Chapter 924 Do you want to buy the exclusive broadcast rights of ICL for Tutail Live?
Although Pei Qian basically doesn't watch ioi games and is not very interested in ioi, since it is an opportunity to spend money, he can't let it pass!
Judging from the current situation, it seems that the broadcast rights of ICL have not been negotiated yet.
Why wasn't it settled?
It must be because it's expensive.
Zhitou Company and Longyu Group obviously cannot accept that the ICL broadcast rights are sold too low. On the one hand, it is a matter of face, and on the other hand, because they have very high expectations for the future of the ICL League.
However, various live broadcast platforms are not stupid. They feel that the popularity of the ICL League so far is all false and is burned out. Spending a lot of money to buy broadcast rights is likely to result in losses, and the price must be lowered.
Of course, the video of "The Butterfly" was cut at such a critical moment, which also greatly increased the bargaining chips for these live broadcast platforms.
However, the problems that plague other live broadcast platforms do not exist for Pei Qian.
Is the popularity of ICL false? Spending a lot of money to buy broadcast rights will definitely lead to losses?
It’s a dream come true!
Pei Qian needs this kind of project that is so popular right now and will inevitably lead to losses!
Moreover, ioi is a direct competitor of GOG. Spending a large amount of money to buy ICL's broadcast rights is tantamount to endangering the enemy. It also coincides with Pei Qian's expectation of supporting ioi and suppressing GOG.
Tuwei Live is positioned as a knowledge live broadcast platform. Currently, the content on it is mainly live broadcasts by young scholars and lecturers, which is not compatible with ICL broadcasts.
In short, buying the broadcasting rights of ICL can burn money, help enemies, and have a certain negative impact on Tuwei Live. It’s perfect!
Even more boldly, you can not buy the broadcast rights, but directly buy the exclusive broadcast rights.
Exclusive live broadcast!
This way, you will definitely spend more money.
The more Pei Qian thought about it, the more he felt it was appropriate. He immediately decided to go to Tuwei Live Broadcast to meet Lao Ma and Chen Yufeng to finalize the matter.
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More than half an hour later, Pei Qian arrived at the office area of Tuwei Live.
After this period of development, the number of employees at Tuwei Live has increased significantly, and everyone is busy nervously.
After all, Tuwei Live has just been officially launched and is still in a period of vigorous development. There are a lot of new features that need to be developed and a lot of daily affairs that need to be handled.
Many people were staring at the screen and busy with their work, and did not even notice Mr. Pei walking quietly beside them.
Seeing the working atmosphere of Tuwei Live, Pei Qian felt very worried, but he had nothing to do.
Although Tuwei Live Broadcasting has been burning money so far and has not made any money, seeing how motivated these employees are, Pei Qian feels that there are always hidden dangers.
But he has no good solution. This is a chronic disease of the entire Tengda Group, and it cannot be cured overnight.
I can only hope that Lao Ma, as a leader, can play a role!
Pei Qian found Ma Yang and Chen Yufeng and called them to the conference room.
"Brother Qian, do you have any instructions?" Ma Yang was as energetic as ever.
Pei Qian nodded: "Well, I plan to buy the exclusive broadcast rights of the ICL League for Tuwei Live to let you know."
Ma Yang's long face showed a confused expression: "What is ICL?"
Chen Yufeng was shocked: "Mr. Pei, there is absolutely no way you can do this!"
"I have also been paying attention to the ICL broadcast rights recently. Currently, several major live broadcast platforms such as Langya Live and ZZ Live are talking to Zhao Xuming. It is said that Zhao Xuming's offer is 11 million, and the current lowest price is
It’s 9 million.”
"This price is obviously too high. None of the major live broadcast platforms agree. They hope to win the broadcast rights of ICL for around 7 million, so the two sides are currently in a stalemate."
"If you want to buy exclusive broadcast rights, it will be even more expensive! If you sell broadcast rights, Zhao Xuming can sell them to at least three or four live broadcast platforms, and the expected price is around 30 to 40 million. If we want to broadcast exclusively, we must pay more than this price
It has to be higher!”
"What's more, we are competitors with Zhidou Company. How could Zhao Xuming sell the broadcast rights to us..."
The more Chen Yufeng analyzed it, the more outrageous he felt.
Mr. Pei himself has the broadcast rights of the GPL and can give them to him at will, but in the end he has no intention of letting Tuwei Live broadcast the GPL.
There are free ones, better ones, your own league is not broadcast, but you have to spend a lot of money to buy a competitor's league?
What kind of song is this?
Totally incomprehensible.
Pei Qian had already anticipated Chen Yufeng's reaction and couldn't help but smile: "It doesn't matter, I'll give Eric a call and I'll definitely buy it."
It’s not that I feel like I have any friendship with Eric, it’s mainly that I’m more confident in my money-making ability.
Eric doesn't want to sell? It's easy to handle, just add more money.
In the business world, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.
