Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 349 Semi-self-made drama

"We seem to be blocked by our peers."

Gu Qianli was a little overwhelmed and said, "Youdou.com seems to have used their resources to make all animation companies in the industry refuse to cooperate with us. I don't know what specific means they used. I plan to go back and hold a meeting to understand the situation."

"Ah? Are you banned by your peers?"

Lin Qingshan blinked and said, "Is there such a thing?"

He was a little confused, mainly because he didn't know much about these things in his previous life.

In fact, it is normal for peers to ban each other.

To be precise, this should be considered as industry competition. On the one hand, one uses one's own power and resources to block all business activities of the opponent.

But compared with the current C Station, Youdou.com is an absolute behemoth.

It’s like the industry bosses directly banned them.

"Well... the most likely scenario is that they talked to the animation company they are still cooperating with, or bought out the copyright of the company's related animations at a higher price."

Gu Qianli speculated at this time.

Lin Qingshan immediately understood that it was equivalent to signing an exclusive contract at a high price.

Just like the Penguin music software in the previous life directly signed an exclusive contract for all the music of Jay Chou, the only music software on the market that can compete with it, Moyun, needs to be sublicensed by Penguin.

However, the contract renewal was not reached and it is no longer possible to listen to King Zhou’s songs on the cloud platform.

Youdou.com uses a similar tactic, but they are obviously more domineering and want to completely wipe out Station C.

"What I'm most afraid of is the copyrights of the new animations we're going to discuss next..."

Gu Qianli said hesitantly again.

In fact, if the website users submit their works privately and are not discovered, it would be fine for Site C to introduce new shows or not.

Now that Station C has started to expand, it is, after all, a website based on ACG culture.

In a word, if I can't watch new anime here, why should I visit your website?

Although various submissions from other UPs are also very attractive.

But the most important thing is the drama.

Anime dramas are the biggest traffic source, especially the new ones.

New anime are generally the biggest source of popularity at the moment. It can be said that the introduction of "Edgewalker" and "Chainsaw Man" has attracted a lot of popularity, viewers and new users.

The backend of Station C can be seen clearly.

Originally, Gu Qianli planned to seamlessly introduce several new series with good preheating after the completion of "Chainsaw Man" to continue to maintain the popularity of "Chainsaw Man".

She also approved a lot of funds for this purpose. It can be said that all the recent round of investment funds have been invested in this.

Now we are afraid that the companies that own these subsequent new anime will also be forced to have exclusive ownership by Youdou.com at high prices.

"Emmmmmm... Then Qianli and I will go to the meeting and find out what's going on."

Lin Qingshan thought about it and then said.

"it is good."

Gu Qianli did not refuse and nodded in agreement.

The two of them went downstairs, and Lin Qingshan drove Gu Qianli.

Originally, Gu Qianli felt a little regretful when she saw Lin Qingshan driving the car. She was still thinking about whether she should drive it herself.

Although her driving skills are not good, but... she drives very safely.

However, she finally took the car driven by Lin Qingshan and arrived safely at the studio.

In fact, given the scale of Station C, it can expand further from the scale of the studio, since it is already a company anyway.

However, Gu Qianli adhered to the idea of ​​"save where possible and spend where possible" and did not expand mindlessly.

At present, Gu Hongxiao and Weng Shengxue’s Baidu Company has also invested a lot in C Station and holds a considerable share.

However, Station C’s main funds cannot be spent at will. When it is short of money, Gu Qianli can just shout “Dad! Mom! Give me money” and Qiandu will give it to him.

It is time for Station C to start becoming self-sufficient.

Lin Qingshan parked the car and followed Gu Qianli into the studio. It was not the first time for the studio staff to see Lin Qingshan, so they were not curious or anything.
Everyone was a little surprised. How come Boss Gu’s “boyfriend” suddenly came over?
This is a very rare thing.

"Zhi Qiu, call Senior Brother Yan, Senior Brother Chen and several supervisors from various departments to come to the conference room for a meeting."

Gu Qianli gave orders skillfully and said.

Station C has also expanded. Apart from Li Zhiqiu, Yang Zhihan and others who were brought in by Gu Qianli at the beginning of the business, there are only a few senior brothers. Almost everyone in their original team is a senior executive.

There were also several talents recruited from outside who served as heads of newly added departments.

"I have already notified everyone, they will be here soon."

Li Zhiqiu said immediately.

As soon as he finished speaking, almost eleven people, including Li Zhiqiu and Yang Zhihan, appeared in front of Gu Qianli and Lin Qingshan.

"Meeting."

Gu Qianli walked into the meeting room first and said.

Lin Qingshan immediately followed, followed by the current eleven executives of Station C.

