Global Monopoly of Technology

In the days that followed, Chad Hurley's operations team witnessed BOSS predictions as the unexpected hit of "Lazy Sunday" could be a big deal for the BV video business, and the team saw and realized the video being made. The potential of the business in terms of entertainment.

In addition, "Lonelygierl5" continues to tell its magical story by publishing an online video diary through video podcasts. So far, this well-planned marketing has not been seen by the outside world.

That goes on, of course, until it is debunked, and of course Chad Hurley hopes never to be debunked.

Even if it is exposed, it will be further popular for a while. After all, being exposed is itself a kind of explosion.

The operation team continued to work hard on "Lazy Sunday", and the behind-the-scenes team took the initiative to produce a large number of edited videos and uploaded them to the BV website.

As time passed, the traffic continued to accumulate. By October 21st, BV video received 4 million views per day this month, which is a daily number of views, and the traffic is still accumulating.

In the first month of the site's launch, there weren't many original videos on the site, but by the second month that changed.

Users are uploading original videos more often.

A series of videos about the takeoff and landing of Boeing 747 taken by some users or "paike" are very popular on the website, and the attention has steadily increased. In addition to grabbing users on the website, the BV team has been working on the website for the past month. Advertise on Craigslist in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Girls can get $20 per video if they upload a video.

But none of the women responded.

That's okay though, as the team was surprised by the enthusiasm of users to upload original videos.

In fact, this has the same effect as the core of BlueSpace's social networking site, BlueSpace, that is, the photo sharing function, except that BV is video sharing.

In the opinion of other video websites, the videos on BV website make many professionals dismissive.

Because the quality is so poor.

This is pure nonsense, because the videos on the BV website are basically original videos uploaded by the general public, which naturally has a gap with some professional shooting, but this is precisely what distinguishes it from other video websites.

In theory, anyone can publish content on the BV video website. As long as it passes the review, the video uploaded by the user will be stored in the database, which can be watched online by users across the network.

The operations department also spent a lot of money. In order to enrich the content of the website, Chad Hurley came up with an even crazier idea.

Mainly, this idea is too expensive.

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Oct. 26, PM ET.

"I buy it!!!"

"Boss agreed?"

"This is crazy, will investors be mad if they see it?"

"Bandwidth spending has continued to soar, and operating costs are rising wildly. How can you still agree to such a crazy proposal?"

At this moment, the BV video project department in Menlo Park, Chen Shijun and Judd's core operation team are all stunned.

They never imagined that, not even Chad Hurley himself would have thought that Luo Sheng would actually agree with his crazy idea.

Just one late night last weekend, Helit stayed up until the middle of the night, and only made an emergency call to Luo Sheng, the company's ultimate boss, when it was daylight in the Eastern Hemisphere.

He asked Luo Sheng for advice and proposed that he hoped to get a budget of 150 million US dollars for publishing a bounty, in order to expand the content of the video website.

Luo Sheng pondered for a few seconds, but only for a few seconds.

Then agreed!

"Guys, $150 million,

150 million US dollars, BOSS hopes that we can reasonably spend all this money within a month at most three months. "Chad Hurley said excitedly.

This number is enough to drive all members of the project team crazy.

Chad Hurley added: "The boss said something to me, and it's also the biggest hope for the BV project: if you're looking for a video, look for it on BluestarVideo, and if it's not here, it doesn't exist."

"What are you waiting for?"

Next, all 49 team engineer members of the BV project began to brainstorm and enter the development of the liver.

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Mende is a pet lover and likes dogs the most, but he doesn't like parrots.

He has taken in many stray dogs, but as more and more dogs are taken in, the financial burden is heavier and heavier.

Mengde is also a senior Internet user and also has a BS social account. Now in North America, without a BlueSpace account, he is embarrassed to say that he is an old netizen.

At the beginning of this year, Mengde began to share a large number of pictures on his personal social networking site, all of which were about dogs.

Every like makes him very happy and is one of the motivations for him to keep sharing new photos.

And just one day last month, he accidentally learned about Bluestar Technology's new product, which is the online video Bluestar Video, through a message sharing pictures on his own page. Some fans who knew this video site before him suggested him Shoot some videos to upload to the website.

Mengde was skeptical at first, because he didn't think he had the professional ability to shoot videos. Driven by curiosity, he opened it, and unexpectedly found that this video website was very different from the video sharing website he imagined.

The above video shooting is quite unprofessional, some videos are still full of noise, and the camera shakes a lot.

But soon, as if he had found the door to a new world, he found that he could upload videos at will, and it was very simple. Of course, he had to wait for review.

So Mengde tried it once, shot a video of about two minutes, and uploaded it.

