Chapter 368: The first bird to stand out?
"Chaoyue!"
"Sister Meng!"
In the corner of the backstage corridor, Meng Ziyi and Yang Chaoyue held each other's hands, their faces full of excitement and excitement.
Because "Produce 101" is a closed recording, the two have not seen each other since Yang Chaoyue joined the program group. Counting it down, it has been almost four months.
"Why are you here?"
"Come to cheer you up!" Meng Ziyi raised the fan with the cheering slogan printed on it, "Look, I got it from your fan promotion booth. The girl saw me vote for you and gave it to me."
"Then you didn't vote before?"
"How could it be, I vote every day... Unless I was busy one day and forgot."
"How could I forget..."
Yang Chaoyue pouted, but then laughed again.
The two girls haven't seen each other for a long time, and there are many topics to talk about. It's just that the time is not right now, so I can only hold back if I have anything to say. Anyway, there is no "mobile phone ban" after the show ends, and you can contact them anytime you want.
After talking to Meng Ziyi, Yang Chaoyue turned to look at Meng Bai on the side, suppressed her emotions and walked to him, shouting energetically: "Boss!"
Meng Bai glanced at Yang Chaoyue in front of him. She was still wearing the pink uniform in the show, with white socks and sneakers on her slender calves, and she looked pink and tender.
"Congratulations." Meng Bai smiled and said, "Congratulations on your successful debut."
Hearing this, Yang Chaoyue showed a sly smile, and then stretched out her hand in front of Meng Bai.
"What?"
"Gift!" Yang Chaoyue said, "Boss, you are here to congratulate, you can't come empty-handed, right?"
After that, she winked at Meng Ziyi on the side, and the latter gave her a thumbs up. Obviously, this was something the two had just discussed secretly.
Meng Bai snorted and laughed: "Oh, OK, I haven't seen any improvement in other areas, but you've become much bolder."
"Hey, it was obviously you, the boss, who put my poster on the door of the company as a door god first, so you should at least give me some image usage fees." Yang Chaoyue said, proudly puffing out her chest, "My image is quite valuable now."
"Hey, you are well-informed in there, it doesn't look like you have been locked up for two months."
It has to be said that "Produce 101" is indeed a revolutionary change for Yang Chaoyue. Although the entire program plus the previous training has only been three months, her temperament has become much brighter than before.
The timidity and nervousness when she was a front desk girl in Arc Light before subsided, replaced by a youthful vitality full of girlish atmosphere.
Looking at the tender white hand raised in front of him, Meng Bai said with a smile: "Okay, stop raising it. Let's discuss it with the company later, and give you a personal endorsement or something."
"Ah?"
Yang Chaoyue's eyes widened. She was just joking at Meng Ziyi's instigation, and Meng Bai would just give her something to get rid of it.
She never expected that she would receive a real gift!
"I was just joking, boss." Yang Chaoyue waved her hand and said, "Really, you can come to the scene to cheer, which is a very big gift for me."
"What you said, I really can't help but give it to you."
Meng Bai didn't care. Originally, Yang Chaoyue was an artist of the company, and it was reasonable to contact her with business resources.
What's more, "Produce 101" has just ended, and the group named "Rocket Girls" that was finally established will definitely not be low in popularity and attention in the next six months, and a lot of brands will definitely rush to cooperate. Moreover
, according to the contract, the proportion of the personal resources provided by the original company to the operator is also very low, which can be said to be a full benefit ratio.
After running the company for several years, Meng Bai is now basically a qualified boss. Giving away gifts must be profitable, how could he be so generous just because of a few words from a little girl.
But for Yang Chaoyue, she hadn't thought of this yet. She just thought that it was a "congratulatory gift" really given to her by her boss, and her gratitude to him suddenly increased.
"Okay, you just formed a group here, and you should have a lot of things to do, so go and get busy first."
Meng Bai looked at Yang Chaoyue and said deeply: "Come on, Xiao Yang! Everyone in Arc Light hopes that you can become a big star."
Yang Chaoyue's nose was sour, she bit her lip, and with tears in her eyes, she bowed deeply to Meng Bai, and then said seriously: "Don't worry, boss, I will definitely work hard!"
After that, she heard her teammates and staff calling her name not far away. She knew that the time for the interview was up, and she greeted the two again, and then trotted away.
"That's great!"
