Chapter 1308: Surrender

Ron Mayer finally understood what the secretary meant. Was she saying that because he hung up on her last time because he was busy?

Blame me? Can anyone talk to me about splitting the revenue?

"I also heard that several other companies have sent people to Silicon Valley," the secretary added.

This is really a bit difficult to handle.

Do I have to apologize to a young girl who has just started out?

"Try to contact her again," Ron Mayer said. He also started to make phone calls to make arrangements. Other companies had people go there in person to talk, and Universal couldn't be left behind.

It really didn't work. He would find Randolph.

However, it was not a good choice to find Randolph at this time. He would definitely take the opportunity to talk about splitting the revenue.

But what can we do?

What you can't get is always in turmoil. When you may not get it, but your opponent may get it, it is not a turmoil, but you must be impulsive.

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Silicon Valley, Ma Ling really doesn't have time to answer the phone now.

Their content team found that, as if suddenly, they no longer had to worry about content, enthusiastic netizens actively uploaded so many videos.

The problem followed. With so many videos, auditing is a big problem.

Feng Yiping has repeatedly emphasized that content is a double-edged sword. Good videos can help the website attract more attention, while bad videos are likely to cause trouble for the website and himself.

With such a large number of uploaded videos and so many people, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of mud and sand in it.

If there are content with copyright issues, it is actually okay. At most, it will be deleted after receiving a report.

If there are videos with other content, such as racial discrimination, propaganda of violence and pornography, it will be too late to delete them after receiving a report. It is very likely that some people and groups will launch a boycott of the website at this time.

Although this is another way to increase the popularity of the website, Ma Ling and others do not want the website to use this method to increase its popularity at this time.

At present, it is quite unnecessary and not cost-effective.

After completely gaining a firm foothold and opening up the situation, you can adopt the approach of uploading first and then deleting. In the early days of the website, this loophole must be plugged.

Like everyone else, she was checking the videos one by one in the background. As for the calls from the production companies, she was not unaware of them, but for the time being, she really didn't want to answer them.

Except for Disney, which agreed to the call immediately, the reactions of the other big production companies were similar to that of Universal.

This was the first setback Ma Ling encountered, and it was also the first time she realized what kind of people she would face in the future as the content director.

It really felt quite challenging.

Feng Yiping comforted her at the time, "Sometimes they beg you for help,"

Unexpectedly, such a thing would really happen so soon.

But now is different from the past. YouTube will develop rapidly without the relevant videos of those production companies, but with Disney's achievements hanging there, how could those production companies miss such a good publicity platform?

Humph, then just leave them alone and make them more impressed. What's the big deal?

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It didn't matter that she left them alone. Randolph's place suddenly became lively. One by one, the big shots that he usually had to make appointments to call called him condescendingly.

"Can we try the effect first?" said the Warner Bros. staff.

In fact, according to what Randolph had learned, Warner Bros. had been trying, and several users were uploading the trailer for their most important work this year, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, but without exception, they were all blocked by the content team, which had become the review team at this time.

Of course, Warner Bros. was not the only one doing such small moves. The other companies had also been making these efforts that were doomed to be fruitless.

"I'm sorry, Netflix and YouTube are two companies, and I personally cannot interfere with their decisions,"

He replied to those people seriously.

To be honest, it feels really good. Finally, you have the day to ask us for help?

If Hastings knew about this, what would he think?

"Randolph, Mr. Ron Meyer of Universal called," Secretary Susan asked on the intercom.

"Please pick it up,"

"Randolph, congratulations on becoming the CEO of Netflix," Ron Meyer sent a belated blessing.

In fact, not long after Randolph took office as CEO, he received such blessings. However, they were all emails from those companies in the same format and in a formal manner. No president-level person expressed his blessings to him.

There was no way, who told Netflix to rely on them for survival at that time?

"Thank you, Mr. Mayer, but I am actually just a transition, and I guess the remaining time will not be too long,"

Honest people are not incapable of not taking the opportunity to express their dissatisfaction. What did they do before? It seems too fake to express blessings now.

"What?" Ron Mayer looked surprised, "You have done such a good job, how can it be just a transition?"

"I didn't do anything," Randolph said.

"Netflix has changed so much since you took charge, and you still say you didn't do anything? Do you want me to talk to Mr. Feng?" Ron Mayer flattered.

There was no way, who told me to ask for help at this time, it turns out that asking for help feels so bad.

"Thank you, Mr. Mayer, but that was all arranged by Feng, not my opinion," Mayer did not mention it, and Randolph did not want to say it for him.

"I think Blockbuster must be a little overwhelmed at this time," Ron Mayer said, "The establishment of YouTube is indeed a very genius idea, which makes Netflix make up for its only shortcoming,"

People in the industry know that the biggest shortcoming of Netflix compared with Blockbuster is the delivery time.

Blockbuster is currently close to its peak, with nearly 9,000 stores across the United States. Consumers in most places can find their stores in a few minutes of driving, and a few minutes later, they can sit on the sofa and watch a movie comfortably.

But Netflix is ​​not like that. The movies ordered today can only be seen tomorrow at the earliest.

If Netflix puts all its resources online, then they don't even have to leave their homes to watch the movies they want to watch immediately.

This is also equivalent to strengthening Netflix's strengths. Compared with Blockbuster, Netflix has more complete movies in its library and understands users' preferences better.

"I also want to express my apologies to Miss Ma Ling. There seemed to be some misunderstandings when she contacted me last time," Ron Mayer said.

"Wait a minute, I can let you communicate with Miss Ma Ling in person," Randolph said immediately.

But I just want you to convey it, my old face! Ron Mayer couldn't help but touch his face.

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On YouTube, Ma Ling reviewed a video that was fine and uploaded it to the website immediately, but she was a little unsure about the next one. It was a nearly ten-minute video that looked well-made, with a plot and good performances. I just didn't know whether it was made by the uploader himself or he intercepted a section from an existing film and television work.

She put that one in the file to be verified. It seems that it is necessary to set up some director accounts separately to distinguish them from ordinary users, and at the same time, through the YouTube platform, more people can watch their works.

She immediately made a note in the notebook: It is recommended to open some certified director accounts and cancel the upload time limit.

From the beginning, Feng Yiping set a rule that, except for Netflix, other users can only upload videos within 10 minutes on YouTube, because those videos longer than 10 minutes are mostly unauthorized film and television works.

"Ma Ling, can I take up a few minutes of your time?" Randolph knocked on her desk, "Ron Meyer of Universal hopes to apologize to you,"

This is actually possible!

"Hello, Mr. Meyer," Ma Ling took the initiative to call the other side. Universal needs YouTube, Netflix needs Universal, and now the other party has taken the initiative to give in, so they must give them a way out.

"Hello, Miss Ma Ling, I want to apologize to you for the misunderstanding last time," Ron Meyer naturally would not say that I really didn't want to pay attention to a small person like you at that time.

"I understand very well, I am very sorry, I should go to Hollywood to meet you in person," because he was in a good mood, Ma Ling's words were also very humble.

"It was just because I thought that after our website went public, it might provide some small help to your company's film promotion. I was a little too anxious at the time."

"I'm sorry, Miss Ma Ling, this is our mistake," Ron Mayer said after hearing her say this, "We misunderstood your good intentions. I want to ask, can we make up for it now?"