Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 436 Kuaishou Live Broadcast
The National Day celebrations are held every ten years. In addition, we are currently in a critical period of the trade war with the United States, so the 70th anniversary can be said to be quite grand.

As early as August, the core area of the ceremony had already begun to be closed for construction, and two days before the ceremony, the entire main road was under control.

On the day of the National Day, except for a small number of special personnel who have obtained permission, all citizens who want to watch the ceremony can only enter by public transportation or on foot.

Meng Ziyi: [Uncle, I feel that the novels and TV dramas I have read before have weakened the concept of "tens of thousands of troops". Today is the first time I feel how spectacular it is to see tens of thousands of people lining up together.]

Meng Bai: [It costs money to really create the effect of "2019-man army". Guess why in , the big scenes of anti-Japanese war movies are still using the shots of the "Great Battle" trilogy? ]

Meng Ziyi: [You can use special effects. ]

Meng Bai: [Special effects that can achieve the desired effect are also very expensive. Are you and Xiao Yang still waiting in line? ]

Meng Ziyi: [I just came in after passing security check. Uncle, do you not have to queue? ]

Meng Bai: [I followed the leader’s car and got in.]

Meng Ziyi: [Ahhhh! Envy, jealousy and hatred! We worked so hard to get here!!!]

Meng Bai: [Don't be so excited. I just saved a little more space than you guys. It still takes a long time to walk inside. And our viewing area is in the middle, not much closer than yours.]

Meng Ziyi: [Well, hearing you say that makes me feel much better. Then you can walk slowly. Chaoyue and I need to find a place.]

Looking at the emojis sent by Meng Ziyi on WeChat, Meng Bai smiled and put away his phone. He leaned back on the back of the small sightseeing car, accompanied by the warm breeze, looking at the Tiananmen Square in the distance, which was already filled with people.

Meng Bai actually didn't lie to Meng Ziyi. The car he was riding in did stop after passing the outer perimeter, but there was still a small sightseeing bus that took them further inside.

After all, among the invited guests, there were few young people like him who were only thirty years old and in their prime. Most of them were elderly people in their fifties, sixties, or even seventies or eighties. If these people were asked to walk several kilometers to the viewing area, the medical team present today would probably not be enough.

Of course, we can't be so extravagant as to provide one car per person. Basically, we send one trip to each viewing area once there are enough people.

The people in Meng Bai's car are basically private entrepreneurs from various fields. He recognized Lenovo's CEO Yanagawa Takashi, Gree's Dong Mingzhu, Hillhouse Capital's Zhang Lei, Sequoia China's Shen Nanpeng, and many others.

In fact, he had just seen Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, but he was of a higher status and was invited to participate in today's float parade, so he was not in the same direction as them.

But he is not the only one with a young face, like the man sitting next to him who is broadcasting live.

"Boss Meng, I've heard of your name for a long time, and today I finally have the chance to meet you."

As soon as the man got in the car, he started chatting with Meng Bai enthusiastically.

"Mr. Su, you're too polite." Meng Bai smiled politely and nodded.

Although it was the first time they met, he had an impression of this man, Su Hua, the co-founder of Kuaishou Technology.

When Qiming Venture Partners was looking for investment projects, they also considered Kuaishou. Unfortunately, by then, the company had already completed four rounds of financing and was highly regarded by the capital market, so they did not have the opportunity to invest in it, and thus missed the opportunity.

However, it turns out that his vision was right. With the explosion of short videos in the past two years, Kuaishou and Douyin have become the two major players in the short video field, and they are known as "Douyin in the south and Kuaishou in the north, the two masters of the SB world".

Uh, the latter sentence is an online comment and does not represent the official views of ArcLight Pictures.

"Mr. Su, are you broadcasting live?" Meng Bai looked at the various rumors and comments that flashed across the other person's mobile phone screen.

Su Hua nodded: "Yes, we at Kuaishou are cooperating with CCTV this time to broadcast the entire National Day military parade simultaneously. My colleagues in the operations department said that there was a shortage of camera positions for the viewing platform, so I said that it would be a good opportunity for me to do the live broadcast, and it would also save a spot for the anchor, hahahaha..."

After laughing heartily a few times, Su Hua looked at his live broadcast room. Then he found that many people in the comment section had begun to ask if the person next to him was the "Mr. Meng" from Arc Light Film and Television.

"That's right, my friends. It's a coincidence that I happen to be sitting with Mr. Meng."

Su Hua explained with a smile, then covered the microphone and looked at Meng Bai, lowering his voice and saying, "Mr. Meng, I have a lot of friends who watch the live broadcast asking you, are you interested in saying hello?"

Meng Bai was stunned when he suddenly received the invitation: "I don't have any problem, but I guess not many people know me."

