fantasy entertainment empire

Chapter 66 Second Season

The day after Ye Jiayi resigned, Fan Zhe also found out.

The person who told him was the middle-aged man named Zhang Xinhua who had contacted him at Rainbow Investment.

That guy called and asked Fan Zhe and Ye Jiayi's relationship in surprise, and revealed the news of Ye Jiayi's resignation.

Hearing this, Fan Zhe was immediately in no mood to talk nonsense with Zhang Xinhua, and after dismissing him with a few casual words, he immediately reached Ye Jiayi's cell phone with a call.

After connecting, Fan Zhe immediately asked: "Have you resigned?"

"Your news is also very fast."

"Is it because you participated in the negotiation?" Fan Zhe ignored the others and directly asked the core of what he wanted to ask.

I just accompanied myself to complete the negotiation with Penguin and Station B, and then I left the job two days later. Why doesn't this matter remind people?
Fan Zhe felt guilty in his heart, he should have thought of this problem long ago, and shouldn't take chances.

"No, you're thinking too much." Ye Jiayi flatly denied it.

But Fan Zhe knew her well, he knew that with Ye Jiayi's personality, it would be strange to admit such things easily.

Struggling on this issue, but getting no results, Fan Zhe asked directly: "What are your plans for the future?"

"I haven't thought about it yet." Ye Jiayi said, "It's possible to take a break for a while. If there is a suitable job, I don't rule out starting work right away."

"Well, it's good to have a plan."

"Do you have anything else to do?"

"Yes." Fan Zhe said, "If you've had enough rest, why don't you come to my place? It's easy to talk about the salary. No matter who pays you how much, I will give you a 20.00% premium, or you can directly pay the price you paid in 'Tianhong'." Double your salary, except for projects and development, everything else is up to you.”

Fan Zhe's invitation was beyond Ye Jiayi's expectation, she didn't know how to answer for a while.

In the end, Ye Jiayi still did not agree to Fan Zhe.

Nor did it refuse.

"I'm not thinking about work for now. I'm going to take a vacation during this time, rest for a while, and then think about other things."

Fan Zhe did not do too much reluctance.

But he really wanted Ye Jiayi to join, not talking nonsense.In terms of ability alone, she is really a very good manager.

……

"The second season of "Special Events Task Force" is confirmed to return! Are you ready to laugh and hurt your stomach?"

"Created by the original crew, this animation with a very different style is coming back, and it will meet the audience in April at the earliest."

"Exorbitant price animation! Cartoon-style animation sold for tens of millions!"

"The upstart in the animation industry! 'Dimension Entertainment' is announcing their power to everyone!"

Reading these reports on the phone, Xia Yuan felt a little bitter in his heart.

In November, when he defied the crowd and jointly purchased the animation copyright of "Task Force" with Penguin Video at a price of 150 million, he was under tremendous pressure.

The outside world is not optimistic. The key is that there are many different voices within the company.

Many people think that it is not worth paying a large amount of cash to buy a cartoon when the company's own financial situation is very bad.

However, the facts slapped everyone in the face.

It has been two months since the "Special Events Task Force" animation was launched.When the last episode was broadcast online, the total number of views has exceeded 2000 million.Up to now, the number of broadcasts has approached 3000 million, and it is about to surpass.

This data does not seem to be gorgeous, it is only 3000 million.In the second season of Guochuang Animation "Under One Man", the total broadcast volume of 24 episodes on Station B exceeded 8000 million; "Working Cells" was serialized to the eighth episode, with a total broadcast volume of nearly [-] million; Nearly [-] million views...

But this reason needs to be considered in many ways.

One is the platform. With the current traffic of station A, how rare is a work with tens of millions of views?
Secondly, the work style of "Task Force" is not the so-called domineering animation, which is inherently limited by the ceiling-not everyone will like this taste.

Coupled with the lack of publicity and distribution in the early stage, the combination of these factors led to the fact that the results of this series did not reach the highest level.

