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Chapter 316 Anti-Qvod Alliance

The 2005 "Super Girl" was extremely popular.

Compared to the first "Super Girl" in 2004, which made its mark, the second one can be said to be at its peak.

The champion, runner-up and third place winners of Super Girl in 2005 are much more famous than those in 2004 and 2006. Some people have only heard of the top three in 2005 and are unfamiliar with the champions in other years.

They ushered in a new era of "people's elected idols" and brought about an unprecedented national carnival.

There was no "fan circle" at that time, and many people were encountering the word "fan" for the first time.

To use today's words, everyone was a "high-school girl" and was extremely crazy.

Compared to later generations of fan girls who forwarded comments on social platforms to collect data and typed arguments with their opponents, Super Girl fans appear to be more proactive and directly compete offline in person.

Every Friday night at 8 o'clock, I would sit in front of the TV and use my cell phone to vote for the candidate I support.

The voting method at that time was text message + phone call. Mobile users needed to spend one yuan to customize the text message before they could vote. Each vote was 0.1 yuan, and a maximum of 15 votes could be cast.

This canvassing for votes is quite expensive, after all, a cup of milk tea only cost two yuan back then.

Li Yuchun eventually won the championship with an absolute advantage of 3528308 votes, while Zhou Bichang and Zhang Liangying ranked second and third respectively. The total number of text messages received by the three reached more than 800 million. Based on the upper limit of 15 votes per mobile phone, nearly 54 mobile phones participated in this unprecedented voting.

In the nationwide craze of chasing stars, the total number of votes accumulated exceeded 3 million.

Cover of Time Asia.

A term was born that year, called the "Super Girl Phenomenon."

As soon as the news of the cooperation between Qvod and Shonan TV was exposed, other video websites were shocked.

There are now hundreds of video websites on the Chinese Internet. Although there are many of them, there are almost no differences between them. They all copy each other.

In the final analysis, they are all copying Qvod.com. Except for the first few video websites with large traffic that have differentiated their page designs, the others are not much different from Qvod.com. At first glance, they are like half-brothers.

Apart from the pages, the contents are also similar. Basically, they are just copying videos from each other, and whatever is popular will be copied over.

But then again, it's difficult for video sites themselves to make much of a distinction.

For this newly emerging hot track, basically no one knows how to play it and everyone is still groping in the dark.

Qvod.com's move directly confused its competitors.

With the huge popularity of "Super Girl", the traffic of Qvod.com took off immediately.

Then what else are we playing?
Videos can be moved and pages can be copied.

But the title of official partner cannot be copied.

What are video sites competing for now?
There is no difference in content, so the remaining competition is traffic and data.

Various data such as registered users, playback volume, and daily active users are all capital that can be used to bargain with venture capitalists.

In other words, traffic is money.

In the field of video websites, Qvod already has a first-mover advantage and is leading by a large margin in all data.

Now there are all kinds of activities going on, what should other websites do?

Wang Wei of Tudou.com was the first to get restless. He made connections everywhere and brought the bosses of several large video websites in the industry into a QQ group to start discussing countermeasures.

The name of the QQ group is also very direct, it is called "Anti-Qvod Alliance".

As the number of group members gradually increased as messages about joining the group appeared one after another, Wang Wei's anxious mood also became more excited.

For now, entrepreneurs in the industry are still very united.

Tudou.com: "Everyone is almost here now, so I won't waste any more time talking. I'll just start by throwing out some ideas."

"Qvod has been very popular recently and has become a monopoly. What do you think, fellow colleagues?"

Youku.com: "What can I do? Just sit and watch. What do you think of Tudou.com?"

Ku6.com: "Yes, Boss Wang, please tell us. We don't have any good ideas."

Tudou.com: "Qvod.com is developing too fast now. Most of the new users on the Internet have gone to Qvod.com. We can only share the rest."

"If this continues, we won't have to do it anymore."

"If the data doesn't improve, it will affect the next round of financing. If the financing funds are not large, we will not be able to survive."

"It's a vicious cycle now. We must take action to curb the development of Qvod and snatch users from them."

Liujianfang: "Qvod is the pioneer of domestic video websites and a strategic partner of YouTube. Its valuation has reached 300 million US dollars."

"Not only are they rich, they also have an exclusive partnership with the campus network. The campus network only supports sharing on Qvod.com, so we can't get in at all. How can we survive?"

56.com: "Alas, I can't compete. I'm just a bystander. I can only watch the big guys fight."

