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Chapter 176, 50 billion views, a sensation.

"Wolf Warrior" grossed 4350 million yuan on its opening day, 4750 million yuan on its second day, 7600 million yuan on its third day (Saturday), and another 7740 million yuan on its fourth day (Sunday), bringing its total box office for the first week to 2.444 million yuan.

"I wasn't really interested in the subject matter at first, but I checked it out because it was produced by Magical Films, and it turned out to be pretty good."

"I saw Shen Qing and Liu Yifei went to the premiere to support the movie from Magical Films. I had to show my support no matter what."

"That was a really fun fight, Wu Jing did a great job."

at night.

Xie Nan lay on his side on the bed, smiling as he looked at Wu Jing, and asked, "Hey, how much do you think we'll make at the box office? It should be a huge profit, right?"

Wu Jing, resting his head on his hand and looking at the ceiling, said, "The first week's box office usually accounts for 40% of the total box office, bad reviews account for 50%, excellent reviews account for 30%, and phenomenal reviews account for 20%. Let's say it's 40%, which is 610 million. After deducting all costs, I estimate that it can earn President Shen more than 100 million."

"Really?" Xie Nan's face lit up with surprise. "So, your next movie won't lack funding?"

Wu Jing said, "You know that President Shen appreciates me. Even if 'Wolf Warrior' loses money this time, President Shen will still invest in me."

"Yes, yes, you're amazing, right? President Shen appreciates you!" Xie Nan laughed.

Wu Jing became serious and said, "President Shen appreciates me, and President Shen is also the person I admire most. Whether it's Cheng Long or Li Lianjie, they both suffered a lot from a young age. Senior Brother Li Lianjie had to practice routines, and Cheng Long was often beaten while practicing in the opera troupe. I myself have also suffered a lot. Only President Shen has no experience in martial arts, but I don't even have the confidence to beat him. He is a natural talent for martial arts. In ancient times, he would have become a martial arts champion and a great general."

Xie Nan asked, "And what about you? What could you do in ancient times?"

Wu Jing exclaimed, "I must be a great general too!"

Wolf Warrior grossed 1.93 million yuan in its second week.

It grossed another 8600 million at the box office in its third week.

As of July 22, "Wolf Warrior" had grossed 5.24 million yuan at the box office.

The film crew held a celebration banquet to mark the film's box office exceeding 5 million yuan, and Shen Qing personally gave Wu Jing a 300 million yuan red envelope as a reward.

On July 25, Shen Qing went to Ciyuan Rhythm Company and made a series of adjustments to the company's personnel.

The adjusted structure of CiYuanRhythm is as follows:

Chairman and CEO Shen Qing.

Chief Operating Officer (C00) Chen Lin. Master of Computer Science from Peking University, joined the company through introduction by Shen Li.

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Hong Dingkun. A graduate of the Computer Science Department of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, he was recruited from Baidu and previously oversaw the Baidu Tieba (forum) business.

Zhu Wenjia, Vice President of Technology. Recruited from Baidu, he is the originator of the "Everyone Checks In" service and is responsible for the technology platform.

Yang Zhenyuan, VP of Technology. A graduate of the Computer Science Department at Beihang University, he was recruited from Baidu, where he previously worked in the Search Department.

Ciyuan Rhythm has five subsidiaries, each responsible for one of the five projects.

1. Zhao Tian, ​​manager of the "Everyone's Check-in" company, was recruited from Sina. The "Everyone's Check-in" business was originally handled concurrently by COO Chen Lin, but this was clearly a temporary measure. Having the COO concurrently handling specific projects could easily lead to resource imbalance. Zhao Tian distinguished herself in her nearly four months of work and was appointed manager. Chen Lin then focused on work at the head office level.

II. CiYuan Rhythm Research Institute: The technology platform of CiYuan Rhythm Company. The person in charge is Dean Zhu Wenjia, who also serves as the company's Vice President of Technology.

3. The manager of Quanmin K Ge Company was originally Yang Zhenyuan, who has now been promoted to vice president of technology. The subsidiary's business has been taken over by Kang Zeyu, who graduated from Beihang University and previously worked at Baidu as a senior R&D engineer.

IV. Zhang Nan, manager of CapCut. Zhang Nan was originally responsible for incubating products such as Douyin and Huoshan from scratch. She is also Shen Qing's designated person in charge of Douyin's future business.

Fifth, Wangyin Online Company, a payment license company acquired by Ciyuan Rhythm, is chaired by Shen Qing, while the original chairman, Zhao Guodong, remains as vice chairman and senior advisor.

In addition, Lianjie Company is completely independent and is responsible for the operation of WiFi Master Key. Its CEO, Xie Xin, is from the Computer Science Department of Peking University and previously worked at Baidu.

As of December 25.

WiFi Master Key has surpassed 5000 million users, with 2500 million monthly active users and 1300 million daily active users.

