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preciousqiqi · 4 months
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240606 Director Zhou Xiao (导演周潇) shares a new still of Cheng Yi in a weibo post. Director Zhou Xiao is credited with Creative video production + post-production for Fu Shan Hai.
Wait, so, Xiao Qiushui is the one on the left and the one on the right is Li Chenzhou? Perhaps I should start reading the novel while they're filming.
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lunarriviera · 3 months
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iQIYI x Tencent x Linmon Pictures #UndertheSkin2, starring Tan Jianci & Jin Shijia, releases new vid for 2024 Tencent Video Drama Party [x]
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accio-victuuri · 2 years
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There are some things you don’t think about till someone else points it out. This is an example of that. So we can predict now that when it comes to XZ and his team, the usual pattern is post photo sets and then a behind the scenes of that will be shared by the studio’s Douyin later on. I think it’s the same ( probably ) for other celebrities but you know what I mean — even yibo official are known for it. Now there are specific events when this did not happen. Those “events” also have something common. It’s times we CPN that Web is there. Either at the same event or close by ( meaning he is waiting for GG at the hotel where he is staying ).
Let me show you the details.
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✅ - event follows the usual content release
❌ - no behind the scenes video
I will start with 2020, specifically after 227. Around that time we already speculate that there are times when they visit each other at work. For example, ZZ at SDC3 recordings.
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❌ - 102520: GG performs in CCTV 3 Brightest star in the night sky. Tho this one is not exactly a live show, XZS still shared a photo set from the event. No behind the scenes. This was a pretty shut-in recording and no one said anything till it was aired. We CPN that WYB was there in some capacity because the TTXS bros mentioned this song. More about that here.
❌ - 120520: GG performs live on the show “Actors please..” & sings ‘Running To You With All I Have’. Photo set only. Again, this was a closed set. He was announced only hours before the guesting and very few fansites were able to get in. There was a Douyin video released days later + XZS shared a behind the scenes of how the DY was made. Another angle of it. They cannot release the actualy bts of the photoshoot because wherever that backstage was, WYB was allegedly there. You may see a pattern that Web tends to be present when it is a closed set.
XZS also released a video with him playing for a hotpot with the same clothes. This video shows more the potential that WYB is there.
❌ - 122020 : Tencent Starlight. Do I even need to explain this? Same stage. They were missing from the audience. They were allegedly hanging out together in one room backstage. No photoshoot BTS. Only a douyin post shared by GG. Which we think was shot by WYB.
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✅ - 123120 NYE stage ; they were at different station celebrations.
✅ - 011521 IQIYI scream night
❌ - 011921 Douyin night. Another same event attended. XZS released a photoset only.
✅ - 020521 DC press con. A solo and work related event so XZS gave is everything. Obvs, WYB has no business being there.
✅ - 021221 BTV and Dragon TV Spring Festival. There is no photoshoot bts but both stations released behind the scenes content which makes up for it. They might have wanted it that way so the stations will have bonus content to share.
❌ - 022821 -Weibo Night. You guessed it. No photoshoot BTS because they were in the same place and event.
053121 BTV & JD 6/18 night. This is my outlier because there were no same city CPN. No BTS but there was a Douyin post. What stands out to me with this day is his hair that was dyed dark blue. He was also using the custom red mic.
✅ - 060721 Tencent Video 10th anniversary event
✅ - 091021 2022 Asian Games Hangzhou Countdown
✅ - 101621 Jackie Chan International Action Film Week
✅ - 020222 China Internet AudioVisual Annual Ceremony
✅ - 113022 Weibo TV & Internet Video Summit
I didn’t link everything because I truly just want to make a list. I won’t elaborate on the CPNs for those marked X as i’m thinking those who will read this will have an idea. Same thing as the DY/Photosets shared by XZS.
They have the footage, of course they do. We’ve seen how it works. Someone takes the photos and then one of his staff takes the video. It’s easy. Then someone else edits it — it’s all part of the job. There might be other reasons why the behind the scenes is missing in the events mentioned but it’s some kind of next level coincidence that what they have in common is yibo’s alleged presence. I’m thinking WYB is there, hanging out and they can’t have him show up in videos. Or when they are together, WYB will take douyin videos of him and that’s what XZ decided to share instead. 🤍
This is all speculation. Take it or leave it. ☺️
source: mentioned by this bxg, then i decided to go through all of gg’s events.
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2017 : EXO at Award Shows Pt. 2
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OCTOBER 2017
171023 - Billboard Radio China - LAY
Top 10 Chinese Songs of the Year - Sheep
NOVEMBER 2017
171102 - Elle Style Awards - KAI
Red Carpet
EXO - Super K-pop Group Award + Popularity Award
171103 - Korean Popular Culture & Arts - EXO
EXO Full Cut [1]
EXO - Prime Minister's Commendation
EXO - Ko Ko Bop
Backstage
Ending
171115 - Asia Artist Awards - EXO, D.O.
Red Carpet
EXO Full Cut - The Eve + Ko Ko Bop + Encore +Daesang Award – Music + Fabulous Award + Popularity Award – Music + Popularity Award – Actor (D.O.)
EXO - Daesang Award
EXO - Popularity Award
EXO - Fabulous Award
D.O. - Popularity Award – Actor
171222 - Esquire 'Man At His Best' Awards - LAY
Lay Full Cut - Red Carpet + Man of the Year Award + Offstage Cuts
171125 - Blue Dragon Film Awards - D.O.
D.O. - Best New Actor - My Annoying Brother
D.O. as Presenter
celebs_pick Instagram Update
Highcutstar Instagram Update
171129 - Mnet Asian Music Awards in Japan - EXO-CBX
Red Carpet [1] [2] [3] [4]
EXO-CBX Full Cut
EXO-CBX - Intro + Hey Mama
EXO-CBX - Bridge Perf. + Ka-CHING! Remix ver.
EXO - Global Fans' Choice
EXO-CBX - Thank You Stage
Ending Finale Self Camera
Backstage
Celeb's Pick x Naver Fashion Beauty Fashionista Award - Sehun
Sehun - Global Icon
DECEMBER 2017
171201 - Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong - EXO, Chen
Star Countdown D-2 by EXO
Opening
EXO Full Cut [mega]
Red Carpet [1] /[1] [1stlook Instagram Update]
Microwave EXO
Chen & Dynamic Duo - Nosedive
Chanyeol & SOYOU - Stay With Me
EXO - The Eve + Ko Ko Bop
EXO - I See You (KAI Solo) + Kinetic Perf. + Power (Remix Ver.)
Chen & Dynamic Duo - Best Collaboration Award - Nosedive
EXO - Album of the Year - The War
Ending
Ending - Self Camera [1] [2]
Chen & Dynamic Duo - Thank You Stage
EXO - Thank You Stage
EXO - Artist Zone
Press Conference
171202 - Melon Music Awards - EXO, Chen
Red Carpet
EXO Full Cut [1] /[1]
EXO Performance Cut - Forever + The Eve + Ko Ko Bop
Chen & Dynamic Duo - Best Rap/Hip Hop Award - Nosedive
EXO - Top 10 Artists Award
EXO - Netizen Choice Award
EXO - Best Dance Male Award - Ko Ko Bop
EXO - Artist of the Year
Award Behind Cut
EXO praising Haeunnie backstage
171203 - Tencent Video Star Awards - LAY
Red Carpet + Album of the Year (Sheep)
Backstage
171208 - Macau International Film Festival - D.O.
Greeting Video as Talent Ambassador
Red Carpet [1] [2]
Interview
D.O. Full Cut [Fancam]
iQiyi All-Star Carnival 2017 - EXO
EXO - Most Popular Asian Group
Philippine K-pop Awards - EXO
EXO - Best Male Group
Peeper x Billboard Korea‬ Award - Sehun
Sehun - December Top K-Pop Artist Award (Individual)
Asia Model Festival Awards - Chanyeol
Chanyeol & Punch - Asia OST Popularity - Stay With Me
PART 1
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obsidian-aurora · 4 years
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Why I feel so sad for Xiao Zhan for winning the Weibo King award again in 2021
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Right now you might see a lot of people spreading the fact that Xiao Zhan won Weibo King again with joy and happiness.  I can only personally feel sadness and regret.  Because when I look back at the year 2020, and what Xiao Zhan went through, Weibo had a big part to play in that story.  They took advantage of his pain to make money and profit from it.  They did little to stop what was happening because to them it was traffic.
His fans who left the 85 million votes for him for Weibo King probably weren’t thinking about what Weibo means to Xiao Zhan.  They weren’t thinking about how Xiao Zhan disengaged from the platform completely, moving his small interactions over to Oasis and Douyin to escape the toxicity inherent in the conversations taking place on Weibo.  All that they were thinking was “We want to show him how much we love him!”
Well you know what I think is love?  Listening to your own idol’s words.
Let’s take a small journey back through 2020 and listen to Xiao Zhan’s own words on what he wanted his fans to do this year.
I won’t rehash 227 itself - if you want my take on that event, then I’ll write another blog post about that, it being almost a year I’m probably finally reaching a point where I can discuss it rationally without bursting into tears remembering my own personal experience with it.  But rather, let’s take a look at what happened after 227.
On March 1, Xiao Zhan studio issued their first official statement.  What did they say?
Recently, we have noticed some controversies about Xiao Zhan fans, occupying some social public resources, and also causing trouble to everyone. We deeply regret and apologize for the impact of this incident. We are very grateful to all fans for their support and love to Xiao Zhan. At the same time, we also sincerely call on all love to be positive, and hope that everyone can chase stars rationally. While doing a good job of self-protection during the epidemic, we will work together in a more positive way and support things that bring positive energy to society.
On April 24, Xiao Zhan said something and his studio reposted.
@X玖少年团肖战DAYTOY What’s past is past, I’ll remember it by heart.  Thank you for all the criticism with good intensions, I’m working hard to improve.   
Xiao Zhan Studio April 25th 00:03 #肖战新歌光点# The light spot moves towards love. Please listen, @X玖少年团小战DAYTOY 's voice. ♥
And again, Xiao Zhan studio.
Xiao Zhan Studio April 25th at 14:27 Thank you for your love and support for Mr. Xiao Zhan and his works. In this studio, as always, I solemnly appeal to everyone to continue to take care of their study, work and life at the same time, and to distinguish the truth and not blindly follow in the thousands of voices. Thank you for your wise support. Every love, no matter how big or small, is a meaningful point of light, gathered together to form the most beautiful light.