Looking at the back of his friend leaving, Meng Ziyi sighed: "This kind of plot of working hard with everyone's blessings and hopes is always touching."
"You've read too many comics." Meng Bai glanced at her, "I just said that to her. Except for gossip, who would care about the development of a former colleague?"
"Ah?" Meng Ziyi was stunned, "Then you just said to Chaoyue..."
"I just gave her motivation to move forward." Meng Bai said: "Didn't you notice that Xiao Yang was confused after the results were announced and her debut was confirmed. Although I don't know what she was thinking, it's always right to make her excited."
So that's the case, Meng Ziyi thought to himself, although the little uncle usually looks like a steel straight man, he is actually very careful. No wonder so many girls like him.
Hey, wait a minute!
Meng Ziyi's heart suddenly felt cold. Will Chaoyue become like this in the future? Well, from the way she looked today, her favorability towards the little uncle is almost maxed out.
It's too hard to accept that a friend becomes an elder!
"Snap!"
With a crisp sound, Meng Ziyi was awakened from his deep thought.
"What are you thinking about? Let's go." Meng Bai snapped his fingers, "What should be ended is over, what should be seen has been seen, go back and rest early. Don't you have to go back to the crew to continue filming tomorrow?"
As he was talking, he had already turned and walked out of the venue.
"Here I come!"
Really, I was just scaring myself, Meng Ziyi thought to himself.
Chaoyue has a good impression of the little uncle, but it doesn't mean that the little uncle has the same idea. Anyway, looking at his attitude, he didn't show that he had no interest in Chaoyue, and he was always very casual.
Thinking of this, Meng Ziyi suddenly relaxed and quickly caught up with him.
It's a pity that Meng Bai didn't know her thoughts, otherwise he would have to explain to her that many times a man's attitude towards a girl will also change with the change of the other party's identity and role.
The beautiful front desk girl and the popular girl idol, even if they are the same person, are not the same thing at all.
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After the end of "Produce 101", a popular girl group called "Rocket Girls" appeared in the entertainment industry. And from a certain perspective, this is the first idol girl group in the history of domestic entertainment in the current sense.
However, for the entire entertainment industry, the impact is not very large. After all, countless new people are born in this circle every day, and at the same time, more people leave the stage sadly.
What’s more, there is no Korean or Japanese style music stage in the domestic entertainment industry. In this way, “Rocket Girls” are actually just 11 newcomers in the entertainment industry, and their future development is destined to be full of domestic entertainment characteristics.
For example, their first single after debut was not the group’s own song, but the promotional song “Calories” for the movie “The Richest Man in Xihong City”.
"...Burn my calories!"
Meng Bai sighed as he listened to Yang Chaoyue's irritable baby voice in the promotional MV.
Singing is something that really requires talent.
After turning off the video, Meng Bai walked into the company and went directly to the conference room.
When he opened the door, the room was already full of people. However, this time, it was not the usual film and television department that was here, but the publicity department and the operation department.
"Can anyone tell me why our previous tax payment appeared in the news?" Meng Bai frowned and asked everyone in the conference room.
Before "Produce 101" ended, he originally wanted to go to Shanghai to see the progress of the filming of "Secret and Great" and stay there for two days.
Unexpectedly, Hua Yan forwarded him a few online news, and he accidentally discovered that the company's tax payment was actually publicized.
"Don't use your brain at all, right?" Meng Bai said: "Let's not talk about what sensitive node it is now, the key is whether this sounds honorable?"
The premise of tax payment is that there was a loophole before. Sending out this kind of news is equivalent to a disguised admission that Arclight had problems with taxation before, but it was just remedied now.
"Ahem."
Liu Jun, who was sitting on the side, coughed lightly and said, "In fact, this matter cannot be completely blamed on the publicity side. I learned before you came back that this news was first released from the official public account of the Beijing North Taxation Department."
"Official?" Meng Bai asked.
"Yes." Liu Jun nodded, "They think this is a good case of corporate regulation, so they thought that it would be a positive report if it was released. The publicity department also thinks that there should be no problem with the official, so they agreed."
The person in charge of the publicity department also explained the specific situation.
Hearing that it was the official department that took the initiative to send the news, Meng Bai's emotions calmed down.
Since everyone thinks this is a positive report, Arc Light doesn't need to be so cautious.
