Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 1039 Cooperation Incentive Plan

Serena browsed carefully on the website and found a place to upload videos, but she didn't have a video on hand, so she couldn't try it.

Linda said next to her, "I don't know if the video of Britney's wedding will be uploaded to the website."

"It should be."

"The slogan of this website is to be your own director. Tell me, can we also post videos?"

Serena nodded, "Of course, I have found a place to upload videos just now, but we have no videos to post."

"There are videos in my home camera, can I upload them as long as I get them on my computer?"

"Well, it should be."

"Then I'll get it now."

"It's so late, it's better tomorrow."

Linda shook her head, stood up and said, "Wait here for a while, I'll be right back."

After finishing speaking, before Serena could speak, Linda ran out.

Seeing Linda running out, Serena was a little worried, after all, it was getting late.

But Linda came back soon, and when she came back, she still had the home video camera in her hand.

"Can we upload the video now?" Linda asked breathlessly.

Serena looked at the home camera in Linda's hand and scratched her head, "I'm afraid not."

"Why?" Linda asked.

"Because we have no way to get the video into the computer." Serena explained.

The home video camera in Linda's hand uses a mini video tape, and the video inside cannot be directly transferred to the computer.

"Then is there no way to get the video we shot into the computer?" Linda asked regretfully.

Serena shook her head and said, "No, but it's more troublesome. After we return to London, I'll go find my cousin and he will do it."

"Okay then." Linda put away the camera, and then said with a frown, "In this case, it would be too troublesome to upload videos on this web site."

Serena smiled and said, "If our home cameras use DVD storage, it will be much more convenient. Just put the DVD into the optical drive, and you can directly copy the video to the computer and upload it."

"DVD?" Linda showed a puzzled expression. She didn't know anything about these things, and she didn't care about what the home video camera used as storage.

Serena smiled and said, "I'll take you to a store that sells video cameras tomorrow, and you'll know."

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The problems Serena and Linda encountered were also encountered by many other netizens.

Seeing the videos uploaded by Yu Dong, many netizens also want to upload their own life videos like Yu Dong, but in this era, uploading videos is not an easy task.

First of all, you need equipment for shooting video, and even if you have equipment for shooting video, if you use video tapes for storage, post-processing will be a lot of trouble.

Hitachi, which launched DVD storage home video cameras, did not miss this good opportunity. The next morning, it registered an official account on the Duck Web site and released an advertising video.

The content of the advertisement is very simple. A family of three went out on a trip and took a lot of videos. After returning home, they directly uploaded the videos to the Duck Web site, and then many other netizens watched them.

The video production is actually relatively rough, because the time is relatively short, less than half a day, shooting and editing, but the content of the video directly hits the hearts of the audience.

After Hitachi launched the home video camera with DVD storage, the industry is quite optimistic about the application of this storage method to home video cameras. However, the market for home video cameras is not big, and the growth of new users is also slow. In addition, this product is relatively expensive. Users who have home video cameras have little reason to replace their home video cameras.

Therefore, although Hitachi's camera sales are not bad, they are still short of breath.

But now that the duck-web web site came out, Hitachi saw an opportunity.

If the duck-web website can grow bigger, it will inevitably arouse a large wave of people wanting to upload life videos, and the market for home video cameras will also increase greatly, and the advantages of their DVD storage cameras will be infinitely magnified.

Compared with other storage media, DVD is very convenient for subsequent processing. It can be directly copied to the computer without using other tools, as long as the computer has an optical drive.

Other video camera manufacturers have also begun to consider this kind of thing, either preparing to launch home video cameras with DVD storage, or considering directly connecting the video camera to the computer to make it easier for users to transfer video to the computer.

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Although ordinary netizens are also very interested in uploading videos, most of the first people who actually put them into action are the tribal pigs who were originally on the Deep Space Tribe.

They know that there is no essential difference between duck webs and deep space tribes, but the display method is different, from text and pictures to video, which is more intuitive and consumes more traffic.

When the Deep Space Tribe was first established, the Deep Space Company invited many celebrities to join the Deep Space Tribe in order to promote the Deep Space Tribe, but this time when the Duck Web Duck Web website was created, the Deep Space Company did not do so.

Although Deep Space Corporation did not invite celebrities to settle in, these celebrities rushed to settle in, especially after Deep Space Corporation released the "Cooperation Incentive Plan".

The cooperation incentive plan was released on the second day after the Yapper website was fully launched. The content is very simple. As long as a certain Yapper has more than 888 subscribers and the video has been watched for more than [-] hours, you can apply to join the cooperation incentive plan.

As long as it passes the review and joins the cooperation incentive plan, Yapper can add advertisements in the video to make money.

Although the announcement did not mention the payment of advertisements in detail, the yappers who settled in still paid great attention to these things.

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No one thought that the first yapper who successfully joined the cooperation incentive plan on the duck web web site was a 16-year-old boy.

This boy is none other than Bruno Mars from the Deep Space Music Junior Class.

Bruno Mars uploaded a video of himself on the first night of Duck Web's launch, in which he sang "Three Little Birds" by reggae godfather Bob Marley.

There were few videos on the website that night, and Bruno Mars' performance was indeed very contagious, and he quickly gained a large number of fans.

The first condition for applying to join the cooperation incentive plan is to have 888 subscribers. This condition is very easy to achieve. When the duck web was officially launched, it had more than 2000 million registered users.

The second condition is that the video has been watched for [-] hours. This condition is a bit more difficult, but it was also met on the third day, which is beyond people's expectations.