When He Jiong was attacked, Xiao Zhan jumped in to say:
@X玖少年团肖战DAYTOY Sorry to disturb everyone, don't hurt others!
Xiao Zhan Studio April 27, 15:04 Please stop slandering and spreading rumors!
He gave his first interview after 227 on May 6.  He expanded upon the statement he made on April 24 when he said he was working hard to improve. He spoke about the controversy, the responsibility he feels as a public figure, and his desire not to control his fans but to guide them to do positive works like participate in charity that improves society.  He felt like as an artist, his role was to continue to improve his acting and his singing.  
“As for the people who love and support me, I hope they won’t do some extreme things, or hurt other people, or even hurt themselves.  I hope that they can protect and love themselves, and live their lives well.  Live their lives well.”  “And if it’s possible, outside of school and work, we can do things together to help others and contribute to society in a meaningful way.”  “I think charity is a part of an ordinary person’s social responsibility.”
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Again in May, following a controversy when a teacher recorded her classroom cheering him on, Xiao Zhan was forced to make statements encouraging his fans to live their lives well.
@X玖少年团肖战DAYTOY Please listen to me carefully again! I hope everyone puts their studies, work, and life in front of star chasing. Study hard and work hard. Do your responsibilities and obligations, and abide by professional standards and industry bottom lines. I don't need help.
Xiao Zhan Studio May 10 at 23:26 I hope everyone puts their work and life first 🙏
Xiao Zhan Studio May 11 at 21:14 Starting from us, we hope that each of us can do things that are beneficial to society and be positive.
A school is a temple of knowledge, a place for preaching and teaching, not a fan factory for celebrities. Children's education is related to the future of the country, and the development of youth values is related to the hope of the nation, and it must not become a tool for chasing stars.
Furthermore, over the course of this time period Xiao Zhan Studio met with the organizers of his official fan organization and they rebranded the Fanclub to Xiao Zhan Film and Television Support Club to emphasize their goal to focus on his works and his works only.  They released a statement with their intent and called on all members to do the following:
Xiao Zhan Studio May 15 20:01 If you see the good, you will move, and if you have, you will change. Start with me and work hard together. 1. Do not support business and works with behaviors beyond our own economic capacity. 2. No more activities such as ranking, controlling and appraising and cheering. 3. Accept all well-intentioned criticism and don't maliciously attack others. 4. Continue to actively participate in public welfare advocacy. 5. Focus on Xiao Zhan's work such as film and music.
Take particular note here of the specific call out not to participate in activities such as ranking (like the Weibo King votes).
In July, when his own fans were accused of cyber bullying others again, Xiao Zhan studio released a statement saying that they would defend any victim of cyber bullying, even someone bullied by his own fans.
Xiao Zhan Studio June 30 at 21:42 No matter who is responsible for his words and deeds, we support all those who are suffering from cyber violence or personal attacks on the Internet, and bravely take up legal weapons to protect themselves. Regardless of who’s a fan, taking legal measures is a legitimate behavior 
@易胜华律师 Recently, some netizens posted on Weibo that they had suffered online violence for publicly publishing criticisms against Mr. Xiao Zhan. Entrusted by Mr. Xiao Zhan, we issued the following lawyer's statement: We welcome all kind criticisms and reminders, and resolutely oppose and resist all cyber violence. No matter who the cyber violence is directed at, it is an illegal act and should bear corresponding legal responsibilities. We are willing to provide legal assistance to the above-mentioned parties who have been violated by online violence, and we are also willing to provide assistance within our capacity for their rights protection operations. Yi Shenghua Lawyer Wang Xiaoyan Lawyer June 30, 2020
In July, Xiao Zhan and Xiao Zhan Studio met up with representatives from Weibo to discuss the cyber bullying that he had been subjected to this year.  But was this at Weibo’s own desire to clean up their platform?  No.  This whole time Weibo was profiting from every hot search that drove more traffic to their platform.  It was the Cyberspace Administration of China that DIRECTED Weibo to clean up their mess.
Over the years we have seen Weibo ban accounts from time to time that are so blatant with their cyber attacks that they have no other choice.  But often they will wait until stars pursue legal action before doing so.  And they will only release the real-world IDs of users when under a police investigation pursuant to a lawsuit.  I’m not suggesting the platform should start doxxing its own users, but rather ban all malicious and slanderous behaviour from the outset.  Right now under Chinese law anyone with over 30,000 fans who says slander against another can be pursued by the law.  Weibo should act before it needs to come to that.
Chinese Star News did an interesting video on Fanquan culture and the ways in which Weibo profits from it.  If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s worth a watch.
Ever since the summer, Xiao Zhan has been very careful and direct in all his public interactions.  Most of his events were pre-recorded.  Only at the end of the year did he start doing live events again, and when he was surrounded by friends he was okay, but as we could see from the recent iQiyi event when he is without friends around him he still struggles.
April 12 - Hymn of the Red Plum Blossom (pre-recorded)
May 6 - Interview with China News Service (pre-recorded)
May 9 - Bamboo in the Stone (pre-recorded)
May 10 - Mother's Day live stream (live) (unannounced) (no fan interactions)
June 11 - Xiao Zhan goes to do agricultural charity activity (pre-recorded)
June 15 - Xiao Zhan releases summer cocktail video (pre-recorded)
Aug 17 - Xiao Zhan RoseOnly live stream (pre-recorded)
October 19 - Xiao Zhan at Shanghai Reading Film and Television event (pre-recorded)
October 25 - Xiao Zhan sang Brightest Star in the Night Skies (pre-recorded)
Dec 20 - Xiao Zhan attends Tencent Awards (live) with friends around him
Dec 31 - Xiao Zhan attends New Year party (live) with friends around him
Jan 15 2021 - Xiao Zhan attends iQiyi Scream Night (no friends) (does not look happy/comfortable)
It must have been SO hard for Xiao Zhan to continue to work behind the scenes in 2020, recording his new show Ace Troops, attending some events in secret, shooting some advertisements that he wasn’t sure would be able to make it to the air - and some events that got leaked and then had his portion cut out.  It must have been so, so hard.
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So to me, the least that we can do as fans is to listen to what Xiao Zhan has asked of us.  And over and over again he said that all he wanted from his fans was for us to live our lives well.  To not do extreme things.  He wants things to go smoothly.  He wants to take his time, to choose his events carefully, and come back at his own pace.
So what do his fans do?  They massively vote for him to win the Weibo King award.  This has put him in an impossible position.  
Either he needs to decline the award, and face criticism from everyone about being arrogant in a year that he should be grateful.  Or he has to suck it up and show up to an award hosted by a platform that did little to nothing to help him when he was in pain, and instead in fact profited from his pain.  
He will have to put a smile on his face and say thank you for recognizing that I was a high traffic star last year, even when the majority of his traffic was due to cyber attacks.
Why would his fans put him in this impossible position?  Back when this award was first announced, his own major fan club leaders requested fans not to vote for Weibo King.  If you wanted to vote for anything, then you should vote for his acting role in The Wolf, because that was about his professional work - not for Weibo King, which is literally like an award for Prom King.  It’s a popularity award, nothing more.
Will Weibo King help him to come back faster?  No.  Will it make industry leaders want to sign him on for more TV and film works?  No.  Speaking from experience working in the industry for many years, the only thing that industry professionals care about is ratings on the shows that are produced.  And Xiao Zhan cannot rely on his fans alone for ratings.  If his ratings are going to continue to increase, then he needs to attract the respect of a wider audience.  And if that wider audience is already of the impression that Xiao Zhan is a loose canon because his fans are out of control, this massive over-rating of Weibo King only reinforces that belief.
Just look at this graph.
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Xiao Zhan fans are posting it with pride, saying look how well we did!  Xiao Zhan trounced the competition!  But the reality is that all other stars’ fan groups had also instructed their fans not to vote for this award, because they all see it for what it is - a popularity contest that can hurt more than it can help.  Xiao Zhan winning by such a large margin only shows how little his fans listen to him.
Now instead of Xiao Zhan deciding for himself when and where to come back, what events he wishes to attend, he’s going to have to make an appearance at this awards show and slap a smile on his face and say thank you.  
Thank you Weibo, for profiting off my pain.
It makes me sick.
If you voted for Xiao Zhan in this award, take a moment to think about Xiao Zhan’s words for your future behaviour. 
Live your lives well
Don’t do extreme things
Don’t spread rumours
Accept criticism and don’t attack others
Don’t protect me
If you can, do charity and help others
If you are following your own idol’s wishes, then I salute you.  You are the type of fan Xiao Zhan will cherish.
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dailyexo · 4 years
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[SCHEDULE] EXO’s SCHEDULE for May (2020)
[BROADCAST] - pre-recorded and live television and online programme broadcasts, including weekly music shows and dramas, [REC] - programme recordings, [RADIO] - radio programme broadcasts, [SIGN] / [MEET] - fan-signing and fan-meeting events, [PERF] - performance events, including concerts and festivals, [RELEASE] - album and other releases, [BIRTHDAY] - members’ birthdays and related events, [OTHER] - various other scheduled activities.
This schedule will be kept updated. Only confirmed schedules are included, and the number of entries will grow as further schedules are announced..