The number of users who checked in across the platform exceeded 2000 million, with 220 million daily active users.

WeSing has 1800 million users and 80 daily active users. However, WeSing is a tool-like app; users use it and then leave, resulting in severely insufficient user stickiness.

CapCut has 30 users and 2 daily active users.

"Push the news of this elderly person going missing to users within a five-kilometer radius of the location where they went missing. In the future, set up a special section for finding missing persons within the 'Everyone Checks In' app. Users who check in naturally have a strong attention span, which may be very suitable for finding missing persons."

During an inspection of the community check-in system, Shen Qing saw a check-in user upload a message about an elderly person who had gone missing nearby. Shen Qing specifically called Manager Zhao to arrange for the message to be accurately pushed to other check-in users near the location where the elderly person went missing.

7 month 29 day.

With Toutiao about to launch, Zhang Yiming went to a barbershop for a haircut.

"What are you looking at?"

Zhang Yiming accidentally discovered that a young man who was also waiting for a haircut was looking at an app called "Quanmin Daka". He had noticed this app a long time ago because its operating philosophy was exactly the same as his own.

Both platforms rely on personalized recommendation technology to distribute information, but this "nationwide check-in" campaign uses celebrity content as a starting point. While this approach solves the chicken-and-egg dilemma of UGC (user-generated content) platforms, it ultimately remains a vertical entertainment content distribution platform, not in the same category as the news content distribution platform that it favors. Consequently, it didn't receive much attention afterward.

But today he actually discovered that this young man was using this "Everyone Checks In" app to watch the Olympic Games live with pictures and text?

The London Olympics opened on July 27.

"Watching the Olympics, huh?" the young man replied. "A blogger I follow flew to London to see the Olympics in person. That's amazing, and he's really rich!"

Zhang Yiming then asked, "Aren't there many mainstream media outlets covering the Olympics in its entirety? Why look at this individual user's Olympic check-in content? Its professionalism is far inferior to that of mainstream news."

The young man said, "I've been following this blogger who posts about the London Olympics for a long time. Watching him post about the London Olympics feels like watching a friend go to London. It feels very real, and it also makes the Olympics feel closer to me."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yiming felt a sudden boom in his mind.

Toutiao itself does not produce news. It relies on web crawlers to scrape news from other sources and then uses its own algorithm and personalized recommendation technology to accurately distribute the information.

However, scraping news from other sources carries enormous risks (the original Toutiao was sued by Guangzhou Daily and other traditional media, and Zhang Yiming was almost forced to shut down Toutiao. He later paid 5000 million yuan in copyright fees every year to resolve the news copyright issue).

This app, which allows everyone to check in, has expanded beyond simply checking in on celebrities' schedules, how celebrities' outfits look on ordinary people, and how celebrities' makeup looks on ordinary people. It has now expanded to check in on ordinary people's outfits and makeup, and even to check in on almost every field, including food, shops, fitness, learning, tourist attractions, history, and astronomy. It has become all-encompassing. Now, it even gives the app news and social media attributes by allowing users to check in at events, such as the Olympic Games.

Moreover, these "news" generated by netizens checking in on-site not only do not have copyright issues, but also have a more immersive and authentic feel because users trust and are familiar with the bloggers.

Is this still the same vertical entertainment information distribution platform?

It's essentially a general information distribution platform! Moreover, it directly competes with the future Toutiao, and it doesn't have the copyright issues of distributing regular news. It also makes users more interested in watching, more immersed in, and more convinced of this kind of live check-in news.

When I got back to the company, I found that there was also discussion about the "Everyone Checks In" app within the company.

Upon further inquiry, it was discovered that a few days ago, an elderly person with Alzheimer's disease went missing in Beijing. The "All-People Check-in" system sent the elderly person's information to all "All-People Check-in" users within a five-kilometer radius of the missing location. As a result, the elderly person was found by the "All-People Check-in" users and their family members were contacted within just six hours.

This matter was widely reported and reprinted by numerous news media outlets. Toutiao, which specializes in news, is about to launch, so naturally, all employees within the company are paying close attention to such trending news.

Zhang Yiming quickly browsed the relevant news, and then felt even more surprised.

He wanted to find people using information, but at this point, the information he was referring to was news produced by professional media. Previously, the barber preferred to read bloggers' on-site check-in content because it felt more immersive and authentic, like a friend was actually there.

This completely overturned Zhang Yiming's previous imagination of Toutiao. It turns out that user-generated content (UGC) can seriously impact professional content in terms of "on-site feel" and "emotional connection," and the authority of traditional media is being deconstructed. Last year, war correspondents abroad were already using Twitter to conduct "live battlefield coverage," which is almost the same as the "check-in site" phenomenon that everyone is using.

