Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3149 A Bright Future
Dennis Zhao is Wang Xiaochuan's classmate. Although he has changed his citizenship to American, Zhou Buqi still feels like one of his own and can focus on training him.

Before that, he was Zheng Xiaoli's subordinate, and it was he who led the team to create the Yahoo Finance App.

This time, he served as the operating officer of Peacock, which can be regarded as an important task.

Compared to Hastings, Zhou Buqi trusted him more.

After that passed, Hastings became interested in Peacock's business.

Although Netflix and Peacock are competitors in the market, they are brothers and sisters, both under the command of Mr. Zhou, so there is no need to hide many things. Peacock people can ask Hastings for some advice, and Hastings can also learn some new ideas from this new product.

Zhou Buqi does not get involved in business matters.

He came here mainly to talk to Zhao Dan. During his visit just now, he and Hastings started a conversation on the topic of "splitting the content library".

"To operate Peacock, we must explore experience and summarize some replicable experience." Zhou Buqi put forward the requirement, "It should be like doing technology research and development. We should do scientific technology, not craftsmanship. We must know the cause and the effect."

Zhao Dan came from Ziweixing International, and he knew that the boss attached great importance to cloud computing business.

When I heard this, I thought it was related to cloud computing.

Zhao Dan smiled and said, "I understand. I will definitely make a good summary and package some key modules to fully support Ziwei Cloud's streaming media business."

"Ah? Zi Weiyun?"

"Well, I can do what Netflix can't or is unwilling to do. Peacock can share the fruits of success to the greatest extent possible and improve Ziwei Cloud's service level in the field of streaming media, so that Ziwei Cloud can firmly control this market."

"No, no, that's not what I meant."

Zhou Buqi then realized that this guy had misunderstood.

He thought that the purpose was to summarize the experience and lessons learned through Peacock, package some replicable and universal modules into streaming cloud services and provide them to Ziwei Cloud, and then allow Ziwei Cloud to serve more streaming platforms.

This is indeed a good angle.

This can greatly reduce Ziwei Cloud's R&D costs and improve efficiency in the industrial structure; it can also increase Ziwei Cloud's popularity in the field of film and television streaming media, and highlight the sharing and open source entrepreneurial spirit of the Internet.

However, this is not the purpose of Zhou Buqi's coming here.

If it was such a lofty ambition, it would be enough to just say it publicly. There would be no need to go to his office and talk about it secretly behind closed doors.

Zhou Buqi said: "What I mean is that Peacock should play a connecting role."

"A link between the past and the future?" Zhao Dan was slightly startled, and slowly thought about it and said, "The link between the past and the future... Netflix is ​​the link between the past and the future. What is the link between the past and the future? Will we have a new streaming platform after Peacock?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Maybe there is such a plan."

"Ah?" Zhao Dan was shocked. "Is it true?"

Zhou Buqi didn't mind telling him some secrets. After all, he was one of them. He held a lot more shares in Ziweixing International than Ziweixing Global. He said frankly, "Maybe in a few years, after Yahoo's full revival and success in various display areas, it will launch a 'Yahoo Movies' product."

Zhao Dan took a deep breath and said, "Yahoo Movies, a new movie and TV streaming product!"

Zhou Buqi said, "At present, this is a feasible plan. The streaming media industry will completely replace the traditional TV industry in the future. This is a general trend. The dozen or so streaming media products on the market alone cannot meet market demand."

Zhao Dan asked: "But what about the content library?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Splitting up."

"Uh……"

Zhao Dan was at a loss for words.

The film and television content library is the biggest competitive advantage of streaming media products. The popularity of Peacock is due to the fact that it has the largest and richest content library!
In the past five or six years, the sector that Zhou Buqi has been most concerned about in Ziweixing Global's business is the content library.

He has created a world-class and astonishingly large content library!

It has 1.2 movies and 22 TV shows! It is mainly composed of three parts.

First, MGM.

Includes 5000 movies and 10 TV episodes.

