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Dennis Zhao is Wang Xiaochuan's classmate. Although he has become an American citizen, for Zhou Buqi, he still has a sense of being his own person and can focus on training.

Before that, he was Zheng Xiaoli’s subordinate, and he led the team to create the Yahoo Finance App.

This time I served as the operating officer of Peacock, which can be regarded as being entrusted with an important task.

Zhou Buqi trusts him more than Hastings.

After that, Hastings became interested in Peacock's business.

Although Netflix and Peacock are competitors in terms of the market, they have a sibling relationship and are both under the command of Boss Zhou, so there is no need to hide many things. People on the Peacock side can ask Hastings for some advice, and Hastings can also learn some new ideas from this new product.

Zhou Buqi does not participate in business matters.

He came here mainly to talk to Zhao Dan. During the process of coming just now, he and Hastings discussed the topic of "splitting the content library".

"To operate Peacock, we must explore experience and summarize some replicable experience." Zhou Buqi made a request, "It must be similar to technology research and development. It must be science and technology, not craftsmanship. It must be To know the cause, you also need to know the effect.”

Zhao Dan came from Ziweixing International, and he knew that the big boss paid special attention to the cloud computing business.

When I heard this, I thought it was related to cloud computing.

Zhao Dan said with a smile: "I understand, I will definitely make a summary, package some key modules, and fully support Ziweiyun in the streaming media business."

"Ah? Zi Weiyun?"

"Well, I can do things that Netflix can't or isn't willing to do. Peacock can share the fruits of success to the maximum extent and improve Ziweiyun's service level in the field of streaming media, so that Ziweiyun can firmly control this market.”

"No, no, that's not what I meant."

Zhou Buqi suddenly realized that this guy had misunderstood.

He thought he wanted to use Peacock to summarize experiences and lessons learned, package some replicable and universal modules into streaming media cloud services and provide them to Ziweiyun, so that Ziweiyun can serve more streaming media platforms.

This is indeed a good angle.

This can greatly reduce Ziweiyun's R\u0026D costs and improve efficiency in the industrial structure; it can also increase Ziweiyun's popularity in the field of film and television streaming media, and demonstrate the entrepreneurial spirit of sharing and open source on the Internet.

However, this is not the purpose of Zhou Buqi coming here.

If you have such a lofty ambition, you can just say it in a big way. There is no need to go to his office and say it secretly behind closed doors.

Zhou Buqi said: "What I mean is that Peacock should play a role as a link between the past and the future."

"The connection between the past and the next?" Zhao Dan was startled for a moment, and said slowly and thoughtfully, "The connection above... is the successor to Netflix. What is the connection between the past and the next? Will we have a new streaming media platform after Peacock?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Maybe there is such a plan."

"Ah?" Zhao Dan was shocked, "Is it true?"

Zhou Buqi didn't mind telling him some secrets. After all, he was one of his own. The stocks he held in Ziweixing International were much larger than those in Ziweixing Global. He said frankly: "Maybe in a few years, Yahoo will be fully "Revival, after achieving success in various displays, will launch a 'Yahoo Movies' product."

Zhao Dan took a deep breath, "Yahoo Movies, a new film and television streaming product!"

Zhou Buqi said "hmm" and said, "At present, this is a feasible plan. The streaming media industry will completely replace the traditional TV industry in the future. This is a major trend. Only relying on these dozen or so streaming media on the market Media products must not meet market demand.”

Zhao Dan asked: "But what about the content library?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Split it up."

"Well……"

Zhao Dan was speechless.

The film and television content library is the greatest competitiveness of streaming media products. Peacock’s explosive success is because it has the largest and most abundant content library behind it!

In the past five or six years, Zhou Buqi has been most concerned about the content library of Ziweixing Global's business.

He has created a shockingly huge content library that is second to none in the world!

Has 12,000 movies and 220,000 TV show episodes!

Mainly consists of three parts.

First, MGM.

Includes 5,000 movies and 100,000 TV show episodes.

