Chapter 1417 (1/2)
February 22nd.
After a few days of warm-up, at 7:00 p.m., face-to-face of the big guy was officially launched on the PP video, which has been known by all.
Many users who didn't download the PP video before started to download it today.
When Li Dong arrived at the company in the morning, Liu Hong came to report the good news and said, ”Mr. Li, in these two days, our video downloads have increased by more than 8 million.
The total installed capacity is close to 100 million!
Your popularity is really incomparable, which is much more cost-effective than inviting stars to do publicity. ”
In 2009, the number of Internet users in China was about 300 million, and the proportion of online video users was about 80%, that is to say, the total number of users was 240 million.
And the installation of PP video is as high as 100 million, which is obviously not to be underestimated.
Installation does not mean everything. It is normal to unload and install again.
For online video, the more important data is not this, but the number of people covered.
The so-called number of people covered is the number of users who visit the website independently within the time limit.
According to the monthly statistics of the number of people covered 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 from these two countries alone will exceed 160 million.
But far away, in the past year or so, despite the continuous promotion, several variety show fire, PP and microblog are draining, and the final monthly coverage is only 50 million, much lower than the two.
Of course, this is the statistics for January.
In fact, PP video is growing every month. According to the normal statistics in February, it is likely to break the 55 million mark.
But now, I'm afraid we don't have to wait until the end of the month, which is likely to reach 60 million.
As soon as Liu Hong said, Li Dong couldn't help laughing: ”yes, keep up your efforts, kill those two families, and be the first one on the top!”
Of course, Li Dong didn't take it seriously.
Seriously, the video websites at this time are burning money, whether Youku or potato, are operating at a loss.
On the contrary, it's far away. It's really no loss.
There is this foundation in the distance, bandwidth, server, data center
These hardware, distant already had, the investment is not big, is not simply for the video website investment.
At this time, the more expensive thing is copyright fees.
In 2009, piracy was rampant, but domestic piracy was still good, and piracy of foreign products was troublesome.
Each big video website, is in the high price purchase copyright.
In particular, after the establishment of ”stir Shiba” LETV, it raised the copyright price, fought a price war, and dragged several giant video websites to complain incessantly.
When it comes to LETV, the leader, Lao Jia, is a little similar to Li Dong.
This guy is suing if he doesn't agree!
In any case, he bought almost all exclusive copyrights. He immediately started to sue which website in China pirated. In the past two years, there were almost no video websites that were not prosecuted in the industry.
Of course, it's not far away.
On the one hand, the remote legal team is strong, but LETV can't do it far away.
On the one hand, it is far away from here, which has always adhered to the original version. Moreover, the people who go far away are still operating independently, investing in themselves and creating their own programs.
After the ”good voice” and ”where's dad going” were launched, they also led the development of variety shows in the distance, and were in a leading position.
In terms of TV dramas, Dongxing entertainment has also invested in shooting a lot of TV dramas, and all of them have made no loss.
The cost of purchasing copyright from afar is much lower than that of other websites. In addition, the cost of infrastructure construction is also much lower. Therefore, I am afraid that the video website can maintain its operation in the distance.
Other websites have been burning money all the time, and it seems that they don't know when it will be the first.
Therefore, 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 richness, not all of them. The summit of single industry can not bring too many benefits to the distance.
When Liu Hong finished reporting the good news, Li Dong interrupted: ”don't worry too much about this. After recording the interview, it's over.
As for the reaction of the outside world, we need not go into it.
Now let's talk about microblog financing. After the B round of financing, microblog continues to grow. The international version has developed rapidly, and a large number of users have been added in China.
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, we are the largest social networking site in the world, and I think it's OK. ”
Why does Li Dong dare to say that!
Because there are so many Chinese people!
Who can't let Facebook enter the domestic market and promote it without the data support of China, a superpower.In January 2009, Facebook had only 140 million monthly independent users.
Of course, people in the United States are not weak, with nearly 70 million users visiting, surpassing 58 million of its rival MySpace.
The competitiveness of remote microblogs in the United States is much weaker, only about 20 million.
The main remote data support comes from China.
Huaxia is a country with a large population and a large number of Internet users, reaching 300 million. At present, it has become the first in the world.
Of course, the statistics of various institutions are different. The data given by some institutions in the United States are still the first. However, it is a fact that the number of Internet users in China has increased greatly.
Even if it is comparable to the United States, losing the Chinese market is almost losing Facebook's global market outside the United States.
In this case, it is much easier for the number of remote microblogs to surpass each other.
Of course, according to the proportion of registered users and the proportion of active people, far away is still a loser.
However, if Li Dongfei wants to say that he is the world's No. 1 social networking site, Facebook can't argue that it is better than data, at least far away.
As for the proportion of Huaxia data exceeding 60%, this is not in Li Dong's consideration.
Li Dong said: ”since we are the first in the world, we can't be lower than Facebook in round C financing...”
Liu Hong looks green. Are you serious?
Not lower than the other side?
In 2007, the value of the other party's C round financing was estimated at US $15 billion!
This is the peak period. In fact, affected by the world environment in 2008, it has not been so high. However, there are still 10 billion US dollars.
Now Li Dong has said that he is not lower than the other party. Isn't he saying that his c-round financing goal is more than $10 billion?
Is it possible!
Liu Hong reluctantly said with a smile, ”Mr. Li, is it too high?
After round B financing, our valuation is only 3.12 billion US dollars.
Round C, our goal is to raise $500 million, with a total value of $5 billion. ”
That is to say, before financing, the value of microblogging on the far side was $4.5 billion.
In Liu Hong's view, this is in line with the market environment, but also very high, very good valuation.
However, in less than half a year, from less than 3.2 billion US dollars to 4.5 billion US dollars, the increase has been astonishing.
Of course, in fact, such changes often occur in the Internet industry. It is not one of them that has increased by more than one billion US dollars in half a year.
However, we can't double and double again.
According to Li Dong, this financing can not go on.
$10 billion!
Whether before or after financing, it is impossible.
Of course, if Li Dong doesn't mind that his shares are all diluted and diluted by more than half, he still has a little hope.