But there are still two problems now. One is that the attitude of netizens is difficult to grasp. The other is that Arc Light has a bit of the meaning of "coming out" by publishing such a report at this node.
We are still busy erasing the records here, and you Arc Light secretly paid the tax first. Isn't this forcing the higher-ups to point us out?
After thinking for a while, Meng Bai said, "Since the official has released it, it means that we are not negative. In this way, in the next period of time, we will mobilize propaganda forces to spread this matter, which can also be regarded as shaping the image of our Arc Light's legal operation."
"In addition, the propaganda department should pay more attention to the trend of the Internet recently, and try to make netizens tend to 'it's good to take the initiative to bring it up' or 'it's better to make up for it than to hide it'. When necessary, some public opinion handling methods and water army can be used to guide it."
"Since you have become the first bird, you can't do it in vain. Trouble and opportunity complement each other. Ask the relevant departments to see if you can get some honor or policy. It's better to be criticized by our friendly competitors than to be targeted by an iron fist."
Everyone in the conference room responded and prepared to execute.
After solving this matter, Meng Bai heard good news. In the two days when he was away, the box office share of "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" successfully exceeded 50 million, ranking first on the list of online movies on all platforms, and it was the first by a gap.
In fact, as early as when the box office revenue broke 40 million, this movie was already the box office champion. It's just that now the record has been raised from 40 million to 50 million.
Qiyi TV was overjoyed and specially released an official poster and a pop-up window of the application to celebrate the birth of the record.
It's no wonder they are happy. Qiyi TV is now a listed company, and every achievement is closely related to the stock price. Especially this kind of good news about making money, a random increase of three or four points is a change of more than 10 billion.
Moreover, the influence brought by this new record is more than that.
For a long time, online movies have been ranked very low in the contempt chain of film and television works, much worse than online dramas, and the income is not high.
Therefore, there are many low-cost films, even if they know that it is nothing more than a "one-day trip" after being released in theaters, they will still spend a lot of money to find distributors to help distribute them.
Anyway, as long as it can be released, it is a formal theater movie. When the copyright is sold again, it can be sold for more money.
Of course, there are also some investors who are outsiders who cross over and don't understand the film and television process, and think that their formal movies should be broadcast on the big screen. After being fooled by the distributors, they paid a large amount of distribution fees.
The distributors just contacted a few small theaters and arranged some screenings during unpopular time periods, and that was considered a job well done.
What? The box office results were not good?
That's because your film was so bad. There were no big stars and no publicity. It was normal that the box office was not good.
Many small distribution companies have always advertised like this - only theaters have a chance, and no one will watch online movies.
However, the 50 million box office share of "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" has completely broken these rhetoric.
Many small crews and investors suddenly found that it is also a good choice to broadcast online on video platforms.
Even if they don't have the IP and quality of Arclight, they don't need such high results.
Anyway, online broadcasting does not require distribution fees and theater share, and the cost is much lower. If you can get a million or so views, you can make a profit. If you are lucky enough to catch up with the appetite of certain audiences, you may make more money.
These days, there are obviously more works that contact several video platforms to inquire about online broadcasting. The platform will naturally not refuse. As long as the quality can meet the basic standards, they will agree to everything.
Anyway, they are all B-level projects, and the unit price is low, some are only one dollar. And it is a profit-sharing system, so there is no loss.
Moreover, with so many projects, it is hard to guarantee that you will come across one or two excellent ones. Even if there are none, it is not bad to use them as copyright inventory, which can always attract some user traffic.
The only ones who are a little uncomfortable are the small distribution companies.
The market was not very good this year, and there were fewer projects that could be launched. Now a batch of them have been snatched away by the video platform, which makes it even more difficult.
But these things have nothing to do with Arc Light.
Since the 50 million has been exceeded, Meng Bai will keep his previous promise. Together with Qiyi TV, a celebration banquet was prepared for the crew of "Soul Ferry: Huangquan".
"Celebration banquet!"
Zhu Xudan looked at the agent: "Is senior brother going too?"
"I should go." The agent said: "Anyway, I heard from the crew that President Meng will be there."
"That's good!"
Zhu Xudan suddenly became happy, stood up and urged: "Let's go, let's go and choose what to wear in the afternoon, do you want to rent a dress?"
The agent looked at her helplessly. When he asked this girl to participate in the celebration activities before, he had never seen her so active.
It turns out that President Meng is the most motivated!
(End of this chapter)
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