This actor has something

Chapter 480 Online Copyrights Are Starting to Be Valuable

Zhou Huimin looked at He Daqi with great surprise; the last time she was this surprised was before.

The explosive popularity of Love Apartment surprised many people, and even the executives of Ya Yue did not expect it to be so popular. They did think that the project that He Daqi had specifically instructed them to should have something, but no matter how everyone looked at it, they only felt that the TV series was relatively novel.

To understand this, Ya Yue even conducted a questionnaire survey to see why Love Apartment became so popular.

Ratings are no longer a reliable indicator; current ratings statistics are utterly inaccurate, and using them as a reference is simply unreliable. Instead, a new, unconventional statistic is worth considering: video views.

On the video platform jointly launched by Yabo.com and Tencent, now called Tencent Video, the number of views for "iPartment" is breaking records every day.

Since the show started airing, Tencent Video has paid Ya Yue three times, each time more than the last. This is why Ya Yue wants to figure out why Love Apartment became so popular online. After all, this year's financial report depends on this show. Who would have thought that signing a tiered online copyright contract would actually bring in rewards step by step?

In the large conference room, Liu Ying spoke eloquently about the reasons for the success of Love Apartment, from the preferences of young people to the development of sitcoms.

Sitting in the front row, the main creative team members, all beaming with joy because of the success of Love Apartment, were exchanging glances, clearly having benefited greatly.

Of course, Lu Han, Zhang Jiashuai, Dilraba, and Gulnazar only smiled and didn't seem too excited, unlike the other main creative teams of Love Apartment.

The four of them either had received a face-to-face promise from He Daqi, or had followed Zhou Huimin from the beginning of Yonghui Qiming since childhood, so they had a higher perspective. Although they were happy about the rewards and resources given by the higher-ups of Asia, they only paid a little more attention to them than usual.

In the first row of the conference room, He Daqi, sitting on the far left, ignored Zhou Huimin's surprised gaze and stared straight ahead, somewhat lost in thought.

Unlike the previous times when his soul seemed to suddenly enter another world, this time he only experienced auditory hallucinations and not visual ones. It was as if endless people were saying his name, not intentionally, but just like when people casually mentioned him in everyday conversation. His name was included in a sentence and was heard by He Daqi.

He Daqi...

...He Daqi
He Daqi!
Different emotions, different tones, and even different volumes of sound.

In less than ten seconds, He Daqi felt dizzy and lightheaded. Fortunately, the noisy sound, which had a strange rhythm, suddenly disappeared.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" He Daqi's lips curled up with a gentle smile as he turned to look at Zhou Huimin.

Zhou Huimin seemed oblivious, simply gazing at He Daqi. The morning sunlight streamed in through the window, illuminating half of He Daqi's face, warm and pure. Zhou Huimin suddenly felt a sense of holiness, and after a long while, she replied, "Daqi... you truly resemble a Buddha now."

"is it?"

He Daqi's smile grew even brighter, to the point that Zhou Huimin was somewhat mesmerized by it.

Forget about real businesses, shares, making money, internet companies, movies, and the entertainment industry. At this moment, Zhou Huimin wanted to throw all of that to the back of her mind. As long as He Daqi was willing, she didn't care what he did to squander it all.

However, Zhou Huimin quickly came to her senses because He Daqi gently pinched her nose, like a mischievous male student in class trying to attract the attention of a female classmate in a unique way.

Zhou Huimin suddenly smiled, her smile bright and captivating, dazzling and radiant. Her eyes, which curved into crescent moons with laughter, were fixed on He Daqi. She just smiled and didn't say a word.

After Liu Ying finished speaking, Wang Jinghua spoke, and then Wu Nannan spoke. They talked their minds, which didn't stop He Daqi and his wife from exchanging glances in the left corner of the front row.

Presumably due to the recent successful IPO of Tuhe Color and the boost to Asia Pacific's stock price from Love Apartment, several senior executives of Asia Pacific were in high spirits. A small celebration party actually lasted for an hour and a half. If it weren't for the fact that it's close to the end of the year and there are so many things to do, they probably could have talked for a whole morning.

After the others left the conference room one after another, Liu Ying and the other two relaxed and each found a chair and sat opposite He Daqi and Zhou Huimin.

