February 22.

After several days of warm-up, "The Big Star Face to Face" was officially launched on the pp video at 7 pm and has been known to everyone.

Many users who have not downloaded pp videos before have also started downloading today.

When Li Dong arrived at the company in the morning, Liu Hong rushed to report the good news and said, "Mr. Li, our video downloads have increased by more than 8 million in the past two days.

The total installation volume has approached the 100 million mark!

Your popularity is indeed unparalleled, which is much more cost-effective than asking celebrities to do promotion."

In 2009, the number of Chinese netizens was about 300 million, and the proportion of online video users was about 80%, which is the total number of users of 240 million.

The number of pp video installations is as high as 100 million, which is obviously not to be underestimated.

The installation amount does not represent everything, it is normal to uninstall and install it.

For online videos, the more important data is not actually this, but the number of people covered.

The so-called number of people covering is the number of users who access the website independently within the deadline.

According to the monthly coverage statistics in January 2009, the total market volume exceeded 150 million.

Among them, Youku and Tudou are the current industry leaders, both of which are around 80 million. Of course, there are overlapping user coverage.

Otherwise, the total number of visitors to these two companies alone would exceed 160 million.

In the past year, despite the continuous promotion, several variety shows have become popular, and pp and Weibo are attracting traffic. In the end, the monthly coverage of people is only more than 50 million, which is much lower than the two companies.

Of course, this is the January statistics.

In fact, pp videos are growing every month. According to normal statistics in February, it is very likely to exceed the 55 million mark.

However, now, I’m afraid there is no need to wait until the end of the month, and it is very likely to reach the level of 60 million at the end of the month.

As soon as Liu Hong said this, Li Dong couldn't help but smile and said, "No, keep working hard, kill those two companies and reach the top!"

Of course, Li Dong didn't take it seriously either.

To be serious, the video websites are burning money at this time, and both Youku and Tudou are losing money.

On the contrary, it is far away and there is no loss.

There is this foundation in the distance, bandwidth, servers, data centers...

These hardware are already available in the distance, and there is little investment, not just for video website investment.

At this time, the more expensive thing is actually the copyright fee.

In 2009, pirated copies were rampant, but pirated copies were OK in China, and pirated copies were not bad in foreign countries, so it would be troublesome.

All major video websites are purchasing copyrights at high prices.

Especially after the establishment of LeTV, the major video websites of the giants raised the copyright price and fought a price war.

Speaking of LeTV, the head of Lao Jia and Li Dong are a bit similar.

This guy also sued him for a disagreement!

Anyway, almost all the copyrights he bought were exclusive. He immediately started suing any domestic website. In the past two years, there have been almost no video websites in the industry that have not been sued.

Of course, except in the distance.

On the one hand, the far-reaching method team is strong, and LeTV cannot beat the far-reaching ones.

On the one hand, the far side has always insisted on genuine versions, and the far side is more independent, investing and creating programs by themselves.

After "The Voice of China" and "Where Are We Going, Dad" were launched, it also led the development of variety shows in the distance and was in a leading position.

As for TV series, Dongxing Entertainment has invested in and filmed many films, but they only make money but not lose money.

The cost of purchasing copyrights in Yuanfang is much lower than that of other websites, and the infrastructure costs are much lower, so the current video website may be able to maintain operation in Yuanfang.

Other websites have been burning money all the time, and it seems that they don’t know when it will be the first.

So Li Dong didn't pay too much attention to whether the video business can be the first.

Video business is just a point of industry enrichment, not all. The top of a single industry cannot bring too much benefits to the distance.

When Liu Hong finished the good news, Li Dong interrupted: "Don't care too much about this. After the interview is recorded, the matter will be over.

As for external reactions, we don’t need to delve into it.

Now let’s talk about Weibo financing. After the B round of financing, Weibo continued to grow bigger, the international version developed particularly rapidly, and a large number of users in China have also increased.

Now, registered users, plus the international version, have reached 400 million users.

Of course, this is not important. The key is that our monthly independent users have reached 170 million, which is the key!

Now let me say that we are the world's largest social networking website, and I think there is no problem."

Why did Li Dong dare to say that!

Because there are many Chinese people!

Who can’t make Faebook enter the country and promote it? It lacks the data support of China, a super-popular country?

In January 2009, Faebook had only 140 million independent users worldwide.

Of course, they are not weak in the United States, with nearly 70 million users visiting, surpassing their opponents myspae 58 million.

Yuanfang Weibo is much weaker in the United States, with only about 20 million.

The main data support in the distance comes from the domestic market.

China is a country with a large population, with a large number of netizens, reaching 300 million, and has now become the world's number one.

Of course, the statistical data of each institution is different. Some American institutions still have the first priority in the data given by the data, but no matter what, it is a fact that the number of Chinese netizens has increased significantly.

Even if it is comparable to the United States, it will almost lose the global market of Faebook except the United States.

In this case, it is naturally much easier for Yuanfang Weibo to surpass the other party.

Of course, according to the proportion of registered users and the proportion of active users, Yuanfang is still losing.

But if Li Dongfei wants to say that he is the world's number one social networking website, Faebook cannot argue. It is at least better than the data.

As for the proportion of Huaxia data exceeding 60%, this is not something Li Dong is considering.

Li Dong said again: "Since we are the world's number one, we can't get lower than Faebook in the round of financing..."

Liu Hong's face turned green, uncle, are you here?

Not lower than the other party?

In 2007, the other party's value after round C financing was valuated by US$15 billion!

This is the peak period. In fact, the world's environmental impact in 2008 is no longer so inflated, but what about it, there is still a 10 billion US dollars.

Now Li Dong has said that he is not inferior to the other party. Wouldn't he say that his round C financing target is above US$10 billion?

Is it possible!

Liu Hong forced a smile and said, "Mr. Li, isn't he too tall?

After the B round of financing, our valuation after financing was only US$3.12 billion.

Our goal is to raise $500 million in rounds, with a total value of $5 billion after financing."

In other words, before financing, Yuanfang's valuation of Weibo was US$4.5 billion.

In Liu Hong's opinion, this is in line with the market environment, and it is also very high and has a very good valuation.

However, in less than half a year, from less than US$3.2 billion to now, the increase has been astonishing.

Of course, in fact, the Internet industry often undergoes such changes, with an increase of more than 1 billion US dollars in half a year, not one.

But no matter what, it can't double or double up.

According to what Li Dong said, this financing cannot be continued.

$10 billion!

It is impossible either before or after financing.

Of course, if Li Dong doesn't mind that his shares are diluted, and the dilution is as high as more than half, he will have a little hope.

But can Li Dong agree?

According to Liu Hong’s understanding of him, Li Dong should not let his equity be diluted too low for this financing.

That is to say, the financing scale is not too large.

Even if you raise $1 billion in financing, if Weibo wants to meet Li Dong’s expectations, it will at least reach a value of $9 billion before financing.

Faebook is right, but the other party is in the global market. If China is excluded, the size of the global market in the far corner is only half of the other party.

Half the gap sometimes even depreciates by more than half.

Of course, the Chinese market is also a very important part, and there is no reason to eliminate it. In general, it is still possible for Yuanfang Weibo to reach more than 50% of the value of faebook.

It is almost impossible to equalize the value.

Li Dong raised his eyebrows and said, "The financing ended 5 billion US dollars? Are you kidding me?"
To be continued...