EXO’s SCHEDULE (Last updated on 200430)
May 2
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.3 (심포유 #수호 제3회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
[REC] Youku We Are Young 2020 (优酷少年之名2020) - 12:00 KST - (Lay)
May 3
[REC] Youku We Are Young 2020 (优酷少年之名2020) - 12:00 KST - (Lay)
May 4
[BROADCAST] Arirang TV Interview - (Kai, Baekhyun)
[REC] Youku We Are Young 2020 (优酷少年之名2020) - 12:00 KST - (Lay)
May 5
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.4 (심포유 #수호 제4회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
[BROADCAST] Believe in the Future Charity Concert (相信未来义演) - 19:30 CST - Lay
May 6
[BIRTHDAY] Baekhyun's Birthday
[BROADCAST] iQiYi I Am A Singer Songwriter 2 Ep.4 (爱奇艺我是唱作人第二季第四集) - 20:00 KST - (Lay)
May 7
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.5 (심포유 #수호 제5회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
[RELEASE] BOL4 ‘Leo’ (나비와 고양이) feat. Baekhyun - 18:00 KST - (Baekhyun)
May 9
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.6 (심포유 #수호 제6회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
May 10
[BROADCAST] Go Fighting Season 6 Ep.1 (极限挑战第六季第一集) - 21:00 CST - (Lay)
May 12
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.7 (심포유 #수호 제7회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
[RELEASE] Raiden X Chanyeol ‘Yours’ Feat. Lee Hi and Changmo - 18:00 KST - (Chanyeol)
May 13
[BROADCAST] iQiYi I Am A Singer Songwriter 2 Ep.5 (爱奇艺我是唱作人第二季第五集) - 20:00 KST - (Lay)
May 14
[OTHER] Suho's englistment
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.8 (심포유 #수호 제8회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
May 16
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.9 (심포유 #수호 제9회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
May 17
[BROADCAST] Go Fighting Season 6 Ep.2 (极限挑战第六季第二集) - 21:00 CST - (Lay)
May 19
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.10 (심포유 #수호 제10회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
May 20
[RELEASE] 'Jade' digital pre-release - 00:00 CST - (Lay)
[BROADCAST] iQiYi I Am A Singer Songwriter 2 Ep.6 (爱奇艺我是唱作人第二季第六集) - 20:00 KST - (Lay)
May 21
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.11 (심포유 #수호 제11회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
May 22
[BIRTHDAY] Suho's Birthday
May 23
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.12 (심포유 #수호 제12회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
May 24
[BROADCAST] Go Fighting Season 6 Ep.3 (极限挑战第六季第三集) - 21:00 CST - (Lay)
May 25
[BROADCAST] V Live Candy Shop - 17:00 KST - (Baekhyun)
[RELEASE] 2nd Mini-Album 'Delight' - 18:00 KST - (Baekhyun)
May 26
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.13 (심포유 #수호 제13회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
[PERF] Baekhyun The Stage - 20:00 KST
May 27
[BROADCAST] iQiYi I Am A Singer Songwriter 2 Ep.7 (爱奇艺我是唱作人第二季第七集) - 20:00 KST - (Lay)
May 28
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.14 (심포유 #수호 제14회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
May 29
[RELEASE] SMTown Station 'Love Again' live video - 18:00 KST - (Baekhyun)
May 30
[BROADCAST] Heart4U #Suho Ep.15 (심포유 #수호 제15회) - 12:00 KST - (Suho)
[OTHER] 'Delight' Video Call Event - 16:00 KST - (Baekhyun)
[OTHER] Tencent QQ Music - (Baekhyun)
May 31
[BROADCAST] Go Fighting Season 6 Ep.4 (极限挑战第六季第四集) - 21:00 CST - (Lay)
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The Fall of Baidu, Facebook,  Nvidia, and Tesla Stocks
...At least just this week.
These are just some of the few (and biggest names) that have fallen in stock value this past week. Baidu’s stream company, iQiyi, was a predicted success... Nvidia has suddenly paused autonomous driving tests; Facebook, under fire for its data breach; and finally, Tesla took a hit when using Nvidia’s failed product. Yikes.
Baidu (BIDU), China’s video stream giant, launched iQiyi (IQ) out of the ballpark... but too far out, if you catch my drift. They sold a risky amount of shares at alarming costs and couldn’t keep up. With iQiyi being "the Netflix (NFLX) of China," [source] some competitors are Tencent (TCEHY) and Alibaba (BABA).
After a recent, fatal crash, Nvidia (NVDA) has temporarily paused its testing production of autonomous driving. As a result, both Nvidia and the 2017 Tesla Model X (its test subject), both dropped in share value.
Lastly, Facebook (FB) has been under fire the past two or three weeks for the recent information breach discovery. Mark Zuckerberg claims they will “tighten up” their privacy, selling less information to their Data Consultants, Cambridge Analytica. Yes, this means that your personal info isn’t safe anywhere... especially not on Facebook.
Everyone knows stocks can tank and flourish, you never really know what you’re going to get, and that the stock market doesn’t always predict future value, but I thought this was an interesting concept. I’ve never written about stocks before (because even I don’t fully understand them), but I wanted to give it a try.
Disclaimer: I don’t claim that this information is 100% accurate, as I try to use multiple sources, especially for information such as this, but I wrote this to the best of my knowledge.
Thanks for reading! Tune in next week for another fun post!
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un-enfant-immature · 6 years
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2018 was a year of massive mergers and acquisitions with AT&T/Time Warner, Disney/Fox, and Comcast/Sky. The #MeToo movement made headlines, and the dominant emotion in boardroom discussions around Hollywood and beyond was fear … lots of fear in the ranks of our tech-infused world of media and entertainment (as well as in the world itself).
So what does the crystal ball predict for 2019?
Here are some of the narratives that will shape the world of entertainment next year and set the stage for the roaring 20s of the media industry.
PREDICTION #1 – Blood continues to spill in the relentless battle amongst premium OTT video giants, as Apple and Disney join the subscription video fray and add to the epic collective assault on Netflix.  In the midst of it all, smaller “niche” players either find their singular voices that attract “fandom” and broader monetization, or risk being marginalized and swallowed up by their strategic investors (for a fraction of what they would have commanded a couple years back). 
Originals continue to be the primary weapon used in the premium subscription streaming video battlefront, extending media’s new “Golden Age” for creators and further skyrocketing content-related development and production costs (including the price tags for A-list marquee talent).  Fierce premium OTT video competitors increasingly use content both offensively and defensively, like Disney withholding its crown jewels from Netflix (Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel, Princesses, X-Men, Avatar).  Netflix feels the heat, as will its investors, as the collective crew of “Netflix-Killers” put increasing pressure on its pure-play business model.
Netflix should be afraid of Disney’s OTT play
Meanwhile, the newly expanded list of virtual MVPDs (multi-channel video program distributors) fix their initial flaws, offer consumers real competitive choice, and hasten consumer cord-cutting even further.  Whereas we started 2016 with 2-3 real, viable mainstream choices in the U.S. for live television, as of 2019, consumers now can access nearly 10 (cable, satellite, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, DirecTV Now, Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, fuboTV, etc.).  And, even in these nationalistic times, let’s not forget about massive international players like Tencent, Alibaba or Baidu’s iQIYI, which went public in the U.S. markets this past year.
Amidst this battle of video giants, several smaller so-called “niche” or segment-focused video players either expeditiously find their uniquely compelling voice and build a fandom-fueled multi-pronged monetizing brand around it, or simply get lost in the noise.
FILE – This June 27, 2015, file photo, shows the Hulu logo on a window at the Milk Studios space in New York. Hulu said Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, that the company is dropping the free TV episodes that it was initially known for as it works on launching a skinny bundle of streaming TV. (AP Photo/Dan Goodman, File)
PREDICTION #2 – Media-Tech driven M&A continues to rule the day in all segments.  On the video side, both traditional media companies and undercapitalized and underperforming privately-held new media companies languish in this beyond-crowded OTT video space and become logical M&A targets.
M&A is a hallmark of the overall digital, multi-platform tech-infused transformation of the media and entertainment business.  Just like AT&T closed its acquisition of storied traditional (yet slow-moving) Time Warner ($85 billion), Disney beat back Comcast to acquire Fox’s entertainment assets in 2018 ($71.3 billion), Comcast struck back and acquired Sky ($39 billion), and SiriusXM acquired the remaining 81% of Pandora it didn’t already own ($3.5 billion), expect more massive deals in 2019, together with a number of smaller, yet still significant ones.  Viacom/CBS is one likely candidate.
And don’t just look within U.S. borders.  No virtual wall exists in our borderless new media world, which means that M&A’s pace will accelerate internationally as well.  Remember, the Comcast/Sky deal represents a U.S. behemoth’s ambitions to significantly expand its footprint into multiple European territories.  Lots of mega-companies around the globe desperately hope to expand their footprints to places where, up to now, they have never been.
To be clear, not all M&A will flow from weakness.  Sometimes the numbers offered simply will be too high to reject.  But make no mistake.  Weakness will abound amidst hyper-competition, and winners will swallow up losers in an environment of accelerating M&A.  Many of the so-called niche-focused OTT video services still primarily rely upon ad dollars (especially the younger ones), but remember, Google and Facebook already own about 2/3 of that global digital advertising market.  That means that most pure-play OTT video players simply cannot succeed on ad dollars alone.  And, for most, other means of monetization will be beyond their reach, as they fail to deliver a sufficiently compelling, differentiated and emotionally connected media experience.  So, much like Uproxx did this past year when Warner Music Group acquired it (likely for a song), expect several of the new media players to lose their Indie status.
PREDICTION #3 – The music industry’s streaming-driven turnaround continues and streaming revenues accelerate, but pure-play music services led by Spotify continue to hemorrhage money as losses mount.  Meanwhile, the giant “big box” retailers of the day — Apple, Amazon and YouTube (particularly YouTube) — brazenly march on, indifferent to that suffering with their fundamentally different underlying marketing-driven business models. 
Yes, Spotify boasts massive scale.  Yet, scale alone does not financial success make.  In fact, pure-play growth success leads to higher and higher losses due to sobering industry economics these pure-plays can’t stomach, but the behemoths can due to their multi-pronged business models.  These harsh realities mean that investors of many pure-play streaming music services will take a hard look at themselves in 2019 as they contemplate their next strategic next steps.  Many will realize that they can’t go it alone.  And that leads to more M&A, much like we saw this past year with SiriusXM buying Pandora and LiveXLive buying Slacker.  Spotify is not immune here.  Unless it successfully expands its business model and drives major new revenue streams, it too could be bought. Facebook anyone?
  NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 03: The Spotify banner hangs from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the morning that the music streaming service begins trading shares at the NYSE on April 3, 2018 in New York City. Trading under the symbol SPOT, the Swedish company’s losses grew to 1.235 billion euros ($1.507 billion) last year, its largest ever. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
PREDICTION #4 – Tech-driven media companies thrive and increasingly dominate the entertainment world by using data to their advantage.  They use AI, voice and machine learning to dominate further and even more broadly infiltrate our lives and impact our media and entertainment experiences.
Netflix, Amazon and Facebook increasingly mine their deep data about all of our hopes and dreams to maximize “hits” and minimize “misses” as compared to traditional media companies.  In many respects, the studios simply can’t compete.  Faced with that reality, the quest for data — and the services that provide, analyze and inform – takes on new urgency.  Further, the Hollywood establishment and creative community still have yet to understand – at least in large numbers — the power of new cost-effective tech-driven ways to test and measure new characters, stories and engagement in order to more smartly and efficiently place their big expensive bets.
