Based on these outstanding statistics, Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce decided to sign a contract with Aili Island, giving them exclusive broadcasting rights. In the future, all episodes of Boss Pei’s Daily Life would be broadcasted exclusively on Aili Island. In order to ensure that they could successfully switch websites this time, Huang Sibo and Director Zhu Xiaoce made several preparations. They worked hard to film all the episodes for the third season, so that they would have enough ammunition.
Then, they coordinated with Aili Island’s official marketing efforts as well as the recommendations of various other platforms, so that the audience of Boss Pei’s Daily Life could be diverted from all over the internet to Aili Island’s website. This was so that they could boost the number of views and popularity of the series.
This way, they could increase traffic on Aili Island’s site and make money for Fei Huang Workspace. They were killing two birds with one stone. Since they were granting Aili Island exclusive broadcasting rights and the video could only be published on Aili Island, the remuneration that the website offered was very generous.
After all, it was normally extremely expensive to increase traffic on a website in the beginning.
Pei Qian did not ask for too many details on this. This was because he was still depressed about Game Designer!
Two weeks after publishing, Game Designer’s sales were increasing rapidly. Until now, they had already sold more than a hundred thousand copies of the game! This was already not bad, considering that sales were dismal in the first week, and they were only beginning to pick up in the second week.
However, Pei Qian felt like the countdown to his death had begun…
Chapter 122 - Isn’t This the Mirror Image of the B-Site?!
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The moment Game Designer’s sales broke through three hundred thousand, he felt like this game was beginning to make profits. If its sales kept increasing and reached four or five hundred thousand, it could begin earning back the money incurred by Fish-Catching Internet Cafe and the short videos!
To Pei Qian, this was like a bolt from the blue; horrible news! Thus, recently, Pei Qian had been keeping an eye on the sales of Game Designer. He kept praying that the game would not get more popular than it already was.
Given the current situation, Pei Qian could not do anything more. The game was already out. Changing the game into rubbish maliciously was considered a violation. As for making cheap shots and causing commotions… gamers would probably think this was just another form of art.
Pei Qian only had one thought in his mind: he was in a great fix! He had to admit that although Teacher Qiao’s video was full of nonsense, he got one thing right: ‘being misunderstood was the fate of one who expressed ideas’.
As one who was expressing his ideas, Pei Qian was being insanely misunderstood. What’s more, everyone was misunderstanding him! This kind of fate made him want to vomit blood.
Others, on the other hand, were celebrating the conclusion of the third season of Boss Pei’s Daily Life.
“Brother Huang, what are you going to do from now on? Are you going to shoot the fourth season?” Lu Mingliang asked expectantly. He was hooked on acting as an intern in the series. He really wanted to continue acting in more episodes.
Huang Sibo smiled and said, “We’re not sure yet. However, according to the benefits Aili Island gave us in the contract, we should be able to recover all the money we poured into the previous seasons. We might even be able to profit.
“Since we have already proven the IP value of Boss Pei’s Daily Life, we have two main options to consider: we can either continue investing in this IP or look for a new direction. Of course, before we get back to work, we plan to take two weeks off. We have been working extra hard during this period. Everyone must be tired.”
The more Pei Qian heard, the more he felt like something was amiss.
What was going on?
According to the benefits Aili Island gave them in the contract, they should be able to recover all the money they poured into the previous seasons? They might even be able to profit?
These words were another bolt from the blue. Pei Qian was instantly stunned.
They had poured more than a million yuan into the previous seasons! They did not accept a single sponsored partnership. How could they earn all of it back? Even if this small website had an incentive plan, they could not possibly earn so much in such a short time!
“You guys didn’t accept any low-end sponsored partnerships, did you?” Pei Qian suddenly became wary.
Huang Sibo smiled. “We didn’t, Boss Pei. I told you before that Aili Island has an incentive plan for video creation. This is what makes it different from Potato Web.”
“An incentive plan… ten thousand clicks would amount to about fifteen to thirty yuan, right?” Pei Qian asked, becoming more confused.
The incentive plan was targeted at the whole internet. This meant that the price tag could not be too high. Ordinarily, ten thousand clicks would earn fifteen to thirty yuan. Videos with a million clicks would earn about two thousand yuan.
Of course, some websites’ incentive plans would weigh this price tag according to the total number of clicks the video got. For example, videos that had more than a million clicks, two million clicks, and three million clicks… all were paid differently for every ten thousand clicks. Still, they would not be paid an excessive amount.
Since Boss Pei’s Daily Life had only ten episodes per season, they would likely earn thirty to fifty thousand yuan at most. They could not possibly earn more than that.
No matter how Pei Qian calculated in his head, he could not figure out how the one million yuan would be recovered!
