Frank said: "The emergence of the website Hulu comes from two TV stations, NBC and Fox. They found that there were many video websites on the Internet and many TV series content. They realized that they should build a video website and legally spread their content so that they can get the rewards they deserve in the online advertising market."

"Oh? Are they two TV stations?"

Zhou Buqi knew that hulu was initiated by two media giants - nbc Global and News Corporation. Unexpectedly, it was actually two TV stations under the two media giants.

Frank nodded, "Yes, TV station, they want to make up for the losses on TV advertising through online advertising."

"No wonder!"

Zhou Buqi suddenly realized.

The films and TV series in the United States have to be seen by spending money. But Hulu’s model is different, it is a “free advertising” model. It turns out that it was transferred from the TV station model!

NBC and Fox are both free TV stations.

That is, there are a large number of advertisements on these TV stations, attracting users through content, and earning profits through users watching advertisements, that is, the "advertising free" model. Some streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are different. They are pure subscriptions, and they can only watch them for money, and there are no advertisements.

"What's going on infighting between the global and NBC?"

This is the secret that Zhou Buqi is most concerned about. It may help the next split of NBC Universal and the acquisition of Universal Pictures.

Frank hesitated for a moment and whispered: "Mr. Zhou, you may not know much about the policies of the United States. In terms of antitrust mechanisms, movies are the strictest, followed by TV series, and then music and literary works."

Zhou Buqi immediately understood, "Who said that there may be pirated content of TV series on the Internet, but it is difficult to have pirated movies?"

"right."

"interesting."

"Because there are pirated TV series, NBC and Fox need to be hulu, spread the content legally and earn the income into their own hands, instead of giving some pirated merchants in vain. But movies are different, there are almost no pirated movie resources."

"So..." Zhou Buqi seemed to understand, "nbc launched hulu, so he wanted to put Universal Pictures' content on hulu to promote this website, but Universal is unwilling to do so."

Frank smiled and said, "That's right, that's why. Hulu now has movie contents from Fox, MGM, Lionsgate, Sony Columbia, Disney, but there are only Universal Pictures movies."

Zhou Buqi was very surprised, "There are not even some outdated black-edged movies with scraps? There are not even silent movies?"

"No, this is a disagreement in philosophy. Global firmly opposes hulu.nbc Universal's NBC and Universal, and the relationship has always been not very good." Frank began to please again, "I heard that Mr. Zhou intends to promote the split between NBC and Universal Pictures? This is right, it should be easy. Just like the split between CBS and Paramount in the past few years."

Zhou Buqi nodded and said "Yes".

This is easy to understand.

Just interests.

This kind of non-listed film and television company is a traditional company. It does not issue options to executives, and executives do not have shares. They only receive wages and dividends every year.

Dividends are directly linked to company profits.

The more profits, the more dividends you pay.

But that's the problem.

For example, the merger of Universal Pictures and NBC, Paramount and CBS, all must be content vendors transfusions to channel vendors. Anyway, they are all one company, and the left hand is on the right hand.

NBC can play global content for free, and CBS can play Paramount content for free.

This leads to damage to the interests of the film department, which leads to a reduction in dividends from the film business executives, and this contradiction arises.

OK, NBC took Universal Pictures’ content to play for free, that’s fine, after all, it’s a father’s brother, and his son has to listen to his father’s words. But what happened to Hulu?

Do you also want to give content from Universal Pictures to outsiders?

Resolutely refuse!

At this time, Zhou Buqi was in a mixed mood.

What I’m happy about is that this group of people in Hollywood is indeed very idiot. They are short-sighted and only focus on immediate interests. They are not only sticking to the past, but also resisting the emerging Internet streaming model.

What I worry about is that they are so stupid and lack a big picture view. Just like Global is unwilling to cooperate with NBC's work, this is NBC Global, it is a company!

If a company uses some content and has to send a negotiating team to quote, purchase, and repeatedly negotiate and even formulate various detailed reports, will this reduce the efficiency? Will it increase a lot of additional overhead costs?

Just care about your own interests and ignore the interests of the company, you will definitely be sick of a big company.

It seems that in the future, the "Ziweixing Global" will be done, and similar operations should be more cautious. When "left hand is turned to the right hand", try to satisfy both parties as much as possible.

"week!"

At this time, someone patted his shoulder from behind.

Zhou Buqi turned around and saw that he was an acquaintance - Megan Fox.

"Megan?"

"Zhou, I've contacted you many times."

Megan Fox looked resentful. Seeing this, MGM's vice president Frank immediately found a reason to leave.

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Is that right? Is there anything wrong?"

