At 11 o'clock in the morning, when Yang Can entered the Gabonese company office, everyone who knew him nodded and smiled and said, "Thank you, Yang." Someone who was a bit more lively patted him on the shoulder and shouted: "Dude, you are amazing."
Yang Can is really not used to the enthusiasm of these Americans. He can only respond with a smile in embarrassment. He walked into the planning department and was greatly relieved to see Martin and the two secretaries. He raised his hand and said hello: "Martin, Show me the ratings chart."
"You can count it, the guys didn't pester you when you came in?" Martin asked Yang Can with a smile, and handed him the information.
Sure enough, it was 1.12 million viewers. This has set the highest record for the Gabon TV station in the 50 years since the establishment of the Gabon TV station. It is even more astonishing than the evening ratings except for holidays. Yang Can nodded relaxedly in his heart. "Weird answer to Martin's question: "I have seen American-style friendliness today." I "touched" and "touched" the hickey on my cheek, which was kissed by Mrs. Salad from the accounting department.
"Haha." Martin also said with a smile: "You don't know that this is our Gabonese tradition. As long as a new record is set, Jonathan will give gifts to the entire company. You didn't look at the bulletin board when you came in. Is it written on? In order to celebrate this success, Jonathan gave the entire company an iphone4 to two hundred and fifty-three people, each of whom had an iphone4. At most, he had only given souvenir badges before."
Is there such a good policy? Yang Can suddenly felt a little stunned. Shirley next to her stretched out her brand-new mobile phone and leaned into Yang Can's ear to explain: "Jonathan's wife is an Apple agent, and she is cheaper."
The culture of American companies is like this. When they succeed, they celebrate their success so that people from top to bottom can feel this atmosphere. If the performance this time is maintained, the company’s profit will increase by nearly one million dollars out of thin air. An employee giving a gift of $170 is really a boon, but it feels completely different, and it makes the employees feel very excited.
Yang Can carefully checked the ratings report, and took a look at the main competitor's dramas. As expected, the results were as ordinary as his predictions, and they were not at all superior to their dramas.
Martin was smoking a cigarette happily in Yang Can's office, staring in surprise at the "Prison Doctor" of nbc TV on the screen, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing:
"This is really weird, Sam Wharton, George Carl, Bobby Hilton, these actors are very "glamorous", the plot is also compact, the creativity is not bad, why I can't stand the shots. ?" Turning his head and looking at Yang Can, his eyes widened and asked:
"Yang, didn't you use some ancient oriental witchcraft to make them have any problems? What is it called, Xia Juntou?"
In fact, Martin has always criticized Yang Can's adjustment of the noon theater to this time, mainly because of the crash with the NBC major drama "Prison Doctor", but he never expected that this drama was far from the expected high quality.
Martin's weird accent made Yang Can couldn't help laughing. The planner knew a lot and explained:
"It's a general, it's for the Thai people. I didn't do anything. It's just that the computer analysis software is more useful."
Martin was itching to hear, and it was difficult to continue to ask. He had been asking Yang Can on what basis to predict the ratings of each series. Yang only said that it is a data calculation software, similar to stock forecasts, with huge possessions. With its database and intelligent system, you can predict the approximate result as long as you input the other actors and various information.
But such a good computing software, Martin, an expert in the industry, has never even heard of it. Of course, it is difficult to ask too many questions due to trade secrets.
Shirley, the pretty secretary of Indian descent, stared openly and asked, "Is Yang that software written by myself? I received a call before, and it was Markberg who left a message from Facebook and asked you to call him back."
"Oh my God, is that computer genius Markberg?" Mary was also fussing beside her, looking at Yang Can in surprise: "Yang, are you also a hacker?"
Yang Can smiled and did not answer, just staring at the screen and continuing to watch, Mary replied to herself: "No wonder, I have always heard that Chinese and Indian hackers are now more powerful than Russian hackers. It turned out to be true..."
Martin was next to him, suddenly thinking about being absorbed, thinking about everything from beginning to end for a while, and suddenly he thought of something. From the drawer, he pulled out the information about their meeting before, and there was one written by Yang Can about this one. Quarterly ratings report of each TV station.
This is the data they used to explain to other departments and Jonathan. Martin didn't take it seriously, but now comparing them one by one, the ratings of all the TV series in this period are almost exactly the same as the above.
Except for a few relatively influential cable TV stations that have relatively large errors, the error rates of those major competitors' works are all under one hundred thousand viewers, which is simply incredible.
Martin looked at Yang Can weirdly, and he became more and more suspicious of whether his so-called "computing software" really exists. TV dramas are an art. How can a computer program calculate the value of "art" so accurately! ? The sweat "hair" on my back is tied up
"Yang...you are really a Chinese fortune teller, you can predict the future, right?"
Yang Can nodded solemnly, looked at Martin again, and "touched" his chin and said, "Well, I think in about five years, you will have no hair at all." The two twenty-year-old secretaries both laughed. While Huazhi trembled, she was a little worried about whether such a good thing could continue, and everyone felt very entangled when the mentality of gains and losses came up.
