the first trailer?"
Now, Gu Yongjiang is a little impatient.
This share sold well and is so valuable. If I don’t sell it, can I get the experience taught by Tang Ze?
Tangze shook his head: "It's best to release the cooperation statement as soon as possible. While I'm still popular, try to increase the number of visits to Youku."
"As for the trailer...it's not suitable for this movie. We can't edit a lot of dialogue for the audience to see, otherwise it may be criticized as a bad movie again."
"But they are all free. It doesn't matter whether you have it or not. People who want to see it will always click in and take a look."
Gu Yongjiang immediately thought so and did not ask for it again.
After talking for a while, the two parted ways.
After Gu Yongjiang returned, he immediately issued Youku.com's exclusive statement on "This Man Comes from Earth".
At the same time, in accordance with Karasawa's suggestion, he emphasized that the film has been registered with the domestic copyright bureau, and has also been submitted to the United States and the United Nations Copyright Office for review, and will receive a response in the near future.
Therefore, if "This Man Comes from Diqiu" appears on video websites other than Youku in the future, it will be an infringement of piracy.
Then according to a series of official articles, a list of laws, some of which are international laws, expresses that it will have the right to sue websites that commit infringement in the future.
The last sentence is: read the genuine version, go to Youku!
He also added a statement from the pirated version of Tangze: watch the genuine video and start with Youku!
What Gu Yongjiang and Tang Ze didn’t know was that after Youku’s statement, Wang Wei, the cool kid who had always been calm, finally couldn’t calm down and cursed out:
"Fuck you! You are a great ancient swimmer, you are Tang Ze who can kill a thousand swords."
He finally realized the intention of Tangze's behavior these days.
This is to beat all video websites to death with a stick, and then make Youku the only genuine one!
By then, no matter how big Tudou is, it will be regarded as a pirated website and will be passive.
No, we must fight back!
In addition to saying that there is no piracy, I just want to quickly create high-quality content for my own website.
He has realized that the key to this genuine brand competition is content!
Soon after, Tangze laughed on the spot when he saw Tudou's official website emphasizing that they had never pirated copyrighted videos.
But at least Wang Wei realized the problem and responded.
As for other websites...most of them are still in a daze, thinking that you steal from me and everyone steals from you.
Then the phone rang, and it was an unknown caller.
Tang Ze answered subconsciously: "Hello, who is this? I'm Tang Ze."
On the opposite side was a light female voice: "Ah, did you finally get it right? It's not easy. Hello, I am Liu Yifei, have you heard of me?"