Meanwhile, the new tech-driven media giants hope to increase their overall Media 2.0 dominance through the soothing voices of Alexa and Siri (sorry Google, yours is a little less so) and the overall AI/machine learning revolution.  “Virtual assistants,” “smart speakers” (or whatever you want to call them) increasingly dominate our home conversations, improve significantly over time, and serve up our favorite content via “intelligent” recommendations (as well as increasingly targeted and smarter incentives, promotions, ads and goods).  71% of us already use voice assistants at least once per day (most frequently for selecting the music we like to hear), so voice most definitely is here to stay.
More exotically, and perhaps somewhat alarmingly, AI also increasingly drives so-called “intelligent” creation.  AI already develops movie trailers that some believe approach the impact of their human-generated counterparts.  You be the judge — check out the first AI-produced movie trailer, care of IBM’s Watson, for the fittingly AI-themed 2016 motion picture thriller Morgan.  And, just imagine how much AI has advanced in just these past two years since then.  Can AI screenwriters be far behind?  Gong Yu, founder and CEO of China’s leading streaming platform iQIYI certainly doesn’t think so.  In his words, AI “will reshape the entertainment industry over the next 10-15 years, much more so than the Internet did over the past three decades.”  Just chew on that for a bit.
So, AI may become a real threat even to creative pursuits that, up to this point, most in Hollywood believe are untouchable by computers, bots, and robots.  Tesla maven and global futurist Elon Musk is downright dystopian and takes things even further, warning that AI may be an ultimate global threat to us all.  Musk tweeted in 2017 that “competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3.”   Those were his precise words, so that was either Musk’s particular form of Twitter-speak, or his mind had become a bit hazy during one of his notorious cannabis-fueled interviews!
Amazon is releasing a software development kit that will let developers integrate Alexa into smart screen devices.
PREDICTION #5 – Behemoths Apple, Google and Facebook, together with other tech-driven media giants and deep-pocketed financiers from around the world, increase their already-massive investments in immersive technologies and accelerate mainstream adoption of AR.
AR’s gold rush means continued growth in the related wearables market and consumer adoption of AR-driven eyewear.  Investors of all stripes also continue to throw boatloads of cash into the overall immersive space to fuel the development of experiences (including real world live entertainment and storytelling, not only games) to feed these new platforms.  Expect significant investment in content.  The immersive market opportunity is still so nascent, yet its ultimate promise is so great, that the money working to capture it in 2019 and beyond will seem endless.  And, when so much money chases a market, that market becomes our consumer reality.
The onset of 5G wireless networks will only hasten the growth of extended reality (XR) in all its forms.  Speaking of 5G …
GUANGZHOU, CHINA – DECEMBER 06: Attendees look at 5G mobile phones at the Qualcomm stand during China Mobile Global Partner Conference 2018 at Poly World Trade Center Exhibition Hall on December 6, 2018 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. The three-day conference opened on Thursday, with the theme of 5G network. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
PREDICTION #6 – 5G Networks launch, reveal their early media and tech promise and possibilities, and begin to transform our media and entertainment experiences (as well as the overall ecosystem that supports them). 
5G networks are critical for media experiences that require low latency, including AR, VR, and eSports.  For AR, 5G reduces the size of consumer headsets, because processing is now done on the network itself rather than on the device.  That makes wearables increasingly user-friendly and fuels further innovation and adoption.  5G also accelerates more high quality video consumption on our mobile phones, thereby pushing purveyors of premium OTT video like Netflix to increasingly focus on mobile-first content experiences.
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s and Meg Whitman’s new mobile-driven Netflix-like premium video service Quibi (formerly NewTV) certainly saw this train coming, and jumped on first.
  PREDICTION #7 – The oft-overlooked, yet potentially game-changing, live entertainment and event plank increasingly finds itself in multi-platform Media 2.0 strategies, deepening overall brand engagement and monetization possibilities.  Expect more significant “offline”-related experiments, initiatives and M&A by both traditional and new tech-driven media companies.
Call this the “Amazon Effect,” as players across the Media 2.0 ecosystem stop scratching their heads about Amazon’s direct-to-theater film releases, brick and mortar retail expansion, and Whole Foods superstore operations – and, instead, increasingly study, respect and emulate them.  Netflix certainly did in 2018.  After trashing Amazon one year earlier for releasing its features first in theaters, Netflix announced it would begin to do the same.
Amazon understands what most still haven’t even considered – that direct, non-virtual offline consumer engagement may be the most impactful plank of them all, driving online engagement into the real world (and then back again) to create a virtual cycle of daily brand engagement and consumer monetization every step of the way.  Even traditional media company Viacom now shows signs of understanding these online/offline brand synergies.  It bought both youth-focused video industry conference VidCon and music festival SnowGlobe in 2018.
So, while MoviePass may go the way of the Dodo bird in 2019, movie theaters themselves will not die.  They simply will be re-imagined.  We humans, after all, are social creatures.  We like to get out, and we won’t be satisfied binging on Netflix alone.  Movie theater subscription services most definitely are here to stay, and Amazon will offer one soon for Prime members.  After all, in a fun fact that may surprise you, more museums populate the planet – significantly more – than McDonald’s.  See, there is hope!
  PREDICTION #8 – The #MeToo Movement continues to transform the face (and faces) of both old and new media.  And, new faces will invest new industry dollars in new (and frequently very different) content choices, bringing us new (and frequently different) stories and transforming our media and entertainment experiences.
Revelations aren’t over.  Abuse was simply far too pervasive.  Old players are gone.  New, frequently younger, tech-driven media savvy faces get a seat at the decision-making table.  They change the game of “what” and “how” we experience content.
Ultimately, #MeToo both cleanses the overall new media industry, and fills our plates with very different media and entertainment choices.
  PREDICTION #9 – Fake news, fraud and breaches of privacy continue unabated and accelerate, as does marketing concern for “brand safety.”  These seemingly unstoppable negative forces continue to place downward pressure on ad-dependent open platforms. 
Make no mistake, we are in the midst of hacking wars, the likes of which we’ve never seen.  This “good versus evil” reality is here to stay, and players across the tech-driven media and entertainment ecosystem either significantly increase their investments in counter-measures and related PR, or risk the wrath of consumers and the overall ad market (much like Facebook did this past year).
Twitter housecleaned 70 million fake and automated accounts in a two month span last year (and 1 million more daily), Instagram conceded that over 50% of engagements on its posts tagged as #sponsored are fake, Spotify similarly conceded prevalent ad fraud and decreased its total reported content hours streamed by hundreds of millions of hours, and competing music service Tidal faced accusations that it had falsified tens of millions of streams.  Just a few examples of how pervasive fraud and audience manipulation has become in our Media 2.0 world.  These fake accounts create, in the words of Variety, “a shadow army of followers that has comparatively little monetary effect.  But perform the same manipulation with music streams, and it constitutes fraud.”
  PREDICTION #10 – Blockchain technology and crypto-currency-fueled investment and experimentation, already over-hyped and under-performing, continues apace.  Yet, once again, there will be little to show for it in the world of media and entertainment.  At least for now.
Early blockchain leaders continue to be irrationally overvalued, which is always the case with any nascent market.  But, on a happier note, the voice of blockchain technology – heard thus far mostly in investment circles with promises of “instant millions” (or even billions) – becomes increasingly heard for its more positive potential for the world of media and entertainment.  Blockchain technology conceptually holds revolutionary industry-transforming new offensive and defensive power.  On the offensive front, blockchain enables new ways to monetize content via micropayments and direct creator-to-consumer distribution sans today’s leading middlemen.  These possibilities begin to reveal themselves in 2019.  On the defensive front, blockchain promises to eradicate piracy, but that happens in years, not this coming year.
  THE BOTTOM LINE
2019 certainly will push 2018’s Media 2.0 boundaries noticeably further, driven by these and other industry meta-forces.  But, these changes will be barely noticeable compared to the seismic shifts to follow in the next ten years.
I close with Paramount futurist Ted Schilowitz’s perspective on all of this.  In our conversation, Ted points to two phenomena — the first of which he calls “the known unknown,” and the second he calls “the ten year curve.”  “The known unknown” refers to what he calls the “scary” fact that we all know that massive tech-driven change is coming, but we don’t know the “twists and turns that get us there.”  Meanwhile, “the ten year curve” refers to “big dynamic change waves” that follow ten-year cycles.  In Ted’s view, we just recently finished the YouTube and iPhone 10-year cycles, and now essentially everyone around the globe participates in those dual phenomena.
So, what’s “the next big thing?”  Ted calls it the “the evolution of the screen” – so-called “visual computing” via new forms of eyewear (wearables) that replace our smartphones.  Think Minority Report-like data and content interaction, and you get the general idea.  “Surprisingly little has changed with human/screen interaction in the past 30 years,” Ted points out.  He reminds me that while user interfaces have become more sophisticated, actual screen interaction is not massively different — comparing interaction on Mac screens 30 years ago and on iPhones today.
That is all changing right now — as you sit, read and soak in Ted’s thoughts either in print, or more likely on your own v.2019 screen.  According to Ted, we are only about 3.5 years into this 10-year visual computing cycle.  “In 2013-2014, we saw the first idea of commercializing a track-able screen, a spatial screen.  That is a massive change.  We will fundamentally change how we use our screens.  I see a very distinct future where these things will emerge from their cocoon and replace the iPhone, laptop, etc.  You will notice an evolution of 30 minutes per day, then one hour, then two hours, etc.” 
Think that overstates things a bit?  Well, Ted cautions you this way.  “It’s the exact same paradigm shift we saw with mobile phones decades ago.  Just imagine back then that you would – decades later (i.e., today) — carry a device with you almost every waking moment of your waking life.  Even Bill Gates would have said that is ridiculous.”
Yet, here we are.  Today.  In that “unimaginable” world.  That’s how fast it goes.
Ted is adamant about this inevitable “evolution of the screen” reality, and he is convincing.  “I know the next evolution is coming.  All of these experiments today are on their way to something really, really significant.  2019 will be very subtle in this revolution.  Still for the early adopter, because none of these head mounted immersive devices today will replace our smart phones.  But the constant and continuous evolution of this tech is happening
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OPPO officially released the Find X mobile phone. This is the return of the Find series after four years. At the same time, it also sounded the horn of OPPO to enter the European market. On March 6, OPPO Find X2 series mobile phones were officially released. The first batch of OPPO Find X2 Pro phones and used it as the main phone for a deep experience for a while. I believe that many friends have a lot of curiosity about this product.
