Chapter 136 Statistics
Gu Wei packed up and came out of the room, just in time to run into Zhao Liying who was packing up to leave.
"Good morning, Liying~"
"Good morning~" Zhao Liying greeted Gu Wei happily when she saw him.
Gu Wei was a little confused and wanted to ask Zhao Liying for clarification.
"Liying, were you the one who sent me back last night?"
"Yes, you drank too much last night, so your assistant Xiao Dan and I took you back to your room, and then I went back to my room to rest."
Zhao Liying answered Gu Wei seriously, with no other questions visible on her face.
"Could it be that I'm really mistaken? Is this just a wet dream?"
Gu Wei looked at her calm expression and muttered to himself in a low voice.
Zhao Liying then said to him, "Gu Wei, the crew has finished filming, and we are going to separate. I wish both of us a bright future!"
Her cute little face showed a bright smile, just like a sunflower, always facing the sun and always full of hope.
After finishing his work with the crew, Gu Wei packed up and returned to Beijing with his team.
The post-production of "Come, My Love" will be handled by the director team and Shanghai Juku. Since it is a modern drama, the post-production will not be very troublesome. It will probably be released in the second half of this year.
In early March, all 37 episodes of "Go Princess Go", which had been airing for more than 20 days, were broadcast.
Originally, with two episodes a day, the show should have been finished by the end of February. However, seeing the phenomenal popularity of the show, Tencent Video changed the original two episodes a day format to one episode a day in the second half.
For this reason, many fans of the show online scolded the video website.
By the end of the show, it had achieved an impressive 1.8 billion views.
Moreover, "The Princess Weiyoung" ranks among the best in terms of reputation and ratings on social media such as Weibo and Douban.
The Weibo topic was read over 1.53 billion times and had 1.303 million discussions.
It received a high score of 8.0 on Douban, and continued to lead the online discussion, far exceeding the attention of similar works.
At its peak, the show even surpassed other popular TV series airing at the same time, and it was the most discussed online and the hottest topic.
Data from the authoritative third-party IVT shows that the coverage of "The Princess Weiyoung" has reached nearly 6 million people, far exceeding other online dramas.
All these achievements, in addition to the characteristics of the TV series itself that attracted the audience, are also attributed to the huge army of water fans who spontaneously became the source of dissemination, and the popularity grew exponentially.
There is no doubt that "The Princess Weiyoung" has already topped the throne of the number one online drama in history!
The happiest person at this moment was undoubtedly Tencent Video. The explosive popularity of "The Princess" not only brought a large number of top-up members to the video website, but also made them a lot of money from the in-video ads.
Of course, they need to share these two items with the producer Gu Wei's company. According to the original contract, the member on-demand revenue and advertising are to be split 50-50.
But this is just a small amount of money for Tencent Video. What they value more is the large amount of traffic attracted to the website after the show became a hit.
There are two main sources of revenue for domestic video websites: membership recharge and advertising.
Compared with stable membership recharges, advertising is actually the main source of income for the website.
Those who were attracted to the video platform by "The Princess Weiyoung" are basically high-quality moviegoers. Because they have paid for membership, after they finish watching "The Princess Weiyoung", they will inevitably watch other movies and TV series on the platform because of their membership.
The price of advertisements inserted in a drama depends entirely on the number of views.
Therefore, it is unimaginable that a popular TV series can bring various explicit and implicit benefits to the video platform.
"Mr. Sun, you are so kind. I will definitely keep in touch with you in the future and have a pleasant cooperation with you!"
In the office, Gu Wei hung up the phone call from Sun Zhonghuai, the president of Tengxun Video, with a smile on his face.
On the phone, Mr. Sun congratulated Gu Wei Company for producing such a popular web drama, and said that Tencent was already calculating the revenue from member clicks and patch ads, and would pay the money to Gu Wei Company as soon as possible.
Finally, I envisioned the future cooperation between the two companies and hoped to continue to maintain a good cooperative relationship with Gu Wei.
Of course, Gu Wei fully accepted the goodwill shown by Mr. Sun.
When the era of traffic arrives, video websites will be a huge port for the broadcast of film and television dramas in the film and television industry. Their voice will continue to grow, and they may even strongly intervene in the upstream and downstream of the content industry and reset the rules and gameplay.
This change is the trend of the times. Since our society entered the Internet age, it will eventually reach that step, and the rise of the mobile Internet era has further accelerated this change.
