Chapter 425: Isn’t it just Tongji Entertainment and Gui Blowing Lantern?
It’s not just Kiwi that is in turmoil, Penguin Video and Tudou Video are also feeling a lot of pressure.
Although Gui Chui Deng's second part "Longling Labyrinth" has not yet been aired, it is obvious that he has to consider the issue of conflicting schedules with his new drama.
Unlike Huahui, who collaborated with Kiwi this time, their "Peach Blossoms" signed a share-sharing contract.
So Congzhu doesn’t mind letting him try out the effect of having a head-on confrontation with "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".
New dramas from Penguin and Tudou, especially some big productions, cost a lot of money in copyright fees.
If they pounce, it will cause very serious losses. They still hope to effectively avoid such risks.
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The negotiation between Huahui and Kiwi failed.
In fact, the main reason why Congzhu is determined not to change the schedule is because he wants to try to see if he can compete head-on with Tongji Entertainment's drama.
She also comforted Mr. Qin and the other three people from Huahui, even though Tongji Entertainment was a huge threat to the film and television drama market in November.
However, some dramas on other platforms will also be postponed accordingly.
Overall, there is still great hope that it can capture some of the audience.
Maybe the results will be even better.
The people in Huahui are not fools, so naturally they don’t believe this.
There are countless lessons learned from the past, and the dramas that are scheduled to collide with Tongji Entertainment’s new dramas basically do not end well.
Most of them just jumped on it. Even if they can still attract some audiences, it is almost impossible to recover the cost for a drama like theirs that invested more than 200 million.
The audience has gone to watch the ghost blow out the lantern, who will watch their drama?
What's more, they signed a sharing contract with Kiwi, and the playback volume and other various data basically represent their final sharing income.
Therefore, I firmly disagree with the simultaneous broadcast of November and G station Ghost Blowing Lantern.
It's just that if he doesn't agree, it's useless. The contract is written in black and white.
Kiwi also got the entire show.
They have no control.
What's even more irritating is that Congzhu said that Kiwi's initial publicity investment was very huge, and if he wanted to postpone the broadcast or violate the contract, he would lose money.
The liquidated damages are a large amount of money, and they also need to compensate for the early promotion and distribution expenses of kiwi fruit.
Congzhu’s initial quote is a publicity fee of 50 million.
After hearing this, Mr. Qin felt that the other party was crazy for money.
It’s just a few days of promotion on the home page of Kiwi’s software and website. How can it be worth so much money?
But Guan Jian is here, and how much the announcement of kiwi fruit is worth is not a matter of their words.
If there is a lawsuit, the release date of "Peach Blossom" will probably be postponed indefinitely.
At that time, it will still be Huahui’s loss.
They are not a giant company like the Big Three. After filming a drama with an investment of 200 million, if there is no return for a long time.
That would put huge financial pressure on the company.
Under such circumstances, even if Mr. Qin didn't want to, he could only compromise and agree.
At the very least, if it is broadcast normally, some final losses can be reduced.
If you just want to get your money back, I guess you shouldn’t even think about it.
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"It's already the third part."
In the film and television department of Station G, after hearing Chi Jiang's words, the assistant asked curiously: "Mr. Chi, what's the third part?"
Chi Jiang shook his head and said with a smile that it was nothing.
He didn't know when he had such a bad taste.
That is, after the official announcement of the broadcast time of Tongji’s new drama, observe the official Weibo of the other three major video platforms.
Let’s see how many dramas they will postpone.
Don't tell me, it feels really good.
Especially what he has experienced during this period, every new drama on Station G has little popularity, and the number of views has been at the bottom for a long time.
Now I feel like I have let out a bad breath.
Of course, even though he said this, Chi Jiang knew that for Station G, the most important thing was definitely the dramas of Tongji Entertainment.
On the contrary, their G station feels like a fox pretending to be a tiger.
Chi Jiang knows very well that this is a huge disadvantage for G station.
We rely too much on Tongji Entertainment. If Tongji Entertainment doesn’t cooperate in the end, then Station G will probably be knocked back to its prototype.
Although Tongji Entertainment has so many previous dramas, it can still rest on its laurels for a while.
But without new dramas, the most critical number of paid members will definitely fall again and again.
He is already thinking of a solution.
Including actively contacting some film and television companies to seek cooperation, such as Huahui.
