Chapter 180 i.elibilib

Once *Game Producer* surpassed 300,000 in sales, that meant the game was making money again.

If its sales continued to climb, reaching 400,000 or 500,000, it was entirely possible that it could even make back the money lost on Internet Cafe Mo Yu and the short videos!

For Pei Qian, that would be a bolt from the blue, a super nightmare!

So, recently, Pei Qian had been staring at *Game Producer*'s sales figures, constantly praying that the game wouldn't continue to be so popular.

Now that things had reached this point, Pei Qian was powerless.

The game was already made; maliciously turning the game into garbage was against the rules.

As for some small actions, minor disturbances… the players would only think of it as another performance art piece.

Pei Qian now had only one feeling: it was becoming harder and harder!

He had to admit that even though Old Qiao's video was full of nonsense from beginning to end, he was right about one thing: being misinterpreted was the fate of the expresser.

Pei Qian, as an expresser, was now being wildly misinterpreted, and everyone was misinterpreting him together!

This fate made him want to vomit blood.

The others were celebrating the official wrap of Season 3 of *Pei Zong's Daily Life*.

"Brother Huang, what are your plans next? Will you continue filming Season 4?" Lu Mingliang asked expectantly.

He played the intern in the show and had a great time, and he really wanted to continue acting in the sequel.

Huang Sibao smiled: "It's not decided yet. But according to the generous conditions offered by i-Island, this season should be able to recover all previous investments, and maybe even make a profit."

"Now that we've proven the IP value of *Pei Zong's Daily Life*, we're mainly considering two aspects next: either continue to delve deeper into this IP, or find a new direction."

"Of course, before we start work again, we plan to rest for half a month. After all, the work intensity has been a bit high recently, and everyone is very tired."

The more Pei Qian listened, the more he felt something was wrong.

What's going on?

According to the generous conditions offered by i-Island, this season could recover all investments and even make a profit??

This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, instantly freezing Pei Qian.

The initial investment was one million!

They hadn't taken any commercial advertisements, so how could they recover all the investment? Even if this small website had an incentive program, it couldn't earn that much!

"You didn't take some low-end commercial ads, did you?" Pei Qian was instantly alarmed.

Huang Sibao smiled: "No, President Pei."

"I told you before that i-Island has a video creation incentive program, which is different from Sweet Potato Video."

"Incentive program… 10,000 clicks, that's only 15 to 30 yuan, right?" Pei Qian was even more puzzled.

The incentive program was aimed at the entire internet, so it was impossible to set the price very high. Generally speaking, 10,000 clicks would translate into an income of only 15 to 30 yuan, and a video with a million clicks would only earn about 2,000 yuan.

Of course, some websites' incentive programs would weight this number, for example, increasing the money for every 10,000 clicks when it breaks one million, two million, or three million, but it wouldn't be too high.

For *Pei Zong's Daily Life*, which only had ten episodes per season, it would earn at most 30,000 to 50,000 yuan, no more than that.

No matter how you calculate it, that's far from the investment of one million!

Huang Sibao smiled and shook his head, explaining to Pei Qian in detail.

"President Pei, you don't know this."

"The incentive program is for all video creators."

"But considering the influence of the *Pei Zong's Daily Life* series of short dramas across the entire internet, our cooperation with i-Island is not as ordinary creators."

"In order to promote itself, i-Island has set aside a large sum of money to purchase excellent exclusive web dramas, and the related revenue sharing rules are very generous."

"The senior executives of i-Island believe that this kind of micro-short drama will be the future direction of video development, with very good prospects, so they made an exception to upgrade us from a B rating to an A rating."

"According to the regulations, as long as each episode of an A-level web drama has more than 6 minutes of clicks per single account, it will be considered a valid click, and you can get 0.4 yuan for each valid click!"

"Of course, because our videos are particularly short, only about one minute in total, this standard has also been lowered. As long as each episode has more than 30 seconds of clicks, it will be considered a valid click. However, the revenue sharing has also been lowered, at 0.2 yuan per valid click."

"In other words, as long as the 10 episodes of Season 3 can guarantee one million valid clicks per episode, we can get about two million yuan in revenue sharing income!"

"Even after deducting various expenses and taxes, we still have a profit to be made!"

"This should mainly be attributed to your correct strategy, President Pei! It is precisely because we rejected those low-end commercial requests that we were able to build *Pei Zong's Daily Life* into a high-quality web drama with extremely high IP value, and to obtain a high rating within i-Island and obtain such generous revenue sharing conditions!"

"All of this is inseparable from your foresight!"

Pei Qian was dumbfounded.

0.2 yuan for a valid click? Isn't that 2,000 yuan for 10,000 clicks?

That's a hundred times higher than a normal video incentive program!

Pei Qian really didn't expect this.

Video websites would indeed set aside a large amount of special funds to purchase the copyright or exclusive broadcasting rights of popular dramas and variety shows, and sell them bundled with memberships to increase the competitiveness of the website.

Copyright was the moat of video websites, and many websites were burning money mainly in this area.

But Pei Qian didn't expect that *Pei Zong's Daily Life*, such an ordinary web drama, could get this kind of treatment!

Generally speaking, these ABCd-level dramas have indicators within the website, with many restrictions and strict requirements. Only particularly outstanding dramas have a chance.

Moreover, to get a rating, you must first sign an exclusive broadcasting agreement with the website.

In this way, exclusive broadcasting is no longer a one-time buyout, but revenue sharing based on the actual popularity of the video. This method is more stable for both the website and the creators, and can reduce risks.

Probably because this website called i-Island was recently deciding to burn money, and the senior executives happened to be interested in *Pei Zong's Daily Life*, that's why this happened!

"Tonight at 8 pm, our third season will officially premiere on i-Island. Everyone can pay attention to it. The scene at that time should be quite lively." Huang Sibao's tone was a bit proud.

"Okay, okay, we will definitely support it!"

"I'm going to post the first barrage!"

Everyone was very excited.

Pei Qian felt flustered and thought he should go take a look too.

"What's the URL of i-Station?" Pei Qian asked.

"Oh, it's this." Huang Sibao tapped a few times on his phone and showed the URL to Pei Qian.

A string of English was clearly displayed on it.

"i.elibilib"!

Pei Qian was shocked.

This…

Isn't this just Bilibili backwards?!