Design
Compared to the radical design language of the first generation of Find X, OPPO Find X2 seems to be much more conservative. Many users seem to be a little “disappointed” at first glance at X2, but this “disappointment” is based on Find X Too amazing. Even though OPPO Find X2 is not as amazing as the first generation, but you compare OPPO Find X2 with other current Snapdragon 865 flagship machines, you will feel that Find X2 is still the one with the highest appearance.
After all, OPPO is definitely the first echelon in the aesthetics of mobile phones. The same design language and the same element arrangement are particularly temperamental when used on Find X2 Pro. To give an example that is not appropriate, it is like The same dress looks particularly good on the model, and Find X2 Pro is that model.
Find X2 does not have huge changes in appearance design like Find X. More, Find X2 is based on a detailed polishing based on an existing design and has polished a just right aesthetic.
In the body design of Find X2 Pro, you will find many familiar design elements, such as the concave crescent shape at the top and bottom of the body, such as the familiar three-point speaker opening, the green line power button, and so on. These are the classic design elements inherited from OPPO mobile phones and familiar and recognized by millions of consumers.
The back is made of leather. The use of leather is just right. First of all, compared to glass, leather has more “noble” attributes; from practicality From the perspective, the leather body is more non-slip, does not stick to fingerprints and sweat, and also avoids the risk of the back cover falling off the floor.
In terms of feel, the Find X2 Pro plain leather version weighs 200g. This data is quite satisfactory, but thanks to the use of curved screens, OPPO still creates a very good grip, the body is slightly slender, and the power button is just in the thumb position. , The fuselage between the front glass panel, the leatherback shell, and the middle frame is natural and comfortable.
OPPO Find X2 Pro Appearance
Every generation of Find mobile phones will make a big fuss on the screen. If you find the curved panoramic screen of Find X as the product of OPPO’s ultimate exploration of full-screen form, then Find X2 Pro is OPPO’s deeper creation and tuning of the top screen experience.
According to the official statement, the Find X2 series is equipped with OPPO’s clearest and brightest professional-grade mobile phone screen to date, which is not an exaggeration. Find X2 Pro is equipped with a 6.7-inch QHD + (3168 * 1440) curved AMOLED screen with 513 ppi, 5000000: 1 contrast ratio, 100% P3 wide color gamut coverage, E3 light-emitting material, and a local peak brightness of 1200nit. It is worth mentioning that this screen is also the industry’s first 10-bit color screen, supporting 1.07 billion color displays, which is richer and more delicate in color display.
In the settings, OPPO Find X2 Pro provides three vivid, soft, and cinema color modes. The display effect of Find X2 Pro in vivid and cinema mode with Starscream 5.
This screen equipped with Find X2 Pro obtained very good test data. Among them, in vivid mode, OPPO Find X2 Pro has 100% sRGB, 90% AdobeRGB, and color accuracy is 1.91 ( The minimum value is 0.23 and the maximum value is 3.46).
Vivid mode:
In cinema mode, OPPO Find X2 Pro has 100% sRGB, 89% AdobeRGB, color accuracy is only 0.87, DeltaE is less than 1, and it performs very well. This is also the intelligence of the best test of color accuracy.
Theater mode:
Another highlight of Find X2 Pro’s screen is that it supports a 120Hz refresh rate and a 240Hz screen sampling rate. Whether it is sliding information flow or playing games, you can feel a very smooth and smooth experience, the screen is like playing Like butter, high resolution + high refresh rate, believe me, as long as you use it, you can’t go back.
Like the linear motor, the high refresh rate also belongs to the configuration that you can never go back. You can hardly feel the charm of the 120Hz ultra-high refresh rate screen through text, but as long as you have used the 120Hz refresh rate Screen when returning to 60Hz, you will more or less have the illusion of “stuck”.
In the picture below, when browsing the news of sliding the screen up and down, the frame rate is basically maintained at about 110-120.
However, the high frame rate screen will also increase a lot of power consumption. Correspondingly, OPPO added the screen refresh rate intelligent switching function to the Find X2 Pro system. When the battery is low, the screen refresh rate will automatically drop to 60Hz.
Find X2 Pro is also equipped with an exclusive super-sensing image quality engine. It is easy to understand that by using MEMC video dynamic frame insertion, videos below 30fps can be greatly increased to 60fps or even 120fps, in order to maximize the 120Hz refresh rate of the Find X2 Pro screen. Application scenarios.
At present, the super-sensing image quality engine supports local video and online video. The online video platforms include Tencent Sports (60 / 120fps), YouTube (60 / 120fps), iQiyi, Youku, Tencent Video, etc.
At present, the frame rate of movies is mostly maintained at 24 frames, and with this technology, you can experience the effect of 60 frames of movies on your mobile phone.
The super-sensitive image quality engine through iQiyi’s “Ye Wen 4”. In the movie “Ye Wen 4”, after turning on the super-sensitive image quality engine, the screen contrast is significantly higher and the colors are more vivid. In some scenes, the picture rotation and switching are smoother, and the look and feel is particularly comfortable. However, it should be noted that perhaps the previous algorithm is immature. This 60-frame feeling is not continuous, such as some fighting scenes in the movie, or encountering a slightly complicated background picture (multiple people, the color of the picture changes more You can see some traces of the algorithm, such as the discontinuity of the lens, and the picture returns to 24 frames. Of course, this perception is very subtle.
OPPO Find X2 Pro Hardware
OPPO Find X2 Pro is equipped with the Snapdragon 865 mobile platform, with 12GB (LPDDR5) + 256GB / 512GB storage, which belongs to the top configuration of the current Android camp.
Before running the scores, first briefly introduce the Snapdragon 865:
The Snapdragon 865 uses TSMC’s 7nm process technology. It has a custom A77-based Kryo 585 super-core with a main frequency of 2.84Ghz, three A77-based Kryo 585 Gold cores, a main frequency of 2.42Ghz, and four more. A55 architecture Kryo 585 Sliver small core, 1.8Ghz. Compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 855 processor, the CPU performance has been increased by 25%, and the power consumption has also been reduced by 25%.
In terms of GPU, the new Adreno 650 graphics processor also has a 25% performance improvement and a 35% reduction in power consumption compared to the previous generation Adreno 650.
W got it through GeekBench4 running points. OPPO Find X2 Pro single-core reached 4268 points and multi-core reached 13252 points.
In the 3DMark running score, the OpenGL ES3.1 graphics card score is 8126, and the total score is 7162;
In AnTuTu (V8.2.5) test, OPPO Find X2 Pro reached 593373 points, surpassing 99% of users. For comparison, Antutu (V8.0.5) with Snapdragon 855 runs at 480,000+.
In the storage read test, the sequential read speed of OPPO Find X2 Pro reached 1712MB / s, the sequential write speed reached 753MB / s, the random read speed reached 206MB / s, the random write speed reached 200MB / s, and the actual test results Belonging to the first echelon of the Android camp, OPPO Find X2 Pro has a faster response and higher processing efficiency in the face of operations such as downloading, copying, installing, switching large applications, and transferring files.
From the point of view of the running score alone, the performance of OPPO Find X2 Pro is obviously not to worry about.
It is worth mentioning that when AnTuTu is turned on, the system will remind you to turn on the racing mode. In this mode, the phone will turn on a lot of performance resources. After the software is closed, the system will return to its previous state.
After testing the running points, let’s take a look at the game performance of OPPO Find X2 Pro. We have tested three games of “Peace Elite”, “QQ Speeder” and “Asphalt 9”.
It should be noted that in the test, the three games have the highest picture quality and the highest number of frames, and in order to ensure the effective frame rate of the actual game, we only tested the frame rate in the game, such as the game entry interface, game settlement screen None of them are recorded.
Peace Elite:
In the Peace Elite game, OPPO Find X2 Pro supports up to 60 frames, and the highest quality supports HDR. In our 30-minute game test, the average frame of Find X2 Pro was 59.7FPS, the highest frame was 61FPS, and the lowest frame was 44FPS The whole process is basically stable at about 61FPS-58FPS. What needs to be explained here is that the main reason for the lowest frame of 44FPS is that the author took a screenshot operation at that time.
The following frame rate graph shows that the phone is basically running at full frame during nearly 30 minutes of gaming.
Asphalt 9:
In the Asphalt 9 game, we also turned on the highest picture quality, with a maximum frame rate of 60FPS.
In the 45-second game (one round ), the average frame rate of OPPO Find X2 Pro is 58.8FPS, and the game is stable above 50FPS. Compared to “Peace Elite”, “Asphalt 9” has the highest picture quality and more configuration, but from the experience point of view, for flagship mobile phones such as OPPO Find X2 Pro Snapdragon 865, mainstream games are generally Can easily cope.
Asphalt 9
We also tested the “QQ Speed ​​Car” mobile game. Although the “QQ Speed ​​Car” mobile game does not have strict requirements for the configuration of the mobile phone, the “QQ Speed ​​Car” mobile game is currently one of the few that supports the super-high frame rate mode of 120 frames Mobile games. On the OPPO Find X2 Pro, the QQ Speeding mobile game can play the biggest advantage.
In our test, in a game (2 minutes and 14 seconds), OPPO Find X2 Pro was basically stable at 120FPS. At the beginning and end of the game, the frame dropped slightly, but this “drop frame” was from 120 When the frame drops to about 110 frames, the naked eye cannot detect these subtle changes at all.
QQ Speed ​​Mobile Games
In general, the performance of OPPO Find X2 Pro can stand the test, after all, it represents the highest standard of the current Android camp.
5G and 5G download test
Find X2 Pro supports SA / NSA dual-mode 5G, 8-mode 37-band, 5G + 4G dual-receive dual-card dual-standby, full-band using 4 * 4MIMO technology and HPUE technology, and n41 / 78/79 band 4 antenna SRS round-robin technology is adopted to effectively improve the 5G downlink 4 * 4 MIMO throughput and the network speed is faster. In addition, Find X2 Pro also uses dual-antenna dual-band WiFi and supports Wi-Fi 6.