Yang Can was the most relaxed, because the situation was more optimistic than he thought. He was still a little more conservative. Those bad dramas were really bad. If nothing else, the audience share of this quarter will stabilize at 110. One hundred and fifty thousand is completely fine.
In the next half month, Yang Can predicted that the ratings record of that day was not as short-lived as the Gabonese company’s fears. In this entire half month, "Tipping Point" and "Family Court" And so on, several different noon dramas firmly occupy the top 50 ratings. On Thanksgiving Day, the number of viewers even reached an unprecedented 1.27 million.
The Gabonese company is not only full of money earned from advertising fees, it is more than 300% higher than last year’s year-on-year growth. On the other hand, the six major wireless TV stations and ten TV stations such as hbo and other TV stations show collective performance. landslide.
Except for Fox’s suspenseful theme "Ghost Island", which received 3.5 million ratings, other cbs traditional crime-solving themes "Flying Detective", hbo's creative drama "Cosmetic Hell", or ABC's high hopes "Prison Doctor" Did not meet expectations, just like the curse of the group, there was collective weakness.
Of course, this is from the point of view of the planning department of the Gabonese company. The TV ratings have originally fluctuated, and no one else has any strange associations.
During this period, the happiest person was not Yang Can, but the people in the marketing department of the company. The ratings have always been in line with the Matthew effect. The better will get better and the worse will get worse. The Gabon TV luncheon theater suddenly Turning over, the call from the marketing department, which has always been deserted, became lively.
Since Gabonese TV’s advertising fees have not been increased in time, it is far lower than that of large TV stations like Fox. Those with analytical capabilities are all eyeing Gabonese TV’s advertisements during this period, resulting in extremely fierce competition, and the marketing department has continued for some time. He was "harassed" by public relations delegations of different companies, causing them to work overtime every day, and everyone had dark circles under their eyes.
The prestige of Yang Can has risen unconsciously during this month. Almost everyone in the company knows the title of "Magic Yang". Yang Can’s hands that turn stones into gold have made Gabonese people feel extremely charming. .
After all, before Yang Can came, they never thought that the arrival of a special consultant would bring such a huge change to their TV station.
There is also a very interesting thing in the middle. Wall, who is in charge of the Gabonese investor of the Tianmu Foundation, received a call from Jonathan and thought it was a complaint. After ten minutes of apologizing, Jonathan did not expect that Jonathan praised the foundation for recommending Yang. Chan is such a good talent.
"Yang is the best planning consultant I have ever seen, whether in China or in the United States." Jonathan's extremely high evaluation made Wall also extremely astonished. He had no idea that the troublesome figure given to him would happen. Bring such a good change.
After the one-month probation period, the Human Resources Department gave Yang Can a five-star evaluation. What made Yang Can laugh or cry was that two headhunters from two headhunting companies found him just after the contract was signed, and he wanted to hire him for a high salary. Charlotte and Orlando on the east coast go to work.
On the first day after he became a regular employee, Yang Can already felt that his prestige had met expectations. On the day he got control of the entire day’s program, he announced in the planning team that the Chinese drama "Me and Me" would be launched in the prime time of the evening. Zombies have a date."
Although there were still a lot of opposition and doubts in the discussion of this plan, Yang Can produced a series of detailed data to prove the market potential of "I Have a Date with Zombies". Among the 6 million Chinese in the United States , Half of them live in Los Angeles and neighboring San Francisco, and these two places are the main service areas of Gabon. The influence of the series in the Chinese district is beyond doubt, and the audience positioning of the series is also able to consume. An elite group of 20-35 years old.
Vampires have become popular in the United States recently, and there are too many similar themes, but they are mainly limited to campus plots and love entanglements. There is no structure like "My Zombie Has a Date", and the market potential is bullish.
Of course, the most important thing is that Yang Can did not decide to buy all 30 episodes of "Zombie" from the beginning, but edited the zombies into five series with the most mobile "sexuality" mode, one series for every six episodes, Gabon First, I purchased the first six episodes of the series. If the ratings are not good, they can be terminated at any time.
The news was that Yang Xiuya revealed in the ncr when she was receiving the "Fashion Award" of the year in China, which immediately caused a lot of repercussions in the American Chinese circle and the mainland.
The domestic English-language newspaper China Daily even used its front page "Chinese Culture Is Officially Landing in the United States Again? The second Bruce Lee? "Reported this incident.
The ktsf (TV Nine) of the Chinese TV Station in the Bay Area in San Francisco made a special program to interview Yang Can for this purpose. In the program, Yang Can answered a lot of related questions. When recording in the company, you can ask Gabonese TV station Martin They were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths together. They didn't realize that Yang Can is a cultural celebrity among the Chinese.
Several black colleagues in the creative department in Gabon couldn't help but joking: "Is Yang the former Chinese table tennis champion who retired?"
"How could it be possible that his body is so great that he is about the same as a diving champion."
In short, everyone seemed to treat Yang Can like a celebrity. Several joking colleagues also pretended to ask Yang Can for autographs, which made him dumbfounded for the past few days.
It's 7:15 on Friday night.