"Hey, Mr. Meng, you really underestimate your popularity." Su Hua said with a smile: "According to the big data entry statistics in our backend, Mr. Meng's popularity index ranks among the top among domestic entrepreneurs."

“I’m afraid most of them are driven by various entertainment gossip marketing accounts.” Meng Bai said with a smile.

However, he did not reject Su Hua's invitation. After the other party turned the live broadcast phone over, he smiled heartily and said to the camera: "Hello, everyone on Kuaishou, I am Meng Bai from Arclight Films."

Su Hua was right. Almost at the moment when Meng Bai appeared, the message area of the entire live broadcast interface started jumping rapidly as if the screen was refreshed.

"Fuck, it's really Meng Bai!"

"My friends, this is awesome! I didn't expect to see Mr. Meng here. It seems that among all the bosses invited to the event today, he is the only one in the film and television industry."

"Mr. Meng, do you have any gossip to share with us?"

"User '天下' gave away a [Romantic Cruise]!"

"..."

Meng Bai looked at the special effects that suddenly appeared on the screen and said without hesitation: "Thanks to this audience friend named 'Tianxia' for the gift. I would like to thank everyone on behalf of Mr. Su!"

Hearing Meng Bai's sudden thanks, Su Hua was startled: "Hey, didn't I turn off the gift giving... Oh, it seems that I really didn't turn it off."

He quickly operated for a while, and at the same time quickly told the users in the live broadcast room: "We understand everyone's intentions. There is no need to send gifts, just leave a message. We will return the money for the gift to this user friend later."

Although it was a personal live broadcast, Su Hua is a senior executive of Kuaishou after all. Today is the National Day, and if users are allowed to give rewards freely, it will definitely cause a storm in the future.

At this time, the sightseeing bus was about to reach the edge of the viewing area, and people had to walk a short distance after getting off the bus. Su Hua also took this opportunity to tell the users in the live broadcast room to pause the live broadcast and continue it after arriving at the location.

Watching the other party's skilled operation, Meng Bai on the side smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Mr. Su is also experienced in live broadcasting."

"Well, as an Internet company, we need to understand all the business."

Compared with the traditional business tycoons present today, Su Hua and Meng Bai, who both belong to the emerging Internet camp and are in the field of entertainment, are obviously more talked about.

“…It’s said that among short video platforms, Kuaishou and Douyin share the market equally, but in fact, Zhang Yiming has gone much further than us.”

Talking about the market, Su Hua shook his head and said with emotion: "Not to mention the domestic market, ByteDance's Tik Tok has been conquering overseas and its influence is approaching that of Facebook and Twitter. Perhaps in a few years, Tik Tok will be the world's largest Internet information platform." "But in the domestic market, Kuaishou still has a good share." Meng Bai said.

"It seems okay now, but it's hard to say what will happen in the future. From the very beginning, the positioning of the two sides has been different. Douyin's high-end style in first- and second-tier cities can easily attract users from more levels." Su Hua said directly without any concealment.

Meng Bai was meeting for the first time and they were not familiar with each other, so he could only be polite and say, "Not necessarily. The sinking market is still very large. Just like Pinduoduo, isn't it starting to catch up with JD.com?"

"E-commerce and short videos are different. After all, the former requires real money, and users are price sensitive. But short videos are free. Whether in first- and second-tier cities or sixth- and seventh-tier small towns, the cost for users is the same, so everyone will definitely pursue higher prices."

That’s true, Meng Bai agreed in his heart.

People will always unconsciously pursue a higher-end lifestyle. Kuaishou's main user groups are small cities and county towns and rural areas after the third tier, while Douyin has been positioned as a first-tier trend from the beginning.

In the early stages, the former will naturally develop faster. After all, short videos, an efficient but low-information entertainment method, are obviously more suitable for the needs of the sinking market.

But in the later stage, when short video users begin to pursue higher standards, they will spontaneously flock to Douyin. After all, it allows them to get closer to the scenery of first-tier cities.

Anyway, watching short videos is free, and watching a beautiful girl with white skin, thin waist and long legs wearing black stockings dancing is obviously more interesting than watching a group of spirited girls wearing tight pants and tattoos dancing. After all, the latter do not need to go online, they can go to the town for a stroll, and maybe they can see the live version in an open space somewhere.

However, these are scenes that will only appear when the short video market reaches its limit in the future and enters a state of stock competition. For Kuaishou at present, their biggest problem is the lack of traffic monetization ability.

In fact, as a huge traffic portal, the short video platform is very similar to QQ in the early days of the Internet. Tencent also couldn’t find a way to monetize it at the beginning, and even wanted to sell QQ for millions of yuan.

Fortunately, the huge blue ocean market of online games was discovered later, which completely revitalized Tencent's entire traffic system.

The same is true for today's short video platforms, but they no longer have opportunities in the gaming market. In fact, live streaming and e-commerce are more suitable for them.