Tengda Group is a competitor of Zhidou Company, and they have a bloody feud...More money is needed!
Pei Qian believed that as long as the price he offered and the related supporting promotion were sincere enough, Eric would definitely be impressed.
Seeing Mr. Pei's confident expression, Chen Yufeng was speechless.
Since Mr. Pei is so determined, he must have arranged his back-up plan.
So what else is there to say? Just watch Mr. Pei’s operation.
What's more, Chen Yufeng felt that it was absolutely impossible for Zhidou Company and Longyu Group to sell ICL's exclusive broadcast rights to Tenda. Mr. Pei's call would probably be rejected.
Pei Qian didn't do any ink. He had Eric's contact information on his phone and made a video call directly.
After a long time, Eric picked up.
Obviously, Eric had no expectations at all for President Pei's initiative to contact him, and he didn't know how to react for a while. He hesitated for a while before picking up.
A picture of Eric appeared on the phone screen, and it seemed that he should be in his own office.
Eric's expression was very exciting. It was obvious that he was thinking of a suitable opening line, but he felt that something was wrong no matter how he said hello.
Pei Qian didn't talk nonsense to him and said straight to the point: "Mr. Ai, long time no see. I'm looking for you today because I want to talk to you about the ICL broadcast rights."
Eric was stunned for a moment, with a shocked expression on his face.
Why the hell do you have the nerve to talk to me about ICL broadcast rights?
It’s because of the promotional video you posted that not only cost me an extra 20 to 30 million, but the price of the broadcast rights negotiated with other live broadcast platforms has also shrunk significantly, and we still haven’t reached an agreement!
Eric felt like he had been beaten violently by someone, and then the other person came to the hospital to greet him in a false way.
He was angry and confused, and didn't know how to react.
Pei Qian continued: "I heard that you have not reached an agreement with various live broadcast platforms? It must be troublesome, right? To be honest, Tuwei Live wants to buy the exclusive broadcast rights of ICL. Mr. Ai, please give me a price."
Eric was a little confused.
Mr. Pei wants to buy ICL’s broadcast rights? Oh no, exclusive broadcast rights?
This difference in one word means the price will differ several times!
Moreover, which song is Mr. Pei singing? Looking at his confident look, why do you think I will definitely sell it to him?
Eric has no idea what President Pei is thinking.
But now that Mr. Pei has asked, just quote a relatively high price to scare him off.
Eric thought about it carefully.
After these days of wrangling, Eric also knew that it was basically impossible to sell the exclusive broadcast rights for 11 million. 9 million was an ideal price, but it was also very difficult. In the end, he could sell it for 8 million.
Around 10,000 is pretty good.
Judging from the current situation, there are only three or four platforms that are really interested in ICL broadcast rights. The final selling price ranges from about 24 million to about 32 million.
Although other platforms are interested on the surface, in fact they are not determined at all. They may give up if the price is slightly higher, and there is no hope at all.
So for the exclusive broadcast rights, setting it at around 35 million is already a relatively high price. Mr. Pei is very careful with his calculations and would probably not agree to it.
Eric replied: "Mr. Pei wants to buy the exclusive broadcast rights? It's easy to say, the price is 35 million. If Mr. Pei accepts this price..."
Pei Qian immediately made the decision: "35 million? No problem."
In fact, Pei Qian's expectation was 40 million. Unexpectedly, the price quoted by Eric was lower than what he expected. He instantly felt like he had made a profit.
Eric was choked on the second half of his sentence. He looked at the screen of his phone and fell into silence.
Mr. Pei agreed so simply???
Judging from the arguments Eric and Zhao Xuming have had with various live streaming platforms these days, the exclusive broadcast price of 35 million is definitely not low.
In the end, Mr. Pei agreed without even thinking?
After ruling out the possibility that Mr. Pei was deliberately making fun of himself, Eric really couldn't figure out why.
Could it be that... there is some conspiracy behind this?
Or is it that the ICL League has some unique values that I have not discovered, nor have other live broadcast platforms, but only Mr. Pei has discovered them?
Mr. Pei agreed so simply that Eric couldn't answer the question.
You can't just make a decision and sign the contract right now, right?
Eric absolutely does not want to sell ICL's exclusive broadcast rights to Mr. Pei. He is very worried that Mr. Pei will do something shady again and use his tricks.
But he was the one who made the offer, and Mr. Pei had already agreed. It seemed inappropriate to change his mind and say not to sell it at this time.
Eric quickly added a few things: "35 million is just the most basic, we have many additional conditions. For example, we must ensure the stability of the live broadcast, and there must be no interruptions or lags; we must use all the publicity resources of the platform
Promote ICL; unilateral termination of the contract cannot impose excessive liquidated damages."
Eric is not stupid. What if Mr. Pei bought the exclusive broadcast rights of the ICL League and deliberately caused trouble and made the Tuwei live broadcast very laggy, seriously affecting the viewing experience?
Mr. Pei exchanged the Tuwei live broadcast with the ICL league limit for one, and Mr. Pei must have made a profit.
