In order to catch up with the progress.

While Britney Spears was being buried in the ground for filming, the post-production team on the other side had already begun editing some content that the director thought was more exciting.

On platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, she also released a preview in advance, changing her profile picture to a new one with a cartoon monster background, and also changed her YouTube account name to “Ms. Monster (Britney Spears)”.

Other UP hosts can only earn advertising fees from user clicks, but Britney, as one of the most famous female singers in the United States, has good commercial value in herself. When she first started to transform into an Internet celebrity, she attracted a lot of sponsorship and promoted advertisers in the opening and content.

Once we have accumulated a large number of users, we should be able to make some profits from the advertising business.

Each episode of the program does not just produce a single video. This time, a strategy similar to a TV series is adopted to encourage viewers to follow and increase click-through rates.

Nearly 60 hours after Xiao Tiantian was buried underground, the first video, with a total length of 18 minutes, was finally edited and produced.

The director couldn’t make up his mind, so he contacted Fan Wumian for a trial screening first.

The content is nothing more than introducing the rules, finding a suitable venue, preparing various items, etc. After watching it, Fan Wumian felt that the content was a bit dragged out and was worried that the audience would lose patience, so he just asked the director to cut another 3 minutes from the total length.

A few hours later.

The first video content was quickly posted on YouTube.

The advantage of using Britney Spears’ own account is that she already has millions of followers. The video attracted likes and comments soon after it was released, and the number of views could always increase by hundreds by refreshing it every few minutes.

When Fan Wumian found that the number of views, comments, likes and other data kept increasing, he sat in front of the computer and sighed, feeling that it was different to have a giant like Google as his backing.

With the support of traffic and sufficient budget, YouTube has developed faster.

In his opinion, in a dozen years or so, YouTube might be worth hundreds of billions of dollars. It’s a pity that he is not qualified to control such a profitable company.

If the company had not been sold earlier and the founders had been persuaded to reject the olive branch thrown by Google, I am afraid that Silicon Valley giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google would have rushed out to compete with YouTube for business.

It is hard to say whether the company will go bankrupt by then, let alone grow into a giant worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

For ordinary people, the business environment in the United States is relatively comfortable when they do small business. However, if they make too much money, they will attract the covetousness of others, and they will use very dirty means to rob them of their money.

Before YouTube was acquired, it was frequently hit by negative news about “guns,” “illegal drugs,” “hate,” “minors,” etc. It also faced a large number of various lawsuits and was almost forced to shut down and rectify by the federal court.

After Google acquired YouTube, the negative voices suddenly became much smaller, and the plaintiffs voluntarily withdrew their lawsuits. Most likely, there was someone behind the scenes trying to slow down YouTube’s development.

Mythology Film Studios also relies on Paramount’s support and gives Paramount a portion of its profits, so Fan Wumian can have a place in Hollywood.

It has long been seen that although the United States appears to be free and open, in reality all kinds of businesses have long been monopolized invisibly.

Black people have lived in the United States for more than 10 years, but there has not yet been a single black super-rich person with a net worth of more than billion US dollars. This is obviously a result of suppression.

Otherwise, from the perspective of probability, even if one is not good at doing business, there should be a few lucky people over the years.

On the contrary, in Africa, some black people have successfully made it onto the world’s rich list. It is impossible for the business environment in Africa to be better than that in the United States.

As a foreigner, and one from Asia, Fan Wumian’s situation in the United States is not much better.

With the examples of companies like Warwick and TikTok encountering obstacles in their overseas expansion, he has always believed that it is only suitable to invest in the United States and make some money by riding the wave. It is difficult to completely control a large and profitable enterprise like taking over the Penguin Group.

This is also the core reason why he decisively reallocated his assets and exchanged YouTube shares for Penguin shares.