The conference room here is quite large. Although it is a bit crowded, after all, it is just a small studio, but thirteen people can barely sit down. Lin Qingshan sat to the right of Gu Qianli's main seat.

"Zhiqiu, what's the current situation?"

Gu Qianli asked directly as soon as everyone sat down.

"Let Xingwen from the animation department and Sister Qi from the legal department tell everyone directly."

Li Zhiqiu said quickly.

Immediately, Zhang Xingwen, the head of the animation department, stood up and said, "We were originally negotiating with Hegemony and Skeleton to purchase the copyrights of some animation dramas. We had already reached a preliminary agreement, but when we talked about it again today, they suddenly refused to cooperate with us..."

Chen Wenqi, the head of the legal department, also stood up and said, "At noon today, our company suddenly received a lawyer's letter from the copyright companies of some old animations and Youdou.com, saying that we have violated their rights and interests, and asked us to immediately remove all related manuscripts from the site, otherwise they would sue us..."

Although lawyer's letters are generally just warnings and have no legal effect.

However, it is foreseeable that if Station C really does not take this lawyer's letter seriously, the other party will definitely sue.

If it was just a single incident, it wouldn't make people think too much about it.

But when two things happened on the same day, and both attitudes changed extremely quickly, it was very intriguing...

not to mention……

"Well, the person in charge of Trigger Animation told me that Youdou.com notified all the major animation companies that they could either sign a high-priced exclusive contract with Youdou.com or wait to be blacklisted by them. They also said that Youdou.com will buy the exclusive copyrights for all the new anime in September at a high price, and we won't get any new anime."

Li Zhiqiu bit her lip and said angrily, "Why do they do this? This is simply bullying!"

Trigger Animation had enjoyed two very pleasant collaborations with Lin Qingshan, so it was the first to inform Li Zhiqiu after learning about this matter.

"What should we do now? Without new episodes, it's hard to maintain the current popularity!"

Yan Lixue, who was wearing glasses, asked with a frown.

Now that the new anime is monopolized by someone, many illegal manuscripts on the website are about to be removed. They won’t be able to make much money from those old anime that they signed the copyright for a long time.

People tend to get tired of the old and love the new. Once Station C has no new episodes, there probably won’t be a large-scale loss of users.

But the popularity cannot be maintained, and the number of users cannot be expanded.

For Station C, which is currently in a state of either advancing or retreating, it is really over if it stands still when it should be expanding rapidly.

Everyone looked at Gu Qianli. After all, she was the backbone of Station C and she was the one who initiated decision-making on weekdays.

Everyone was looking forward to seeing what good ideas Gu Qianli could come up with.

But Gu Qianli was also a little confused. She didn't know how to break the situation of Youdou.com.

This is not a conspiracy, but pure use of power to suppress others.

Should she seek help from Qiandu’s parents who are behind it?
However, although Youdou.com is not as big as Baidu, the two are not subordinate to each other.

Although the Chinese Internet is dominated by Baidu Search Engine, it is not the only one.

It can even be said that if some users cannot find Youdou.com using Baidu, do you think they will switch to another search engine?

And Gu Qianli really didn’t want to ask his parents for help like this.

at this time……

"There are no new shows... Then why don't we just make our own?"

Lin Qingshan's voice suddenly came from the side and said.

Everyone looked at Lin Qingshan in confusion, who was spreading his hands and looking very serious, as if a question mark appeared in their heads.

"Ah? But we don't have an animation department..."

Zhang Xingwen hesitated for a moment and said helplessly, "This won't work... Even if we recruit animation production staff and set up an animation production department now, it's too hasty. Moreover, the animations produced by such an inexperienced animation production department will not be competitive..."

“It’s not like I can do it all by myself…”

Lin Qingshan scratched his head and said, "We can cooperate with others. We just provide funding and the copyright belongs to us, right?"

“But who will cooperate with us now?”

Yang Zhihan said with some doubt.

"Yes, Trigger Animation... But they don't seem to have enough staff. Let's recruit some animation production staff to help along."

Lin Qingshan thought for a moment and said, "This way they can also learn from us. If Station C really wants to set up an animation production department in the future, they will also have experience."

"Not enough manpower? Help?"

Everyone present was a little confused again. If they were to produce a TV series, even if Trigger Animation was producing another TV series at the same time, they wouldn't be short of manpower, right?

Could it be that Trigger Animation will produce several TV series in a row?

"Will Trigger Animation really cooperate with us?"

Gu Qianli hesitated and said.

"Yes! I will write the script for the anime! And since our previous cooperation was so pleasant, they will definitely cooperate with us."

Lin Qingshan smiled and showed his big white teeth, and said firmly, "When the time comes, I will give them several TV series scripts. They will definitely be very happy!"

"Several TV series? Huh?"

Everyone present was stunned and their eyes widened.

(End of this chapter)