Megan Fox said in a sweet voice: "Zhou, you promised to give me a gift."

"What?"

“A Ferrari.”

"Oh, right." Zhou Buqi slapped his forehead, why did he forget about this? He slept at Old Trafford Stadium last time. It has been more than half a year. "No problem, I will send someone to come with you tomorrow. I have been too busy recently and have not taken care of it."

Megan Fox happily took his arm, "Thank you."

Zhou Buqi didn't want to get entangled with her, and said he wanted to meet important people.

Megan Fox pulled him and asked coquettishly: "Mr. Zhou, will you buy DreamWorks?"

"Hmm?" Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "Who said?"

"I heard of it, too."

“Nonsense.”

"Then...will you buy DreamWorks, can you do me a favor?"

"What's wrong?"

"I want to participate in the next "Transformers", but the producer and director don't seem to want to renew my contract with me."

"Is that true?" Zhou Buqi shook his head, "I'm afraid I can't do anything about this. Even if I really buy DreamWorks, I won't interfere with the creation. Well, Megan, I'll go see a friend."

"Transformers 2" will be released worldwide next month, and the promotion is booming.

There is a promotional point that this may be Megan Fox's last movie in this series. Fans want to see the style of this peerless stunner, so don't miss it.

It's actually the reason for the pay.

In the first two movies, Megan Fox is a newcomer and gets a basic salary. The combined salary of the two movies is only $2 million. This is different when it comes to the next "Transformers 3". The contract expires, and if the contract is renewed, you have to pay more.

But the production team of "Transformers" believes that the highlight of this movie is Autobots. It doesn't matter who the heroine is, so they don't want to give high pay, and the two sides are in a stalemate.

Not to mention that Zhou Buqi is not easy to intervene, even if he can, he will not help.

This Megan is really a bit big and brainless.

After sleeping with her once, she didn't say anything about gratitude, and it seemed like someone owed her money!

She didn't cherish such a super friendly relationship, so she wanted a car and turned a good relationship into a transaction. This level is really bad.

It’s better to have experienced some domestic female stars, such as Xu Qing, Qin Lan, Che Xiao, Deng Jiajia and others. They didn’t want anything to do with their boss Zhou, and they also said that it was an honor to be looked down upon by President Zhou, and they just wanted to make friends with him.

How smart this is!

Making friends with Boss Zhou is no more valuable than a Ferrari?

Zhou Buqi has come into contact with some Hollywood actors, including men and women. His overall impression is very bad, and he is more profitable than capitalists.

After leaving Megan Fox, Zhou Buqi moved to the night's main role, Jason Kilar, a former Amazon executive and current CEO of Hulu.

Both of them are from the Internet and feel particularly aware of each other when they meet.

Especially Jason Kilar especially likes Chinese people. Most of the executives of Hulu are Chinese, and even open R&D centers in the capital.

There are too many people, so it is hard to say too much.

Only brief communication.

Zhou Buqi asked: "What is the situation in hulu's current film library?"

Jason Kilar sighed, "It's not good, the TV series is OK. There are several more famous sitcoms, but the movies are not good at all. Let's put it this way, as long as the DVD movies can be sold on the market, the content will not be available to us."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "There is nothing impossible, it's just how much money it costs."

Jason Kilar said helplessly: "It's just that there is no money, and the major shareholders are unwilling to pay, and the content they give is all about scraps."

Zhou Buqi asked tentatively: "Where is the charging model? Didn't you consider it?"

"There was some consideration, but the board of directors failed to pass."

"Why?"

"hehe."

Jason Kilar's eyebrows showed decay, helplessness and irony.

Zhou Buqi was very happy.

Of course he knew the reason.

Putting content on the Internet for a fee is a new model! The traditional model is that users have to spend money to subscribe to cable TV stations and then watch high-quality content.

If you spend money on the Internet, you can see high-quality content. Wouldn't this be a blow to Hollywood's traditional model?

Jason Kilar said: "The shareholders' positioning of hulu is just a business addition to the free TV station, which is to earn advertising fees through low-end content. For truly high-quality content, they have traditional distribution and revenue generation models."

Zhou Buqi glanced at him, "I feel like you are very constrained."

Jason Kilar nodded, "I'm still trying to do it, it's best to follow the 'free payment' model. Watch low-end content for free and high-quality content for free. Only in this way can hulu develop."

Zhou Buqi sighed as if he was empathetic and looked at him deeply, "The concept is not consistent. This is the gap between Silicon Valley and Hollywood in cultural cognition, and it may be difficult to reconcile."
Chapter completed!