The reason why he started to think about these issues again was that the international version of Weibo had recently started public testing in the United States. He was afraid that once he achieved certain results, he would still encounter resistance from all sides. Fan Wumian began to consider finding a few suitable allies in advance and handing over the “protection fee” when the time was right. He would be blackmailed sooner or later anyway, so he might as well be sensible and avoid getting beaten up in vain.

The ideal situation is that after several rounds of financing, Penguin Group can still hold about 35% of the shares, which is already quite good.
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A lot of small things have happened one after another recently.

Some time ago, I heard from Guo Biting that there is a great female perfumer in Hong Kong who is good at making fruity perfumes such as citrus, lemon and green apple, and she is now working for Valentino.

The new products would be launched in one or two months, and the production capacity could not keep up, so they found a group of suppliers in China and acquired a leather factory in Serbia, spending millions of euros.

There was also Zhang Yiming, who was hired earlier. After he finished working on the Miaoyan Movie and Tudou projects, he was transferred to Penguin Group by Fan Wumian to help reorganize and develop a new “Penguin News Network” and design algorithms to prioritize content that users are interested in.

With Penguin Group in hand, relying on its huge traffic resources, the layout of other Internet ecological chain projects can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Therefore, Fan Wumian is not planning to launch some new Internet projects alone. He can just leave any ideas to Penguin Group.

On the day he left the Shanghai Stock Exchange, he asked the representative he hired to propose at the Penguin Group’s board meeting to use 2 million yuan to invest in some mainland Internet companies, including 58 Cities, Qunar.com, Sanluling and Xunlei.

The day I flew back to Yanjing from Shanghai.

Jiang Shixi called Fan Wumian and asked in a puzzled tone: “Boss, have you had any contact with Hubei Radio and Television recently?”

“No, what’s wrong?” Fan Wumian was confused.

“Oh, it’s like this. My former boss asked someone to call me and said that Hubei Radio and Television is planning to set up a video website recently. They even decided on a name, ‘TV Mango’. But they lack relevant experience and want to discuss cooperation with you, the boss. It seems that they are interested in our company’s film library resources.”

Jiang Shixi had a slight headache.

The reason why Tudou.com is so far ahead of its competitors today is that it invested heavily early on and acquired the online copyrights of more than 1700 film and television dramas.

Now Hubei Radio and Television’s “TV Mango” project has officially started, targeting Tudou’s film and television resource library, which is obviously not in the interests of Fan Wumian.

However, as one of the satellite TV stations with the highest ratings in the country, if the relationship is rashly strained, other businesses may also be affected.

It was only October 2006, and the private economy had just begun to rise. Facing the many restrictions on official enterprises, it was still at a disadvantage. It was very likely that if someone gave a warning, the TV series produced by Bandit King Media would be difficult to sell.

Fan Wumian was very calm after hearing this. After all, he had long anticipated the emergence of a strong competitor. Even if there was no TV Mango, other satellite TV stations would probably not be able to help but get involved.

He said to Jiang Shixi:

“Why do we need to set up another company? I’m considering letting Tudou.com raise funds externally, and initially release about 30% of the shares. By then, in addition to Penguin Group, I would also like to find a few more satellite TV stations to cooperate with, and if necessary, I can also bring in telecommunications operators. Instead of competing with each other, it’s better to pool our strengths and make money together.”

The premiere of “My Love from the Star” the night before yesterday directly broke the ratings record in recent years.

Tudou.com releases several TV series and movies every week and has gained considerable popularity, but most of the resources released are old dramas from before 2005.

In order to avoid breaking the rules and being targeted by the TV stations, “My Love from the Star” cannot be broadcast simultaneously on Tudou.com for the time being, and the interests of the TV stations need to be prioritized.

But if we get a few satellite TV stations to work together and share a piece of the pie with others, maybe we can try to launch new dramas simultaneously.

After listening to this, Jiang Shixi said:
“Hey, that’s great! I was worried that when Hubei Radio and Television launched a video website, they would have a falling out with us because of market competition. I’ll call them back now to find out.” (End of this chapter)