director of the millennium

Chapter 316 The Olympics are coming, Wu Yuan’s next step

Danmaku video websites are not new on the international Internet.

Japan's Niconico animation was the first barrage video website, and domestic AcFun was also established in June 2007 in a low-key manner.

However, these two websites are dedicated to Two-dimensional anime-related subcultures.

Niconico animation is relatively well-known in Japan, and AcFun is still a very niche website in China.

As for Bilibili, which later became the leading barrage video website, it has not yet been hatched, let alone breaking out of subculture and entering the mainstream.

For current mainstream netizens in the Mainland, [-]% of them have never been exposed to the interactive video function of "barrage".

If a mainstream video platform can use the barrage function, it will definitely attract many users to use it and try it out.

But once you taste it, you are in trouble.

Once you get into the trap, it's not easy to get out of it, because other platforms don't have barrage systems!

Wu Yuan still attached great importance to this. He watched Wang Xin test the barrage system with his own eyes. After confirming that it was almost the same as the barrage at Station B in his impression, he nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad."

However, Wang Xin's face looked a little embarrassed: "Director Wu, this barrage system is good. It can increase user stickiness, but it places a heavy load on bandwidth."

"After all, this is data that needs to be uploaded in real time, and the barrages seen by all users need to be unified."

"This will test the server's information processing capabilities. Once there are too many users watching online at the same time, it will easily collapse."

"If we want to implement the barrage system, we may need to prepare one-half more servers than expected."

Wu Yuan nodded his head lightly while listening.

The current Niconico animation, due to factors such as equipment and broadband load, stipulates that viewers must register an account, and according to the registration order, some users can use it all day long, while some users can use it during the peak traffic period from 19:2 in the evening to [-]:[-] in the morning. Restricted use, cannot log in.

This is because the server load is too high and there is no way for all users to watch videos on the website normally during peak periods, so they can only limit the flow.

Of course Wu Yuan couldn't do such a petty thing.

Niconico animation is just a niche website, and the initial operation manager was purely private and had little money.

Wu Yuan just injected US$2 million into Guangying Kuaibo. There is nothing else but a lot of money!
"Add!" He said without hesitation: "Add more servers until the peak can withstand 200 million users watching videos at the same time."

Don’t underestimate the number of 200 million people online at the same time.

Nowadays, a server for large-scale online games can generally only accommodate tens of thousands of people online at the same time, which can be as high as a dozen or 20.

Although the data interaction requirements of video websites are not as high as those of games, it is already an exaggerated server capacity to be able to withstand 200 million users watching videos at the same time.

200 million people online at the same time does not mean that only 200 million people can use Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast. This is the peak data.

Just like a scenic spot can accommodate up to 50 tourists, it does not mean that only 50 people can enter the scenic spot in one day.

In fact, people are quitting the software or joining new ones all the time. Calculated in one day, it can accommodate at least 3000 to [-] million daily active users.

With the current Internet ecosystem in the Mainland, there should not be more than 200 million people watching videos on Guangying Kuaibo at the same time during the peak period, right?
Shouldn't it?
Shaking out all the distracting thoughts in his head, Wu Yuan came to his senses and patted Wang Xin on the shoulder with a smile: "Mr. Wang, the company's publicity team will take over the publicity work of Light and Shadow Quickcast. You don't have to do anything else. Don’t worry, just master the technology.”

Wang Xin is definitely a technology tycoon and is the No. 2 in the field of P1P video in China. However, those who engage in technology like them are indeed relatively simple and do not have enough experience in business methods.

Light and Shadow Kuaibo has a publicity team drawn from the Light and Shadow Era. It is better to let professionals take care of professional matters.

However, now is not a good time to promote.

It is now the end of July and the beginning of August.

The whole of China is looking forward to a big event!
2008 Beijing Olympic Games!

The entire capital has now become a sea of ​​volunteers.

Volunteers uniformly dressed in blue and white uniforms formed a beautiful scenery in the capital.

Countless foreign visitors have also come to the capital, and under the reception of volunteers, they can visit and understand this modern capital of China.

Now the whole of China is busy with matters related to the Olympics. All entertainment must give way to the Olympics. All media and newspapers are reporting news related to the Olympics.

No one has the time or interest to pay attention to things that have nothing to do with the Olympics.

Even "Gravity," a movie that is officially promoted and popular among the people, is no longer the center of everyone's attention and has been replaced by the Olympic Games.

Under this situation, if Wu Yuan wants to promote Guangying Express, it will be a complete waste of money!
Not only Guangying Kuaibo, but also all artists under Guangying Times have basically suspended their work to make concessions for the Olympics.

Except for the artists who are joining the group, other idle artists have been given almost a month's leave, and there will be no announcements for the next month.