Huang Sibo smiled slightly and shook his head, explaining everything to Pei Qian in detail.
“Boss Pei, there are things you don’t understand. The incentive plan is targeted at all content creators. However, taking into consideration the amount of influence Boss Pei’s Daily Life has online, we negotiated better terms with Aili Island. The capacity we have is no longer that of an ordinary content creator.
“For the sake of marketing itself, Aili Island offered a sum of money to purchase exclusive broadcasting rights of Boss Pei’s Daily Life. The way they agreed to split the profits in this regard was extremely generous as well.
“The upper management of Aili Island thinks that short videos like these represent the future of video content. The show has good prospects. That’s why they made an exception and increased our grade from B to A.
“According to the rules—if a single account clicks on a single episode of an A-grade series and watches the video for more than six minutes, it would be viewed as a valid click. A valid click would earn about 0.4 yuan!
“Of course, since our videos are extremely short and only last about a minute each, this standard was adjusted downwards. If a single account clicks on a single episode of ours and watches the video for more than thirty seconds, it would qualify as a valid click. However, the earnings were adjusted downwards as well. Each valid click would earn us about 0.2 yuan.
“In other words—if we can confirm that each of the ten episodes in our third season would have more than a million valid clicks, we would be able to earn about two million yuan!
“Even if we deduct our expenses and taxes, we would still make a profit!
“This is all thanks to Boss Pei’s accurate strategizing! It was only because we rejected all the low-end sponsored partnership offers that Boss Pei’s Daily Life could earn its image as a high-IP-value web series. That was why Aili Island was willing to increase our grade and offer us such attractive, profit-splitting terms!
“All of these must be credited to your foresight!”
Pei Qian cursed in his heart.
Each click would earn them 0.2 yuan? That meant they were earning two thousand yuan for every ten thousand clicks. This was more than a hundred times more than ordinary websites’ incentive plans!
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Pei Qian really did not see this coming.
Video websites could indeed devote huge sums of money to purchase popular series and copyrights or exclusive broadcasting rights of popular variety shows. At the same time, they could sell these shows to members in bundles in order to increase their competitiveness. Copyrights were the moats for video websites. This was where most video websites spent the most money.
However, Pei Qian never expected that such an ordinary web series like Boss Pei’s Daily Life would receive treatment like that!
Ordinarily, websites set requirements to be fulfilled before awarding these A-, B-, C-, or D-grades for web series. Many restrictions were strictly adhered to. A web series had to be very good before they stood a chance to be awarded a grade.
What’s more, to get a grade, a web series had to hand over exclusive broadcasting rights to these websites.
This way, video websites would not have to pay one-time fees for exclusive broadcasting rights. Instead, they would split the profits with the content creators based on the popularity of the videos. To websites and content creators, this was the most practical and low-risk method of splitting profits.
This website called Aili Island had probably decided to spend a huge load of money recently. The upper management there must have chosen Boss Pei’s Daily Life by chance. That was why this was happening!
“Tonight at 8 PM, our third season will be broadcasted on Aili Island. Everyone, please take note of it. I think it will be quite lively then and there,” Huang Sibo announced, sounding proud of himself.
“Alright, alright! I will show my support for sure!”
“I will send the first bullet screen comment!”
Everyone was very excited.
Pei Qian was beginning to panic. He felt like he should take a look as well.
“What’s the address to this I-Site?” Pei Qian asked.
“Oh, it’s this.” Huang Sibo tapped a few times on his phone and then showed the address to Pei Qian.
A long line of English words was displayed on the screen.
‘www.ilidilid.com’!
Pei Qian was shocked.
This…
Isn’t this the freaking mirror-image of Bilibili?!
Chapter 123 - A Hopeless Boss Pei
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“This site… its name is Aili Island?” Pei Qian looked at Huang Sibo as he tried his best to not appear shocked.
Huang Sibo nodded, “Yet it is. Piecing together the syllables in English for ilid, this site is called Aili Island.”
Pei Qian was speechless.
You actually still seemed to make some sense!
“Alright, Boss Pei. We will make a move first. These few days, we have to properly consider the future of Fei Huang.”
“Hope that Boss Pei’s Daily Life and Game Designer can both make killing profits!”
Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce ‘cursed’ as they kept their equipment and left.
The entire office was filled with jubilation and a harmonious atmosphere!
Pei Qian went back to his own office, stunned. He quietly sat in front of his computer and entered the Aili Island website. The web page loaded. Seeing the familiar page in front of him, Pei Qian was now certain.
This was indeed this world’s B-Site!
Pei Qian hurriedly used the Qiandu search engine to find out how the site was doing. Alas, after he searched, his heart sank deeper.