Only five people remained in the huge conference room, clearly indicating they had something to discuss.

Liu Ying looked around, then smiled and said to He Daqi, "Daqi, after all your efforts, we've discovered new prospects for TV dramas and variety shows. So, our next plan is that Asia-Pacific's film and television production center will no longer prioritize film production, but will increase the proportion of TV dramas."

In addition, the variety show department will receive increased support. I heard from Lu Yang that when you went to South Korea last time, you invited experienced variety show producers from there to help, and Lu Yang and his team learned a lot.

So Hua-jie, Nan-nan, and I discussed it and decided to first collaborate with a few TV stations with low ratings, letting the editorial and variety show departments learn from foreign variety shows, and randomly create a few programs to experiment with, which would also serve as practice.

He Daqi nodded without thinking for long and said, "Let's do it this way."

Clearly, with the increasing popularity of smartphones and He Daqi's pioneering acquisition of the online rights to "iPartment," the management of Yayue has turned their attention to the new prospects of the internet.

Since 2008, the price of online copyrights for film and television dramas has been changing daily. At the beginning of 2008, the online copyright for a popular drama was only 10,000 yuan per episode, which was already much higher than what Liu Ying and Wang Jinghua had paid for it earlier.

As a result, in November 09, Tencent Video wanted to sign a ten-year contract for the copyright of "iPartment 1" for ten million yuan. They had already settled accounts three times during the revenue sharing period. The production of this show only cost a few yuan, but now they were making a fortune just from the copyright. Compared to 08, the difference was more than tenfold.

The same TV series cost 10,000 last year and 100,000 this year. And this isn't even a hit series. If it were a hit series, the production company would dare to ask for at least 150,000.

It's important to understand that most mainstream domestic dramas these days have at least forty episodes. If they weren't high-quality productions, they would have cost around ten million yuan to make if filming started at the beginning of this year. As a result, most of the investment could be recouped just through online rights. If things continue like this, artists' incomes will increase significantly starting next year, because everyone knows that film and television dramas are now profitable, so everyone wants a piece of the pie.

Of course, for the same reason, it's basically impossible to produce a decent drama next year with just 10 million, as you can't afford the actors alone unless you hire all newcomers.

Also, there might be a small adjustment in the middle, which will increase the opportunities for mainland actors because of their cost-effectiveness.

Those with foresight in the entertainment industry know that next year will be incredibly lucrative. This is why He Daqi dared to offer his uncle 20 million yuan this year to film a variety show. After all, he's his uncle, and He Daqi has to give this high-priced train a hand. In the next few years, there will be more wolves than sheep for artists in the industry, with a ton of film and television projects waiting to start. No matter what happens in the future, as long as they earn enough in the next few years, they can retire from the industry whenever they want. He Daqi's move to raise the price for He Bing is quite shrewd. It's easy to imagine that after this year, other artists will definitely try every means to raise their prices. When everyone uses underhanded tactics, there will be plenty of entertainment to watch.

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Sometimes you have to really hurt some bastards before they understand your methods. If you don't break their limbs all at once and then stomp on them from time to time, they'll still sneer at you when they see you in the future.

Of course, if you can hit him hard enough to hurt him in one go, he will be much more obedient.

Huang Bo's current status is decent; he's considered a top-tier star. After all, he's been a box office draw. After the release of Crazy Stone 2, he was considered a rising star. Unfortunately, Ning Hao messed things up for him, delaying his career for half a year with No Man's Land, making his newly risen status very unstable.

Fortunately, he has the backing of Asia-Pacific, so he has plenty of opportunities to shine. However, this is only enough to maintain his current status. If he wants to truly settle down, he needs to make a name for himself again.

Today is a great opportunity. When we arrived, they made it pretty clear that as long as he could show up, they would definitely not let him down. Of course, if possible, it would be best to bring He Daqi along.

Huang Bo didn't want to involve He Daqi anymore. Given how He Daqi and his wife had always caused trouble for others like bean sprouts every few days, Huang Bo was afraid that if he really brought He Daqi along this time, they might get shot in the back.

Thanks to the support and opening up of the mainland in the past two years, the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards have also received similar resources to the Hong Kong Golden Elephant Awards. It is a bit of a pity that He Daqi and his wife were too harsh in the past, so even with the same resources, there is still a big gap between the Golden Horse and the Golden Elephant Awards for the mainland.

