madnovel Chapter 50 The Most Fawning Man on the Entire Internet
Chapter 50 The Most Fawning Man on the Entire Internet
"Did you play the music in the store?"
Huang Yiliang looked at Li Erpang with a strange expression.
"Yeah! This is the most popular song right now, it's really energetic."
Li Erpang snorted as he spoke, "You were the one who wanted to break up back then, so be it. Now you want to coax me back with true love. Love isn't something you can just sell or buy as you please."
"Let's change the song! Don't you think this is cheesy?" Huang Yiliang pinched his brow, looking exasperated.
"I don't think so. I think this song is particularly straightforward and direct, much better than those pretentious and affected songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan."
After finishing his sentence, Li Erpang added, "The main reason is that we have an official license. It costs ten yuan for ten years, which averages out to only one yuan per year."
Li Erpang thought Huang Yiliang would be shocked, but Huang Yiliang calmly lit a cigarette for himself.
The licensing proposal that costs one yuan a year was originally created by Huang Yiliang.
Originally, Li Erpang would never have purchased any official music licenses. All the merchants would just play whatever songs were popular in their stores, regardless of intellectual property rights.
However, they were shocked when they learned that the official music license for "Love for Sale" only cost one yuan a year.
Disrespect for intellectual property rights does not mean they are ignorant of the law; playing unauthorized music in a business premises carries legal risks.
Moreover, to put it bluntly, when beggars occasionally come to the store to beg, they will give them three or five yuan to send them away.
Does that mean that someone who works hard to write and sing songs is not as good as a beggar?
Businesses across the country have inexplicably begun to respect intellectual property rights.
Huangliangmeng Music earned over 600,000 yuan in licensing fees from just this one piece of music copyright licensing.
This was certainly not Huang Yiliang's original intention.
When Huang Yiliang took his produced music to find distributors, he was surprised to find that the traditional music distribution channels in China had been monopolized by a few large companies.
For someone like Huang Yiliang, an unknown figure in the music industry, the revenue sharing plan offered is 80/20.
Others account for 80%, while Huang Yiliang accounts for 20%.
Moreover, Huang Yiliang had to pay for the music promotion himself.
If it doesn't sell well, won't we lose money on advertising?
Did she mistake herself for Jing Tian and get herself treated up?
What's the difference between this and begging on your knees?
Huang Yiliang simply made the songs free across the entire internet, proactively uploading them to various music forums for netizens to download for free, since you couldn't resist anyway.
This guy even sent his own original single to the pirates, just in case they downloaded the resources from the internet to pirate it, which would affect the sound quality of the pirated discs.
Mr. Huang's thoughtfulness is truly admirable; he's a conscientious businessman.
The first song released by Huang Yiliang was "Love for Sale".
Thanks to Mr. Huang's proactive cooperation, the song "Love for Sale" went viral on the internet as soon as it was released.
Even elementary school kids can now say things like: "Love isn't something you can just sell whenever you want."
虽然他们这个年纪大概率是不会懂什幺是狗屁的爱情，而且回家还免不了要挨父母的一顿胖揍。
But that doesn't stop them from singing their hearts out when their parents aren't looking.
Given Huang Yiliang's personality, he certainly couldn't accept spending real money to record a song and not making a single penny, so he set his sights on various businesses.
This guy has some understanding of how businesses operate; if you dare to add a dollar to the music licensing fee on the price, you won't even get that dollar.
He managed to price it at just the right amount—one yuan a year—so the merchants could treat it like a beggar's treat.
"Brother Liang, have a smoke of this, a cigar!"
Li Erpang took a box out of his pocket and took out a cigar from the box.
"Where did it come from?" Huang Yiliang asked, stubbing out his cigarette.
"It was stolen from my dad," Li Erpang replied matter-of-factly.
"Get to the point, don't play these games." Huang Yiliang said this, but skillfully took the cigar from Li Erpang's hand.
Li Erpang smiled shyly and said, "I want to connect Zhiyou.com accounts to the campus shopping website. No registration is required; users can log in directly using their Zhiyou.com accounts."
While ordinary people may not know Huang Yiliang's background, Li Erpang knows that Huang Yiliang is the true leader of Zhiyou.com.