Aili Island was the earliest bullet-screen video website. Although it had only been established recently, its momentum was rather fierce. It was now going up against Potato Web and other traditional websites! Furthermore, Aili Island also had something different from the B-Site that Pei Qian knew; it was rich!
Although it was still making a loss now, it was an independent video company that Shenhua Corporation and Qiandu had jointly invested in. That was how it could have such strong finances to spend a huge amount of money to purchase exclusive, popular drama series!
More unfortunately, as Qiandu had also invested in this website, regardless of what one searched on the Qiandu search engine; the Aili Island video website would always be prioritized as a search result.
“An enhanced version of B-Site?
“B-Site combined with iQiyi?
“Finished…”
Pei Qian leaned on his chair; he was feeling very unwell. He had thought that only at eight tonight would he announce his death sentence; now, he realized that the writing was already on the wall! This was a loss as a result of him not being familiar with the environment!
Pei Qian had been rather attentive to this world’s video websites; he was especially mindful of the websites that started with A and B. However, never would Pei Qian have guessed that this world’s B-Site had actually been written backward—from Bilibili to ilidilid!
Together with this ludicrous Chinese name for this site, Pei Qian had mistakenly thought that this was a site that would crash and burn very soon; he had not paid much attention to it!
Now that things had come to a head, it was very embarrassing for him.
After sitting in a daze for a long while, Pei Qian was a little hopeless as he summoned the system screen.
From the looks of it, the system was still experiencing losses.
However, this would not be the case for long!
From the previous settlement to date, Pei Qian’s primary income had still been Ghost General and Ocean Stronghold.
As he had not created any new purchase options, Ghost General’s income had started to slide. However, at least a million in revenue still came in monthly while profit was at six to seven hundred thousand.
As Ocean Stronghold continued to benefit from an ever-rising number of active players, its monthly revenue was on a rising trend. Revenue was now almost seven million while profits were at three and a half million.
Although the game only sold one Red Kilin, there were just so many FPS players in the domestic market!
Currently, Ocean Stronghold was one of the leading FPS games domestically; it was converting Counter Strike players in droves. As Tengda kept on acquiring new servers and increased bandwidth—with more and more players joining, this game’s revenue had not only not dropped but was showing signs of rising!
After all, FPS games were known for their longevity. In two and a half months, these two games had brought Pei Qian around nine million in profits! Together with the initial million in the System Funds, that was a total of more than ten million.
Furthermore, when it came to current expenditure, he had:
Fei Huang Workspace, one million;
Game Designer, three million in development;
Game publicity and the money for sponsored partnerships, another three hundred thousand;
Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, three and a half million including three months’ rent;
The company’s monthly rent was below four hundred thousand while employees’ monthly wages amounted to two hundred thousand. Together with all miscellaneous expenditure, these amounted to eight hundred thousand monthly or around two million in two and a half months.
All expenditure added together was around nine million and eight hundred thousand!
Of course, Pei Qian wasn’t bothered with the exact figures; the company accountants would naturally do those up. Pei Qian only had to look at the figure in the System Funds and then make plans on how he was going to continue spending money.
Originally, he had been in good control of
the numbers and had successfully pushed the System Funds to below eight hundred thousand.
Before this month’s settlement, as long as he did one more large-scale splurge, giving all his employees bonuses while going on a shopping spree himself; he could control the System Funds to around a hundred thousand. That would mean that he could safely get more than eight hundred thousand in his own pocket during the next settlement!
However, there was a premise: the new game, short videos, and internet cafe couldn’t make money or couldn’t make much money! Like the internet cafe that was losing three hundred thousand a month; that fulfilled Pei Qian’s requirements very well!
However, problems arose.
Although Boss Pei’s Daily Life had not been fully released—based on its popularity now, that would bring in at least a million. Of course, Pei Qian would not want this whole sum. However, he had to take some at least, or else the system would not let this go.
Game Designer’s sales had also continued to rise exponentially. In the remaining half a month, at the very least, it would sell two hundred thousand copies!
Added together, these two projects would bring in more than three million!
While the internet cafe could continue to bleed—in the face of so many other sources of revenue and profit, it could not amount to much use.
If Pei Qian did nothing from now on, optimistically, he would still make two to three million in the end.
If he was pessimistic, he could even end up with four to five million.
If the profits were four million and were converted into forty thousand as Pei Qian’s Personal Wealth—as he only had less than fifty thousand now, that was actually not bad. It was better than nothing.
However, the crux was in what that was in comparison to!
If he incurred losses, he could get seven to eight hundred thousand added to his Personal Wealth; that was a difference of at least ten times!
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