Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

After signing until the end, Yu Dong raised his head.

At the end of the team was a girl about 20 years old, probably a college student. She was looking at Yu Dong excitedly.

Yu Dong stretched his arms and said with a smile, "You must be very tired after waiting so late."

The girl shook her head like a rattle, "I'm not tired, I'm not tired. I'm very lucky. If I were one more late, it wouldn't be my turn today."

What she said was completely true. When the staff announced the end of the queue, she was standing at the end. At that time, all she could think of was two words: "Rejoice."

Yu Dong picked up the signature pen again and said with a smile, "Then let me add some more luck to your luck."

After that, Yu Dong signed his name on both of the girl's books and wrote a special signature.

The girl felt like she had found a treasure, "Thank you, Teacher Yu, thank you, Teacher Yu."

It is not easy to get two special lottery tickets at once.

After the girl left, Yu Dong stood up and stretched his muscles. There were not many people in the literature hall, and the rest were staff waiting for him to finish signing books.

"Where are Teacher Yu Hua and the others? Have they gone back?" Yu Dong asked the staff next to him.

The staff member said, "Teacher Yu Hua and the others should still be in your office...waiting for you."

Yu Dong smiled, these guys must be playing cards in his office.

He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked up. From this position, he could barely see the top floor of the deep space main building. The lights in his office were indeed still on.

After telling the staff to go back and rest early, Yu Dong went to his office.

……

Pushing open the door of the office, he heard the noise inside. What Yu Dong didn't expect was that they were not only playing cards, but also had two tables, one for the middle-aged and elderly groups, and one for the youth group.

The senior group is naturally composed of Yu Hua and Mo Yan, while the youth group is composed of Ruan Xiaohu, Xu Zechen and others.

Xu Zechen graduated from his undergraduate degree two years ago and is now studying Chinese at Yenching Normal University. The reason why he chose Yenching Normal University is naturally because of Yu Dong.

Although Xu Zechen is still in graduate school, he has published many articles and is considered a well-known author. Today he also signed a book, but the time was relatively short, only two hours.

There is also Zhao Yan in the youth group.

Zhao Yan is now the best-selling young writer in China, provided that Yu Dong does not fall into the category of young writers. Of course, no one regards Yu Dong as a young writer now.

When Xu Zechen and Zhao Yan attended an event, the organizer might introduce them as young writers, but since many years ago, no one has introduced Yu Dong as a young writer, even though he is only 34 years old. The real deal is young people.

Zhao Yan's main battlefield is the fantasy popular novel market, which is not the same as Ruan Xiaohu and Xu Zechen.

Seeing Yu Dong, Yu Hua smiled and said, "Executive member, you are finally done. We have been waiting for you for a long time."

Yu Dong sneered, "Are you sure you are waiting for me? Not to play cards?"

"Waiting for you, let's play cards by the way." Bi Feiyu said with a smile, "There is no conflict between the two, right?"

Yu Dong pouted, "Well, since you are waiting for me, I'm done now, let's go."

Wang Xiaobo said, "You must be very tired after signing for so long today. Sit down and rest for a while. Don't leave in a hurry."

"That's right." Bi Feiyu took over, "We are all thinking about you, Xiaohu, go and pour your teacher a cup of tea."

Before Ruan Xiaohu could react, Xu Zechen stood up and said, "I'll do it, I'll do it."

Seeing Xu Zechen's positive attitude, Yu Hua joked, "It's good to have students here. I'm even thinking about recruiting a few students. I'm in the office now and I have to make tea myself."

Yu Dong rolled his eyes, "You accept students just to serve you tea and water?"

"Otherwise, what's the point of recruiting students?" Yu Hua said confidently.

Yu Dong ignored him, took the water glass from Xu Zechen, and sat on the sofa to rest. He was indeed tired now.

After closing his eyes and resting for a while, Yu Dong opened his eyes and said to Xu Zechen and Ruan Xiaohu, "Zhechen and Xiaohu will go to Luoyuan tomorrow. I have something to tell you."

Ruan Xiaohu and Xu Zechen nodded in unison, "I understand, teacher."

Yu Dong looked at the time. It was already 11:30. He yawned, "I won't accompany you anymore. You can fight here by yourself. I have a lot of things to do tomorrow. I advise you to go back early and wait until the king Shuo, Han Shaogong and the others are here, let’s arrange two tables for them.”

