Chapter 316 The Olympics Are Coming, Wu Yuan's Next Step

Danmaku video websites are not new on the international Internet.

Japan's Niconico animation was the first barrage video website, and domestic AcFun was also established in June 2007 in a low-key manner.

However, these two websites are all about two-dimensional animation-related subcultures.

Niconico animation is relatively well-known in Japan, and AcFun is still a very niche website in China.

As for Bilibili, which later became the leading barrage video website, it has not yet been hatched, let alone breaking out of subculture and entering the mainstream.

For current mainstream netizens in the Mainland, 99% of them have never been exposed to the interactive video function of "barrage".

If a mainstream video platform can use the barrage function, it will definitely attract many users to use it and try it out.

But once you taste it, you are in trouble.

Once you get into the trap, it's not easy to get out of it, because other platforms don't have barrage systems!

Wu Yuan still attached great importance to this. He watched Wang Xin test the barrage system with his own eyes. After confirming that it was almost the same as the barrage at Station B in his impression, he nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad."

However, Wang Xin's face looked a little embarrassed: "Director Wu, this barrage system is good. It can increase user stickiness, but it places a heavy load on bandwidth."

"After all, this is data that needs to be uploaded in real time, and the barrages seen by all users need to be unified."

"This will test the server's information processing capabilities. Once there are too many users watching online at the same time, it will easily crash."

"If we want to implement the barrage system, we may need to prepare one-half more servers than expected."

Wu Yuan nodded his head lightly while listening.

The current Niconico animation, due to factors such as equipment and broadband load, stipulates that viewers must register an account, and according to the registration order, some users can use it all day long, while some users can use it during the peak traffic period from 19:00 in the evening to 2:00 in the morning. Restricted use, cannot log in.

This is because the server load is too high and there is no way for all users to watch videos on the website normally during peak periods, so they can only limit the flow.

Of course Wu Yuan couldn't do such a petty thing.

Niconico animation is just a niche website, and the initial operation manager was purely private and had little money.

Wu Yuan just injected US$200 million into Guangying Kuaibo. There is nothing else but a lot of money!

"Add!" He said without hesitation: "Add more servers until the peak can withstand two million users watching videos at the same time."

Don’t underestimate the number of 2 million people online at the same time.

Nowadays, a server of a large-scale online game can generally only accommodate tens of thousands of people online at the same time, which is a huge number of more than ten or two hundred thousand.

Although the data interaction requirements of video websites are not as high as those of games, it is already an exaggerated server capacity to be able to withstand 2 million users watching videos at the same time.

2 million people online at the same time does not mean that only 2 million people can use Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast. This is the peak data.

Just like a scenic spot can accommodate up to 500,000 tourists, it does not mean that only 500,000 people can enter the scenic spot in one day.

In fact, people are quitting the software or joining new ones all the time. Calculated in one day, it can accommodate at least 20 to 30 million daily active users.

With the current Internet ecosystem in the Mainland, there should not be more than 2 million people watching videos on Guangying Qvod at the same time during peak periods, right?

Probably not?

Shaking out all the distracting thoughts in his head, Wu Yuan came to his senses and patted Wang Xin on the shoulder with a smile: "Mr. Wang, the company's publicity team will take over the publicity work of Light and Shadow Kuaibo. You don't have to do anything else. Don’t worry, just master the technology.”

Wang Xin is definitely a technology tycoon and the first person in the country in the field of P2P video. However, those who engage in technology like them are indeed relatively simple and do not have enough experience in business methods.

Light and Shadow Kuaibo has a publicity team drawn from the Light and Shadow Era. It is better to let professionals take care of professional matters.

However, now is not a good time to promote.

It is now the end of July and the beginning of August.

The whole of China is looking forward to a big event!

2008 Beijing Olympic Games!

The entire capital has now become a sea of ​​volunteers.

Volunteers uniformly dressed in blue and white uniforms formed a beautiful scenery in the capital.

Countless foreign visitors have also come to the capital, and under the reception of volunteers, they can visit and understand this modern capital of China.

Now the whole of China is busy with matters related to the Olympic Games. All entertainment must give way to the Olympic Games. All media and newspapers are reporting Olympic-related news.

No one has the time or interest to pay attention to things that have nothing to do with the Olympics.

Even "Gravity," a movie that is officially promoted and popular among the people, is no longer the center of everyone's attention and has been replaced by the Olympic Games.

Under this situation, if Wu Yuan wants to promote Guangying Express, it will be a complete waste of money!

Not only Guangying Kuaibo, but also all artists under Guangying Times have basically suspended their work to make concessions for the Olympics.

Except for the artists who are joining the group, other idle artists have been given almost a month's leave, and there will be no announcements for the next month.