Although MGM has gone through ups and downs and almost went bankrupt, MGM is as skinny as a camel than a horse. Among the seven traditional Hollywood studios, MGM still has the largest film library. . It's just that 90% of MGM's film library consists of very old films, all from the golden age of Hollywood before the 1980s. Many of them are black and white films or even silent films, and the value of the works is not very high.

According to the plan, MGM’s film library will exclusively supply Netflix in the future.

In the next year, Netflix will pay US$1.02 billion in copyright fees to Ziweixing Global to obtain all film and television licenses from MGM and its subsidiary Summit Entertainment. The price of rights goes up every year and it’s a lot of money.

Second, Universal Pictures.

Universal Pictures has 4,000 movies and 70,000 TV episodes. It is smaller than MGM, but its value is far better than MGM. In particular, the three major players, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and DreamWorks Animation, are all included in the Universal Pictures system, which further enhances the value of this film library.

According to the plan, Universal Pictures’ film library will exclusively supply Peacock in the future.

Peacock itself is positioned as a streaming media platform built on the assets of Universal Pictures.

Third, foreign copyright.

The so-called foreign copyright refers to some film and television content purchased by Zhou Buqi's authorized procurement department in the past few years at a cost of nearly 10 billion US dollars in the global field, such as the classic movies "Braveheart" and "Cat and Mouse" "Pulp Fiction", "Cold Mountain", "Chicago", "Heroes", etc., as well as "Game of Thrones", "Breaking Bad", "The Walking Dead", "The Big Bang Theory" and other popular American dramas that have bought out the streaming rights.

The content in this part is extremely valuable and large in scale, with more than 3,000 movies and 50,000 TV shows.

For the time being, these future copyrights will be licensed to both Netflix and Peacock.

This creates some waste.

There is too much content and the subscription fee is too low.

It is necessary to spin off the external copyrights of this third part, pull them out separately, establish a new streaming media platform, harvest them again... and charge them again.

The initial plan is to establish a streaming media platform such as "Yahoo Movies", with a content library based on "foreign copyrights", supplemented by some self-made dramas. Even technology companies like Amazon and Apple, which have no film and television libraries at all, can start streaming media business to enter the film and television market. Zhou Buqi has so many high-quality resources, it will only be easier for him to do it.

Zhao Dan understood what the big boss meant and narrowed his eyes slightly, "It should be like this, the subscription fee is very low. With so much content, although it can enhance the competitiveness of the streaming platform, it will also greatly reduce the value of the film and television content. "

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Ziweixing Global's content library is huge enough. Let alone support three streaming media platforms. If we are ruthless, it will not be a problem to support seven or eight."

Zhao Dan laughed.

Somewhat heartless.

This is a bit too capitalist.

But this is the United States, and it is impossible for any of these foreign film and television streaming platforms to enter the domestic market. Harvesting foreign users makes each other feel at ease, it is nothing more than making money. Besides, compared to other streaming media platforms, Boss Zhou is already conscientious enough.

Zhou Buqi drew a big picture again, "You came from Yahoo. Zheng Xiaoli also mentioned you to me yesterday, saying that you did a good job in Peacock. However, there is a reality you have to face. . You are the COO of Peacock, and you want to be promoted to CEO in a few years. Peacock is a project led by Jason Kilar, who appointed David Lee as CEO. Also an Internet person.”

Zhao Dan nodded, "Yes, I know."

Zhou Buqi said: "So, if you want to lead a big project and become the CEO of a streaming media product, it may be more difficult to stay dormant here at Peacock."

Zhao Dan's eyes lit up, "Will I have a chance to return to Yahoo in the future?"

"It's not impossible, so I tell you, while working at Peacock, you must sum up experience and explore the rules of the industry." Zhou Buqi gave him the care of a direct relative, "If you really want to do Yahoo in the future, For this film and television project, you are the first choice.”

"Okay! I understand!"

Zhao Dan immediately felt that his future was bright.