Yu Hua pointed at Yu Dong and said with a smile, "You are so bad. It is not easy for Wang Shuo and Lao Han to make some money all year round."

"It's not easy for anyone in this world. Anyway, if you don't win with their money, there are other people who want to win, so it's better for you to win."

Bi Feiyu gave a thumbs up, "That makes sense. We have done a good thing."

Yu Dong smiled, ignored them, and went home first.

……

On Yu Dong's way back, it was also the time for the online live broadcast of tickets for the Deep Space New Year's Eve concert.

Although this year's concert will be held in a stadium and tickets will be sold, like previous years, it will still be broadcast live online.

Of course, it is said to be an online live broadcast, but the tickets are free. The reason why the tickets are released is to prevent there are too many viewers in the online live broadcast room and some people cannot squeeze in. Let them grab the tickets first. Audiences with tickets can enter the live broadcast room first, while viewers without tickets can only be squeezed out of the live broadcast room first.

In fact, grabbing tickets is just a gimmick, just to increase the exposure of Yawei Yawei.com and to increase the popularity of the live broadcast of the party.This live broadcast is divided into online live broadcast and TV live broadcast. The online live broadcast is undertaken by Duckweed alone, while the live TV broadcast is handled by Turner Broadcasting and ABC.

When it comes to broadcasting rights, ABC wants to slap itself in the face.

Two years ago, they had a conversation about the rights to broadcast the live broadcast of the Deep Space Annual Conference. At that time, Deep Space Company made a bold move and asked ABC to sign a five-year long-term contract with them for a total price of [-] million US dollars.

Of course ABC cannot agree to it. A long-term contract is inherently risky, and it costs US$5000 million over five years. On average, it amounts to US$[-] million a year, which is much higher than the cost of Oscar broadcasts, even if there is subsequent inflation. , not so much more.

After a period of negotiation, the two parties finally reached an agreement. ABC only purchased the broadcast rights on the day of the official annual meeting, and signed a three-year contract for a total of 4000 million US dollars.Based on this calculation, ABC only spends more than 300 million US dollars per year, which is far from the previous 5000 million US dollars per year.

Moreover, in the opinion of ABC's senior management at the time, the main traffic during the few days of the Deep Space Annual Meeting was the day of the official annual meeting, because there would be celebrities walking on the red carpet that day, and they could spend more than 300 million US dollars a year to get it. Broadcasting rights, in their opinion, are earned.

But now it seems that the choice made at that time was wrong.It’s not that they spent $300 million to buy the broadcast rights. In fact, they have been making money from broadcasting the Deep Space Annual Conference in the past few years. The ratings of the Deep Space Annual Conference have increased year by year, which is very stable. A batch.

The reason why it is wrong is because there is more money that could have been earned, but they did not earn it because of their wrong choices.

The Deep Space Annual Conference has become more and more popular in the past two years. It is not only the official annual conference that has attracted the most viewers, but other theme days are also very popular, especially the game theme day. The amount of attention is simply outrageous.

The number of people online in the live broadcast room on last year's game theme day was very high, even approaching the number of viewers at the Oscars.

The reason why the number of people online for the live broadcast on the game theme day is so high is naturally because there will be activities organized on that day, as well as some game launches.

Especially this year, the traffic on Music Day and Game Day will definitely explode.

Deep Space Company also held a New Year’s Eve party on the Music Theme Day. The effect of this live broadcast will definitely be explosive. However, it is a pity that the contract they signed with Deep Space Company did not include the activities on the Music Theme Day. Live broadcast, so this time they must compete for broadcast authorization again.

In the end, they and Turner obtained the broadcast license for the Deep Space New Year's Eve Party. The total cost was US$200 million, which was shared equally between the two broadcasting companies. Each broadcaster paid US$600 million. This amount was already more than what they had purchased before. The price of the annual meeting live broadcast has doubled.

If they can sign a $600 million contract, they can save $[-] million this time and don't have to share broadcast rights with Turner Broadcasting.Moreover, Deep Space Company has made so many offers. If they make a counter-offer, they will definitely be able to pay a little less, and maybe they can exchange it for less than [-] million US dollars.

In addition, inflation has been very strong in the past two years, and broadcasting fees have increased a lot. The cost of the Oscars live broadcast next door has also increased to 4000 to [-] million US dollars.

