Chapter 471: Unintentional Planting of Willows
"It's true that I made some money from your work, but it's an exaggeration to say that it was my first step to gain a foothold. People in the entertainment industry like to imagine how important their role is." On the other end of the phone, Zhang Qiren sighed, "Just like us back then, we always thought that what we wrote was so important..."
Chu Ge: "Stop, stop, stop. That was you back then. I am really important."
Zhang Qiren: "Oh no, you've got this trick."
“Hehe.”
"To be honest, I promoted this animation and TV show to you because it is your work. I am happy to promote it, even if it means losing money. Secondly, Boss Tang has already laid out the channels, so I don't need to do much. I can only be considered as an assistant." Zhang Qiren said, "I really didn't expect this to make money. I am prepared to lose money..."
"Okay, then if you take out the money you earn, won't that satisfy your need to lose money? Isn't it too much to ask for a billion alliance?"
Zhang Qiren asked: "How much is Yimeng? One million RMB?"
"It seems so."
"Then I conservatively estimate that I can earn tens of billions of alliances, which is not a lot. Well, it's just the expected income. It hasn't arrived yet, so don't be so excited. I'll reward you later."
Chu Ge: “?”
Can you see my expression from thousands of miles away? I'm so hot! I'm twisted, okay?
God, that's not too much...
I work so hard to write, why do these people make all the money?
Zhang Qiren said leisurely: "This is what is called capital, or channels are king. We content suppliers are just the bottom of the chain."
Chugo said angrily: "We?"
Zhang Qiren then realized that he was the one who was exploiting the content suppliers. He smiled awkwardly and said, "It's a habit. By the way, Brother Chu, I heard that you get a share of these. Although it's very low, it's terrifying if the volume is large. Do you know how much money you have now?"
"I don't know." Chu Ge said confidently: "I only know that half a month ago I almost didn't have enough money to eat."
"That's your own brain... Never mind. No wonder you were jealous of your buddy making money after hearing the news. Shouldn't you have immediately thought of your popularity in Japan?"
Chugo did think of this at the first moment, but the problem was that he couldn't figure it out.
Why is it so popular?
In Korea, they showed off their urban cultivation of immortals. A bunch of Koreans thought that the couple were immortals and they admired them because they were good-looking. In Japan, they didn’t do any publicity and marketing. Is it enough to just lay the channels?
Zhang Qiren said, "You seem to be foolish in your marketing. Although you care a lot, you know nothing at all. Let's put it this way. Japan, the United States, Vietnam and other places have already translated and tested the waters last year. This is not the credit of Brother Jiu. It is the overseas expansion of online articles that our website has been working on."
Chu Ge: "...When I went to Shanghai to meet him, the editor didn't tell me."
"We have to talk about the efficiency of your department. It's obviously a new Internet company, but it's even more bloated and inefficient than the old state-owned enterprises. Their overseas department and your content editing department are almost separated, even though they work on the same floor."
Chu Geqi asked, "How do you know it so clearly now? Did you specifically check it out?"
Zhang Qiren said "hmm".
Chu Ge was speechless for a moment.
Zhang Qiren sighed and continued, "Since you made a splash in Korea last year, you've also started to gain some popularity in Japan. The spread of entertainment between these three countries is actually greater than you think, and you have more overseas readers than you think. This is even more true after the introduction of comics and animations. I have to say, your wife's painting and music are amazing. They can attract a lot of people even without watching the plot."
Chu Geqi asked, "So, I already had a lot of Japanese fans before?"
"How was this word invented? What's the difference between it and grass powder?"
"?"
"Okay, okay, no kidding. It's true that you have a lot of Japanese fans. But that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Qin Fei'er has more Japanese fans than you. It seems that it's because a movie she made two years ago won an award, and she is also considered a goddess in Japan."
