First up is Wang An, representing the engineering department. His current project is an online music website, which has been running for six months.
Chen Dong handed out a rough version of the engineering department's year-end summary report to everyone present. Facing Chen Dong, he said:
"The online music website and the North American media company complement each other and achieve mutual success. One of us provides operation and data maintenance technology, and the other provides music copyrights. Now that the website has been running for six months, the traffic has stabilized, and new users are increasing every day."
"Not long ago, we conducted our last music bundle promotion of the year, which was very successful, attracting over 30,000 registered members."
Everyone applauded, and then it was Chris's turn.
Although he was also in the engineering department, he was the youngest engineer there, but he had already taken on important responsibilities.
Chris was a little nervous facing such a scene for the first time.
Chris held the iPod's year-end report, opening his mouth several times but remaining silent.
Anne quickly whispered encouragingly, "It's okay, Chris. This is your part, and no one knows this project better than you."
Chris composed himself and finally said, "Yes, I'm in charge of the management and maintenance of the ICQ interactive dating software."
"This software has been downloaded 500,000 to 600,000 times, and has an average of 50,000 to 80,000 users per day."
"ICQ's international forum has two versions: one for Europe and America and the other for China. The online international forum has a huge daily traffic, but fortunately our servers can still handle it."
Everyone was amused by his tone.
“We confirmed the marketing plan with the project team a month ago. Starting at the beginning of next year, we will introduce a paid online virtual product project, which will become ICQ’s main source of revenue.”
At first, everyone was enjoying the harmonious atmosphere, but when the topic of ICQ's paid features came up, everyone became serious. After all, when ICQ, this interactive social networking software, was launched, Chen Dong had already announced that the software would be permanently free.
But what exactly is this new fee item proposed by the ICQ management? Will it cause ICQ users to resist it?
Chen Dong glanced at the people below and voiced their doubts:
"This paid feature was planned jointly by the engineering department and the project department. It's an additional paid feature added to the ICQ social networking software. Doesn't this go against our original intention of developing a free social networking ICQ software?"
Chris quickly explained, "No, that's not it. The paid project we developed is just a virtual product that runs on top of the ICQ software, but it's independent of the ICQ software."
"Users can choose to download or not. If they download, they can also choose between paid and free items."
Chen Dong understood: they wanted to add more online experience features to the ICQ software and generate revenue through charging fees.
This model is similar to an online mini-game. The ICQ software is free, but the items in the online mini-game are paid.
"I understand, please sit down." Chen Dong looked at the next person on the list.
“The next project, Pixar Animation Studios, that project,” Anne called out.
The Pixar project manager stood up and said, "Last year, we used computers to create the entire animated feature film 'Toy Story,' which was distributed by Disney and released nationwide in the United States. The film broke records for animated films."
Toy Story is a fully computer-animated feature film produced by Pixar, and it was the world's first fully computer-animated feature film.
After Steve Jobs acquired Pixar, the animation company released new products almost every year and was frequently nominated for the Oscars.
Dragon Entertainment, the entertainment company in China, has been planning to collaborate deeply with Pixar and integrate resources in the past two years. However, one of them is a Western production company and the other is a Chinese production company, so it will be quite difficult for the two to work together.
After introducing the achievements, the Pixar project manager went on to talk about the core projects:
"Next year, we will be developing the Marvel Cinematic Universe series."
At this point, everyone started looking at each other in bewilderment. Marvel originated from comic books and has been updating for decades, with a considerable number of followers.
"The Marvel series will officially begin operations after the start of the new year," the person in charge announced.
"Our plan to operate the Marvel trilogy is thanks to our previous collaboration with record companies. The resources of record companies and media companies have made it easier for us to lay the groundwork for the Marvel movies in terms of media."
It turns out that the collaboration between the big boss and the media company had this other benefit.
When we worked with them before, the people inside Longteng felt very aggrieved. After all, they were the ones who won the lawsuit, but they were also the ones who were affected by the copyright controversy.
Chen Dong said, "I remember that after Steve Jobs acquired Pixar, Pixar reached another peak."
"It may seem vulgar to compete for first place, fame, sales, and attendance in the art world, but these are the most important evidence of your work and the most important evidence of your hard work."
"The Marvel series is very vibrant, and I hope you will live up to the expectations of such a work."
The Pixar representative nodded emotionally, "Pixar Animation is a very influential brand, and we will definitely protect it."
While everyone was giving their reports, a group of people arrived outside the conference room.
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