In addition, ABC did not have the rights to broadcast the game day, and they had to spend close to 3000 million US dollars to purchase the rights to broadcast the game in the past.

Some time ago, ABC tried to talk to Deep Space Company about the packaging of the entire annual meeting, but Deep Space Company ignored them.

The reason why this year's game day broadcast rights cost so much money is because Deep Space Company organized a special event this year. There will be an exhibition match for the WCG champions on site. The lineup is very strong. It can be said that even if you are not the champion, you are not qualified to be on stage.

Also, on Game Day this year, Blizzard will also officially publicly test their new game "World of Warcraft". This game has always been highly anticipated. This time the new game is released on Game Day, there will definitely be no shortage of people in the live broadcast room.

For Music Day alone, Deep Space Company received US$200 million from advertising and broadcasting rights this year, in addition to advertising fees.

A total of 75 advertisements were sold for this Deep Space New Year's Eve Party. The price of each advertisement ranged from 65 US dollars to 150 million US dollars. On average, the cost of an advertisement was 95 US dollars.

A total of 75 advertisements, which is 120 million US dollars, plus 200 million US dollars in broadcast fees, 320 million US dollars.

The broadcasting cost of the game theme day is more than 700 million US dollars, and the advertising cost is more than 4000 million US dollars, totaling more than 700 million US dollars.

On the day of the official annual meeting, the current broadcast fee is close to 3000 million, plus more than 6000 million in advertising fees, it is close to [-] million US dollars.

Lin Lin finally calculated that he could probably get more than 3000 million US dollars from the broadcast of the Deep Space Company's annual meeting in the seven days.

In fact, you can get a lot of money on sports days, but you earn more on sports days and spend more. Basically all the money you earn is spent, so you don’t count it.The prices on the other theme days are much different, and the sum of these days is more than 3000 million.

The Deep Space Company also spends a lot of money to hold its annual meeting. Especially this year, expenses in all aspects have increased.

The number of guests is larger, and the subsidy standard is higher. Just to reimburse the guests for their food, accommodation, travel expenses, and Star Card points, Deep Space Company will spend more than 4000 million US dollars.

If you tell me this fee, others may not believe it. What kind of guest subsidy can cost so much money?

In fact, this is indeed the case, mainly for foreign guests. The travel expenses alone for foreign guests will cost thousands of dollars.

For example, Nelson and Alex had a total of six people coming, and the round trip expenses cost more than 2 US dollars. The cost of food, accommodation and other expenses for several days added up to several thousand US dollars.

Some guests also asked for a translator, and hiring a translator is not cheap these days.

Deep Space Company has invited a total of more than 4000 guests. On average, each guest brings 6000 family members, which means more than 6000 people will come. Each of these 3000 people will receive [-] starry sky points, which is [-] million points. This alone That’s more than [-] million yuan.

After the dinner, everyone had a souvenir, which was a starry sky card. The cost of the starry sky card was 500 yuan. The standard for the dinner was 400 yuan per person, not including wine...

There are 6000 people. On average, each person spends more than 8000 US dollars.

Calculating it this way, it seems that there are not that many.

Then there is the construction of the stage and the replacement of equipment...

In addition, the live broadcast itself requires a lot of equipment, staff, and subsidies for artist performances.

All the expenses are added up. This year's annual meeting will probably cost more than 6000 million US dollars. Deep Space Company's profit should be less than 5000 million US dollars. Of course, in addition, Deep Space Company still made a lot of money. For those who earn Starry Sky Points, these points can be converted into money, amounting to tens of millions.

In fact, even if they make less money, Yu Dong and the others don't care. The purpose of holding the Deep Space Annual Meeting is not to make money. It's just that they have done well in the past few years, so they can earn some money. In the first few years of the annual meeting, Deep Space The company simply gives money to external parties just to make money.

Now it's better. Not only can I make money every year, but I can also make money.

The annual meeting of the Deep Space Company can be said to be a cross-era phenomenon. No company has ever been able to organize an annual meeting like this.Now even if Deep Space Corporation does not want to hold an annual meeting, the Jinling government will probably require them to hold one. The government may even give some money to Deep Space Corporation.

This is because the Deep Space Annual Meeting is too strong an economic stimulus to Jinling. The economic income it brings to Jinling is far more than the cost of the Deep Space Company.