Bruno Mars' video is only over three minutes long, and even if everyone watched his video from beginning to end, it would take 4 views.

After meeting the requirements, Bruno Mars immediately submitted an application to join the cooperation incentive plan.

Because he was the first person to submit the application, there was no need to queue at all, and the process went very fast, and the review was passed on the same day.

In fact, for Bruno Mars, whether he can join the cooperation incentive plan is not very important. The reason why he uploads the video is mainly to share his life and show his face. His goal is to be able to make a record and become a singer in the future. He may not be able to appreciate the little money in the cooperation incentive plan. If his uncle hadn't asked him to get it, he would not have submitted the application at all.

Because there were not many people who uploaded videos in the early stage, and there were not many high-quality ones, Bruno Mars’ videos were often pushed to the homepage, and a large number of subscribers were added soon, with an average increase of two to three thousand per day subscribers, apart from Yu Dong, he has become the individual user with the most subscribers.

However, it is basically impossible for him to surpass Yu Dong. Let alone Yu Dong's fans all over the world, just saying that his video is posted on the homepage of the website every day, Bruno Mars cannot compare.

On the night when the website was launched, Yu Dong's personal account had more than 20 subscribers, and the video he posted had more than 300 million views and more than 5 reposts that night.

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When Yu Dong learned that Bruno Mars became the first individual user to join the cooperation incentive plan, he was quite surprised. He was so busy during this period that he almost forgot the existence of Mars.

It has been one or two years since Bruno Mars joined the Deep Space Music Junior Program. Because he was too young, the company did not consider letting him appear in the public eye too early. The video is also his personal behavior, without company intervention.

Now that this kid has made his appearance, Yu Dong decided to ask the company to run him well and support him early. Deep Space Music is more cloudy now, especially for young singers. Male singer Jay Chou is the only one who can be heard all over the world. Fight against.

On the other hand, female singers, Shakira, Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne... Several young female singers are very strong. Supporting Martian can also balance Yin and Yang.

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Steven Case was in a very comfortable mood during this time. He felt more and more that his decision to cooperate with Deep Space Corporation was right. Now the company's stock and internal power structure are moving in a better direction.

After the merger of America Online and Time Warner, the management has always had conflicts, and investors have been swinging from side to side, not sure who to support.

But after cooperating with Deep Space Corporation, the investors all began to support their faction, and now the entire company is under his control, and it operates more smoothly.

The sale of Turner Broadcasting to Deep Space is on the agenda, and the sale of icq is almost complete.

Being able to sell ICQ can be regarded as solving a problem in Steven Case's mind, and the price offered by Deep Space Company is not cheap.

Someone had quoted a price for icq before, but the price was very low, less than 5000 million US dollars. At that time, Steven Case thought the price was too low and did not sell it. His psychological price was as long as it exceeded [-] million US dollars. , but few people can afford this price.

And he also knows that as time goes by, the price of icq will get lower and lower, because the value of this software is also getting lower and lower.By that time, let alone 5000 million US dollars, even the original offer of less than [-] million US dollars may not be offered.

Now is not the time when ICQ exploded a few years ago. After Dongdong came to the United States, ICQ was directly blown up, and its revenue plummeted.If it is a physical industry, there are still three catties of nails on a bad ship, even if the company is out of business, it can still sell a lot of money, but the Internet industry is not good, and not many people will be interested in a software that is going downhill.

It is precisely because of this transaction that investors' confidence in the company has increased a lot.

Next, they will have more in-depth cooperation with Deep Space Corporation. The traditional resources in the hands of Time Warner will be handed over to Deep Space Corporation for help in operation, while America Online will gradually enter the operator's market and open up broadband. Serve.

Steven Case is full of confidence in the follow-up cooperation, because Warner Bros. Pictures has strengthened cooperation with Deep Space during this period, and the effect is very good.

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On the other hand, Ma Huateng is also high-spirited. He has been working with Shenkong Company for the past few years and has been a shit-stirring stick before. This time, he finally feels proud. Shenkong directly handed over the ICQ purchased for hundreds of millions of dollars to them for operation.

The acquisition has not been fully settled yet, but icq's background and technical team have already taken over. Next, they will put the function of the drifting bottle on icq.

In addition to icq, their Facebook is also developing very well. It has rapidly spread from the first few schools to major universities in the United States, with hundreds of thousands of users, and this number is still growing.

Now that Ma Huateng goes to the deep space headquarters, his head is a little higher than before, and he now has his own office in the deep space building, and he no longer has to go to the boss's office to use the air conditioner.

In fact, when he first heard that the company was going to hand over ICQ to him, Ma Huateng was actually quite worried. He was worried that the head office only wanted ICQ’s customer information and would not develop ICQ well, which would make ICQ slowly rot in his hands. After all, icq is Dongdong's competitor.

But what Ma Huateng didn't expect was that both Yu Dong and Jimmy asked him to manage ICQ well, so he didn't have to worry too much, and he didn't have to be soft-hearted in the competition with Dongdong. If he had the ability to let ICQ put Dongdong down, Not only will they not be angry, but they will also applaud him.

Ma Huateng didn't think about putting Dongdong on the ground, because he knew that this matter was very difficult, and now as long as Shenkong Company didn't make foolish tricks, it would be very difficult for Dongdong to get down.

He just wanted ICQ to take a path that Dongdong would not take, so as to avoid competition with Dongdong.

(End of this chapter)