Chapter 169: Invitation from the United States

Chapter 169: Invitation from the United States

Chapter 169: Invitation from the United States

The new album "Sleepless Night" has not yet been released, but the promotion work has already started in advance.

With Fan Wumian's current fame, there is no need to spend too much money on marketing and promotion. His fans have already started to spontaneously help with advertising in various places.

The acquisition of online digital copyrights for film and television dramas also went more smoothly than expected.

With the precedent of successfully getting the money, and the news that the total budget was limited and first come first served, many mainland film and television companies that held online digital copyrights but had no way to monetize them could not wait to come to us.

Among them were several audio and video distributors, who sold him the digital rights to more than 60 TV series and more than 30 movies at one time.

The copyrights that have been acquired successively include classic hits such as "The Mansion Gate", "Li Wei as an Official", "The Kangxi Dynasty", "Young Justice Bao", and "Young Huang Feihong".

Because many old TV series can no longer help the company make much money, and it is hard to imagine how useful these digital copyrights will be in the future.

Many film and television companies are only concerned with the small profits in front of them. When they see their peers making money by selling digital copyrights, they follow suit and sell them too.

Shanzeiwang Media temporarily built a simple website and sent people to make inquiries by phone, asking the people from the film and television companies to go online to find out the relevant information.

The prepared funds were shrinking rapidly and could not last long.

Besides making movies.

Fan Wumian also went to the bank in person and pledged the digital copyrights of the film and television dramas he had, as well as the copyright of "A Quiet Place 2", and borrowed a total of 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

The Hong Kong property market has been sluggish in the past two years, and credit business has been difficult to do. Fan Wumian is a top-quality customer, and in order to win more business, bank executives are willing to take a little risk.

With the funds quickly in place.

As a result, although there have been rumors in the film and television circles that Fan Wumian only spent 3200 million RMB to purchase online digital copyrights, as long as the copyright holders take the initiative to come to him, most of the time he will accept the full amount.

After more than ten days of fermentation.

Even some Hong Kong film and television companies, such as Golden Harvest and Media Asia, were tempted and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make a small fortune.

In the early years, Malaysia's Celestial Pictures spent HK$4 million to buy all the copyrights of Shaw Brothers films.

After hearing the news unexpectedly, Celestial Pictures sent someone to contact Fan Wumian and offered a package price of 1 million Hong Kong dollars for the digital copyrights of all the movies.

However, Fan Wumian was not too interested in many old movies from the 80s, or even the 2500s and s, and was only willing to offer a price of million Hong Kong dollars.

Malaysia's Celestial Pictures did not give him a reply for several days, and seemed to be angry and decided to let the matter go.

If TBV is willing to package the digital copyrights of its film and television dramas, Fan Wumian would be happy to offer a good price.

However, there was no movement from TBV yet, and he did not want to appear too anxious, lest the senior executives of this Hong Kong TV station demand too much.

July 5nd.

The sun is shining and the sky is clear blue.

Fan Wumian was filming a movie at Big Wave Bay when he unexpectedly received a call from the United States.

One of YouTube's co-founders, a Chinese American named Chen Shijun, told him over the phone:

"Hello, Mr. Fan!"

"Just now, the number of videos on our platform has exceeded 7000! The number of hits on the website is increasing every day!"

"After discussing with several other partners, I would like to invite you to record a few singing videos and put them on YouTube to attract some Chinese living in North America and let them pay attention to this website."

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Fan Wumian was splashing around in the sea, splashing water on Zuo Ziyan, with a little yellow duck-shaped swimming ring around his waist.

If he remembered correctly.

In his previous life, Justin Bieber seemed to have become one of the most famous singers in the world by singing "Baby" on YouTube and then became an overnight sensation.

There are millions of Chinese people living in North America. If we can attract their attention, it will really help to increase the popularity of the website.

Fan Wumian answered readily:

"No problem, once I finish shooting the video, I will upload it directly to YouTube."

"Also, I wanted to remind you a few days ago, why don't you make a ranking list to show the more popular videos of the day according to the click rate?"

"I'm just talking casually. If you can't handle the technical aspects, just ignore what I said."

After all, I invested $50, how could I not care at all?

In his spare time, Fan Wumian occasionally visits the official YouTube website and feels that there are not many interesting videos at present.

However, some young and bold European and American girls like to share selfie videos, and sometimes they can meet eye-catching beauties in swimsuits.

Chen Shijun replied on the phone:
“In fact, we have also considered this and are trying to develop a new algorithm to prioritize the display of more exciting content. The ranking list is a very good suggestion, and it is easy to handle technically. I will discuss it with the team.”

"There is one more thing I need to tell you in advance. Renting servers and hiring employees will burn money faster than you think."

"After two or three months, we may need to continue looking for more funds, and then we will ask someone to re-evaluate YouTube's valuation."

Apart from money, Fan Wumian was unable to provide any other resources and was clearly lacking in competitiveness.

For example, some large Internet companies are able to direct traffic to YouTube through other platforms.

Many venture capital companies can also provide assistance in financing, listing, strategic planning, etc.

Fan Wumian is not so narcissistic as to think that he is indispensable to Chen Shijun and the others.

Therefore, during the last round of financing, a "priority financing rights" clause was added to the contract to prevent his shares from being diluted as other external financing was introduced.

Fan Wumian certainly had no objection to continued financing, and also said:
"If you can't find a suitable investor, I will continue to provide a certain amount of funds. I can't guarantee more, but four or five million US dollars will definitely be no problem."

If you want to play movies and TV series smoothly on the Internet, you have to wait patiently for a long time.

Take YouTube as a reference.

After Tudou.com was launched, he wanted to build a short video sharing platform to attract users in advance and cultivate the habit of watching videos on Tudou.com.

When the technology is mature, the film and television dramas can be released online one after another, so as to avoid investing too much money in the early stage.

The opportunity has not really arrived yet, and being too impatient will only result in half the effort and twice the result.

After handing the phone to Pu Jiajing, Fan Wumian continued filming, recording a scene where several classmates were at the beach after graduating from high school. They sat on the rocks on the shore and talked about their aspirations for the future.

According to the new script.

After graduation, Zuo Ziyan went to study in the UK, while Fan Wumian entered the Beijing Film Academy, and the friends went their separate ways.

Due to the time difference, they often stayed up late to call each other and chat online, and the two of them were not together for a long time.

The taste is still the same as the original "Those Years".

But many details of the story had to be changed. For example, the queueing to make a pay phone call in the original version would only be laughed at if it were copied verbatim, after all, the times are different.

The earthquake scene in the original version was also changed into a fire in Zuo Ziyan's school, and Fan Wumian called her several times to ask if she was okay.

It took half a month to finish filming half of the movie.

Bangxian Media, which obtained the mainland distribution rights for this new work, sent a team to find Fan Wumian to discuss how to promote it in advance.

The year before last, Kuangxian Media's revenue reached 2.5 million yuan, making it one of the largest private entertainment companies in mainland China. However, it has no experience in distributing films on its own.

It is precisely because of this that in order to win Fan Wumian's new work, Kuangxian Media offered him quite good conditions, almost losing money to gain publicity.

The entire film is expected to be finished by the end of May, with post-production in June and July. Bangxian Media hopes to release it on August 5st to avoid missing the peak summer vacation season for students.
(End of this chapter)