Ku6.com: "Tudou and Youku are the best among them. As the leaders, you can come up with some ideas."

Liujianfang: "That's right, Boss Wang asked us to join him and said we should form an anti-Qvod alliance. We agree, but you need to tell us the specifics of how to do it." Youku.com: "We are all entrepreneurs. Don't lose our spirits before the war starts. Everyone, please be more energetic and don't lose face."

"Boss Wang, there is a deep feud between Tudou.com and Qvod.com. Please tell us first."

Tudou.com: "Qvod.com has no moral principles! It has no business ethics at all! How can a video website develop with such a cancer?"

"We need to take action, unify our organization, and make a big move to seize the hotspot."

Youku.com: "Why is Mr. Chen from Yiku silent? You used to be the CEO of Qvod.com, so you must know a lot about it."

Yiku.com: "What do you want me to say? If I tell you the truth, you won't accept it. So I won't say it."

Ku6.com: "Why don't you tell us first? How can we know if you don't tell us?"

56.net: “9494!”

Yiku.com: "My opinion is that everyone should stop struggling and just lie down. You can't beat Qvod!"

Tudou.com: "What are you talking about? You're already disrupting our morale before the war even starts. How the hell did I drag you into this?"

"You've gone out to start your own business, so why are you still in Cao's camp but your heart is with Han?"

Yiku.com: "I've already said it before. You can't accept the truth. It's useless to tell lies. I told you before that there's no point in forming this alliance."

Tudou.com: "What do you mean by meaningless? Surrendering without fighting is meaningful?"

"I can see that you, Chen Guangxia, are not a good person either. It was you who poached my team before, right?"

Yiku.com: "You blame me for your inability to watch over people?"

Youku.com: "Everyone please stop arguing and don't say anything that is not conducive to unity."

"Boss Wang, don't act on impulse at this juncture. Although Boss Chen poached your team before, he has now left Qvod. Let bygones be bygones."

Ku6.com: "Stop arguing and get down to business. How do we solve the problem of Qvod?"

Tudou.com: "I have an idea. Let's see if everyone is willing to spend money and organize an event."

56.com: "Our website is still a new one, so how can we have any money?"

Ku6.com: “It’s not impossible to spend money, but will it be effective?”

Tudou.com: "Just give it a try. If you don't try, it won't work. But if you try, there's still hope."

Youku.com: "In addition to proving the hard work, can we consider some tricks outside the game?"

Yiku.com: "An underhanded move? Are you serious? Do you know how Dazhong.com died?"

Tudou.com: "Kick him out! He keeps saying such depressing things!"

Youku.com: "Boss Wang, please don't start a fight!"

Other people in the group also tried to dissuade them, and finally the topic was brought back to the anti-Qvod alliance.

Tudou.com: "Didn't Qin Shaoyan mention before that the future is the video era? Blogs are very popular now. Let's start a video blog project and pay some celebrities to post videos."

Youku.com: “This is a good idea. It uses the influence of celebrities to attract users.”

Ku6.com: “So are we going to work together or do it separately?”

Tudou.com: "Everyone doing their own thing is equivalent to dispersing our strength. Let's concentrate our resources and work together. Now we must unite and not care about the immediate interests. Let's work together to take down Qvod first!"

Liu Jianfang: "That's a good point, but I have a question, who will pay?"

Tudou.com: "Of course, we all contributed together."

Liu Jianfang: "I don't have any money."

Tudou.com: "..., then what do you have?"

Liu Jianfang: "I am participating in the activities, but it is a bit difficult to pay."

56.com: “+1, we don’t have money either.”

Wang Wei from Tudou was almost going crazy and wanted to get in and beat them up through the network cable.

How the hell can we build an anti-Qvod alliance with this bunch of people?
They all just talk big and then hide away when you pay them.

Youku.com: "As for the funding, we can contribute a little bit. Now everyone can contribute money and effort, and finally we can share the credit according to our contribution. What do you think, Boss Wang?"

Tudou.com: "Okay, whoever contributes more will get more benefits. I'll draw up a plan first and we can discuss it later."

The group soon fell silent, and Wang Wei began to ponder over the "podcast plan".

Yiku.com's CEO Chen Guangxia sat in front of the computer with a haggard look on his face, looking at the chat history on the screen and silently lighting a cigarette.

Chen Guangxia quickly finished his cigarette, put it out, picked up his phone and sent a message to Zhang Pingyi.

(End of this chapter)