Chapter 679 - 287: A Familiar Routine (2)
"You know the former CEO of Mouyu, right?"
"I know, Chen Jie."
"Under his leadership, Man Boobs TV now has an annual revenue exceeding five billion. Many big streamers from our platform have been poached by them, and they still owe us tens of billions in breach of contract compensation they haven’t paid yet."
"Ask them for it!"
"We did. They didn’t refuse to pay, just said they’d give us two billion a year, the rest slowly..."
Li Yang: "..."
Chen Jie is indeed very capable; his methods for poaching talent are quite clever.
But...
"How did he poach them?"
"By making money, of course. He’s running lotteries at Man Boobs TV, some big streamers can earn millions a month. Who wouldn’t be tempted?"
"Hmm hmm hmm? Still running lotteries? Such a bold move?"
"What can you do? Some streamers have been earning for over a year, and nothing went wrong. It seems as long as it’s not ’black money,’ it’s just skirting the edges, not too severe. But I know you wouldn’t agree to do this."
Xiangnu knows Li Yang’s character well; he doesn’t earn such money.
The price is, Mouyu now wants to go public, but no investors are willing to assist.
Li Yang nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Let’s not list it abroad, just list it on A-shares."
"Is it possible?"
"Yes, I’ll find the right people."
Anyway, in the next three years, A-shares will still be a good market, no need to rush to US Stocks, won’t raise much money there anyway.
Xiangnu added, "Also, recently Kuai Pai, Douyin, and Kuaishou have reached a crucial point in snatching traffic. Many of our rural content creators have been poached."
"Great, everyone earns. Those bloggers take high salaries, we get breach fees, those platforms gain traffic, win-win for all three."
"But we need traffic too."
"What are you afraid of? First, go and sue them for their platform’s film adaptations, demand compensation... Then excavate and cultivate a batch of rural content creators. We have hundreds of teams, right? Continue recruitment, add another few hundred teams."
"But... we’re unsure of the direction..."
"That’s easy, capture the attention of the elderly and city people, film rural life, fishing, shrimping, cooking... Mainly focus on the filming rhythm. For instance, in Jiangbei, you can cultivate a batch of fishing experts, bring novelty to the content. Upgrade traditional fishing methods like gaming; some will grind, some have creative ideas... Just capture the core content."
"Then what?"
Xiangnu hadn’t eaten, propping his chin with both hands, staring at Li Yang.
Li Yang spoke while eating, "Additionally, the Northeast region is into mountain foraging, find some foraging teams, look for suitable people. They have experience, filming should be easy, mainly film authenticity, discuss unique topics."
"What else?"
"Also, foraging mushrooms in Yunnan, sea foraging in coastal cities, fishing netting in river-rich inland areas, if not enough, filming excavator operation works too, or catching eels in clear ponds, anything’s filmable besides 18+ content between men and women."
"And what else?"
"And..."
Li Yang looked up at Xiangnu.
Xiangnu wasn’t aware, even when their eyes met.
Li Yang waved his hand in front of Xiangnu’s eyes, but Xiangnu didn’t blink.
Then, Xiangnu pulled away Li Yang’s hand, saying, "A glance doesn’t make you lose a piece of flesh."
Li Yang laughed and asked, "What? Are you tempted?"
"It’s alright..."
"Hm, even if tempted, there’s nothing for you! Did you remember what I just said? Middle-aged and elderly is our main battlefield; the young market is covered by Mouyu, those old perverts are traffic sources but stingy, don’t spend much, can’t earn much. Encourage middle-aged and elderly to become internet celebrities..."
"Understood, understood..."
"Also, strictly differentiate between original and adapted, can’t let adaptations kill original works, adaptative content revenues, should set aside a portion for originals. Otherwise, no one’s going to innovate."
"Hmm, hmm, hmm..."
Xiangnu finished speaking, immediately felt his face being pinched.
Li Yang tested the feel; pinching felt really nice.
Unconsciously, Xiangnu was already 26 years old, still had a hint of girlishness.
Classic sign of no boyfriend.
"What are you doing?" Xiangnu asked.
"Nothing, nothing, I finished eating, just wiping hands."
"Ah!"
Xiangnu quickly found a tissue, but Li Yang had already gotten up and run away.
At the doorway, Li Yang turned back to say, "Hurry up and find a boyfriend, or your hormones will be imbalanced!"
Preparing to wipe his face, Xiangnu paused, put the tissue aside, and never picked it up again that night.
...
Li Yang played competitions for just a few days, then it was April.
Capital City’s Extreme Shadow Cars’ production center has set up two production lines, primarily for the Shaking Light model.
Megrez buyers are mainly young people, and young people... as everyone knows, are penny-pinching.
So even though Megrez, as a coupe, looks extremely appealing, its sales aren’t great, only around six thousand a month, Jiangbei’s two production lines still have excess capacity.
Plus, coupes accelerate too rapidly, even with assisted driving, not very friendly to many newcomers.
In contrast, the Shaking Light’s 0-100 km/h acceleration in six-seven seconds, spacious interior, and handsome design make it more popular, mostly family cars.
Currently, Shaking Light has a monthly order volume of around twenty thousand; Jiang Banxia’s orders can’t be delivered this year as capacity is really limited, currently with six production lines, monthly only produce eighteen thousand vehicles.