Find X2 Pro has smart 5G technology, which can realize power optimization for intelligent switching of 4G / 5G networks, DSS dynamic spectrum technology, dual 5G technology (5G + 5G WIFI), intelligent dynamic switching of SA and NSA spectrum 4 major functions.
After nearly a year of construction, the 5G network of Qingdao Animation Game Industrial Park, where has begun to spread widely. The author can find China Mobile’s 5G signals at the end of the company corridor.
In our tests, Find X2 Pro (China Mobile 5G Full Speed ​​Package) obtained a download speed of 966Mbps and an upload speed of up to 48 + Mbps. One speed measurement actually consumed more than 1G of traffic.
At the same location, we also tested the 4G network speed. As shown in the comparison chart, under the 4G network, the download speed of Find X2 Pro is only about 39Mbps and the upload speed is 2.14Mbps. For comparison, the 5G network download speed we tested at the same location was 24 times faster.
4G vs 5G
Of course, in addition to speed measurement, 5G networks already have actual combat scenarios. We tested the download speed of the Find X2 Pro App Store App under the 5G network. As shown in the following figure (red box), within a few seconds, the Find X2 Pro can soar to a download speed of nearly 100MB / s!
A mobile game with a size of almost 2GB can be completely downloaded in just ten seconds! The author has produced a set of GIF animation demonstrations. The GIF has not undergone any acceleration processing. Everyone feels it intuitively:
OPPO Find X2 Pro Cameras
The previous generation of Find X mobile phones was a bit regrettable due to the body structure. However, on the Find X2 Pro, OPPO began to fully impact the image power. The Find X2 Pro uses a 48MP main camera (IMX689) + 48MP ultra-wide-angle (IMX586 ) + 13MP telephoto three-shot combination, which is also OPPO’s most powerful and most comprehensive super-sensing full-focus imaging system to date.
In addition, Find X2 Pro is the industry’s first mobile phone that supports 12-bit ultra-clear image capture and can output up to 12-bit original pictures.
Among them, Find X2 Pro’s 48MP main camera sensor (IMX689) has a size of 1 / 1.43 inches and a single-pixel size of 1.12 μm, both of which are the largest of all 48MP mobile phone cameras. Compared with the previous generation, the IMX 689 has an increased photosensitive area 96% and 130% sensitivity improvement.
Find X2 Pro’s wide-angle main camera hardware-level dual-native ISO technology can intelligently switch sensitivity for low-light scenes and bright environments. Find X2 Pro also uses the second-generation 10x hybrid optical zoom technology, which supports 10x hybrid optical zoom, up to 60x digital zoom, and a new upgrade of the OIS driver chip.
The biggest highlight of the Find X2 Pro camera is the launch of the All Pixel Omni-directional PDAF technology, which has greatly improved the focusing performance.
First, let’s briefly popularize the all-pixel omnidirectional focusing technology ( part of the information from the official OPPO ):
This technology improves the microlens structure and layout of the image sensor. It uses a 2 * 2 Quad Bayer array, and 4 pixels share a single on-chip lens, which significantly improves the sensitivity and focus, especially in dark light.
Compared to other focusing technologies, there are two obvious advantages :
Every day when we take photos with mobile phones when we encounter some dark environments. It is often difficult for the lens to focus quickly and accurately. At this time, if the photos are captured, the proofs are often blurred into one piece. And the film rate is very low. The all-pixel omnidirectional focusing technology used by Find X2 Pro can fundamentally solve this problem. All pixels can be used for phase difference detection. Under dark light. Even small objects can achieve high-precision focusing. Greatly improved the filming rate of mobile photos.
In addition, the technology also has “horizontal” and “oblique” texture focusing capabilities, which are not limited by the shape and texture of the subject.
On the whole. The proof of Find X2 Pro is still Leng Yanfan, and more of it is to restore the real. The main camera IMX689 has very good performance. Both in color and exposure control is very good, despite the cloudy, but the screen brightness is still sufficient. Especially the blurring proof of close-up of the object. The background blurring is natural and real. And it has a creamy feeling.
In some environments with large differences in light and shade, the Find X2 Pro will automatically turn on HDR for easy comparison. The author took two samples of the HDR switch.
It is not difficult to find by comparison that after the HDR function is turned off, the branches outside the garage and the glass on the building have been overexposed because of the strong light contrast. After turning on HDR, the walls above the garage are no longer black. After partial enlargement, the leaves and glass walls in the distance also have more details. It is not difficult to see that the Find X2 Pro has a good dynamic range after turning on HDR. which performed.
In the night shooting, the Find X2 Pro also has a very good performance. First of all, the details of the sample shot are much more than the human eye can see. In some extreme low-light environments, the brightness of the sample shot by the Find X2 Pro is sufficient. The picture is also relatively pure, with the feeling of a “night vision device”.
In addition, the Find X2 Pro also performs well on glare control in highlights.
However, the author believes that the Find X2 Pro camera still has room for further optimization. During the night shooting session, the Find X2 Pro occasionally takes one or two pictures with a lot of noise. Considering the quality of the camera and the engineering machine, it is still Looking forward to OPPO’s later optimization.
It is worth mentioning that the rear three-shot lens of the Find X2 Pro supports ultra-clear night scene mode. Needless to say, the zoom, is OPPO’s favorite item. At 10x zoom, the details of the proof are still very rich.
Video Stabilization is the main project of OPPO since last year. Find X2 Pro also adds ultra-wide-angle video stabilization shooting (Super Stabilization Pro). Compared with ordinary video stabilization, Super Stabilization Pro has a wider viewing range and can record More pictures.
In addition, Find X2 Pro also supports 1 billion colors Live HDR video recording function. Which can achieve high dynamic range, wider color gamut video shooting? Here are not experienced one by one. Comparison of framing range of ordinary video, super anti-shake, super anti-shake Pro:
Battery
Find X2 Pro has a built-in 4260mAh battery. The battery capacity is not small, but because of the 120Hz screen. The power consumption of Find X2 Pro is still relatively large, which is the only place that I am not satisfied with. Especially when you are used to a long-life phone, you will feel a bit faster after using Find X2 Pro.
In the author’s test. Find X2 Pro “Peace Elite” consumes 12% of power in 25 minutes (highest frame rate, highest picture quality. 50% brightness, 50% volume), and this data performance can only be said to be average. Of course, if you manually turn off the 120Hz screen. The battery life will increase a lot, but I think that anyone who has used the 120Hz screen will not return to 60Hz.
Fortunately, Find X2 Pro charge fast enough, you can make up for the low power fast regret. Find X2 Pro equipped with a 65W SuperVOOC 2.0 super flash charging technology. Dual-cell design in series in the tests, 12 It can charge from 0 to 50% of electricity in minutes. And the speed performance is amazing. This is also the fastest charging smartphone I have tested.
In the test, it can be charged from 0 to 100% in 32 minutes. But the system has already entered the trickle charge state when it reaches 100%. It takes about 38 minutes to fully charge.
The specific performance is as follows:
Overall, the Find X2 Pro’s battery life is average, but fortunately. The charging speed is extremely fast, you can get a full day of power using idle time charging, of course. It also means that you have to carry Find X2 Pro Original charger.
Due to time, features such as NFC, stereo dual speakers. AI adaptive eye protection system, IP68 waterproof and dustproof, etc. will not be experienced one by one.
OS
Starting from ColorOS 6, OPPO is more and more careful in polishing the system. The value is getting higher and higher, and the concept of “light and borderless” is getting deeper and deeper. It may not satisfy you in terms of function, but High-value design must be deeply rooted.
Find X2 Pro uses ColorOS 7.1 and is based on Android 10’s deep customization. The official said that it will systematically upgrade from design, function, security, and scene applications.
Here highlights the design of ColorOS 7.1.
In terms of appearance, ColorOS 7.1 has a lot of elegant colors. It has a neutral and simple taste. This change is so great that if you put ColorOS 5 and ColorOS 7.1 two years ago together. You wo n’t even Think of it as the same system.
ColorOS 7.1
Secondly, the wallpapers of ColorOS 7.1 are very beautiful. And each one can perfectly fit the icons without any sense of conflict.
Icon design is also a highlight of ColorOS 7.1. ColorOS 7.1 gives a high degree of customization to icons. In the system settings, you can manually select the rectangle, pebbles and material style.
Global Dark Mode
In the experience, whether it is system interaction or UI layout, or even zooming, transition animation. And other scenes show a very delicate, delicate and lightweight look and feel. With the 120Hz screen. The Find X2 Pro is extremely comfortable to use and full of texture.
In terms of features, ColorOS 7.1 also adds functions such as recording-to-text, multi-user mode. Automatic detection of planes in photos and correction, flashback key, etc. Further improving the consumer experience.
Verdict
In the official propaganda. OPPO used the word “omnidirectional, sensory awakening” to describe the Find X2 series of mobile phones. And in the author’s long-term in-depth experience. I did feel the Find X2 Pro has a different temperament. The flagships are similar in design, but the Find X2 Pro does give users a unique exquisite. Comfortable, high-quality machine experience.
Back to the product itself. 120Hz 2K screen, exquisite body craftsmanship, comfortable ColorOS 7.1 system. Excellent camera performance, decent performance and charging speed. These are the core competitiveness of OPPO Find X2 Pro. In terms of experience, It’s also enough flagships, good enough.
OPPO Find X2 Pro seems to be a little less amazing in the design of the body ID. But I do n’t think it is regrettable. If Find X is regarded as the era of a full-screen explosion. OPPO is the pioneer in exploring the future form, technology. And the interaction of smartphones. Find X2 is an aesthetic flagship with comprehensively improved senses in the era of universal screen popularity.
Find X2 Pro still continues the good word of mouth and image of the Find series. For OPPO, this is also the key work of the brand in the high-end market. It does not use the aggressive design to tell the industry that the smartphone should What to do, more, OPPO Find X2 Pro is based on the essence of experience, to make a more perfect 5G era smartphone.
Read Also: Vivo NEX 3S Review: Great Cameras, 5G Ultra Speed
OPPO Find X2 Pro Review: 120hz Display, Snapdragon 865 OPPO officially released the Find X mobile phone. This is the return of the Find series after four years.
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The future of the media industry in the new year
2018 was a year of massive mergers and acquisitions with AT&T/Time Warner, Disney/Fox, and Comcast/Sky. The #MeToo movement made headlines, and the dominant emotion in boardroom discussions around Hollywood and beyond was fear … lots of fear in the ranks of our tech-infused world of media and entertainment (as well as in the world itself).
