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Gu Wei packed up and came out of the room, and happened to meet Zhao Liying who was packing her things to leave.

"Good morning, Liying~"

"Morning~" Zhao Liying saw Gu Wei and greeted him happily.

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. Your assistant Xiao Dan and I sent you back to your room, and then I went back to the room to rest."

Zhao Liying answered Gu Wei seriously, with no other questions visible on her face.

"Is it really that I feel wrong? Is it just an erotic dream?"

Gu Wei looked at her calm expression and whispered to himself.

Zhao Liying said to him at this time: "Gu Wei, the crew has finished filming and we are about to separate. I wish both of us a bright future!"

Her cute little face showed a bright smile, just like a sunflower flower, always facing the sun, always full of hope.

After finishing his work with the crew, Gu Wei also packed up his things and took his team back to the capital.

The post-production of "Shanshan Is Here" will be handled by the directing team and Shanghai Juku. Because it is a modern drama, there will be no need for trouble in post-production. It will probably be released in the second half of this year.

At the beginning of March, all 37 episodes of "Prince Concubine's Promotion", which had been released for more than 20 days, were played.

Originally, with two episodes a day, it should have been released by the end of February, but Tengxun Video saw the phenomenal popularity of the show and changed the original two-episode-a-day model to one episode a day in the second half.

For this reason, many fans of the show online scolded the video website.

By the time it ended, the show had achieved an impressive record of 1.8 billion views.

Moreover, [Prince Princess]’s reputation and ratings are among the best on social media such as Weibo and Douban.

The Weibo topic has been read more than 1.53 billion times and discussed 1.303 million times.

It received a high score of 8.0 on Douban, and continues to lead the online discussion, far exceeding the attention of works in the same category.

At the peak of its ratings, it was even far behind other popular TV series at the same time, and it ranked first in terms of online discussions and topic popularity.

Data from the authoritative third party IVT shows that the audience of Princess has reached nearly 6 million people, far exceeding other online dramas.

All these achievements, in addition to the characteristics of the TV series itself attracting audiences, are also attributed to the huge tap army, who spontaneously became the source of communication, and the popularity increased exponentially.

There is no doubt that "The Princess" has reached the throne of the first web drama in history!

The happiest thing at this time is Tengxun Video. The popularity of "Prince Princess" not only brought a large number of recharge members to the video website, but also made them a huge profit from the pre-roll advertising.

Of course, they need to share these two items with the producer Gu Wei's company. According to the original contract, members' on-demand revenue and advertising are divided 50-50.

But this is just a small amount of money for Tengxun Video. What they value more is the huge wave of traffic that was attracted to the website after the show became popular.

There are two main sources of fees for domestic video websites, one is membership recharge, and the other is advertising.

Compared with stable membership recharge, advertising is actually the main source of money for the website.

The people attracted to the video platform by "The Princess" are basically high-quality movie watchers. Because they have become members, after they watch "The Princess", they will inevitably watch other movies and TV shows on the platform because of their membership. drama.

The price of advertisements in a drama depends entirely on the number of views.

Therefore, the various explicit and implicit benefits that a popular TV series can bring to the video platform are unimaginable.

"Mr. Sun, you are so polite. I will definitely strengthen contact in the future. Happy cooperation!"

In the office, Gu Wei smiled and hung up the call from Sun Zhonghuai, the president of Tengxun Video.

On the phone, Mr. Sun congratulated Gu Wei Company for producing such a popular online drama, and said that Tengxun was already calculating the revenue from member clicks and pre-roll ads, and would transfer the money as soon as possible. Paid to Gu Wei Company.

Finally, I thought about the future of cooperation between the two companies and hoped to continue to maintain a good cooperative relationship with Gu Wei.

Of course, Gu Wei fully accepted Mr. Sun's kindness.

When the traffic era 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 will even strongly intervene in the upstream and downstream of the content industry to reset the rules and gameplay.

This change is the tide of the times. Since our society entered the Internet era, it will eventually reach that point, and the rise of the mobile Internet era has accelerated this change.

What Gu Wei has to do is to go with the flow, actively embrace changes, establish good relationships with these major domestic platforms, and then cultivate his internal strength.

