Chapter 335 China's First Online Drama! "Soul Ferry"

"Hello, Xixi."

"Yeah, I'll go to the United States after the National Day."

"How's your business going?"

"Although New Line is only a second-tier film production company in Hollywood, its quality is still very strong, don't worry too much."

"Is Brother Cheng Long here too?"

"Oh, he does like to play a little, but he is still very dedicated to his work, it's okay."

"You should learn more from Brother Cheng Long, his kung fu is really amazing."

"Yeah, okay, be careful."

"I will."

After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuan looked at the phone screen with a smile on his face, and the smile gradually disappeared.

"Hey, now smartphones still can't do online video, troublesome." He muttered softly.

Although I used the latest iPhone 3G version that was released in June this year, China has not yet entered the smartphone era, and the 3G network has just begun to be laid.

If you want to use mobile phone video calls, you have to wait until the 4G era to do it smoothly.

My girlfriend has been in the United States for a week.

In the past, he didn't think much of this separation, but now that he and Liu Yifei are getting closer and closer, Wu Yuan is a little uncomfortable with the sudden separation of ten days and a half a month, and he misses her.

"Sure enough, it's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality!" He sighed again.

He had slept alone for more than ten years before and didn't feel anything, but now he feels uncomfortable sleeping without a fragrant, soft girlfriend in his arms at night!

Even though he chats on the phone with Liu Yifei every day, he still feels uncomfortable. What distance creates beauty is all bullshit!

People who say this definitely don't have a girlfriend as beautiful as a fairy!

"Dong Dong..." The office door was knocked.

It was already late at night in Beijing time, but Wu Yuan still stayed in the company, naturally because there was something important waiting for him.

Li Xiaoping's secretary walked into the office and whispered, "Director Wu, Soul Ferry is about to go online. President Wang invited you to go up and check the data."

"Okay, got it."

Wu Yuan nodded, walked out of the office with his hands behind his back, and took the elevator to the 18th floor.

Like the special effects company of Light and Shadow Times, Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast, a subsidiary of Wu Yuan, is also in this CBD building.

Coming to the computer room of Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast with ease, Wu Yuan saw a group of programmers nervously doing the final check before the film went online.

At 12 o'clock tonight, Soul Ferry will premiere on the Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast platform.

This is the first tough battle for Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast. It must ensure that no matter how many users watch the movie online at the same time at night, the server must hold up so that everyone can watch it smoothly!

Once there is a large-scale freeze or even a server crash, Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast will die before it succeeds.

So even if it may be a waste of money, Wang Xin bought more than a dozen servers.

"Director Wu, we now have 8.24 million registered users on Guangying Kuaibo, but nearly half of them have never logged in again after registering and logging in once."

"Today, there are less than 2 million daily active users, and there are only more than 200,000 users who are still online."

Wang Xin sighed and said with some disappointment.

In fact, this data is already very good.

If it is a completely new video playback software, it can have so many registered users and daily active users in just one week. This result is enough to leave other websites behind.

But who says Guangying Kuaibo is not a software without background? Behind it stands a leading film production company in China.

Since half a month ago, major forums on the Internet have been advertising "Soul Ferry" and Guangying Kuaibo everywhere.

Guangying Times is the earliest company in the entertainment industry to raise online water army. Under the guidance of Wu Yuan, the company has consciously recruited people to work as a water army department since two years ago.

Now the company has a large number of water army accounts with considerable influence on major forums, forums, and social platforms.

Since receiving the task of promoting "Soul Ferry", these water armies have been fully mobilized, holding the posters and videos of this drama, posting everywhere, building forums, and attracting the attention of netizens.

In addition to the trailers uploaded on major platforms, it can be said that half of the Chinese netizens have actively or passively seen the promotion of "Soul Ferry" through various channels in the past week.

Unfortunately, "online drama" is too unfamiliar to netizens now, and many people still have only a vague understanding of it after watching the promotion.

A large number of netizens obediently downloaded Guangying Kuaibo, but found that this software is no different from ordinary video software, and the resources in the film library are even less than one-tenth of other software.

The only advantage is that the resource resolution is very high-definition, which is clearer than other video software, but no matter how clear it is, it is useless if there are not enough film sources.

Most people forget Guangying Kuaibo after logging in once and feeling the novelty.

Only a very small number of netizens really stayed because of "Soul Ferry" and wanted to wait for this TV series to be launched.

"Online exclusive drama, this thing is new!"

"According to what I saw on Tieba, this TV series can only be watched on Guangying Kuaibo, it can't be seen on TV stations at all, and it won't be available on other video websites."

"Just showing it to us for free? How does the producer make money?"

"It relies on advertisements. Like other websites, Guangying Kuaibo has to watch 30 seconds of advertisements before watching a video."

"Shit, my friend's uncle is the head of the publicity department of a company. They have placed this kind of video advertisement on the Internet. It is very cheap. It doesn't cost much. How can you make so much money just by doing this!"

"I'm passing by to grab some soy sauce~"

"Hey, is it our turn to worry about this? The producers won't share the money with us. We should just look forward to the release of "Soul Ferry". There are only two hours left!"