Although MGM once went through ups and downs and almost went bankrupt, it is still a big deal. Among the seven traditional Hollywood studios, MGM still has the largest film library. However, 90% of MGM's film library is very old films, all of which are works from the golden age of Hollywood before the 80s. Many of them are black-and-white films or even silent films, and the value of the works is not very high.

According to the plan, MGM's film library will be exclusively supplied to Netflix in the future.

In the coming year, Netflix will pay $10.2 billion in copyright fees to Ziweixing Global to obtain all film and television licenses from MGM and its subsidiary Summit Entertainment. The copyright price will increase year by year, which is a huge sum of money.

Second, Universal Pictures.

Universal Pictures has 4000 movies and 7 TV shows, which is smaller than MGM, but much more valuable. In particular, the three major ace brands of Marvel, Lucasfilm, and DreamWorks Animation are all included in the Universal Pictures system, which further increases the value of this film library.

According to the plan, Universal Pictures' film library will be exclusively supplied to Peacock in the future.

Peacock itself is positioned as a streaming platform built on the assets of Universal Pictures.

Third, foreign copyright.

The so-called foreign copyrights are some film and television content that have been purchased globally by the purchasing department authorized by Zhou Buqi at a cost of nearly 100 billion US dollars in the past few years, such as classic movies "Brave Heart", "Catch Me If You Can", "Pulp Fiction", "Cold Mountain", "Chicago", "Heroes", etc., and popular American TV series such as "Game of Thrones", "Breaking Bad", "The Walking Dead" and "The Big Bang Theory" that have bought out the streaming media copyrights.

The content in this section is extremely valuable and large in scale, with more than 3000 movies and 5 episodes of TV shows.

For the time being, these future copyrights will be licensed to both Netflix and Peacock.

This has caused some waste.

There is so much content and the subscription fee is so low.

It is necessary to split up the foreign copyright of this third part, pull it out separately, set up a new streaming platform, reap it again... and charge again.

The initial plan is to establish a streaming platform like "Yahoo Films", with a content library based on "external copyrights" and some self-made dramas. Even technology companies like Amazon and Apple, which have no film and television library at all, can do streaming business to enter the film and television market. Zhou Buqi has so many high-quality resources, it will be easier for him to do it.

Zhao Dan immediately understood what the boss meant and narrowed his eyes. "That's right. The subscription fee is very low. With so much content, it can certainly improve the competitiveness of the streaming platform, but it will also greatly reduce the value of the film and television content."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Ziweixing Global's content library is large enough to support three streaming platforms. If we are determined, it won't be a problem to support seven or eight."

Zhao Dan laughed out loud.

A bit heartless.

This is a bit too capitalist.

However, this is the United States, and none of these foreign film and television streaming platforms can enter the domestic market. Harvesting foreign users is a matter of peace of mind for both parties, and it is nothing more than making money. Besides, compared with other streaming platforms, Boss Zhou is already conscientious enough.

Zhou Buqi started to make big promises again. "You came from Yahoo!. Zheng Xiaoli mentioned you to me yesterday, saying that you did a great job with Peacock. However, you have to face a reality. You are the COO of Peacock. It is unlikely that you will be promoted to CEO within a few years. Peacock is a project led by Jason Kilar, and the CEO he appointed, David Lee, is also an Internet person."

Zhao Dan nodded, "Yeah, I know."

Zhou Buqi said: "So, if you want to lead a big project and become the CEO of a streaming product, it might be difficult to stay at Peacock."

Zhao Dan's eyes lit up, "Will I have a chance to return to Yahoo in the future?"

"It's not impossible, so I tell you, during your time at Peacock, you must sum up your experience and explore the rules of the industry." Zhou Buqi gave him the care of a direct descendant, "If we really want to do the 'Yahoo Movies' project in the future, you will be the first choice."

"Okay! I understand!"

Zhao Dan immediately felt that his future was bright.

(End of this chapter)