As long as his TV series is good, he will always be the target of competition for them. After all, content is king, and Gu Wei himself is not short of traffic.

Moreover, as a star and the owner of a film and television company, this change is a good thing for him. Good TV series are being competed for by video websites, and with the intervention of TV stations, future TV series will become more and more expensive.

Two days after returning to the company, Zhao Mingcheng brought good news to Gu Wei. The box office share of "Detective Tang" had been received.

In the office, Gu Wei flipped through the company's financial list handed over by his assistant to get a rough idea 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 the establishment of Gu Wei's company in 2012, it has grown from a small personal studio to its current scale. Under the banner of [Wei Tianxia], there are four companies including [Film and Television Production Company] [Agency Company] [Animation Production Company] and [Investment Company].

Among them, [Wei Mingxia Film and Television Production Company] independently produced the popular online drama [Prince Concubine’s Promotion]. This film, known as the first online drama in history, is expected to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in returns to the company.

The hit movie "Detective Chinatown" made a profit of more than 200 million after repaying the loan.

Participated in the investment of the movies [Xiuchundao], [Wolf Warrior 1], and the TV series [Gu Jian Qi Tan], [Shan Shan Is Coming], and [Langya Bang] that have not yet been released.

The investment shares of Gu Wei Company in these three TV series are not high, basically between 10% and 20%, but they have brought several strong partners to the company.

[Agency] has signed contracts with the popular traffic star Zhang Tianai, the well-known Li Xian and the little transparent Peng Yuchang.

There is also Pan Yueming's personal studio affiliated with it.

[Animation Production Company] participated in [Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage], and [Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World] has just been approved, and the work has not yet started.

[Investment Company] holds 15% of the shares of [ByteDance]. Of course, this share will shrink partly after [Byte]’s Series C financing this year. The current valuation of [Byte] has increased 10 times, from last year’s valuation of US$50 million to US$500 million. Gu Wei will no longer be able to participate in each subsequent round of financing, and the shares will be compressed little by little.

But in just one year, the valuation of the US$10 million he invested has already increased tenfold, let alone in the future.

At present, the company's cash on its books is very abundant, not to mention the more than 200 million box office accounts that have just been paid back.

Gu Wei's personal endorsement fee some time ago was 65 million.

With this capital, as long as Gu Wei Company does not invest in any large-scale productions, there will be no need to worry about funding problems in the short term when it comes to investing in film and television dramas.

Moreover, funds will flow back into the TV series after they are released one after another.

With Gu Wei's current fame, the minimum salary for each movie he shoots is tens of millions. Coupled with the constant endorsements that come to him, his wealth is accumulated at an extremely fast speed.

Since the end of last year, Gu Wei has begun to sell off the remaining 80,000 Bitcoins in his hands.

At the current market price of 6,000 yuan each, as many as 20,000 pieces were sold within 4 months.

He did not keep the funds he received.

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 stocks and Tencent stocks on the Hong Kong stock market.

At this time, Moutai's stock price is about 140 yuan per share, and it will probably have more than ten times the income in 8 years.

The price of Tengxun shares listed on the Hong Kong stock market at this time was about 70 Hong Kong dollars per share. Eight years later, it was probably less than 400 Hong Kong dollars. It seemed that it had increased more than five times, but it was not.

In April 2014, Tencent split the stocks listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, splitting 1 for 5.

In other words, the 100 shares originally worth HK$7,000 in your hand will become 500 shares after the split, but the value remains unchanged at HK$7,000, and the unit price will drop to 14 yuan per share.

When it reaches 400 yuan per share, it will not be 5 times, but 25 times.

Gu Wei regards these two investments as a guarantee to keep the bottom of the box. Just like the investment in [ByteDance], it will not be moved easily.

That afternoon, Gu Wei took the time to shoot the cover of [Popular Film] magazine.

[Popular Film] was founded in June 1950. It is the oldest and most influential popular film 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.

Inviting Gu Wei as the cover character of this season is also due to the blessing given by his dual identity as an actor and director in the box office hit "Detective Chinatown".