Wu Yuan sat in front of the computer and browsed the discussion posts in the Light and Shadow Kuaibo user community.

There is no doubt that this last person must be the company's troll lurking in the user community. No matter what the topic is, he will eventually lead to "pay attention to the launch of "Soul Ferry"".

Although the technique is very tough, it works!

The next topic of this discussion thread is back to the drama "Soul Ferry", with various discussions and speculations about the plot content.

Wu Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief. It seemed that at least the netizens who stayed in Guangying Kuaibo were looking forward to "Soul Ferry".

This is enough!

He didn't expect that "Soul Ferry" would sweep the entire internet and become an instant hit on the day it was released. This was unrealistic.

There is not much ground for online dramas at the moment, to be precise, there is no ground yet, and "Soul Ferry" is the first to try it.

As long as 100,000 or 200,000 netizens notice this online drama when it first airs, try to watch it, and become viewers of this drama, then the subsequent word-of-mouth will naturally grow.

He does not require that a raging fire can be ignited from the beginning, but as long as a spark can be ignited, it will naturally start a prairie fire!

Wu Yuan turned to Wang Xin, who was equally nervous, and said, "Mr. Wang, the premiere is actually not the point. The real pressure will come in a week or two."

The screening mode of "Soul Ferry" is two episodes every other day.

Four episodes will be released in one go on October 1st, then 2 more episodes on the 3rd, and 2 more episodes on the 5th, until the finale is aired on October 17th.

Except for the 1st, which went online at 12 o'clock in the morning, every time after that, two episodes were released on time at 7 o'clock in the evening.

For Light and Shadow Express, the pressure on the server on the first day of the broadcast will not be very great. After all, there are not many people who try crabs in the first wave, just hundreds of thousands of people.

The real test will be when the show's reputation grows and becomes popular on the Internet, and a large influx of new viewers will put a burden on the server.

There is one thing these netizens said in the discussion in the user community that is really right.

"Soul Ferry" really doesn't make money, and during the broadcast period, the more viewers it attracts, the more money it loses.

After all, the more people watching online at the same time, the more servers are needed, and the cost of renting servers will continue to rise.

And that little bit of advertising revenue is really just a drop in the bucket.

What really wants to make a profit is to wait for the update of "Soul Ferry" to end, and in the next year or even years, people will continue to watch it repeatedly, or new viewers will join, and the advertising fees will continue to be generated.

Even so, it is difficult to get back the money.

However, Wu Yuan was mentally prepared for this. Who can make money on a video website these days?

"Be prepared to lose him thirty to fifty million in the first fiscal year!" Wu Yuan crossed his hands on the table and told Wang Xin a number that made him tremble.

"Before October next year, try to have 30 million registered users and 3 million daily active users!"

"Mr. Wang, are you confident?"

Faced with Wu Yuan's bold words, Wang Xin really didn't dare to give a guarantee. He considered and said: "It depends on the effect of the solo broadcast of "Soul Ferry", and in the future we will have more solo dramas that can attract audiences and continue to be launched. , it is possible to achieve this result.”

"Don't worry." Wu Yuan smiled: "Light and Shadow Times is already filming a new drama."

"Some are for sale by TV stations, but there is also a solo drama specially prepared for Light and Shadow Express."

"Furthermore, I believe that "Soul Ferry" will give a perfect answer. When the time comes, you can use the broadcast data of this TV series to go to advertisers to ask for money, and the next solo series will not lose a lot."

"Although we may still lose money, it would be nice to lose less. The landlord doesn't have any food left at home."

"By the way, how is the overseas site I asked you to do going?"

"..."

In the small computer room, Wu Yuan and Wang Xin chatted about the future development of the light and shadow era, passing the last time before the broadcast of "Soul Ferry".

Soon, as the two were chatting, the time came to 00:00 in the morning on October 1st, China's important National Day.

On time and on time, "Soul Ferry" was launched on the software of Guangying Kuaibo.

On the homepage, the cover recommendation is already the poster of "Soul Ferry".

A staff member who had been keeping an eye on the background data shouted excitedly: "Director Wu, Mr. Wang! "Soul Ferry" has been successfully launched!"

"The number of background user logins is increasing rapidly!"

"The number of on-demand views of the first episode of "Soul Ferry" is also increasing rapidly!"

"Ten thousand, thirty thousand, fifty thousand, one hundred thousand!"

“Within two minutes, 100,000 users were already watching the first episode at the same time!”

"Through P2P technology, all users who watch online, the video is loaded smoothly and smoothly!"

P2P technology is a good thing. The more users watch the same episode or the same drama online at the same time, the faster and smoother the video loading and playback will be!

"Data loading is smooth!"

"Server interaction is normal!"

"We succeeded!"

The staff reported excitedly, and cheers suddenly resounded in the small computer room. Every staff member had an excited smile on his face, and Wu Yuan also smiled and applauded.

"Very good!"

"It looks like this is a good start!" (End of this chapter)