Chapter 554: Accompanying the Visit
[My stomach hurts. I feel like my stomach is getting worse after I recovered from this illness. That’s all I have to do today. I’ll consider it a day off.]
On the judges' panel on the rehearsal stage.
Director Shen's expression was quite solemn. When he first followed Xu Kun to visit LeTV, he had a somewhat condescending attitude.
After all, TV stations are the mainstream these days, while video websites are often associated with negative news - in addition to the increasingly serious piracy crisis, vulgar, kitsch and mediocre video content has also made video websites controversial.
LeTV has never been involved in the former, but has been criticized by the media many times for the latter.
So it is normal for Master Shen to have this mentality.
But Jia Yueting shattered his arrogance with just a few words.
In the room that is spacious enough but looks cramped because it is filled with equipment, Lao Jia talks freely: "This is our server room. Because we just upgraded and expanded it for the fifth time two months ago, the space inside is a bit insufficient.
However, we have already made a plan. After the game is launched, we will build an independent server base station near the East Fifth Ring Road. By then, we will leave enough space for annual upgrades to ensure that every user can enjoy a smooth playback experience. "
"Five upgrades, one every year?"
Director Shen frowned unconsciously, looking as if he was doubting the truth of what he said.
Old Jia shrugged at Xu Kun and motioned him to help explain.
“It’s been exactly five years since LeEco was founded.”
Xu Kun is naturally familiar with the development process of LeTV: "These five years are also the five years of rapid development of video websites. Industry leaders like LeTV have seen their average daily user visits increase by hundreds of times in five years.
I remember that when LeTV was first launched three months ago, it only had about 28 monthly active users. Has it exceeded 3500 million now? "
Jia replied: "The estimate is still around 3400 million, but it will definitely exceed that during the Spring Festival."
Xu Kun continued to introduce to Director Shen: "Such a rapid increase in the number of users places very high demands on the server load, and in addition to considering the average value, sufficient redundancy must be reserved to cope with sudden peaks.
In the past five years, many video websites have been eliminated from the market, not because they failed to attract enough users, but because the sudden surge in the number of users overwhelmed the servers. This may be tolerable once or twice, but after a while, users will vote with their feet. "
Director Shen might suspect that Lao Jia was bragging, but he still trusted Director Xu.
Therefore, his expression became more solemn after listening to it. He had expected that there would be some troubles in running an online video platform, but he did not expect it to be so troublesome.
Frequent server upgrades are not a big problem for a well-funded private enterprise, but it is different for CNTV.
[It's really inexplicable. I deleted a paragraph just because I said two sentences about XX organization being slow in doing things...]
Seeing that his show of power was effective, Jia Yueting took the initiative to jump out and play the good guy, saying, "Although the server is the foundation of the website, for us video websites, content is king after all. In this regard, you have a huge advantage with CCTV behind you."
This is also the point where Director Shen is most confident. When Lao Jia tickled his sore spot, his expression immediately eased a lot.
Then Xu Kun and Jia Yueting accompanied him to visit other core departments of LeTV, as well as LeTV's self-produced variety show, the current affairs commentary program "News Debate" hosted by Shen Teng.
Faced with these, Director Shen was more calm and felt that it was no big deal. With CCTV's appeal and talent pool, he believed that CNTV would never be worse than LeTV's configuration.
However, his confidence quickly collapsed after he sat on the judging panel for the New Year's Eve Gala rehearsal.
"This, this, this, this..."
What was presented to Director Shen was the Wonder Girls' hit dance song "Nobody" in the second half of this year, although the Wonder Girls had already changed into more "conservative" clothes.
But the suggestive action of twisting the buttocks and rubbing the bear still gave Director Shen a great shock.
This is so vulgar! This is too vulgar!
Did the director just cut to a close-up? The jib camera is almost touching the girls' waists. If they move a little more, wouldn't the audience see it clearly?
He couldn't ask Jia Yueting directly, so he leaned over to Xu Kun's ear and said, "Director Xu, can these things be broadcast?" "It should be possible, right? Anyway, the traffic on the Internet is quite high."
"flow?"
“It’s the number of views.”
Xu Kun has slept with girls from girl groups, so he is relatively familiar with the ecology of the Korean entertainment industry. He explained in a low voice: "This is actually considered to be abiding by the rules in Korea. Some unknown girl groups or underground idols try their best to play by the rules in order to become popular."
Director Shen shook his head subconsciously. He had heard that LeTV was competing well with Youku with the help of Korean Wave, and its number of users was second only to the real leader Tudou, and its user stickiness was even stronger than those two, so he also wanted to emulate it.
I believe that Koreans would definitely prefer to cooperate with China's official agencies - wasn't it that Chulby became famous in Korea because she appeared on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala?
But after watching the performance of Wonder Girls, he immediately gave up the idea. CNTV would definitely not dare to use such a scale.
First, he discovered the problem with the server, and now he can't rely on the Korean wave. Director Shen is somewhat bored. It was only when he was kicking his thigh on the stage that he focused a little, but he was distracted the rest of the time.
Xu Kun had no intention of comforting Director Shen. After all, he had not been optimistic about the future of CNTV from the very beginning, and his relationship with Director Shen had not reached that point yet.
After singing the song "Nobody", the four girls bowed deeply 120 degrees to the judges in the audience. Then one of them had a big bunch of flowers in her hand for some reason. She jumped down from the edge of the stage with one hand and came to Xu Kun in two steps at a time.
After handing the flowers to Xu Kun, the girl fished out a photo with body temperature from somewhere and presented it with both hands with an expectant look on her face: "Xu Daoya, I'm a fan of you, and I hope to get your autograph."
Faced with this situation, Xu Kun remained very calm. Firstly, he had seen similar situations many times after becoming famous, and secondly, the girl's appearance was not up to his aesthetic standards.
He took the photo and signed it with ease. Seeing that the girl across from him wanted to say something, Xu Kun handed the photo back and pointed at the stage, saying, "Your friends are waiting for you."
The girl looked at the leader in the distance a little overwhelmed, hesitated for a moment, and quickly walked around the stage to bow and leave with her teammates.
When the leader of JYP saw this, he turned around and asked his subordinates beside him: "Why did you arrange for Ahn So Hee to present flowers?!"
"Uh~ Isn't she the face of Wonder Girls? Usually..."
“That’s for the European and American markets!”
The team leader angrily said, "Come on, we are in China now. Do you think the Chinese aesthetics are the same as those of Europeans and Americans?"
He was furious when he suddenly noticed that Xu Kun and the rumored CCTV director stood up and left the judges' seats together, apparently not intending to watch any other rehearsal programs.
The leader immediately breathed a sigh of relief. As long as other girl groups didn't have the chance to get close to Director Xu, the failure of Wonder Girls wouldn't be that serious.
…………
Backstage.
"Aiya~ Director Xu is leaving!"
Zheng Nicole shook Goo Hara's arm vigorously and said excitedly, "What should I do? What should I do? I have just thought about how to give a speech at the Blue Dragon Awards ceremony!"
Goo Hara held down her shoulder strap tightly to prevent it from being loosened by Zheng Nicole, and said helplessly: "What's the point of you telling me this? Can I still catch up..."
“Hey, hey~”
At this time, Han Shengyan suddenly elbowed Zheng Nicole and gave her a triple hit, and said excitedly: "It seems that someone really chased her out!"
"No way?"
"Who is it? Who is it?!"
"I was blocked by SM's people, so I couldn't see who it was, but it was definitely not Cheonjang Ji Hee's seniors!"
(End of this chapter)