But the fact that he couldn't accept was that compared with Tongji Entertainment, the gap between these companies was so huge that it seemed like they were in the sky and on the ground.
He knew that it was because of his years of cooperation with Tongji that his vision had become critical.
Who knows that every drama of Tongji Entertainment can be a hit and the popularity is quite high?
It would be an incredible thing for any other film and television company.
In fact, someone like Huahui is already a pretty good partner.
But these people are different from Tongji. They clearly don't have that kind of strength, but they still charge an exaggerated price.
This is what makes Chi Jiang most irritated.
In addition, there is another very critical thing, that is, the original cooperation time between their G station and Tongjishui is about to expire next year.
When the time comes, it really won’t be that easy to continue to cooperate with Tongji Entertainment.
It is unlikely that the original conditions will remain unchanged.
Today’s Tongji Entertainment and Xuji are no longer the same as they were then.
Although Tongji Entertainment’s dramas were also very popular at that time, several platforms would compete for them.
But it has not yet shown such a dominant performance.
Now, it is estimated that not only their G station, but also the three major video platforms will choose to cooperate without hesitation under the same conditions.
Because Tongji is indeed worth the price, or even higher.
This is what Chi Jiang is most worried about.
Because according to the current situation, Station G really doesn’t have much ability to keep Tongji.
No matter from all aspects, the current G station is not as rich as Kiwi in terms of publicity resources, and it is not as rich as Penguin Video.
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"There is a sense of crisis!"
Chi Jiang sighed helplessly.
Although it is a good thing that the second part of Ghost Blowing Lantern is about to be aired.
But Chi Jiang just thinks about the fact that his contract is about to expire next year, and he can't be happy at all.
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As the president of Penguin Video, Xu Sheng naturally knew the news that the second part of Ghost Blowing Lantern will be broadcast next month.
But he didn't have much energy to take care of this at this time.
There is someone coming from Penguin's headquarters, and there is a high chance that he will not be able to keep his position as president.
Because so far this year, at the beginning of the year, there were two dramas from Station G: Ghost Blowing Lantern and Legend of the Condor Heroes, which directly overshadowed all other dramas on Penguin’s three major video platforms.
Although there were no new dramas aired in Tongji afterwards, the Congzhu over at Kiwi did indeed have two skills.
After managing Kiwi, all kinds of data kept Penguin Video at the bottom for several months.
In other words, so far this year, Penguin, which has always been the industry leader, has been untouchable.
He didn’t even get first place once.
Seeing that the last quarter of this year is coming to an end, Tongji Entertainment’s second Ghost Blowing Lantern is here again.
Xu Sheng was completely lying down at this time.
What's more, there are people from the headquarters. Although it is said to be for daily assessment work, he knows that there is a high probability that the headquarters is planning to change the person in charge.
"Mr. Xu, I have arranged for the people at the headquarters to be sent back to the hotel."
Bi Feihong knocked on the door and walked in and said.
He didn't dare to say much at this time, knowing that Xu Sheng would not be in a good mood now.
Although Bi Feihong's ability is not emphasized very much, he has always been relatively loyal, which is why he has always been highly regarded by Xu Sheng in Penguin Video.
He and Xu Sheng have long been in trouble.
"I know."
There was a hint of fatigue in Xu Sheng's tone.
After a while, Bi Feihong asked tentatively: "Mr. Xu, this inspection..."
Xu Sheng sighed.
"If nothing else happens, I should be responsible for other projects of the company."
He has also stayed at Penguin Video for more than ten years. Although he did not create the entire video website, Xu Sheng must have spent a lot of energy on it to achieve its current scale.
At this time, I was suddenly assigned to other projects, and naturally I was still a little reluctant to let go.
"Mr. Xu, where will the headquarters arrange for you to go?"
Xu Sheng thought for a while and said the name without concealing it.
Bi Feihong had given up completely at this time. Penguin headquarters arranged for Xu Sheng to go to a social forum, which was where Penguin made its fortune.
In fact, logically speaking, this is the core position of the company.
But times have changed now, and the number of users on this forum where Penguin made its fortune is no longer one-tenth of what it was during its glory days.
More importantly, there is nothing that needs to be decided in the management of this forum, it is just about maintaining operations.
It is equivalent to a pension position.
