"For this model competition, we have produced more than 170 hours of various videos and put them on TV platforms such as ABC, Fashion TV, MTV and YouTube online platforms, mainly YouTube, and the results are very good. Next, I plan to continue What do you think about expanding the content production team, Simon?”
Sitting on the bench and looking through the roster in his hand, Simon smiled and nodded: "That's good. You don't have to worry that your content will crowd out Daenerys' direct production department. The current size of Daenerys's TV business is If it is too big, external content must be introduced to form a catfish effect to avoid internal rigidity. If the ratings of the content you produce are better than those of the internal team, I will only settle the score with them."
Grace hummed softly, moved toward Simon without leaving a trace, and pointed to the page the man had just turned: "This girl is pretty good, Michelle Alves, she is your type, and she will be with you right away." I’m 18 years old, I’ll watch it for you.”
Michel Alves, from Brazil, is 17 years old and 179cm tall.
Another Brazilian supermodel.
And Simon also had the impression that looking at the photos at this time, the girl looked a bit like a combination of Gisele Bundchen and Alessandro Ambrosio. She had a fit and hot body, but also had some of Ambrosio's sweet sister temperament. Bundchen and Ambrosio are both in their own girl team at this time. Simon plans to serve as a personal waitress in the future, but Michelle Alves in front of her can be cultivated.
Just like Fernanda Lima.
In fact, it's like a combination of Fernanda Tavares and Adriana Lima, who were also included in Simon's girls team.
The resources in the fashion industry are limited.
In the past, there were people who became supermodels and stayed at the top for many years, just like Gisele, Alexander, etc. There were people who were not bad at all in appearance and figure, but could only live in the second tier, like Michel Alves and Phil Such is the case with Nanda Lima.
All I can say is that this is fate.
Simon no longer tried to dissuade Grace from helping him find a girl, as long as he avoided any flaws, so he nodded slightly.
Seeing that Simon had already flipped through most of the roster, Grace added, "How about arranging a small party later?"
Simon shook his head this time: "I still don't want it."
The last 64 girls, a group of goblins not far away from the scene, all seem to be close to 6 feet tall. In fact, according to the information on the roster, the average age of the girls may be less than 16 years old, and many are just Just turned 14 years old. For example, another remembered supermodel seed that Simon saw on the roster, Ana Beatriz Barros, also from Brazil, just turned 14 last month.
This is a common practice in the modeling industry.
Now they are selected, and after several years of training, they officially debut. Then, most models often fade out quickly after the age of 20. Their career period is very short, and they only eat the food of youth. After all, there are only a few supermodels who can flourish for a long time.
In short, if you hold a party with such a group of girls, even if nothing happens, it will inevitably be criticized.
After flipping through the roster, Simon stood up and said to Grace: "Let's go, I'll treat you to dinner. The apartment in the Upper East Side is already preparing it."
It was just an excuse to come here to see a group of goblins.
Simon's voice was not loud, but Grace still glanced around shyly, then stood up, even forgetting to say hello, and walked directly out with Simon.
Apartment on 68th Street on the Upper East Side.
Dinner after dinner, then dinner, then a late night snack.
When Grace, who was only wearing a white men's shirt, returned to the master bedroom upstairs carrying a fruit plate, Simon had left the big bed and sat on the sofa by the window with a view of Central Park, with a TV on his lap. laptop.
When Grace came closer, she reached out and took it out and put it on her lap. She rearranged the laptop and took a bite of the apple handed over by the woman. Simon said, "Your waist is thinner again. Women with thin waists are very beautiful, but I still don't want it on weekdays." Diet, or some kind of surgery."
"No way. If you are on a diet and feel miserable all day long, how can you have the energy to take care of Elite? I won't do surgery. In fact, the side effects are very serious. Only those little girls who don't think about the future will do it randomly. Grace put the sticker on Simon and said, "It's mainly for exercise. I built a gym next to the office."
Simon kissed the woman's fair neck and smiled: "You can feel that what you practice is different from what you do."
Grace took a bite and said, "It seems you have compared a lot."
"Yes, you gave it to me."