No brand or program will try to compete with the Olympics for attention at this time.

Even Liu Yifei, who has been busy flying back and forth between China, the United States and Japan since the release of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", has a small vacation and can return to China to spend a leisurely vacation with Wu Yuan.

Who would still work when there is a fragrant girlfriend to hug?

Wu Yuan immediately dropped his work and went home to happily accompany his girlfriend to cook salted fish.

"Brother, the mainland box office of Gravity has reached 552 million RMB, right?"

Lying in Wu Yuan's arms, Liu Yifei said with a smile: "The Hong Kong market has also received 28 million Hong Kong dollars in box office, plus a few million US dollars in Singapore and Malaysia, the total box office of Gravity is about 600 million."

"You are now the holder of the mainland box office record for Chinese-language films!"

"In addition to the global box office record for Chinese-language films held by Your Name, you are now the king of the domestic box office."

The expression on Liu Yifei's face was so proud, her boyfriend was really amazing!

When Your Name was released, although it did not break the box office record of Hero in China, the Japanese yen was still relatively valuable at that time, and the entire Asian market won a total of 224 million US dollars in box office results.

Two-thirds of it was contributed by the Japanese market, and 15 billion yen at that time was not a small amount of money.

This result also broke the highest box office record of Chinese-language films held by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2000: 216 million US dollars.

It is worth mentioning that the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" also relies almost entirely on overseas markets, even more exaggerated than "Your Name".

Of the $216 million box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", only $10 million was contributed by the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the rest was contributed by overseas markets.

Since "Your Name" broke the record of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", this record has been maintained until now, and no one has broken it.

Even "Gravity" is estimated to be difficult to break this record.

From this point, it can be seen that although science fiction blockbusters are the "crown" of the film industry, the return on investment of this type of film is really the lowest among all film themes.

The return on investment of low-cost films such as romance films, comedies, horror films, etc. is much lower than that of science fiction films, and the money spent is even less.

It is no wonder that only Hollywood, which is rich and has a large enough market, can afford science fiction films.

From a rational point of view, making Chinese science fiction films is indeed a thankless task.

With 300 million RMB, Wu Yuan could have made several "The Hangover" movies.

But someone has to open up the Chinese science fiction market, just like someone has to stand up and make China's own aircraft engines.

In the current Chinese film industry, only Wu Yuan has the ability to stand up and open up a precedent for Chinese science fiction movies!

From the results, he has done very well and is proud enough.

Smiling and touching Liu Yifei's head, Wu Yuan said with a hint of sarcasm: "Yes, our Xixi is still the actress with the highest single-film box office in China. Gong Li can't surpass you!"

"If nothing unexpected happens, you can keep this record for a long time!"

The box office of "Lost in Thailand" in 2012 was only 1.267 billion, less than 200 million US dollars.

If Wu Yuan hadn't interfered, it would take until 2015 for a movie to break this record in China: "Monster Hunt".

Although the box office of "Monster Hunt" of 2.4 billion is full of water.

Even if Wu Yuan may break this record in advance, at least in the next two or three years, the mainland box office market will not be able to support a Chinese-language film with a box office of more than 1.5 billion.

"Hehe, this is all because of my senior brother's good directing." Liu Yifei smiled and stretched out her hand to hold her little finger and made a gesture: "I just made a little contribution, a negligible contribution."

"Hey, you are quite sober." Wu Yuan laughed.

The goodness of "Your Name" is more about the good character design, the script and story are touching enough, and the acting skills of the actors are not really important. As long as the image fits the role, anyone can actually get such a high box office. Liu Yifei is really not indispensable, at least not in terms of acting performance.

Unlike "Gravity", except Gong Li, Wu Yuan really can't think of any other domestic actress who can play this heroine well.

However, after so many years of training, Liu Yifei's acting skills are now no longer Wuxia Amon, at least much better than her original trajectory. Not to mention that she can compete with the queen of the screen, but among actresses of the same age, she is definitely outstanding.

As long as she trains for a few more years, when she is 25 or 26 years old, she can try to play a leading role in art films, and when she is around 30 years old, she can charge for the Best Actress trophy!

With an international director like Wu Yuan teaching by her side, and Guangying Times feeding her good films, it would be unreasonable if Liu Yifei's acting skills can't be improved.

"By the way, the preparations for "Kingsman" have been almost done, right?"

"The film should be able to start shooting in the United States in October?"

"You will join the crew again by then."

Suddenly remembering this, Wu Yuan tightened his arms around Liu Yifei, "I will go to the United States with you then."

"Huh?" Liu Yifei raised her head and looked at Wu Yuan in confusion.

"It's time to start preparing for my next film."

"This will be a Hollywood blockbuster, and it should be able to start shooting next year if everything goes well."