If a large number of users are willing to read these amateur check-in reports, then Quanmin Daka will not only be a vertical entertainment content distribution platform, but also a general information distribution platform and a national journalist incubator. Quanmin Daka can jump into any hot topic at any time, while Toutiao can only take huge risks to use content from other media.

The nationwide check-in campaign is actually revolutionizing content production.

The nationwide check-in system has now helped families find their lost elderly relatives.

What does this mean?

This indicates that the number of users checking in across the entire population has reached a certain level. No matter how precise the information distribution is, if the number of users within the scope is insufficient, it will be difficult to find missing elderly people.

What is information-based missing person search? It is the most vivid example of accurately distributing relevant information about missing elderly people to users who may encounter them through the daily check-in system.

Previously, it was an era where people sought information; in the future, it will inevitably be an era where information seeks people. Zhang Yiming once met with more than 30 venture capitalists in a single month, talking until his voice was hoarse, but no one believed his judgment that information would find people, and no one believed that there was still an opportunity in the news field, which already had major giants involved.

The most vivid example of finding missing persons through information has finally emerged, but unfortunately, it wasn't Toutiao that first did this, but an app called Quanmin Daka (全民打卡).

"Approximately what is the daily active user (DAU) of the 'Everyone Checks In' campaign?"

"It has consistently ranked high on various download charts since its launch, and its daily active users (DAU) are estimated to be at least 200 million."

"This company also has a product called WeSing, which has similar download numbers to WeSing, but its DAU is probably lower."

"There are bloggers who use social media to showcase how celebrities wear clothes that are actually worn by them, teaching others how to style their outfits and creating best-selling items on Taobao. There are also signs that beauty bloggers are using social media to promote makeup products, and some niche tourist attractions have recently become popular due to recommendations from social media bloggers. The commercial monetization logic of social media is beginning to emerge, and it seems likely to work. Social media fashion, beauty, and e-commerce are highly related, and the prospects look very promising."

"Shen Qing is probably very idealistic. Shanda Innovation Institute is already struggling to survive, and he still created a Word Rhythm Research Institute."

Nowadays, whenever people see company names like "research institute," the first thing that comes to mind is the famous Shanda Innovation Institute. However, Shen Qing's Ciyuan Rhythm Research Institute and Shanda Innovation Institute are not the same thing at all.

Ciyuan Rhythm Research Institute is a technology middle platform. The concept of a technology middle platform was not proposed by Alibaba until the end of 2015. After that, it became popular among technology companies because the concept of a large middle platform and a small front-end effectively solved the pain point of Internet companies reinventing the wheel.

The problem is that Shen Qing has never explained to outsiders what a technology platform is. So, in the eyes of outsiders, CiYuan Rhythm Research Institute is something like Shanda Innovation Institute—an idealized thing, full of innovation anxiety, with results that are difficult to implement, and already on its deathbed.

Zhang Yiming said, "Ciyuan Rhythm does not do professional news, so there will be no direct conflict between our two companies for the time being. However, what we both do is essentially recommendation engines, and we are both competing for users' attention. Users' total online time is limited, and I have a feeling that the other party will become our most direct and strongest competitor sooner or later."

7 month 31 day.

"Liying, look at this!"

Executive agent Zhang Xi excitedly handed the phone to Zhao Liying.

Zhao Liying took the phone and saw that it was a report from People's Daily Online.

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[Who will reign supreme in Chinese dramas? "Princess Agents" surpasses 50 billion online views.]

Zhao Liying's heart pounded wildly as she took the phone from her agent and began to read it carefully.

「2012年上半年电视剧拍了15000集，播了4000集，有400部上星的电视剧————我们认为一部电视剧的网络播放量超过4亿就属于优秀的成绩，10亿俱乐部」的表现是相当优异。」

A list of "10 billion views club" was also provided later.

Zhao Liying slowly read aloud: "Princess Agents, 52 billion views."

"Let's Get Married" has 48 billion views.

"Scarlet Heart" has 43 billion views.

"My Love from the Star, 39 billion views."

"New My Fair Princess" has 32 billion views.

"Palace: The Lock Heart Jade", 25 billion views.

"The New Three Kingdoms" has 23 billion views.

"Sis, this is the first TV series on the entire internet to surpass 50 billion views, and it might not be long before it becomes the first TV series on the entire internet to surpass 100 billion views —"

Zhao Liying returned the phone, smiled at her agent, and said nothing. She seemed quite calm.

But it was only a calm surface; in reality, his heart was already churning with turmoil.

The release of the 10 billion views club rankings instantly caused a stir online, with many netizens noticing a particular detail:

The top four items on the list were all from the same company.

That's right, they are all works from Magical Film & Media Company.

The sixth place still belongs to amazing film and television works.

If it weren't for "New My Fair Princess" intervening, the top five spots on the list would have been entirely filled with dramas from Magical Films.

"Holy crap, the top four are all produced by Magical Films."

"Absolutely incredible!"