Poverty alleviation variety show goes to the countryside, my talent can no longer be hidden

Chapter 442 is just outrageous!
Youying is going to lay off the online movie team!
This news came like a bolt from the blue, shocking the entire industry and leaving everyone in the "Those Years" crew stunned.

Are you kidding us?
We are busy with the filming here, and now you tell me you want to lay off the online movie team?
What the hell!
After receiving this news, Zhou Hao immediately paused the filming... Anyway, everyone was in a panic and it was impossible to film normally.

After returning to the hotel, he personally called the president's office of Youying to get the most basic information.

The final news he received made him a little depressed.

The news about laying off the online movie team is not false, and such voices have indeed been heard within Youying.

The reason is very simple - at the shareholders' meeting at the beginning of the new year, some people expressed concerns about the continued losses of the online department.

Online movies and online dramas entered the streaming media market almost at the same time. It turns out that the two are a pair of brothers in distress, both of which are bottomless pits of losing money.

However, with the three consecutive hits of Penguin's online dramas, online dramas have seen the dawn of profitability, leaving only online movies still struggling in the quagmire of losses.

Capital is not actually afraid of short-term losses, but is afraid of not being able to see the future.

Without the hope of profit, no matter how much money you have, it will not be enough!
This is the dilemma that online movies are facing now - with the various forms of Internet capital intertwining and the proliferation of cinemas across the country, the cost of offline movie watching continues to decline, while the movie watching experience is rising sharply.

As long as you are willing to spend some time to get coupons and take advantage of the discounts, you can enter the cinema to watch a movie for an average of 20 to 30 yuan per person, and the student price can even be half off!

Even for blockbuster movies released during popular periods, ticket prices generally do not exceed forty... Considering the current income level of Chinese people, this level of consumption is completely within their affordable range.

In comparison, the disadvantages of online universities are too great.

First of all, the limitation of hardware conditions determines that the movie-watching experience is not on the same level.

Having a 60-70-inch TV at home is already quite luxurious, but compared with the big screen in offline cinemas, it is still just a piece of tofu and the effect is far inferior.

Moreover, watching movies itself has certain social attributes. You laugh together when watching a comedy, and cry together when watching a tearjerker...these are all part of the movie-watching experience.

But these things cannot be provided in online movies.

In terms of charging standards, streaming media platforms currently generally adopt the same set of rules - new movies require movie tickets, which are generally 10 yuan per ticket for non-members, while members can get a half-price discount.

After a few months of squeezing out the first wave of box office potential, the movie will be put into the member resource library, and VIP users can watch it for free...

The only two significant advantages of this process are that you can watch movies anytime and anywhere, and it is cheap.

However, this first advantage is completely lost due to the poor quality of the film.

You can't even produce a good movie, so wouldn't it be nice if I used that spare time to play some mobile games?

The second advantage is also being eroded by the continuous price cuts of cinema movies.

You can go watch a movie offline for just over twenty dollars, so why should I stay at home watching movies online on my computer?
Do I need that dozen bucks?

Besides, your film is not good!

So in the past two years, the big data of the Big Three's Internet data has been like Wang Xiaoer's New Year, getting worse every year.

Moreover, there is no sign of stopping the decline, and there is no hope of making a profit at all.

Every year, people say that online movies can make money, but every year they just keep burning money...

The shareholders of Youying finally couldn't stand it anymore. Since there was no hope of making a profit, why not just lay off the company?
Streamline resources and reallocate them to invest human and financial resources in areas with greater profit potential.

What do you want to do with the artists under your company?
Let’s take him to make a movie in theaters!

What do you think we should do with Zhou Hao who was just signed?
Shoot web series, since that is his specialty anyway. After laying off the web drama team, the resources saved in a year can be used for him to produce several hit dramas!

The plan goes through!
However, all of this is still only in the discussion stage and has not been truly confirmed, let alone implemented.

After all, this matter is of too huge a magnitude. After all, there are so many practitioners under Youying who make a living from movies, and reallocating resources is definitely a hassle.

In comparison, the life and death of "Those Years" can even be considered a minor issue.

If this matter is not handled properly, it is likely to lead to a series of problems.

But even while it was still in the discussion stage, Zhou Hao was still speechless because of this drama.

Just as they spent huge sums of money to sign him to shoot an online movie, they held a meeting right after to discuss laying off the online movie team... It's fucking outrageous.

It is conceivable how chaotic the internal management of this platform is.

It’s no wonder that despite having the financial support of the former richest man and all kinds of channels that make his peers salivate, he ended up being the last among the three big names…

It’s not unfair, it’s really not unfair at all.

Such a fucking amateur!

After learning the news, Zhou Hao had no intention of continuing filming and directly announced the suspension of filming and waited for follow-up news.

By then, he had put so much effort into making the film, but the online movie team at Youying was simply disbanded... That would be too funny.

Take a break and decide on the follow-up plan once you have a detailed explanation.

However, the crew's suspension of work does not mean rest, and his work focus has returned to the novel.

After the initial period of doubt, the performance of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" has begun to soar, significantly breaking various records in the suspense-themed field in the online literature circle.

This novel subject matter, combined with the bold and retro first-person writing style, has made many readers feel an unprecedented sense of freshness and excitement.

With the good memories of the last time, Zhang Hong also seized the opportunity to reach a cooperation agreement with Douyin to help Zhou Hao promote the novel.

Soon, all kinds of short videos appeared on Douyin...

Facts have proved that Douyin’s traffic-generating effect is comparable to Miaobi’s top recommendations, and the number of new readers pouring in has directly stunned Miaobi’s officials.

Too scary!

According to the internal large-scale model calculation, the first order of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" is likely to exceed 70,000!

And this was achieved without using any recommended resources in the entire book!

The power of the Supreme God is so terrifying!
After spending a week in seclusion writing a novel, Zhang Hong found Zhou Hao and brought the latest response from Youying.

"Youying said that it will maintain operations for two quarters at most. Unless it can see the possibility of profitability during this period, it will officially start the plan to lay off the online movie team."

Two quarters, or six months.

Zhou Hao thought for a moment, "So, we still have time?"

"That's right." Zhang Hong said seriously, "To some extent, your film will directly determine the life and death of a department. If your film loses money, the Youying film team may also be gone."

(End of this chapter)