What Gu Wei needs to do is to go with the flow, actively embrace changes, build good relationships with these major domestic platforms, and then cultivate his internal strength.
As long as his TV series is well made, he will always be the object of their competition. After all, content is king, and Gu Wei himself is not a person who lacks traffic.
Moreover, as a star and the boss of a film and television company, this change is a good thing for him. Good TV series are being bid up by video websites, and with the intervention of TV stations, TV series will sell for more and more expensive in the future.
Two days after returning to the company, Zhao Mingcheng brought Gu Wei good news that his share of the box office revenue from "Detective Chinatown" had arrived.
In the office, Gu Wei was flipping through the company's financial list handed to him by his assistant, trying to get a general understanding of the financial status of several companies under his name.
Although these companies are wholly owned by Gu Wei, their accounts are currently separate.
Since Gu Wei founded his company in 2012, it has grown from a small one-person studio to its current size. Under the banner of "Gu Wei Ming Tian Xia," he manages four companies: a film and television production company, an agency, an animation production company, and an investment company.
Among them, [Wei Ming Tianxia Film and Television Production Company] independently produced the popular online drama [The Rise of a Phoenix], which is known as the first online drama in history and is expected to bring the company a return of over 100 million yuan.
The hit movie "Detective Chinatown" made a profit of more than 200 million after paying off the loan.
He participated in the investment of the movies "The Blade of the Assassin" and "Wolf Warrior 1", as well as the TV series "Swords of Legends", "My Sunshine" and "Nirvana in Fire" which have not yet been released.
Gu Wei Company's investment share in these three TV series is not high, basically between 10% and 20%, but it has brought several strong partners to the company.
[The agency] has signed contracts with the currently popular traffic star Zhang Tianai, the well-known Li Xian and the little-known Peng Yuchang.
Pan Yueming's personal studio is also affiliated with it.
The [Animation Production Company] participated in the investment of [The Monkey King: Hero is Back], and [Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World] has just been approved and work has not yet started.
The investment company holds a 15% stake in ByteDance, which will naturally shrink after ByteDance's Series C funding round this year. ByteDance's valuation has increased tenfold, from $50 million last year to $500 million. Gu Wei will no longer be able to invest in future rounds, and his stake will be gradually reduced.
But in just one year, the valuation of his $10 million investment has increased tenfold, not to mention the future.
At present, the company has ample cash in its account, not to mention the more than 200 million yuan in box office revenue it just received.
Gu Wei recently earned 65 million in personal endorsement fees.
With this amount of funds, as long as Gu Wei's company does not invest in any large-scale productions, it will not have to worry about funding issues in investing in film and television dramas in the short term.
Moreover, funds will flow back after several TV series invested in previously are released one after another.
With Gu Wei's current fame, his salary for each film he makes is at least tens of millions. Coupled with the endorsements that keep coming to him, his wealth is accumulating at an extremely fast rate.
Since the end of last year, Gu Wei has started to sell off the remaining 80,000 bitcoins in his hands.
At the current market price of 6,000 yuan per piece, as many as 20,000 pieces were sold within 4 months.
He did not keep the funds he obtained.
Gu Wei opened an account at CITIC Securities, injected the funds into it, and entrusted his private investment manager to use all the money to buy Moutai shares and Tencent shares listed on the Hong Kong stock market.
At this time, the price of one Moutai stock is about 140 yuan, and after 8 years, the return will be more than ten times.
The price of Tencent's stock listed on the Hong Kong stock market was around HK$70 per share at that time. Eight years later, it was less than HK$400. It seemed that it had more than increased fivefold, but in fact it was not.
In April 2014, Tencent split its shares listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, 1 for 5.
That is to say, if you originally held 100 shares worth HK$7,000, after the split it became 500 shares, but the value remained at HK$7,000, and the unit price dropped to HK$14 per share.
When the price rises to 400 yuan per share, it will not be 5 times, but 25 times.
Gu Wei regards these two investments as his ultimate guarantee. Just like his investment in ByteDance, he will not touch them easily.
That afternoon, Gu Wei took time out to shoot the cover of "Popular Movies" magazine.
【Popular Films】was founded in June 1950 and is the oldest and most influential popular film and culture publication in my country.
In the 1980s, its 9.6 million copies created and maintained the world record for the highest single-issue circulation of a film magazine.
Gu Wei was invited to be the cover character of this season because of his dual identity as an actor and director in the box office hit "Detective Chinatown 3".
(End of this chapter)
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