Representative Xu Sheng has now been kicked out of Penguins’ core management.
Although it has something to do with Penguin Video's poor performance this year, the more important thing is that Xu Sheng and his faction have not fought.
Xu Sheng, who manages Penguin Video, happened to be operated on.
"Then I..."
Bi Feihong was a little anxious inside, but on the surface he still tried to remain calm.
He knew very well that his success in Penguin Video had a lot to do with Xu Sheng as the president.
If Xu Sheng leaves and he continues to stay at Penguin Video, it will definitely not be a good thing.
His reputation in Penguin Video is not good, and he has offended a lot of people. If it were not for Xu Sheng, he would have been dealt with long ago.
Now that Xu Sheng is gone, a new person in charge has come, and since he is still Xu Sheng's former confidant, it is estimated that he will be fired sooner or later.
Even if he is fired, he is not the most terrible thing. I am afraid that the other party will not fire him, but will deliberately target him and make him make mistakes.
In the end, he was not even able to get compensation after he was dismissed. He was framed deliberately and made his reputation so bad that he couldn't even find a new job in the future.
So no matter where Xu Sheng goes, whether it's a pension position or whether he has a future, he doesn't care, as long as he can follow him.
Looking at Bi Feihong's expectant eyes, Xu Sheng smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"Feihong, I may not be able to take you there this time."
"This transfer was arranged by the headquarters, and I didn't have any choice."
After Bi Feihong heard Xu Sheng's words, his face suddenly turned ashen.
Xu Sheng seemed to have accepted the reality and slowly calmed down.
"Feihong, you should prepare early. It is estimated that relevant notices will come out tomorrow."
Bi Feihong walked out of Xu Sheng's office in despair.
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"The person in charge of Penguin Video has changed?"
The news about Penguin Video is a big deal, and the entire company has made announcements.
It’s normal for news to spread.
But when Congzhu saw the news, he was still a little surprised.
After all, Xu Sheng has been in this industry for more than ten years.
Video websites more than ten years ago did not have such large traffic and the number of users was not very large.
At that time, the world was still dominated by television stations.
From this point of view, Xu Sheng, the person in charge of Penguin Video, has witnessed the entire development process of the video website to its current scale.
In terms of qualifications, Congzhu can still only be regarded as a junior in front of the other party.
Who would have thought that Xu Sheng would one day leave this industry.
Originally, the opponent was an opponent that Congzhu had always valued.
Now there is a feeling that the enemy has suddenly withdrawn before the winner has been decided.
After all, these so-called CEOs are actually just senior workers.
There is no way to control the power in your hands.
Just like Hu Lei, the previous president of Kiwi, he was completely ignored by Kiwi's board of directors.
In the end, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I just resigned and left.
The current president has also become Congzhu.
Congzhu simply sighed for a while and then recovered quickly.
I began to think about the open and covert struggle with Penguin Video in the future. I wonder what the new person in charge of Penguin Video will be like.
Here in Congzhu, sometimes the unknown is what scares her most.
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"No, Mr. Wang, please don't be impulsive!"
"This homemade drama of ours must not be aired in November."
Wang Xinyuan was directly parachuted in from Penguin’s top management and became the new President of Penguin Video.
At the beginning, the senior leaders of various departments of Penguin Video welcomed his arrival.
It even feels like the sun and moon are changing into a blue sky.
After all, Xu Sheng had a nepotistic character before. Anyone who was not from his own faction would be forcibly excluded.
The senior executives are secretly accusing the new Mr. Wang of Xu Sheng's previous crimes.
This made Wang Xinyuan feel that receiving Penguin Video seemed to be much smoother than he imagined.
His series of decisions also received strong support from everyone.
Of course, the above is the case, and basically no one objects to, for example, the redistribution of the rights of each department.
It has indeed become more reasonable.
When Xu Sheng was here, many senior managers were basically empty-handed and had no real power.
But when he suddenly mentioned that Penguin Video, a self-made drama with an investment of more than 300 million yuan, would be broadcast in November, everyone was confused.
They all started to give advice.
But at this time, Wang Xinyuan was the new official who took office. How could he listen to it?
I am preparing to make some achievements.
"I don't know what you are afraid of. Isn't it just Tongji Entertainment and Gui Blowing Lantern?"
"I have also watched our drama, and I am not afraid of competing with any other drama!"