My Animation Era

  Chapter 457 Wanbao Video's listing plan (seeking subscription)

  Pili Pili Barrage video website was established in 2009, and Wanbao Video was established in 2011.

  Because of its earlier establishment and better community atmosphere, even though Wanbao Video has been catching up in the past two years, its user base is still an order of magnitude behind.

  Why is the playback volume of the other party lower?

  Work quality problem?

  This possibility is very low, basically impossible. You must know that Pili Pili and Wanbao Video are "competitors". How can the quality of works that can be promoted by them be poor?

   After all, this is fighting!

  The two websites are competing with each other for users. At this critical juncture, the quality of the animation works promoted by the websites is definitely among the best in the same period.

   Gu Miao also watched the first episode of the anime called "Reincarnated Prince, This Country Is All Girls Except Me".

   It feels okay.

   It can’t be said that it looks better than "The Beginning Elf, I Was Confessed by the Elf Patriarch", but the two should be at the same level, and the gap cannot be widened.

   Then there is a problem with the playback volume.

   After excluding various external factors, Gu Miao learned the answer from the technical department.

  Algorithms are different!

   That's right! The calculation method of video views on Perak Perak is different from that on Wanbao Video.

   To be more precise, the Wanbao video website is not rigorous enough. As long as the user clicks on the video, whether he watched it for 1 second or 1 hour, it is counted as one playback.

   This creates a great deal of moisture.

  In contrast to competitors, they value a "completion rate" data. In other words, the calculation of the playback volume requires the user to "watch the video" or "watch more than half of it".

   "This is good, you can learn it."

  After Gu Miao learned the truth of the matter, she immediately asked the technical team to upgrade Wanbao Video's existing playback volume algorithm to remove excess water and make the data more intuitive and reliable.

  The technical team is also very strong.

  After receiving Mr. Gu's instructions, he quickly came up with a new playback volume algorithm. And according to this algorithm, recalculated and counted the playback volume of the animation "Start of the Beginning Spirit".

  The result shows, 7.682 million!

   "Phew! Scared me to death..."

  Lao Zhang said frightenedly at the side: "I thought that if the moisture was removed, our playback volume would have to be cut in half, and only about half was left! I didn't expect that after updating the algorithm, there would be more than seven million."

   "This gap is acceptable."

  Gu Miao was also very satisfied. Judging from the amount of views, the gap between Wanbao Video and Pili Pili as the site's main animation is getting smaller and smaller.

   It can even be said that the number of users of the two companies is almost at the same level.

   This is definitely good news.

   You know, there are only so many fan users on the whole network who like two-dimensional animation works. If Wanbao Video wants to develop, it must eat the share of its friends.

   Now, Wanbao Video has accumulated so many users from scratch, relying on the many explosive and phenomenal animation works of Wanbao Animation, and the contribution of friends and businessmen is definitely not low.

   "But Mr. Gu..."

  Although Lao Zhang is also very optimistic about the future prospects of Wanbao Video, he said very painfully: "We have lost too much to build this kind of website!"

  Wanbao Video has been established for two years.

  During these two years, almost every year, every quarter and every month, they were all in a state of net loss. And the amount of losses is increasing year by year.

  Before, Gu Miao kept diluting her own shares and introduced several strategic investors.

   Ideas are good.

  Including Mr. Tan, Mr. Xiong and others, they all made a symbolic investment in Wanbao Video and became shareholders.

  However, with the increase in the amount of losses on the website, there is no hope of making a profit, and the listing is nowhere in sight. These shareholders have the idea of ​​​​"divestment".

   "This kid surnamed Gu, don't look honest, but he has a bad stomach..."

Old Xiong is always cursing. As a shareholder, he said mercilessly at the last board meeting: "The big guy trusts you, so he invests in your company, but you lose money every month, every year, when will you lose money?" ?”

   "Give me back the money, I won't play anymore..."

   "Whether you want money or not, you need to die! Boss Xiong has been in the industry for so many years, hasn't he heard a word?" Gu Miao laughed and said, "Investment is risky, so you need to be cautious when entering the industry!"

   "What's more, we are losing money, and others are losing money too! Of these companies that operate video websites, which one is not losing money to accumulate users?"

  Worried that Wanbao Video has been losing money year after year, and the amount is getting higher year by year, which will scare away these investors... so Gu Miao will give them a picture.

   "Three years! Three more years at most. When we secure the top spot in the domestic two-dimensional video website, we will go to the market and let you recover."

  To be honest, Gu Miao also felt distressed.

  His money did not come from strong winds. He lost money every month and year after year, and he could not see the endless investment of hope at all. After a long time, he also felt flustered.

the most important is…

   As far as the video website is concerned, to be honest, it is really, really hard to make money. Didn’t Bilibili in the previous life only make money by playing around with “mobile games” and “membership purchases”?

  Even so, I still can’t make ends meet, losing money every year and the stock price drops so much that my mother doesn’t recognize it.

   In comparison, Wanbao Video is better.

  Although they are also losing money, the loss is still within an acceptable range because most of the websites are "self-made animations" and they didn't spend too much money to buy copyrights.

   "Don't worry, Zhang!"

   Gently patted Lao Zhang on the shoulder, Gu Miao said firmly: "Don't worry about the shareholders, I have already done ideological work for them."

   "As for the loss, anyway, we can afford it, so let's lose it. Everyone is losing money, and it depends on who can have the last laugh."

   "That's true..."

  Old Zhang nodded, as if he had thought of something, and said with embarrassment: "By the way, Mr. Gu, I almost forgot to mention it. There seems to be an animation investment company established on the side of Perak Perak."

  They also make self-made animation?

   Really amazing!

   I have heard before that Pili Pili seems to intend to develop in animation production. Gu Miao had always regarded this as a rumor before, but she never thought that they would come to the truth.

   Now, Wanbao Video is backed by Wanbao Animation and Beep Comics, and Penguin Video is backed by Plum Blossom Animation, Penguin Novels, and Penguin Comics.

  Pili Pili also established an animation investment department, determined to make a big splash in the field of animation production...

  Almost half of the domestic video sites have personally finished and participated in animation production.

  The competition is getting fiercer!

  Although for Wanbao, these video sites cross-industry to engage in animation, probably will not have any impact.

  But Gu Miao was still looking forward to it.

   These video websites, the capital of the Internet, and stepping into the field of animation production, what kind of changes will it bring to the Chinese comic industry?

   It should be very lively!

  (end of this chapter)