Fortunately, this year is different. The Warring States period for video platforms has already begun, with each platform trying its best to find resources, so the live broadcast of the Golden Horse Awards is a pretty good gimmick.

This applies to all parties involved, especially those who are assigned to participate. Coming here is like making an appearance, and at least the movie channel will broadcast it live.

Huang Bo is a social butterfly; he can chat with anyone. Plus, he used to travel all over the country doing bar performances, so he's really mastered the art of interpersonal relationships.

I'm not lonely sitting here now. I'm reading the palm of a Taiwanese actress I just met. If there's anything to be desired, it's that this actress's looks are just average. She's a talented actress, not just a pretty face.

When the cameraman carrying the camera turned around and pointed the lens in their direction, Huang Bo immediately noticed. He had attended award ceremonies in China before, so he knew the specific procedures. He immediately sat up straight, smiled, and looked at the stage.

I must say, Hu Jun has really been traveling around a lot these past two years. Now he's at the Golden Horse Awards to present an award.

Five films were nominated, and four images appeared on the big screen, clearly indicating that one of the people was absent.

“I believe this is the first time in the history of the Golden Horse Awards that such a situation has occurred, with three winners. Do you think I’m seeing things? Now it’s your turn to read the list of winners.” Hu Jun handed the cue card to the female guest next to him.

"Really! This has never happened before. There are actually three winners. The winner of this year's Golden Horse Award for Best Actor is... Zhang Jiahui from The Witness."

"And where is Huang Bo? Congratulations to Huang Bo for winning the award for bullfighting," Hu Jun continued.

"Congratulations! This is the first time in the history of the Golden Horse Awards that there have been three winners, the last one being Painted Skin, He Daqi! Congratulations!"

Upon hearing the name, both Hu Jun and Huang Bo twitched their lips.

Meanwhile, the other mainland actors in the audience also had strange expressions. They understood all too well the meaning of giving He Daqi this award. It wasn't that He Daqi's acting skills were so good, but rather that they wanted to express their attitude.

Otherwise, why would we present the award to He Daqi when he didn't even show up? Didn't you see how enthusiastic the atmosphere was? Everyone was clapping like they'd just won six cents?
These three guys aren't even going to act anymore, it's really impressive that everyone else is still acting so seriously.

"As you all know, my boss, Mr. He, is very busy. He wanted to come to the event, but his schedule just didn't allow it. However, when I came, Mr. He repeatedly told me that if I win an award, I should especially thank the Golden Horse Awards organizers for giving him this opportunity and for gaining everyone's recognition, especially..."

He Daqi was watching the live stream when he saw Huang Bo rattling off a long acceptance speech for him without stopping, which made He Daqi both amused and exasperated.

Bo Ge's performance was entirely improvised; He Daqi really didn't give him any instructions. Who would have thought that even though he didn't go, he would still be given an award? It's like he was trying to climb the social ladder by force.

He Daqi glanced into the system space and saw that the increase in numbers had indeed increased. This was a live broadcast, and not many people watched it these days, so the current increase had not yet reached the peak of this award event.

We'll have to wait another ten days to two weeks to see how much it will increase. Ho Ta-chi didn't have high expectations, because the Golden Horse Awards' reach is limited to the Chinese-speaking entertainment industry, and Ho Ta-chi has already explored almost the entire Chinese-speaking entertainment industry. Those who like Ho Ta-chi will like him even more, and those who don't won't change much.

His phone started ringing, but He Daqi didn't even need to look at it; he knew it was another bunch of people sending congratulatory texts.

I turned off my computer, got up, grabbed my phone, and left the office. I was familiar with the area, so without thinking, I headed straight for the film and television production center.

Right now, Lu Yang is working on the post-production of Infinite Challenge. He Daqi has been coming over frequently lately to help out with ideas and to check on how well Yan Min and Cen Junyi are learning from Lu Yang.

When He Daqi arrived, he happened to run into Lu Yang teaching. Lu Yang was worried that his two new followers wouldn't learn well, because that would lead to him having to film the second season of Infinite Challenge.

"Junior brother, Brother Bo won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor."

"real or fake?"

"Why would I lie to you? It'll probably be on the news soon."

(End of this chapter)