Li Erpang estimated that Zhiyou.com might have close to 100,000 real users in various universities in Beijing. The thought of converting all of these people into users of the campus shopping website was exciting.
Huang Yiliang thought about it for a moment and immediately nodded in agreement, as he was the biggest beneficiary of this deal.
"What about the GG fee?" Li Erpang asked, pressing his advantage.
"Of course we have to pay the GG fee, but that's a different matter. Also, there's another charge for placing campaign links and advertorials. You should contact Zhiyou.com's marketing department! I'm not involved in company management," Huang Yiliang said irritably.
Unlike the steadily increasing revenue of campus shopping websites,
Aside from Google Play, Zhiyou.com has almost no other revenue streams. And now, with its user base booming, Huang Yiliang is reluctant to take on Google Play, and the company is running out of money.
"Alright, that's enough for now. I have an appointment with a mobile operator to discuss some matters, so I'll be leaving now." Huang Yiliang said, getting up to get up.
Since traditional music distribution channels were not working, Huang Yiliang decided to try an unconventional approach.
Traditional music companies, regardless of size, collectively look down on the internet and various telecom operators.
They looked down on him, but Huang Yiliang did; he even wanted to fawn over him.
In 04 and 05, China Mobile alone generated over a billion yuan in revenue from ringback tones in a single quarter.
Huang Yiliang spent over a hundred yuan to download the most popular ringtone at the time.
It's like a pile of shit.
Those traditional musicians look down on ringback tone users to the core. The ringback tones they sell to major operators are just a package of a debut song, without taking into account the duration and nature of the ringback tone at all.
If you're lucky, you'll download the chorus of the climax; if you're unlucky, you'll often download the dull intro of a song.
Huang Yiliang was more effusive; he condensed the most exciting part of a song into a 30-second effective ringtone time.
This guy even considered that the sound quality of mobile phone speakers is generally not very good nowadays, and harsh audio would be even more harsh in the phone's speaker.
He meticulously removed all the extremely high frequencies above 8000Hz from the ringback tone audio files and enhanced the low frequencies, aiming to provide users with a great experience.
There's no one else in the entire Qidian entertainment circle who's this obsequious.
China Mobile Value-Added Services Department.
Bald manager Li Huowang and Huang Yiliang hit it off immediately, feeling like they had known each other for a long time.
Manager Li was devastated. He had never seen a music company owner, music producer, and songwriter personally come to his door to promote ringtones. He even brought himself two cartons of cigarettes and two bottles of Maotai.
This usually involves shamelessly asking music companies for songs!
"Brother, I won't say anything more. Even if these ringtones you made are as bad as a pile of crap, I'll still help you get them trending." Li Huowang patted his chest excitedly and promised.
This was the first time he had been treated with such respect since he took charge of the company's ringback tone value-added services.
"Big Brother!" Huang Yiliang called someone "Big Brother" for the first time, and he blushed slightly because the other person was older than Huang Haidong.
"The 50/50 split we agreed on can't be changed!" Huang Yiliang quickly reminded him.
"What 55?" Li Huowang got up and closed his office door tightly.
"Sixty-four, you're six," Li Huowang said. "This is the highest level of authority my brother can reach."
Huang Yiliang excitedly grasped Li Huowang's hand: "Brother, I understand. Sixty percent will be credited to your account, and one percent is yours."
Huang Yiliang was terrified of being ripped off by traditional music distributors, with their 60/40 revenue split. He didn't even dare to dream about it when he slept.
At most, I dream of Teacher Su and Shishi together, plus Senior Xiaoxiao.
"Hiss—!" Li Huowang gasped. There's such a request?
This young man is savvy, but he can't take the money; it would easily get him into trouble.
Li Huowang, with a heart full of righteous indignation, patted Huang Yiliang on the shoulder: "Brother, don't worry, this is the fruit of your labor, your elder brother can't accept it."
Huang Yiliang was overjoyed.
"Thank you, brother. Let's go to 'Heaven on Earth' tonight."
Huang Yiliang felt that he should also indulge in some high-end consumption; ordinary bathhouses were not worthy of his good older brother.
"This is a good idea!" Li Huowang gave Huang Yiliang a knowing look.