Grace murmured with fascination: "I will always give you girls, as long as you always remember me."
"Okay, no need to keep saying this, just give me another piece of apple."
Grace picked up a piece of apple and gave it to Simon. She carefully took back the toothpick and looked at the laptop that the man put on her lap. On it was the YouTube interface. A girl with big breasts was explaining how to DIY a set of furniture.
Naturally recognized.
Is this the 'Ordinary Girl' project hatched by Elite's new media operations department during this period? Or was it the idea that Simon suddenly called her to provide her with? The girl on the screen is named Christina Hendricks, Grace's assistant Mi Sher Sonam personally took charge of this project, coupled with Grace's special attention and Elite's resource support, the results were very good.
Christina Hendricks is positioned as an ordinary middle-class girl who loves life, is a bit rebellious, and likes to perform. She rents with a few friends in a single-family apartment near the sea in Huntington, Long Island. The so-called other few My friends are also influencers signed by Elite, and they focus on different settings.
Including single-family apartments, which are also exclusively rented by Elite.
The entire 'Ordinary Girls' project started with the decoration of the rented apartment. Four girls lived together and did everything by themselves. It was a bit like a reality show. During the period, there were all kinds of troubles, all kinds of embarrassments, and all kinds of fun things. Of course, these were all It was a deliberate arrangement by the team.
From the official launch at the end of April to now, it has been about more than a month. Through the official promotion resources obtained by Elite from YouTube, coupled with the fact that this project is indeed carefully planned and well-produced, the current number of subscriptions for the four girls' main channel "Ordinary Girls" It has exceeded 3 million, and the views of each video have generally reached one million levels.
Such data, even if placed on the YouTube platform more than ten years later in the original time and space, is quite impressive.
In addition, the girls have their own solo channels. Some like design, some focus on acting, some like cooking, and some are good at makeup. They have also attracted millions of fans.
Seeing Grace looking at the computer screen, Simon turned on the sound, and the special lolita sound of Christina Hendricks came out, while saying: "This project is done well, but it seems to be a little different from what I imagined. "
Simon originally introduced it to Grace according to the routine of a certain farmer brother and Kuanyou Chef, but in the end, it was obviously Americanized.
Grace knew from Simon's tone that the man was still satisfied, so she just echoed: "Then you can direct them yourself. Well, this, Tina is good and very unique. I will take the time to send you there."
In my memory, when Christina Hendricks became famous with "Mad Men", she had already started to focus on the image of a royal lady, and she had a tendency to develop horizontally in an all-round way. But now she is in her youth, and her big body is amazing, but her overall figure is still very good. Great.
Simon neither refused nor agreed.
There are too many women to deal with now, and it's too busy.
Thinking like this, Simon continued: "This project is still good. How many people have you signed in total now?"
"When the new media operations department was first established, it signed many network platform contracts. At that time, it mainly operated social media such as Facebook and Instagram, which were still very successful. Now, I find that YouTube has greater potential. After all, the dissemination ability of images is better than that of print media. To be stronger, the route has been adjusted. Currently, the main training target is about 200 people, including social platforms and video websites. Of course, there are also intersections with each other."
"200 people seems a bit much. In fact, the 80/20 rule in the Internet industry is more obvious, and it focuses on the head effect. Therefore, if we can cultivate a few top Internet celebrities, the income of these people will be very high, and there is no need to widely net."
Grace nodded slightly, but said: "It depends on luck. Now, except for a few who are trained by ourselves, such as the Ordinary Girls Project, we are actively looking for contract partners from the newcomers who have just emerged on the YouTube platform. In fact, we hope to recruit them in advance. There are some Internet celebrities who may become phenomenal, but after all, this involves the field of creation, just like Michael Jackson among singers and Stephen King among writers. Such people cannot be cultivated deliberately. "
Phenomenal level.
Simon thought of something and smiled: "Actually, it can still be cultivated deliberately."
"Um?"
"But you can't be too deliberate. You have to make it look like it happened by chance," Simon said, but stopped: "Forget it, I won't tell you anymore, I don't want to teach the children bad things."
Grace twisted slightly: "Am I a child?"