Therefore, Eric put forward some additional harsh conditions, especially the last one, which required an agreement on the amount of liquidated damages, so that even if something went wrong and the contract was forcibly broken, the losses would be controlled within an acceptable range.
Pei Qian nodded again: "No problem, we accept these conditions."
Eric was obviously over-worrying.
If Pei Qian makes a small move and makes the ICL league obscene, wouldn't GOG become even more dominant? Wouldn't Tenda make even more money?
Of course, ICL must be properly broadcast, support the national server ioi, and let Eric see hope, so that he can continue to burn money compared with himself!
Therefore, Pei Qian fully accepted these conditions.
Eric froze.
On the mobile phone screen, Eric remained motionless, not even blinking his eyelids.
Pei Qian thought his phone was jammed and asked, "Mr. Ai? Can you hear me?"
After a long time, Eric finally realized: "I can hear it."
He never expected that Mr. Pei would agree to the price he wanted without saying a word; and Mr. Pei would also accept all the conditions he proposed!
If the other party was not Tengda, but another company, Eric would have happily signed a contract with the other party.
But only for Tengda and President Pei, Eric needs a reason to convince himself.
Eric thought for a long time and said: "Mr. Pei, can you tell me why you want to buy ICL's exclusive broadcast rights? If you can give a convincing enough reason and the contract is detailed enough, then I can consider it.
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Pei Qian immediately responded with the excuse he had already thought of: "Of course it's because I want to promote Tuwei Live."
"Live broadcasting is obviously one of the trends in the future. Currently, Tuwei Live does not have many advantages over other live broadcast platforms in terms of exclusive content. Buying ICL's exclusive broadcast rights is the first step for Tuwei Live to challenge those established live broadcast platforms.
.”
These words were pure nonsense, but they sounded extremely reasonable to Eric.
Eric asked: "Then why don't you broadcast GPL on Rabbit Tail Live?"
"Uh..." Pei Qian paused.
What Eric means is, since you want to live broadcast the Big Rabbit Tail, why don't you put the good things in your hands to broadcast on it? Why do you want to buy them from me?
The motive is very suspicious!
However, Pei Qian quickly responded: "Currently, Tuwei Live Broadcast has just been launched, and the structure is not very stable yet. GPL's live broadcast has been scheduled and will be launched soon."
Reluctant to leave the child behind, in order to eliminate Eric's doubts and successfully purchase the exclusive broadcast rights of the ICL league, the only option was to arrange the broadcast of the GPL on Rabbit Tail Live.
Eric nodded slightly, and the doubtful expression in his eyes finally faded.
Since Mr. Pei has also put the GPL league on Tuwei Live, then the problem should not be big.
At that time, if the bandwidth of Tuwei Live Broadcast is insufficient and lag occurs, the GPL live broadcast will also be affected.
What's more, both parties can make a series of detailed agreements when signing the contract. If anything goes wrong, Eric can immediately terminate the cooperation.
If the fault party is on Mr. Pei's side, then Eric can refund part of the contract according to the contract and terminate the contract naturally; if the fault party is on his side, the liquidated damages will be set relatively low, and the loss can be stopped in time.
Eric thought about it carefully again and found that his heart was moved.
I have to say that the conditions given by Mr. Pei are much more favorable than those of other live broadcast platforms.
Eric and Zhao Xuming have been arguing and bargaining with these live broadcast platforms these past few days, and they are already very irritable.
If you give up this cooperation opportunity with Mr. Pei, you don’t know how long you will have to wrangle with those live broadcast platforms, and the final price is probably not as good as selling to Mr. Pei.
Although Mr. Pei’s motivation for buying ICL’s exclusive broadcast rights is a bit far-fetched, it makes sense. Because even if Mr. Pei doesn’t buy it, ICL will always find a platform to broadcast it, and the popularity will still be there. If Mr. Pei buys the exclusive broadcast rights, it can actually
Creating popularity for Tuwei Live Broadcast is a win-win situation.
The logic is very smooth and the motivation is very reasonable.
Thinking of this, Eric nodded: "Okay, Mr. Pei, I will talk to Mr. Zhao and the legal department and come up with a detailed contract, and then we will discuss the details of the cooperation in detail. If Mr. Pei is sincere
If we want to cooperate, there is no need for us to give up the win-win opportunity because of our positions."
Pei Qian smiled slightly: "Okay, then I will wait for the good news."
After hanging up the video call, Pei Qian looked at Chen Yufeng: "It's done, let the legal department study the contract."
Chen Yufeng was a little stunned.
Is this done?
With just a few words, Mr. Pei made his old enemy Eric agree to sell ICL’s exclusive broadcast rights to us?
Although the price seems a bit high and not a very cost-effective purchase, since Mr. Pei thinks it is worth it, it must be worth it.
Chen Yufeng couldn't say anything more and nodded immediately: "Okay, Mr. Pei, I'll make arrangements right away!"