Global Monopoly of Technology

Luo Sheng worked in the Blue Star Company for three hours. The work here was basically completed today. He left here and went to Bluestar Technology next door to handle the work. Fortunately, it was close, and he could reach the office of another company in less than ten minutes. sat down.

In March 2008, another significant event happened to the global Internet community, which is of historical significance.

That is, the scale of Internet users in China officially surpassed the United States with about 226 million, becoming the largest Internet user country or single market in the world, and it is growing explosively at an extremely exaggerated rate. From the beginning of 2005 to the end of 2007, China The number of Internet users in China has almost doubled, and in the next few years it has been even more exaggerated, with almost 100 million new users added every year.

Luo Sheng's argument with VCs during the financing period has now come true. Sure enough, in 2008, the Greater China region became the largest single market for Internet users in the world.

Backed by the single largest Internet market in the world, even if it faces a complete blockade in North America in the future, neither Bluestar Technology Group nor Cote d'Azur will be able to die, and they can even maintain the size of world-class giants.

Because this market is really too big, too big, even a single market can breed monster-level companies with a volume of 400 billion US dollars.

Ten years later, products from all over the world want to be sold to Greater China. Even the rhythm of Hollywood movies hitting the streets in North America is supposed to be a loss. You can even make a small profit.

It can be seen that this market is huge, and multinational companies all over the world will be obsessed with it.

Market size is a right to speak, and it has a strong premium capacity in itself.

After Luo Sheng came to the headquarters of Bluestar Technology Group, he stayed in the office for a few minutes and then attended a meeting.

He currently spends half of his working time on various meetings every day. The company's plate is so big that it is no exaggeration to say that it will cost him at least one and a half to report the operation of the major business sectors to him. hours, which is pretty fast.

Then we have to think about decision-making. Before making a decision, we have to discuss it. Luo Sheng actually doesn't like meetings.

At this moment, the meeting I attended is aimed at the two subsidiaries of Bluestar Technology Group's streaming media online video business, mainly discussing some situations of the international version of BV Video Network.

Zhang Bowen, who was sitting in the conference room, opened a document and flipped through it.

At the request of Luo Sheng, the use of PPT is prohibited within the company. Everyone must use the original note-taking method to participate in the meeting. PPT looks tall and tall to outsiders, but in Luo Sheng's eyes, it is purely a gimmicky thing.

It’s a waste of time. To put it bluntly, PPT is for people who don’t know how to read it, so that it is easy for him to understand. However, as a practitioner, it is formalism to engage in PPT in meetings. Still need PPT? What's the use of that? It's time for get out of class.

Facts have proved that using the original note-taking method is more efficient and accurate.

At this time, Zhang Bowen lowered his head and stared at the material report and said: "In the online video business, the cumulative global user base of the international version of BV video website has reached 475 million. Last year's bandwidth cost was about 322 million US dollars, and this year may be a loss. $500 million."

This is a network fee that discourages countless Internet companies, and it is only for the international version, while the domestic version of the network fee is calculated separately. Last year, the cost of bandwidth was about 1.18 billion yuan ($168 million).

Even more exaggerated is the data of the entire group company. Bluestar Technology Group currently accounts for at least 8% of the entire Internet traffic, and it uses a lot of optical cables, which is quite terrifying.

Last year, Bluestar Technology Group's online video business segment, the domestic and international versions combined, the annual revenue was 1.258 billion US dollars, but 85% of the revenue came from the international version. The domestic version has a paid model or something, without even considering the specific profit plan in the next three to five years. Once the domestic version has a pay-to-view model, current users will soon abandon Bluestar Video.

And 95% of the revenue of 1.258 billion US dollars comes from advertising revenue. Basically, Bluestar Technology Group is now living by selling advertising.

However, this does not mean that Bluestar Technology is an advertising company without core technology. Nuclear power plants are not fancy boiling water to generate electricity. Is it not cutting-edge technology because this thing boils water to generate electricity?

Last year, the operating cost of the streaming video business of the group company was as high as 1.579 billion US dollars, not only to pay high bandwidth fees for operators, but also to remove the costs of advertising partners and video producers, including advertising with video UP owners. The alliance is divided.