Lucky returned to the apartment one day, and when he turned on the TV to watch "Sneak Resistance", he saw that the host on the ktsf TV station was evaluating Yang Can as "a bridge for the integration of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges." He was stunned on the spot. There, wearing slippers, he came downstairs and called Yang Can:
"Lao Yang, you watched a celebrity with the same name and surname as you on TV, come down and look at it, happy~"
Halfway through the room, it was dark. The power went out. Yang Can jumped up from the sofa. Today is the premiere of "I Have a Date with Zombies"! ? Seeing that there were still seven minutes left, it was too late. Le Kai wailed and stretched his head to the window to see:
"There is electricity on the other side~! This is racial discrimination, we are going to sue the damn property~!"
As soon as Yang Can heard that there was electricity on the other side, he immediately lifted his spirits and took Le Kai to leave: "Walk away, go to the other side of the TV." Today Yiyi Mai Weijian and they both watched the live broadcast at the company, and they just finished busy. In the past, I went home directly, it would be bad if I missed the live broadcast.
Yang Can took Le Kai to the apartment opposite Xue Qiyuan and knocked on her door.
I saw Xue Qiyuan’s hair shortened a bit, but at this time it was "untidy", wearing a Snoopy group t-shirt, very delicate and delicious, Yang Can said "Hello" outside the door, Xue Qiyuan had no energy. It seems that he opened the door with a glance:
"Why are you here? Come in."
When she said that, she walked into the living room in slippers, pointed at Le Kai and asked, "Your friend?"
Le Kai has been stunned by Xue Qiyuan's national "color" Tianxiang, how can he not know that there is such an elegant beauty hidden opposite him? But at the same time, he was frightened by Xue Qiyuan's aura, and he couldn't help but nodded stupidly.
"I don't have electricity over there. Come and rub a TV." Yang Can sat on the sofa as a matter of course. The two of them haven't seen each other during this period of time, and they don't know what Xue Qiyuan is up to.
"It seems that you have been doing well recently." Xue Qiyuan handed him a glass of juice and sat next to him: "You are so happy, so I am so busy now that I can't pay the rent."
Yang Can took a piece of Mongolian beef jerky that Xue Qiyuan had brought from China on the table and stuffed it into his mouth. While changing the remote control to Gabon, he asked strangely: "Why do you blame me?"
"Did you take their money? Now they all regard me as a daughter with a negative IQ." Xue Qiyuan turned around and looked at him, suddenly frowned, and hit him with her hand. Some complaints are authentic:
"What's not good about acting? Acting as a soft meal, you're not good at it~!"
Knowing that things were "exposed", Yang Can "licked" his face and smiled and "touched" his chest: "I don't play a soft meal, and they just agree with you, so why don't I make some extra money."
As the two chatted, Gabon’s "I Have a Date with Zombies" has begun to air, a legendary and brilliant picture on "Liquid" TV.
Yang Can sat on the sofa and listened to familiar music, feeling very comfortable and peaceful, while Le Kai and Xue Qiyuan both looked surprised, and opened their mouths in surprise when they heard the re-dubbed English dialogue inside.
"***... The first time I heard English dubbing of a domestic fashion drama, this is too awesome.. The English version is much better than before." Le Kai sighed and sighed again and again, and knew that the play was top-notch Xue Qiyuan looked at Yang Can with admiration.
Yang Can closed his eyes and spread the energy of consciousness as far as possible. Sure enough, 20% of the people in this apartment with the majority of Chinese people are watching the zombies in front of the TV. A strange emotion arose in his heart. The work finally appeared before the eyes of Americans.
For more than forty minutes, the three of them all looked at it with relish, and they never left the sofa, eating some snacks from time to time, and attentively.
It was not until the end of the first episode that Xue Qiyuan sighed slightly and looked at Yang Can calmly: "You are really capable, this film is really no worse than the American drama..."
However, Le Kai jumped up and cried out inexplicably excited: "More than that, this is much better than the average American drama! The soundtrack, editing, actors, everything is perfect. When will this group of actors come out in our country, I will I don’t know~! I admire this producer so much, where did I find these talents!"
Xue Qiyuan looked at Yang Can and asked strangely: "How can you persuade those Americans to let this scene come in? They are all dead brains." Looking at Le Kai, he felt dumbfounded:
"Does your friend have a bad brain? The flattering tricks are too ridiculous."
Yang Can was very calm on the surface, but in fact he was quite excited now. It was rare to be presumptuous. He leaned over and took the opportunity to kiss Xue Qiyuan’s cheek and smiled:
"Honey, when I get the Emmy Award, let's get engaged again~~" After finishing speaking, he took Le Kai and fled.
Xue Qiyuan "touched" her cheek, trying to curse in a daze but couldn't come out. Although Yang Can's words were joking, of course she trembled in her heart when she listened.
Three days later, "Surgery Room", "Fantasy Academy", "Ugly Betty", and "Two and a Half Heroes" occupied the forefront of the drama ratings***, and the second place is still in the limelight "The Big Bang Theory" ", the first place is still "America's Got Talent".
And in this top 20 ***, the twentieth is "I have a date with a zombie" with a viewership of 3.35 million...