No brand or program will try to compete with the Olympics for attention at this time.Even Liu Yifei, who has been extremely busy since the release of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and flew back and forth between China, the United States and Japan, also got a short vacation and was able to return to China and spend a leisurely vacation with Wu Yuan.

Who needs to work when he has a sweet-smelling girlfriend to hug him?
Wu Yuan immediately dropped what he was doing and happily went home to cook salted fish with his girlfriend.

"Brother, the mainland box office of "Gravity" has reached 5.52 million yuan, right?"

Lying in Wu Yuan's arms, Liu Yifei said with a smile: "The Hong Kong Island market also received a box office of 2800 million Hong Kong dollars, plus a few million US dollars from Singapore and Malaysia, the total box office of "Gravity" It’s already 6 million.”

"You are now the box office record holder for Chinese-language films in the Mainland!"

"Coupled with the global box office record for Chinese-language films held by "Your Name," you are now the king of the domestic box office."

The expression on Liu Yifei's face is one of pride, her boyfriend is really awesome!
When "Your Name" was released that year, although it did not break the box office record of "Hero" in China, the Japanese yen was still relatively valuable at the time, and the entire Asian market took a total of US$2.24 million in box office results.

Two-thirds were contributed by the Japanese market, and the 150 billion yen at that time was not a small amount of money.

This result also broke the record for the highest box office of a Chinese-language film held by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2000: US$2.16 million.

It is worth mentioning that the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" almost entirely depends on overseas markets, even more exaggerated than "Your Name".

Of the US$2.16 million box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", only US$1000 million was contributed by China, Taiwan, Taiwan and Taiwan, and the rest was contributed by overseas markets.

Since "Your Name" broke the record of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", this record has been maintained until now, and no one has broken it.

Even "Gravity" will probably have a hard time breaking this record.

It can also be seen from this point that although science fiction blockbusters are the "laurel" of the film industry, the return on investment ratio of this type of film is really the lowest among all film genres.

The return on investment of mid- to low-cost movies such as romance movies, comedy movies, and horror movies is much lower than that of science fiction movies, and the money spent is even less.

It’s no wonder that only Hollywood, which has deep pockets and a broad enough market, can afford science fiction movies.

From a rational perspective, making Chinese science fiction films is indeed a thankless task.

With this 3 million yuan, Wu Yuan can make several "The Hangover" films.
But there is always someone to open up the Chinese science fiction film market, just like there is always someone to step up and make its own aerospace engine for China.

In the current Chinese film industry, only Wu Yuan has the ability to stand up and set a precedent for Chinese science fiction films!
Judging from the results, he has done an excellent job and is proud enough.

Smiling and touching Liu Yifei's head, Wu Yuan said with a hint of ridicule: "Yes, our Sissi is still the actress with the highest single-film box office in China, even Gong Li can't surpass you!"

"If nothing else happens, your record will last for a long time!"

The box office of "囧囧" in 2012 was only 12.67 billion, less than 2 million US dollars.

Without Wu Yuan's intervention, it would have been until 2015 for a domestic film to break this record: "Monster Hunt."

Although "Monster Hunt"'s box office of 24 billion is full of water.

Even if Wu Yuan may break this record early, at least in the next two to three years, the mainland box office market will still not be able to support a Chinese film with a box office of more than 15 billion.

"Hehe, this is all thanks to the guidance of my senior brother." Liu Yifei smiled, stretched out her hand and gestured with her little finger: "I just made a little, insignificant contribution."

"Hey, you are quite sober." Wu Yuan laughed.

The success of "Your Name" is more due to the good character design, the script and story are touching enough, and the actors' acting skills are actually not that important. As long as the image can fit the role, whoever plays it can actually get such high box office. Liu Yifei is really not indispensable, at least not in terms of acting performance.

Unlike "Gravity", apart from Gong Li, Wu Yuan really couldn't think of any other domestic actress who could play this heroine well.

However, after so many years of training, Liu Yifei's current acting skills are comparable to those of Wu Xia Amon, at least much better than her original track. Not to mention that she can compete with movie queens, but among actresses of the same age, she is definitely outstanding.

As long as she trains for a few more years, when she is 25 or 30 years old, she can try to take a leading role in literary films, and when she is around [-] years old, she can charge for the Best Actress trophy!
With a great international director like Wu Yuan teaching her through words and deeds, and with the age of light and shadow feeding her good films, Liu Yifei's acting skills would really be unjust if she couldn't hone them.

"By the way, the preparations for "Kings Agent" are almost done, right?"

"Should this movie be released in the United States in October?"

"You will join the group again then."

Suddenly thinking of this incident, Wu Yuan tightened his arms around Liu Yifei and said, "I will go to the United States with you then."

"Huh?" Liu Yifei raised her head and looked at Wu Yuan in confusion.

"It's time to start preparations for my next movie."

"This will be a Hollywood blockbuster. If everything goes well, it should start filming next year."

(End of this chapter)