So what does the crystal ball predict for 2019?
Here are some of the narratives that will shape the world of entertainment next year and set the stage for the roaring 20s of the media industry.
PREDICTION #1 – Blood continues to spill in the relentless battle amongst premium OTT video giants, as Apple and Disney join the subscription video fray and add to the epic collective assault on Netflix.  In the midst of it all, smaller “niche” players either find their singular voices that attract “fandom” and broader monetization, or risk being marginalized and swallowed up by their strategic investors (for a fraction of what they would have commanded a couple years back). 
Originals continue to be the primary weapon used in the premium subscription streaming video battlefront, extending media’s new “Golden Age” for creators and further skyrocketing content-related development and production costs (including the price tags for A-list marquee talent).  Fierce premium OTT video competitors increasingly use content both offensively and defensively, like Disney withholding its crown jewels from Netflix (Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel, Princesses, X-Men, Avatar).  Netflix feels the heat, as will its investors, as the collective crew of “Netflix-Killers” put increasing pressure on its pure-play business model.
Netflix should be afraid of Disney’s OTT play
Meanwhile, the newly expanded list of virtual MVPDs (multi-channel video program distributors) fix their initial flaws, offer consumers real competitive choice, and hasten consumer cord-cutting even further.  Whereas we started 2016 with 2-3 real, viable mainstream choices in the U.S. for live television, as of 2019, consumers now can access nearly 10 (cable, satellite, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, DirecTV Now, Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, fuboTV, etc.).  And, even in these nationalistic times, let’s not forget about massive international players like Tencent, Alibaba or Baidu’s iQIYI, which went public in the U.S. markets this past year.
Amidst this battle of video giants, several smaller so-called “niche” or segment-focused video players either expeditiously find their uniquely compelling voice and build a fandom-fueled multi-pronged monetizing brand around it, or simply get lost in the noise.
FILE – This June 27, 2015, file photo, shows the Hulu logo on a window at the Milk Studios space in New York. Hulu said Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, that the company is dropping the free TV episodes that it was initially known for as it works on launching a skinny bundle of streaming TV. (AP Photo/Dan Goodman, File)
PREDICTION #2 – Media-Tech driven M&A continues to rule the day in all segments.  On the video side, both traditional media companies and undercapitalized and underperforming privately-held new media companies languish in this beyond-crowded OTT video space and become logical M&A targets.
M&A is a hallmark of the overall digital, multi-platform tech-infused transformation of the media and entertainment business.  Just like AT&T closed its acquisition of storied traditional (yet slow-moving) Time Warner ($85 billion), Disney beat back Comcast to acquire Fox’s entertainment assets in 2018 ($71.3 billion), Comcast struck back and acquired Sky ($39 billion), and SiriusXM acquired the remaining 81% of Pandora it didn’t already own ($3.5 billion), expect more massive deals in 2019, together with a number of smaller, yet still significant ones.  Viacom/CBS is one likely candidate.
And don’t just look within U.S. borders.  No virtual wall exists in our borderless new media world, which means that M&A’s pace will accelerate internationally as well.  Remember, the Comcast/Sky deal represents a U.S. behemoth’s ambitions to significantly expand its footprint into multiple European territories.  Lots of mega-companies around the globe desperately hope to expand their footprints to places where, up to now, they have never been.
To be clear, not all M&A will flow from weakness.  Sometimes the numbers offered simply will be too high to reject.  But make no mistake.  Weakness will abound amidst hyper-competition, and winners will swallow up losers in an environment of accelerating M&A.  Many of the so-called niche-focused OTT video services still primarily rely upon ad dollars (especially the younger ones), but remember, Google and Facebook already own about 2/3 of that global digital advertising market.  That means that most pure-play OTT video players simply cannot succeed on ad dollars alone.  And, for most, other means of monetization will be beyond their reach, as they fail to deliver a sufficiently compelling, differentiated and emotionally connected media experience.  So, much like Uproxx did this past year when Warner Music Group acquired it (likely for a song), expect several of the new media players to lose their Indie status.
PREDICTION #3 – The music industry’s streaming-driven turnaround continues and streaming revenues accelerate, but pure-play music services led by Spotify continue to hemorrhage money as losses mount.  Meanwhile, the giant “big box” retailers of the day — Apple, Amazon and YouTube (particularly YouTube) — brazenly march on, indifferent to that suffering with their fundamentally different underlying marketing-driven business models. 
Yes, Spotify boasts massive scale.  Yet, scale alone does not financial success make.  In fact, pure-play growth success leads to higher and higher losses due to sobering industry economics these pure-plays can’t stomach, but the behemoths can due to their multi-pronged business models.  These harsh realities mean that investors of many pure-play streaming music services will take a hard look at themselves in 2019 as they contemplate their next strategic next steps.  Many will realize that they can’t go it alone.  And that leads to more M&A, much like we saw this past year with SiriusXM buying Pandora and LiveXLive buying Slacker.  Spotify is not immune here.  Unless it successfully expands its business model and drives major new revenue streams, it too could be bought. Facebook anyone?
  NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 03: The Spotify banner hangs from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the morning that the music streaming service begins trading shares at the NYSE on April 3, 2018 in New York City. Trading under the symbol SPOT, the Swedish company’s losses grew to 1.235 billion euros ($1.507 billion) last year, its largest ever. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
PREDICTION #4 – Tech-driven media companies thrive and increasingly dominate the entertainment world by using data to their advantage.  They use AI, voice and machine learning to dominate further and even more broadly infiltrate our lives and impact our media and entertainment experiences.
Netflix, Amazon and Facebook increasingly mine their deep data about all of our hopes and dreams to maximize “hits” and minimize “misses” as compared to traditional media companies.  In many respects, the studios simply can’t compete.  Faced with that reality, the quest for data — and the services that provide, analyze and inform – takes on new urgency.  Further, the Hollywood establishment and creative community still have yet to understand – at least in large numbers — the power of new cost-effective tech-driven ways to test and measure new characters, stories and engagement in order to more smartly and efficiently place their big expensive bets.
Meanwhile, the new tech-driven media giants hope to increase their overall Media 2.0 dominance through the soothing voices of Alexa and Siri (sorry Google, yours is a little less so) and the overall AI/machine learning revolution.  “Virtual assistants,” “smart speakers” (or whatever you want to call them) increasingly dominate our home conversations, improve significantly over time, and serve up our favorite content via “intelligent” recommendations (as well as increasingly targeted and smarter incentives, promotions, ads and goods).  71% of us already use voice assistants at least once per day (most frequently for selecting the music we like to hear), so voice most definitely is here to stay.
More exotically, and perhaps somewhat alarmingly, AI also increasingly drives so-called “intelligent” creation.  AI already develops movie trailers that some believe approach the impact of their human-generated counterparts.  You be the judge — check out the first AI-produced movie trailer, care of IBM’s Watson, for the fittingly AI-themed 2016 motion picture thriller Morgan.  And, just imagine how much AI has advanced in just these past two years since then.  Can AI screenwriters be far behind?  Gong Yu, founder and CEO of China’s leading streaming platform iQIYI certainly doesn’t think so.  In his words, AI “will reshape the entertainment industry over the next 10-15 years, much more so than the Internet did over the past three decades.”  Just chew on that for a bit.
So, AI may become a real threat even to creative pursuits that, up to this point, most in Hollywood believe are untouchable by computers, bots, and robots.  Tesla maven and global futurist Elon Musk is downright dystopian and takes things even further, warning that AI may be an ultimate global threat to us all.  Musk tweeted in 2017 that “competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3.”   Those were his precise words, so that was either Musk’s particular form of Twitter-speak, or his mind had become a bit hazy during one of his notorious cannabis-fueled interviews!
Amazon is releasing a software development kit that will let developers integrate Alexa into smart screen devices.
PREDICTION #5 – Behemoths Apple, Google and Facebook, together with other tech-driven media giants and deep-pocketed financiers from around the world, increase their already-massive investments in immersive technologies and accelerate mainstream adoption of AR.
AR’s gold rush means continued growth in the related wearables market and consumer adoption of AR-driven eyewear.  Investors of all stripes also continue to throw boatloads of cash into the overall immersive space to fuel the development of experiences (including real world live entertainment and storytelling, not only games) to feed these new platforms.  Expect significant investment in content.  The immersive market opportunity is still so nascent, yet its ultimate promise is so great, that the money working to capture it in 2019 and beyond will seem endless.  And, when so much money chases a market, that market becomes our consumer reality.
The onset of 5G wireless networks will only hasten the growth of extended reality (XR) in all its forms.  Speaking of 5G …
GUANGZHOU, CHINA – DECEMBER 06: Attendees look at 5G mobile phones at the Qualcomm stand during China Mobile Global Partner Conference 2018 at Poly World Trade Center Exhibition Hall on December 6, 2018 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. The three-day conference opened on Thursday, with the theme of 5G network. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
PREDICTION #6 – 5G Networks launch, reveal their early media and tech promise and possibilities, and begin to transform our media and entertainment experiences (as well as the overall ecosystem that supports them). 
5G networks are critical for media experiences that require low latency, including AR, VR, and eSports.  For AR, 5G reduces the size of consumer headsets, because processing is now done on the network itself rather than on the device.  That makes wearables increasingly user-friendly and fuels further innovation and adoption.  5G also accelerates more high quality video consumption on our mobile phones, thereby pushing purveyors of premium OTT video like Netflix to increasingly focus on mobile-first content experiences.
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s and Meg Whitman’s new mobile-driven Netflix-like premium video service Quibi (formerly NewTV) certainly saw this train coming, and jumped on first.
Still a year away from launch, Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi keeps adding talent
PREDICTION #7 – The oft-overlooked, yet potentially game-changing, live entertainment and event plank increasingly finds itself in multi-platform Media 2.0 strategies, deepening overall brand engagement and monetization possibilities.  Expect more significant “offline”-related experiments, initiatives and M&A by both traditional and new tech-driven media companies.
Call this the “Amazon Effect,” as players across the Media 2.0 ecosystem stop scratching their heads about Amazon’s direct-to-theater film releases, brick and mortar retail expansion, and Whole Foods superstore operations – and, instead, increasingly study, respect and emulate them.  Netflix certainly did in 2018.  After trashing Amazon one year earlier for releasing its features first in theaters, Netflix announced it would begin to do the same.