When the user is in BV video, the video is all in, and the only thing that needs to be done to upload the video to the BV website is to click the "Upload" button with one click.

It's too simple, "fool-like" operation is the basic condition for becoming a hit.

Since uploading the first video, Mengde couldn't stop.

Now, in addition to sharing new photos on his BS account every day, he also shoots a small video and uploads it to BV. The review speed is very fast, and it can be seen on the website in three hours.

Today, Mengde turned on the computer and prepared to routinely upload a video to share on BV.

When he opened the webpage, an oversized pop-up ad popped up immediately, occupying almost the entire screen.

This made Mengde feel super unhappy with this video website for the first time, because there was no small advertisement pop-up window before, and suddenly such a large advertisement window popped up, and the user experience was extremely poor in an instant.

However, I was quickly attracted by the number [$150,000,000] and was stunned on the spot.

The string of numbers made him dazzled.

But the content of the page made him feel incredible.

"WTF?? $150 million video bounty program? Looking for the coolest and most popular videos? From now on, users who join the program will receive a $2.33 bounty for every original video posted on the BluestarVideo website for more than 45 seconds. , and the ownership of the video still belongs to the owner of the video UP... I buy it!!"

Meng De couldn't help but put his head in his hands, and his eyes were round.

And such a good thing?

Get $2.33 for uploading a video?

Mengde clicked on this pop-up page and quickly jumped to the next page for further details and found more information.

The video reward program released by the website not only allows you to get money by posting videos, but also has a new video weekly top 200 list. Mengde couldn't help but refresh the interface.

Sure enough, BluestarVideo quietly updated the new version, and the website under the new version appeared such a weekly rotating top200 list.

Mengde cut the page back and continued to browse.

According to the summary of the "Video Bounty" program, as long as a new video enters the list, you can get an additional reward income. The last video on the list, that is, the top 200 video, can get $ 145, and the top 1 can get $ 30. ,000 dollars.

The ranking rules of the list are implemented according to the standard of video clicks and views. At the same time, only newly uploaded videos will enter this list for PK, which changes every week. Each video on this list can only be posted once, and the bulletin board list can dominate the list for a long time.

Because the algorithms and rules of the two lists are still hugely different.

The new version of the updated BV website also has an advertising network. The original video uploaded to the website will receive a certain amount of income according to the comprehensive evaluation of the like index, the click view index, and the popularity of the comment area.

In theory, the more popular, widespread and influential a video is, the more advertising revenue it can generate.

Mengde read all the content carefully, and the last item is that the "Video Bounty" plan will not be completed until the reward of 150 million US dollars is fully paid.

This is very important, otherwise the follow-up videos will not be paid and will be prosecuted for fraud, which will bring a lot of litigation troubles in Europe and the United States.

Mengde joined the plan decisively, but he was actually a little skeptical.

If you do this, isn't the website a rhythm of losing money?

After closing the page, he clicked into his personal center and uploaded a video as usual.

At night, he turned on his computer to watch the videos on the BV website. He didn't even know that the number of times he opened BV and the time he stayed there were quietly becoming more frequent.

Because I saw a lot of interesting videos on the website, such as some clip videos, etc., which I have never seen on other websites, even boring news videos on the BV website, you can even watch Mexico on it The weather forecast of a certain TV station, and the click rate is super high, because the female anchor of the weather forecast is too "biu de 坲" regardless of her appearance and figure.

Millions of views and views Do you think everyone cares about the weather in Mexico? Everyone is concerned about the female anchor of the weather forecast.

At this moment, Mengde is watching a war video, from the Middle East, a 30-second exchange of fire video, the number of clicks shows that it has reached 800,000, and it is still rising.

After watching it, he looked for other videos that interest him, but soon noticed a message reminder on the page.

Mengde knew that most of the videos uploaded in the afternoon had been reviewed and approved, so he just clicked into the personal center.

But when he saw that the wallet on his personal page showed that he had successfully obtained an income of $2.33, Mengde was stunned.

After a long time, I finally came back to my senses. Brother Meng danced with excitement, and all kinds of "Mai Kar" sang and danced rap.

Take a video, click the "Upload" button with one click, and you will get it for $2.33.

What's more nice than this?

In fact, Mengde is not the first person to have such a reaction.

Once the video reward program was launched, the BV website has entered a turning point in the true sense since it was launched more than two months ago. From this moment, the original videos uploaded on the website ushered in an explosive growth.

Money can make ghosts run the mill, and this sentence applies everywhere.

It’s human nature to share videos or something. It’s not normal to want to be noticed. This is a hobby, but if you can earn a little money along the way, you can imagine the power of it.

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