Chapter 53 Finally I have money

After one and a half months, the promotion period of Soul Ferry has finally ended.

In order to boost the playback data, Leshi.com set it as free to watch after the full episode was updated. Now with the achievement of 500 million playbacks, the viewing mode has naturally been adjusted to the most common mode of online dramas - the first two episodes are free, and the rest require membership.

With the end of the broadcast period, Meng Bai also began to get busy again, because the revenue settlement is about to begin.

After more than half a year of hard work, it is finally time to reap the rewards.

Leshi.com building, high-level conference room.

Unlike in the past when only Meng Bai and Gan Wei communicated privately, today both sides brought a lot of people.

On the Leshi.com side, in addition to Gan Wei, there are also many executives and financial personnel of Leshi Pictures. The leader is a middle-aged man who looks ordinary. The only characteristic is that his forehead is a little reflective because of sparse hair.

This man is Liu Jun, the deputy general manager of Leshi Pictures. Meng Bai met him once before at the celebration banquet.

"I wanted to say at the banquet before that Mr. Meng is indeed a young and promising young talent." Liu Jun said with a smile.

"Mr. Liu is too polite. To be honest, it is thanks to the support of our Leshi.com and Mr. Gan that we have achieved today's results."

Meng Bai replied politely, and noticed in his heart that Liu Jun was sitting in the first seat, and Gan Wei was sitting next to him.

This detail shows two points. One is that Liu Jun's position in Leshi.com is higher than Gan Wei's - in fact, it is normal. Although Gan Wei is the boss's wife, she does not have much power in Leshi.com. This is why she has always wanted to invest in various film and television dramas. After all, only with interests can you have the right to speak.

Secondly, it is also said that today's meeting is different from the previous ones. It is no longer a personal relationship between Meng Bai and Gan Wei, but a formal cooperation with Leshi.com.

It seems that there is less intimacy and more seriousness, but it also shows that Leshi really puts Meng Bai in the position of a partner.

Thinking about this clearly, Meng Bai has a rough positioning plan for the subsequent negotiations on profit sharing and future cooperation.

Like Leshi.com, Meng Bai brought two people this time.

Beside him, a woman wearing glasses and a standard OL professional suit stood up slightly and introduced herself to the opposite side: "Hello, everyone. I am Chen Jing, the director of the finance department of Arclight Films. The person next to me is my assistant, Hua Yan. This time, I will be mainly responsible for the financial and capital transactions with our website."

Arclight Films is the shell company that Meng Bai registered before. Until today, there was only him as the boss.

And this Chen Jing is the first employee of Arclight Films.

Meng Bai asked Hua Yan if there were any suitable senior brothers and sisters to introduce. This girl was really interested. She looked for a circle of people she knew and found no suitable one. So she asked a professional teacher to find a senior sister, that is, Chen Jing.

It is said that this senior sister worked in finance in a Fortune 500 company after graduation. Later, in order to take care of her family, she returned to her hometown county and found a start-up company to lead the company's financial management system.

As for why such an amazing person still needs to find a new job, Chen Jing's own answer is: "My parents have been urging me to get married, and I'm too lazy to go on blind

dates, so I plan to return to Jingbei." Meng Bai also needs such a "big boss" who can help his shell company to support the framework, so the two hit it off and started working on the spot.

As for Hua Yan, who also came with her, she was purely a gift. This "Lolita girl" is a senior this year and has not found a suitable internship company, so she just wants to get a job with Meng Bai.

She is also very self-aware of her own abilities and said that the internship salary is fine as long as she can get an internship certificate in the end.

Sure enough, when it comes to cheap labor, college students are still the best.

After a few polite words, the two sides started the main topic of today. The staff of Leshi.com took out a document of dozens of pages and handed it to Meng Bai.

"This is the detailed playback data, advertising traffic, and new members during the broadcast of Soul Ferry. Mr. Meng, you can take a look." Liu Jun said.

Meng Bai opened this rather substantial data report. Chen Jing looked at the previous data statistics and financial statements. He was mainly concerned about the final total revenue and his share.

According to the current profit model of video websites, the income of a web drama mainly includes three aspects.

One is advertising fees, which is the bulk of the revenue of web dramas. Whether it is the advertisement before the start of the video, the advertisement inserted in the middle, or the patch advertisement on the website page, the corresponding advertising fee will be paid according to the different positions and the data of the work.

The second is the new membership fee, which is mainly divided into two parts. One is that users buy membership directly on the work page. This kind of share will be very high, up to one-third of the membership fee; the other is the viewing time of member users on the work. Generally, they will get different sharing fees according to the rating of the work.

The third is the cost of the copyright of the work itself, such as selling it to other website platforms, or selling it overseas, etc. However, this requires subsequent operation and development, and it has nothing to do with Meng Bai for the time being.

Meng Bai turned to the end of the document and read the summary directly.

According to the statistics of Leshi.com, the total revenue of the drama "Soul Ferry" is 36.42 million, including the advertising fees brought by 500 million views and the share of more than 300,000 new members.

According to the previously signed profit-sharing ratio, Arclight Film and Television accounted for 26%, which means it could share about 9.47 million.

Meng Bai calculated it in his mind again. According to his private cooperation with Li Qin, the girl could share more than 2.4 million, and he could get 7 million.

Seven million!

Meng Bai's breathing suddenly became heavier. What is the concept of seven million? That is a seven, followed by six zeros!

Six zeros!

From today on, he finally doesn't have to use his six-digit password to protect the four-digit deposit.

Do you want to buy a house first? The current housing price in Beijing North is only more than 30,000 in the city center. Seven million can buy... two hundred... huh?

Click on the mobile phone calculator to calculate. According to the average price of 30,000, seven million can only buy a house of about 230 square meters.

Why is it so little? Meng Bai frowned.

Why is it that no matter how much money is, once it is linked to the house, it instantly becomes insignificant?

While Meng Bai was looking at the share, Liu Jun on the other side was also observing this young man.

He knew Meng Bai's experience and knew what such a huge sum of money meant to a young man who was not rich.

To be honest, as long as this young man was not so happy that he danced with joy on the spot, he was considered to have strong self-control.

Looking at Meng Bai again, although he was obviously happy at the beginning, he did not show any extra performance, which undoubtedly made people look at him with a higher opinion.

But then he saw him take out his mobile phone to calculate, and then frowned again, which made Liu Jun feel a little confused - no way, could it be that this young man was not satisfied with this result?

Is the pattern so big?

Thinking of this, Liu Jun said: "Now we have just started to develop the online drama market, and the number of members of each website is still in the beginning stage of development, so the current upper limit of income is definitely not as good as that of TV dramas. But this is just the beginning. We believe that with the prosperity of the online drama market, the income of online dramas will inevitably rise."

"That's what Mr. Liu said." Meng Bai nodded in agreement.

It is indeed a big company. With a revenue of more than 30 million, people only think that it is playing a big role in the market. It is really a big picture

. From this point of view, there is no need for me to be so excited about the "little" income of 7 million. I still need to continue to work hard.

(End of this chapter)