Chu Ge: “…”
"I've already told you that the entertainment links between the three East Asian countries are much closer than you think." Zhang Qiren said with a smile, "And there's something quite interesting... Your name also appeared in the report during the last Japan-South Korea conflict. Combined with the Korean fairy rumors, you were regarded as a powerful supernatural being... Japan admires the strong, you know."
Chu Ge had no other words to say except that he was full of grass. He really didn't expect that he actually had a lot of readers in Japan. According to Zhang Qiren's statement, there might be some in places like Vietnam...
This is really an unexpected success.
It wasn't unintentional, I thought it was impossible, but I unexpectedly discovered that it was much simpler than I imagined.
"I only discovered these after I started promoting the TV series. At the time, I felt like I had found them. They were so damn easy to promote... Of course, it was related to the channels that Brother Jiu had laid out before. Channels are king."
"I understand." Chu Ge sighed and asked, "What's the situation in the United States?"
This time Zhang Qiren was silent for a long time before he slowly said, "I'm not too sure about this, but the English translation overseas has been going on for a long time. As for the effect... you should ask me about your channel fees and how much the overseas module costs. This is the most intuitive way!"
Chu Ge said weakly: "The third-party channels are not segmented. I don't know which ones are overseas, let alone which ones are from Europe and the United States."
"If you don't know, you shouldn't ask the editor, but you ask me?" Zhang Qiren was furious: "I have never seen someone as stupid as you. If I knew you were so stupid when we lived together, I would have cheated you out of all your money!"
Chu Ge whispered: "Don't forget Yimeng later. International calls are too expensive, that's it..."
Zhang Qiren: “?”
The phone has turned busy.
Who cheated whose money?
Over there, Chu Ge had already opened the backstage manuscript fee column which he hadn't looked at for a long time.
A string of glittering numbers from the third-party channel blinded Chu Ge’s eyes.
One, two...seven digits, four digits...four million?
Chugo was stunned.
I have never seen such a large sum of money in my life. Even when I sold the copyright, it was not that much!
The phrase “channel is king” repeated twice by Zhang Qiren in just a few sentences during the phone call became the best annotation here.
The channels that Chu Ge once defined were the major platforms and at most new media channels. He had never felt the power of overseas channels.
In terms of domestic channels, Chu Ge’s channels were very ordinary before. It was only after the adaptation became popular and boosted the sales of the novel that major channels began to grow. Before that, his channel fees peaked at less than 20,000 yuan, and most of the time it was just over 10,000 yuan. Only after the growth of the channels did he see tens of thousands of yuan... He never even dreamed of what a seven-digit figure was!
I once heard that there was a great person who became a god purely by relying on overseas income. I found it confusing and incomprehensible at the time, but now I really understand how awesome he is.
Zhang Qiren called Chu Ge an idiot, but Chu Ge felt it was unfair. Did you check the channel fees in the first two months? However, the settlement of third-party channels is usually delayed by three months, and some are delayed by half a year, which means that you can only see the income of January in June. You can't see this income a few months ago.
It is said that people who cultivate immortality are not interested in money, and income has always been secondary, and they will not deliberately pursue it. But when such a large sum of money is placed in front of them, the visual and psychological impact still proves that people are still people after all...
This time I really have a house to marry my wife...
In addition... income is proof of popularity. This long list of numbers proves the number of overseas readers. And this is just the readers, purely novel readers! How many audiences are there for other adaptations?
It is simply impossible to measure.
Chu Ge's hands were shaking as he carefully opened WeChat and sent a message to Qiu Wuji, who was working hard and painting: "Qiuqiu, we are rich..."
Qiu Wuji replied with a little penguin question mark emoticon.
Chugo sent a screenshot.
Qiu Wuji responded with a kitten slapping a frying pan: "You don't want to learn the good things, but learn to use PS. Just write honestly. If you really have this much money, I dare to wear a maid outfit!"
I recommend "Let Go of the Painted Skin Fairy" by the well-known 18th-tier author Xin Yi. It is a story about ghost cultivation and the story is very good. You can go and take a look!
(End of this chapter)
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