"Tudou.com undergoes great changes again, and Hantang Media becomes the largest shareholder!"
“Hantang Media’s investment in Tudou.com, can the former second largest video website in China be brought back to life?”
"Following the marriage change of the leader, another change occurred at Tudou.com!"
"According to our reporter, Hantang Media Group recently acquired 21.3% of Tudou's shares from Singapore's Temasek Holdings, becoming the largest single shareholder of Tudou!"
"The billionaire director takes action again, and the Han and Tang entertainment territories expand again!"
"The first share of the former video website was acquired by Tang An, and Tang An created a pan-entertainment circle!"
"Baodudou has restarted its listing and is expected to be listed on Nasdaq before the year!"
"With a small and broad approach, the snake swallows the elephant in the capital market, Hantang Media acquires Tudou.com!"
After all, Hantang Media had only just been established, and Tudou was indeed the second largest video website in the country. This acquisition shocked everyone’s attention.
You must know that Tudou was established earlier than Youku, and it was also the first video website to receive millions or tens of millions of dollars in financing.
Even Tudou submitted its listing application to the New York Stock Exchange a few days earlier than Youku.
Although everything was ruined by Wang Wei's wife, the title of the first stock of Huaguo Video Website was eventually taken away by Youku, and its market value has now reached US$3.8 billion.
There are definitely more people who know Tudou than those who know Hantang Media. Comparing Youku’s market value, the two are not of the same size at all.
The common people didn't think that much. Tang An's reputation was no less than that of Tudou.com, so they could only shout 666.
"Tang An is awesome, he has become a capitalist and made a fortune!"
"The global box office of "Edge of Tomorrow" is 260 million US dollars. He must have made a fortune. What does it mean to buy 22% of Tudou's shares?"
"What kind of capitalist you are? Come back to your main business now. The next movie hasn't started yet. Do you want me to wait until 12 years?"
"The world is going to end in 2012, so don't wait any longer."
"Oh shit, it's already January. If we don't shoot, will we still be able to make it to the Lunar New Year festival this year!"
"What type of film will you shoot this time? Comedy, action, adventure or something else?"
"Let's make a science fiction movie. Although the mechas in "Edge of Tomorrow" are a bit weird and not enough to make Iron Man tremble, it can be combined with a war movie. It's exciting just thinking about it."
"Let's make a comedy. By the way, when will the next "囧" be produced? Is there any news?"
The topic soon turned to Tang An's next movie. It's already January now. Apart from two or three months of preparation, three or four months of filming, and three or four months of post-production, it won't be until next year.
This time it still triggered widespread speculation, and the audience was curious about what type of film Tang An would make next.
Compared with the shock of the media and the enthusiasm of the masses, the industry is equally happy, especially these opponents.
Huayi Brothers Group, when Wang Zhongjun saw the news on the news, he was immediately surprised. After several major portals also reported it, he even made a special call to check whether the news was true or false.
"This Tang An is arrogant and ignorant, and he can even play on video websites!" Wang Zhongjun laughed disdainfully, and he was no longer so depressed after the failure of "If You Are the One 2".
Wang Zhonglei also shook his head, "He was probably jealous when he saw Youku go public, but he didn't want to think about Tudou's internal problems. Institutions interested in investing in video websites are also eyeing Youku. It would be nice if he could drink some soup.
Already."
"You are young, how do you know how to do business? In less than a year, the little money he has will not be enough to burn."
Similar to the reactions of the two brothers, Wang Changtian and Yu Dong also breathed a sigh of relief.
Video websites are definitely a bottomless pit. They are no better than portal websites. The text and beautiful photos of the four major portals take up very little bandwidth, but the videos are much larger than this.
The short film "Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bun", which was the first to become popular on video websites, was only 20 minutes long and had dozens of megabytes. This was already the limit of dissemination on video websites.
Google acquired YouTube for US$1.65 billion in 2006. Since then, Google has been unable to make YouTube profitable, and instead paid billions of dollars in online copyright fees.
As for Tang An's little wealth, it won't be long before it's all gone. There will definitely be less money spent on film and television production, and they will have one less opponent.
However, Han Sanping was a little unhappy. He helped Tang An with the News Network and Focus Interview because he was interested in Tang An's ability to expand overseas markets and suddenly raised the ceiling of the mainland film market to 1 billion. For him,
It is also a huge political achievement.
Han Sanping was thinking about when to talk to Tang An and ask him not to be so adventurous and to manage the film and television business first.
Tang An, the center of public opinion, has also been very busy these days. He first met with Wang Wei, talked about the future development plan of the video website all morning, and purchased 3.4% of his shares for US$7 million.
He still retains 10% of the shares as compensation for his ex-wife.
Then I contacted several other shareholders, but they did not interfere with the company's operations and were pure angel investments.
On February 8, Tang An held a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Now that the Lunar New Year holiday is almost over, there is still some time before the next blockbuster is released, and Hantang's acquisition of shares in Tudou.com to become a major shareholder is pretty much the latest big news in the entertainment industry.
A lot of media came to the scene, and Tang An also invited the top ten domestic video websites.
None of the other shareholders came, only Tang An, Wang Wei and Zhou You were on the stage.
Tang An is not an angel investor. As a major shareholder, he wants to interfere in the operation of Tudou.com and arranges Zhou You to serve as the vice president and coo chief operating officer of Tudou. He is the second person in Tudou above the other vice presidents.
Of course, Wang Wei is still the CEO.
The conference basically answered some questions from the media, including why it wanted to acquire Tudou, as well as its film and television business and new films.
At the press conference, Tang An also announced a listing plan, which will be officially launched on Nasdaq after the year.
The previous series of procedures and reviews have been completed, but were temporarily shelved. Now that the divorce case has been resolved privately, the listing can naturally be launched quickly.
After the press conference, Tang An sat together with the presidents of nearly ten domestic video websites.
In the hotel's large conference room, Youku's Gu Yongjiang, Six Rooms' Liu Yan, LeTV's Jia Leting, iQiyi's Gong Yu and others were all waiting for Tang An to speak to see why the great director invited them over.
"Everyone, everyone sitting here is the leader of domestic video websites and the top company in this industry. In the future, YouTube in China will definitely be born through people like us." Tang An looked at them and said with a smile.
Several people didn't take Tang An's compliments seriously, and secretly wondered what this young man from across the industry wanted to do.
Tang An changed his voice and continued, "However, there is still another biggest enemy standing in front of us!"