"Of course, you are all children in front of me. I am hundreds of years old."
"I feel it," Grace tilted her face slightly, exposing her neck: "Just now you wanted to suck my blood."
"Yeah, it's hard for me to suppress my desires in order to hide my identity."
Grace chuckled, slowly enjoying the fruits in the fruit plate with Simon, and finally looked at the watch and said, "It's almost eleven o'clock, I should go back."
Simon put his arms around the woman's slender waist: "Isn't Bill in China?"
For China Mobile's overseas listing, Bill Spurter often went to China during this period.
Grace nodded and said, "That's why I have to go back."
Simon understood and said: "Call the children and tell them that you suddenly went on a business trip somewhere."
"No, although there are servants, I feel more at ease watching it myself. Besides, you definitely want me to be a good mother, right?"
"Do I have such thoughts?"
"There's none?"
"Have it?"
"Don't you like, um... this?"
“…”
Seeing the man pretending to be stupid, Grace smiled and leaned over, kissed Simon on the lips, and said softly: "Anyway, I have to go back. You can call Bryce over. She is now separated from Frank and has been living in Manhattan. She always comes here to annoy me, please help me take care of her."
"Oh, why didn't I hear you mention it at first? Otherwise, you could ask her to come with you."
"No, it's so hard to be alone with you. I don't want to share it with her."
Simon put the laptop aside and patted the woman in his arms: "Then get dressed and I'll take you back."
"Um."
Grace got up, quickly dressed up, and thoughtfully helped Simon do the same. The two of them went out. The Spurt family had already moved to the Upper East Side. They quickly sent Grace home. Watching the woman come in, Simon After thinking about it, he told the driver to go to 78th Street in the Upper West Side.
Alessandra Martinis was a little surprised and a little relieved to see Simon arrive late at night.
I came to New York last week. Although I quickly integrated into the life of Manhattan under someone's careful arrangements, Simon never showed up. The former Princess of the Golden Rose Cave almost thought she had been forgotten.
Apparently, no.
But she probably understood that this man definitely didn't have much time to devote to her. To be precise, it should be very little.
This is actually not bad.
Alexandra had also just returned from attending a small party in the Broadway theater circle. She almost brought a best friend she had recently made with her to stay overnight, but in the end she hesitated for some reason and gave up.
Now that I think about it, it's probably some kind of sixth sense.
Holding the man's arm, she entered the door and went to the living room on the second floor overlooking the lobby on the first floor. She sat down on the sofa and was about to make coffee when the baby-faced waitress Zoe Parks who followed her had already taken it. This made the eager waiters and guards around Alexandra a little disappointed, especially the baby-faced one who sent them to rest, obviously not wanting them to have too much contact with the big boss.
Too domineering.
In the living room on the second floor, Alexandra chatted with Simon for a while. The man's natural familiarity made her quickly find the feeling she had on the plane. The alienation that had just formed during this period quickly disappeared, although Obviously smelling the scent of other women's perfume on the man, Alessandra also pretended not to notice anything, snuggled close to the man, and talked about recent events.
Then from the living room all the way to the master bedroom upstairs.
Naturally.
For some reason, the man's energy seemed to be a bit too high.
So she didn't wake up until after eight o'clock the next day. No one was around. The waitress said that Mr. Westeros had left before seven in the morning. She said she had a dinner party in the morning and left a ticket for her. note.
Simon made an appointment with Raymond Smith, chairman and CEO of Verizon Telecom, to have breakfast together, mainly to talk about the recent promotion of Verizon Telecom's IPO.
Because things were more formal, breakfast started at seven o'clock and lasted until nine o'clock.
In the morning, I met with Ang Lee who is currently preparing for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Lee will soon go to China to visit the scene. The main discussion this time is about arrangements for the producers of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". In addition to Lee's long-term partner James Shamus, according to memory, Simon also invited Hong Kong's Jiang Zhiqiang to serve as the producer. One of the producers of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a filmmaker who is quite familiar with both the Chinese and American film industries and can serve as a good bridge. As long as this cooperation is happy, both parties will continue to work on projects such as "Heroes" in the future.