How popular is the international version of BV video overseas now?

It has become more and more a dream-making base for countless ordinary people, and it is a folk star dream factory.

You can directly register a BV account, but most people like to use BlueSpace social chain to authorize, and then become a BV video UP master, dreaming of becoming famous online, creating popular videos, earning fame and fortune, and even entering the entertainment industry.

For example, at the beginning of this year, there was a very typical example, a 14-year-old Canadian teenager named Justin Bieber was discovered by his agent Scott on the BV video website, and then staged Usher and Justin Timberlake two North American superstars robbed each other, and finally Justin Bieber chose Usher and entered the European and American music scene.

Some folk singers also make music and simple MV videos to upload on BV video sites.

Today, there are thousands of UPs who have become full-time professionals to produce videos and earn income from the income of advertising alliances. Some top UP owners have even become millionaires. They started as individuals and later established studios. The team is in continuous operation.

Bluestar Technology's family bucket is essential. Photo sharing sites must have BlueSpace, real-time information sharing and publishing windows have Weibo posts MicroBlog, if you have a grudge on the Internet, go to Reddit to tear it up, music or something, go to MusicSpace, and video sharing. It's BV.

Bluestar Technology is getting closer and closer to the mission of linking all human beings. In short, people find that as long as they go online, they cannot avoid using Bluestar Technology's products, at least one of its "family buckets" can be used in Mixed online.

These products with strong social attributes have strong linkages, which can bring considerable income and encourage more people to participate in them.

It is no exaggeration to say that today's Bluestar Technology Group has hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people in its major business sectors directly or indirectly relying on Bluestar Technology to live, and many of them are still living very well.

Once Bluestar Technology goes wrong, they all have to lose their jobs or cause huge fluctuations in their income. In a sense, isn't this a layer of protection for Bluestar Technology? It can be seen how difficult it is to move Luo Sheng's technology giant, which can be seen from the inside.

Zhang Bowen who attended the meeting continued to report: "According to the latest report released by Cpete, it is very close to our internal data. In February this year, the international version of BV video website is still the video website with the highest click-through rate and the largest number of independent users in the United States, occupying the largest number of independent users. 54.1% market share of video sites in the United States."

Luo Sheng, who was sitting in the chief position of the meeting, put his hands on his hips and rested his chin and elbows against the table in the other. He didn't say a word, just nodded.

With more than half of the market share in the US market, this is the advantage of seizing the wind.

Zhang Bowen turned a page of materials and said:

"In February, the number of online video views in the United States reached 11.8 billion, compared with BV video accounting for one-third of the total, and each user watched 40.71 videos on BV video on average, compared with the previous month. The share rose by 2.7%, accounting for about 34.5% of the total number of videos."

“Over 151 million U.S. internet users watched videos online throughout February, and they spent an average of about 210 minutes each, and BV video sites still attracted the most viewers in this regard, at 92.1 million, These users spent an average of 119.52 minutes watching videos."

"In February this year, the traffic of video sites in the United States increased by about 4.2% compared with the previous month. In addition, the top five sites with the largest number of unique users are BluestarVideo, GoogleVideo, Yahoo! Video, AOL-Video and Microsoft."

After Zhang Bowen finished reporting the data, he looked at Luo Sheng. The latter did not speak immediately. After a while, he nodded and said, "The development momentum is good. Within three or five years, the number of users of the international version of BV video website can be doubled. Double it, reaching a scale of seven or eight billion."

The executives who attended the meeting are now strong in their hearts. Everyone has long been accustomed to Luo Sheng's rhetoric, and no one jumped out to question him, because those who questioned him are now without exception. It's swollen, the top two and the bottom two.

But deep down, he was still very excited, and one executive couldn't help but exclaimed, "800 million orders...!"

Luo Sheng glanced at him: "You said 800 million and that's it? Just a little bit of ambition? What if I say that it will be on the order of 2 billion in ten years?"

Everyone's eyes widened when they heard this...

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