Both Douyin and Kuaishou have been trying to expand into the e-commerce field since this year. However, there is JD.com at the high end, Taobao at the mid-end, and Pinduoduo at the low end. Although they have huge traffic, it is still difficult for them to develop.

It is unclear what ByteDance’s current plans are, but Kuaishou is not considering the independent development model, but instead is planning to cooperate with several existing e-commerce platforms.

Among the current leading platforms, the most suitable one is undoubtedly Pinduoduo, which also focuses on the sinking market.

Hearing this, Meng Bai finally understood. This guy had been talking for a long time along the way, and he also talked a lot about the internal situation of their company. It seemed that he was waiting here.

"Mr. Su may have some misunderstandings." Meng Bai said: "Although I am a shareholder of Pinduoduo, I am not responsible for the actual operation and management, and I am not even on the board of directors. If you really want to cooperate, you still have to talk to Mr. Huang."

"Haha, sorry, Mr. Meng, I didn't explain it clearly." Su Hua explained: "I didn't want to discuss cooperation with Mr. Meng directly, but we just happened to talk about this today, so I wanted to ask Mr. Meng to help introduce me."

After that, he smiled and said, "It's better to let us know first than to go to them dryly. Besides, Arclight and we are both in the entertainment industry. It's possible that we can cooperate with Meng Ge in the future if we can get to know him."

Meng Bai's mind actually moved when he heard this, and an idea came to his mind. However, the current occasion was not suitable, and it was not appropriate to talk too much since it was their first meeting today, so he temporarily suppressed the idea in his mind.

"If it's just a recommendation, then there's no problem." Meng Bai said, "I'll talk to Mr. Huang tomorrow to see if there's any chance for us to reach a cooperation."

"Haha, okay, thank you very much, Mr. Meng."

With a common goal, the two of them became more familiar with each other than when they first met. While chatting about other topics, they slowly walked to the viewing area.

The seats in the viewing area had been arranged in advance. Meng Bai picked a place to sit down and then looked around.

It’s true that what Director Nie said was true. His area was just behind the national flag in the square, only about a hundred meters away from the main road, and the view was quite good.

In early October, the weather in northern Beijing was still a bit hot. As tens of thousands of people slowly entered the square, the atmosphere on the scene began to heat up.

It was not until ten o'clock in the morning, with the roar of 70 cannon salutes, that the 70th anniversary National Day celebration officially began.

The first part was of course the traditional flag-raising, national anthem and leader's speech, except that the leader who gave the speech was the highest-ranking one. However, including Meng Bai, everyone present was most concerned about the upcoming military parade.

It has to be said that the country has spent a lot of money on this military parade. The rumored Dongfeng 17 and Dongfeng 41 have appeared one after another, as well as the Gong 11 stealth fighter, the Lijian UAV, the J-20 formation, the Y-20 Kunpeng transport aircraft...

It’s a pity that I didn’t see the H-20.

However, in addition to these cool air force equipment, Meng Bai is also very interested in the information warfare modules of up to four formations.

For a long time, the spectrum band has been called the fourth territory after land, sea and sky, and its meaning is roughly equivalent to the field of vision in MOBA games.

Once the enemy invades and occupies the battlefield during combat, the entire battlefield will be filled with "fog of war" for the invaded party, while the enemy will be like "iseedeadpeople".

However, looking at the full-area, three-dimensional anti-interference equipment that appeared at the military parade, Meng Bai felt sorry for Liu Cixin. He was afraid that "Full-band Blocking Interference" would have no chance of being adapted in the future.

As he himself said, once real technology exceeds the creator's imagination, the value of science fiction will disappear.

Just when he was thinking about borrowing some ideas from the equipment in the military parade to see if it could be added to "The Wandering Earth 2", his WeChat suddenly rang.

After a quick look, he saw that Wu Jing had created a group for him and Guo Fan, in which a lot of photos of the scene were posted.

Wu Jing: [Look at this real thing, it's definitely better than the props we used to build the scenery! ]

Meng Bai: [If what we make can be better than the real thing, then we shouldn’t make a movie. ]

Guo Fan: [Fuck, you two were both there, am I the only one who didn’t go? ]

Wu Jing: [It’s okay. The scene is far away, so you can see it more clearly through the live TV camera.]

Meng Bai: [I was just thinking, should the setting of our second part be bolder? After all, with these real things for comparison, the audience's threshold has been raised. If we don't create some big scenes, I'm afraid it will be difficult to satisfy everyone.]

Guo Fan: [How big a scene do you want? ]

Meng Bai: [What about space elevators and space fleets? Arrange them all. ]

Wu Jing: [You can also try using close-in anti-aircraft guns to shoot down meteorites. I think that would be a pretty cool scene.]

Guo Fan: [……]

Guo Fan: [Stop talking, I’m going to work.jpg]

(End of this chapter)