But despite this, even with the current results, buying "Special Events Task Force" is a big deal.

Relying on the sale of the secondary playback rights, even if the proceeds were split by Penguin Video, Station A almost recovered their investment, plus video on-demand and advertisements, it made a lot of money.

More importantly, "Task Force" gave station A a life-saving mouthful.

It has not been a day or two since A was rubbed against the floor by B and various video sites. Thanks to their strong foundation, there are indeed a group of loyal old users. They have not been killed, and they have survived until they are acquired.

But despite this, if they continue to develop according to the previous situation, there is no hope that they will turn around.

But when "Special Events Task Force" came out, it saved my life.

It's rare to have a work that can be regarded as popular, and it was born at Station A, which not only boosted the momentum, but more practically brought him a lot of users and traffic.

For the precarious Station A, this is tantamount to pulling them from the edge of the cliff.

In this way, it is naturally impossible for anyone to say anything about Xia Yuan, and his risky decision-making has also been said to have good vision and foresight.

Compliments from all parties came one after another, and Xia Yuan felt like a spring breeze for a long time.

Until the news of the second season of "Task Force" was released.

Originally, he was advocating to win the second season of animation, and this time, he also received unprecedented support from within the company.

Although the style of "Task Force" is small and there is no need to change this thing, but if the announcement and release keep up with the foundation of the first part, as long as the quality of the second season does not decline, it will definitely produce results.

However, they were full of confidence and were given a slap in the face on the price.

They can't afford tens of millions of investments.

It's not that they can't come up with the money at all, but the key problem is that if they take out tens of millions of cash flow at once, it will bring huge challenges to the operation of the company.

Xia Yuan could only watch helplessly as the popular work slipped away from him.

This pain is worse than being pried away by a girlfriend.

But life is going to pass, Xia Yuan recruited a few staff members, and assigned a task: "Find a few more websites and sell "Special Events Task Force" to a few more. The price can be based on 40 yuan. Properly improve a little bit!"

Earn the money you can earn first.

……

Some people are disappointed and others are happy. Song Wenjie, the content director of Penguin Video, is having dinner with his old friend Kappa.

He is very proud of himself now.

Although the investment of 200 million yuan for the second season animation of "Special Events Task Force" is a bit large, but Bilibili has taken away part of the risk, which is not bad.

In particular, winning the first season of animation made a lot of money for the company.

Recently, he has been praised by the upper-level boss. The boss has decided to give him a further promotion, and the take-away salary will increase.

To celebrate the salary increase, at this moment, he is inviting his old friend Kappa to dinner.

"Oh, I still have to thank you, bro." Lifting his glass, Song Wenjie took a sip, his face was already flushed.

After bumping into Song Wenjie, the Kappa laughed and said, "It smells so good?"

Song Wenjie was stunned for a moment, and immediately became happy again: "It's really fragrant, really fragrant..."

This stalk, he understands.

He still remembers that a few months ago, he didn't want to buy the first season animation of "Special Events Task Force".It was Kappa who tried to save face and used his personal relationship to persuade him to buy it.

At that time, he was quite reluctant, and finally bought it because of his personal relationship with Kappa, and the fact that the two companies belonged to the same family, and they worked together to help.

As a result, I didn't expect that the business that I thought was destined to lose money ended up making a lot of money.

"Fortunately, I listened to you at that time. Otherwise, if the boss knows that I let such a good project slip away, let alone a promotion and salary increase, it will be light to scold me."

"Hey, that's for sure, old brother, how could I cheat you?"

"This dimension of entertainment is really powerful. Before, I felt that they were technically strong. I didn't expect that the works they developed and operated by themselves could have such excellent quality."

Kappa nodded approvingly, and said, "I think this company has great potential in the future. I have met Fan Zhe, he is a very talented guy, and he dares to fight."

(End of this chapter)