The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 138 The Great Wedding

At 2002 a.m. on January 1, 15, the temperature in Yanjing area was minus two degrees.

The sky was overcast, the wind was cold, and there were very few people on the street.

However, in Fenghua Film and Television Company of Liangmahe Building, there are bright lights shining everywhere, and the employees have excited expressions on their faces, and the atmosphere is very good.

In the company conference room, Li Shengyao, his assistant, and an employee of the export department sat on one side, and four middle-aged men with Southeast Asian appearance sat opposite him.

These four people are the small leaders from the Philippine Island Renmin TV Station.

There are a total of more than [-] TV stations in the Philippine Islands, of which seven TV stations cover the whole country, and the others are all local or paid TV stations.

Among the seven TV stations, one is state-run, called Renmin TV, and its status is similar to CCTV in the mainland.

This TV station is also the most watched TV station in the Philippines.

In fact, the Philippine island does not restrict other TV stations of Guo Jia, and their cable TV can watch more than 100 channels.

One set of CCTV in the Mainland, several major TV stations in Wanwan, and TVB can be watched.

However, not many ordinary people can speak Chinese, and the locals mainly watch Renmin TV.

The Philippine island is poor, and there are very few self-produced TV series.

Most of their TV stations buy out TV series, and because they are too poor, even if they buy out TV series, they still buy the cheaper ones.

Naturally, the quality of these dramas cannot be guaranteed.

At this time, the mobile Internet has not yet emerged, and ordinary people have no entertainment activities. Even if the purchased TV series are bad, they still watch them with gusto.

Fenghua Film and Television Company established a subtitle group and an export department.

The Export Sales Department specializes in selling TV dramas to the outside world, and contact them by email.

Li Shengyao set a very low price for them, [-] knives per episode, and if they sold it, they would be rewarded.

Just the day before yesterday, an employee of the export department actually contacted the buyer, and it was the Philippine island that Lee Shengyao was very fond of.

Now this employee is sitting next to Li Shengyao, and there will be rewards later.

Li Shengyao personally rushed back from Shanghai, he wanted to use this attitude to show the importance of this business and his approval of the Foreign Sales Department.

He is very excited and happy now.

The reason why he likes Philippine Island so much is not that he is interested in the market of Philippine Island, nor is he fond of Philippine Island women.

Instead, he fell in love with the female data workers in the Philippine Islands.

Although the Philippine Islands are poor, they have longed to join the beautiful country decades ago. The English of local college students is very good.

They are the perfect data girls.

In Lee Sung Yew’s previous life, the peninsula would conquer the Philippine island with Korean dramas and Korean entertainment idols seven or eight years later, making their stars the mainstream of the Philippine island, and then training a large number of female data workers in the Philippine island.

According to these data, the monthly salary of female workers is cheap, only US$[-] a month.

But their English is good, and they started to collect clicks and views on YouTube for Korean dramas, Korean dramas, and Korean entertainment idol videos.

Create a phenomenon that Korean dramas and dramas are very popular in the English-speaking circle around the world.

Before Lee Sung Yew crossed over, according to the latest data from the international version of Douyin, the number of Chinese drama entries was 160 billion, and the number of Korean drama entries was 490 billion. The comparison between the two is one to three.

It seems that Korean dramas are more popular than Chinese dramas.

In fact, this is an illusion. There are four main reasons for the large number of Korean drama entries.

The first is that they have a very large stock advantage. It can be said that they have been exported since "Blue Life and Death", while mainland dramas have only begun to be released outside since "Small Smile is Alluring", especially in the English-language market.

The second is that there are already 5000 million people on the peninsula who use the international version of Douyin. When they upload videos, they are basically marked in English.

The third is that the people of the peninsula like to rub the heat. They have to write Korean dramas in English in everything, and any video of a dog must be marked with the word Korean drama.

The fourth is the female data workers of Philippine Island and Indian Island. These two Guo Jias have a lot of English-speaking people. The data of Korean dramas, Korean dramas, and Korean entertainment idols is so high, and they have contributed a lot of traffic.

Relatively speaking, there is almost no marketing for Chinese dramas outside, and the traffic is entirely contributed by tap water.

Moreover, the two major advantages of Chinese dramas, Annan and Tyrande generally do not mark Chinese dramas in English, but mark them in their own languages.

Before he traveled, the gap between Chinese dramas and Korean dramas was actually not that big.

Li Shengyao is not interested in the profits of the Philippine Islands and Indian Islands. He prefers the data workers in these two places.

In the future, he will also hire people from these two places to review data for his drama, creating a phenomenon that is popular all over the world.

Anyway, the price is cheap, and the income is very high. As long as it can attract curious viewers to click in, the YouTube advertising share and rewards are enough to pay the female workers in the Philippines.

As a result, the expanded market is a place where real cash can be realized and cultural influence can be expanded, and the value is even greater.

Zha Lang’s group of data-scanning traffic can be said to be low, just like the Peninsulars, hiring people to go to Youtube, go to Facebook to scan data, and earn money from foreigners is really awesome.

"Mr. Li, we are very optimistic about your company's three dramas, "Funny Family", "Love Hotel", and "Winter Sonata", can you sell them to us?"

"Of course, I'd love to."

"It's just that our Philippine island has a small population and a low standard of living. Is it really a thousand dollars an episode?"

"Yes, a thousand dollars an episode."

The price was really low. Li Shengyao wasn't sure if these guys still wanted to bargain, and he thought about how to deal with it.

"Great, Mr. Li, we are willing to buy, and we can sign the contract now."

Li Shengyao was overjoyed, and immediately called a lawyer and a master of English to help him read the contract.

An hour later, Li Shengyao signed a contract with the Philippine Island Renmin TV station, selling "Funny Family", "Winter Sonata", and "Love Hotel" to the other party for US$19 per episode, a total of US$[-].

He said happily: "If you still want to watch Chinese dramas, you can come to us at any time. We can help coordinate. It's all $[-] an episode."

The four Filipinos were very happy. They didn't expect such cheap TV series to exist in this world. They excitedly expressed that they would contact Fenghua Film and Television Company in the future.

Two hours later, after Li Shengyao had dinner with four Filipinos, he returned to the company, called over the employee who had contacted the Filipino Renmin TV station, and praised him in front of everyone else: "You did a good job. Very good, this time you sold three dramas, and I will give you a reward of 3 yuan."

He then said to the others: "The peninsula, the island country, Wanwan, Hong Kong Island, Xinmatai, and the big oil country."

"In addition to the above Guojia area, you sell the drama to other places, Guojia. The lowest price is US$1 an episode, and the reward for a drama is [-] yuan."

At this time, the big guy's salary was only in the early thousand, and selling a drama was equivalent to half a year's salary, and the employees applauded after hearing this.

When Li Shengyao returned to the office, the assistant asked in a low voice, "Mr. Li, why are there so many rewards? One month's salary is enough."

"It was impossible to earn money in the first place, but now that I have earned it, it is natural to give more rewards."

Li Shengyao didn't explain the importance of market cultivation, he replied with a chuckle.

(End of this chapter)