Amazon understands what most still haven’t even considered – that direct, non-virtual offline consumer engagement may be the most impactful plank of them all, driving online engagement into the real world (and then back again) to create a virtual cycle of daily brand engagement and consumer monetization every step of the way.  Even traditional media company Viacom now shows signs of understanding these online/offline brand synergies.  It bought both youth-focused video industry conference VidCon and music festival SnowGlobe in 2018.
So, while MoviePass may go the way of the Dodo bird in 2019, movie theaters themselves will not die.  They simply will be re-imagined.  We humans, after all, are social creatures.  We like to get out, and we won’t be satisfied binging on Netflix alone.  Movie theater subscription services most definitely are here to stay, and Amazon will offer one soon for Prime members.  After all, in a fun fact that may surprise you, more museums populate the planet – significantly more – than McDonald’s.  See, there is hope!
ANAHEIM, CA – JUNE 23: General view of panelists at the 7th Annual VidCon at Anaheim Convention Center on June 22, 2016 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Tara Ziemba/WireImage)
PREDICTION #8 – The #MeToo Movement continues to transform the face (and faces) of both old and new media.  And, new faces will invest new industry dollars in new (and frequently very different) content choices, bringing us new (and frequently different) stories and transforming our media and entertainment experiences.
Revelations aren’t over.  Abuse was simply far too pervasive.  Old players are gone.  New, frequently younger, tech-driven media savvy faces get a seat at the decision-making table.  They change the game of “what” and “how” we experience content.
Ultimately, #MeToo both cleanses the overall new media industry, and fills our plates with very different media and entertainment choices.
(Staff photo by Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
PREDICTION #9 – Fake news, fraud and breaches of privacy continue unabated and accelerate, as does marketing concern for “brand safety.”  These seemingly unstoppable negative forces continue to place downward pressure on ad-dependent open platforms. 
Make no mistake, we are in the midst of hacking wars, the likes of which we’ve never seen.  This “good versus evil” reality is here to stay, and players across the tech-driven media and entertainment ecosystem either significantly increase their investments in counter-measures and related PR, or risk the wrath of consumers and the overall ad market (much like Facebook did this past year).
Twitter cleaned 70 million fake and automated accounts in a two month span last year (and 1 million more daily), Instagram conceded that over 50% of engagements on its posts tagged as #sponsored are fake, Spotify similarly conceded prevalent ad fraud and decreased its total reported content hours streamed by hundreds of millions of hours, and competing music service Tidal faced accusations that it had falsified tens of millions of streams.  Just a few examples of how pervasive fraud and audience manipulation has become in our Media 2.0 world.  These fake accounts create, in the words of Variety, “a shadow army of followers that has comparatively little monetary effect.  But perform the same manipulation with music streams, and it constitutes fraud.”
  Image: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch
PREDICTION #10 – Blockchain technology and crypto-currency-fueled investment and experimentation, already over-hyped and under-performing, continues apace.  Yet, once again, there will be little to show for it in the world of media and entertainment.  At least for now.
Early blockchain leaders continue to be irrationally overvalued, which is always the case with any nascent market.  But, on a happier note, the voice of blockchain technology – heard thus far mostly in investment circles with promises of “instant millions” (or even billions) – becomes increasingly heard for its more positive potential for the world of media and entertainment.  Blockchain technology conceptually holds revolutionary industry-transforming new offensive and defensive power.  On the offensive front, blockchain enables new ways to monetize content via micropayments and direct creator-to-consumer distribution sans today’s leading middlemen.  These possibilities begin to reveal themselves in 2019.  On the defensive front, blockchain promises to eradicate piracy, but that happens in years, not this coming year.
  THE BOTTOM LINE
2019 certainly will push 2018’s Media 2.0 boundaries noticeably further, driven by these and other industry meta-forces.  But, these changes will be barely noticeable compared to the seismic shifts to follow in the next ten years.
I close with Paramount futurist Ted Schilowitz’s perspective on all of this.  In our conversation, Ted points to two phenomena — the first of which he calls “the known unknown,” and the second he calls “the ten year curve.”  “The known unknown” refers to what he calls the “scary” fact that we all know that massive tech-driven change is coming, but we don’t know the “twists and turns that get us there.”  Meanwhile, “the ten year curve” refers to “big dynamic change waves” that follow ten-year cycles.  In Ted’s view, we just recently finished the YouTube and iPhone 10-year cycles, and now essentially everyone around the globe participates in those dual phenomena.
So, what’s “the next big thing?”  Ted calls it the “the evolution of the screen” – so-called “visual computing” via new forms of eyewear (wearables) that replace our smartphones.  Think Minority Report-like data and content interaction, and you get the general idea.  “Surprisingly little has changed with human/screen interaction in the past 30 years,” Ted points out.  He reminds me that while user interfaces have become more sophisticated, actual screen interaction is not massively different — comparing interaction on Mac screens 30 years ago and on iPhones today.
That is all changing right now — as you sit, read and soak in Ted’s thoughts either in print, or more likely on your own v.2019 screen.  According to Ted, we are only about 3.5 years into this 10-year visual computing cycle.  “In 2013-2014, we saw the first idea of commercializing a track-able screen, a spatial screen.  That is a massive change.  We will fundamentally change how we use our screens.  I see a very distinct future where these things will emerge from their cocoon and replace the iPhone, laptop, etc.  You will notice an evolution of 30 minutes per day, then one hour, then two hours, etc.” 
Think that overstates things a bit?  Well, Ted cautions you this way.  “It’s the exact same paradigm shift we saw with mobile phones decades ago.  Just imagine back then that you would – decades later (i.e., today) — carry a device with you almost every waking moment of your waking life.  Even Bill Gates would have said that is ridiculous.”
Yet, here we are.  Today.  In that “unimaginable” world.  That’s how fast it goes.
Ted is adamant about this inevitable “evolution of the screen” reality, and he is convincing.  “I know the next evolution is coming.  All of these experiments today are on their way to something really, really significant.  2019 will be very subtle in this revolution.  Still for the early adopter, because none of these head mounted immersive devices today will replace our smart phones.  But the constant and continuous evolution of this tech is happening
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2018 was a year of massive mergers and acquisitions with AT&T/Time Warner, Disney/Fox, and Comcast/Sky. The #MeToo movement made headlines, and the dominant emotion in boardroom discussions around Hollywood and beyond was fear … lots of fear in the ranks of our tech-infused world of media and entertainment (as well as in the world itself).
So what does the crystal ball predict for 2019?
Here are some of the narratives that will shape the world of entertainment next year and set the stage for the roaring 20s of the media industry.
PREDICTION #1 – Blood continues to spill in the relentless battle amongst premium OTT video giants, as Apple and Disney join the subscription video fray and add to the epic collective assault on Netflix.  In the midst of it all, smaller “niche” players either find their singular voices that attract “fandom” and broader monetization, or risk being marginalized and swallowed up by their strategic investors (for a fraction of what they would have commanded a couple years back). 
Originals continue to be the primary weapon used in the premium subscription streaming video battlefront, extending media’s new “Golden Age” for creators and further skyrocketing content-related development and production costs (including the price tags for A-list marquee talent).  Fierce premium OTT video competitors increasingly use content both offensively and defensively, like Disney withholding its crown jewels from Netflix (Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel, Princesses, X-Men, Avatar).  Netflix feels the heat, as will its investors, as the collective crew of “Netflix-Killers” put increasing pressure on its pure-play business model.
Netflix should be afraid of Disney’s OTT play
Meanwhile, the newly expanded list of virtual MVPDs (multi-channel video program distributors) fix their initial flaws, offer consumers real competitive choice, and hasten consumer cord-cutting even further.  Whereas we started 2016 with 2-3 real, viable mainstream choices in the U.S. for live television, as of 2019, consumers now can access nearly 10 (cable, satellite, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, DirecTV Now, Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, fuboTV, etc.).  And, even in these nationalistic times, let’s not forget about massive international players like Tencent, Alibaba or Baidu’s iQIYI, which went public in the U.S. markets this past year.
Amidst this battle of video giants, several smaller so-called “niche” or segment-focused video players either expeditiously find their uniquely compelling voice and build a fandom-fueled multi-pronged monetizing brand around it, or simply get lost in the noise.
FILE – This June 27, 2015, file photo, shows the Hulu logo on a window at the Milk Studios space in New York. Hulu said Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, that the company is dropping the free TV episodes that it was initially known for as it works on launching a skinny bundle of streaming TV. (AP Photo/Dan Goodman, File)
PREDICTION #2 – Media-Tech driven M&A continues to rule the day in all segments.  On the video side, both traditional media companies and undercapitalized and underperforming privately-held new media companies languish in this beyond-crowded OTT video space and become logical M&A targets.
M&A is a hallmark of the overall digital, multi-platform tech-infused transformation of the media and entertainment business.  Just like AT&T closed its acquisition of storied traditional (yet slow-moving) Time Warner ($85 billion), Disney beat back Comcast to acquire Fox’s entertainment assets in 2018 ($71.3 billion), Comcast struck back and acquired Sky ($39 billion), and SiriusXM acquired the remaining 81% of Pandora it didn’t already own ($3.5 billion), expect more massive deals in 2019, together with a number of smaller, yet still significant ones.  Viacom/CBS is one likely candidate.
And don’t just look within U.S. borders.  No virtual wall exists in our borderless new media world, which means that M&A’s pace will accelerate internationally as well.  Remember, the Comcast/Sky deal represents a U.S. behemoth’s ambitions to significantly expand its footprint into multiple European territories.  Lots of mega-companies around the globe desperately hope to expand their footprints to places where, up to now, they have never been.
To be clear, not all M&A will flow from weakness.  Sometimes the numbers offered simply will be too high to reject.  But make no mistake.  Weakness will abound amidst hyper-competition, and winners will swallow up losers in an environment of accelerating M&A.  Many of the so-called niche-focused OTT video services still primarily rely upon ad dollars (especially the younger ones), but remember, Google and Facebook already own about 2/3 of that global digital advertising market.  That means that most pure-play OTT video players simply cannot succeed on ad dollars alone.  And, for most, other means of monetization will be beyond their reach, as they fail to deliver a sufficiently compelling, differentiated and emotionally connected media experience.  So, much like Uproxx did this past year when Warner Music Group acquired it (likely for a song), expect several of the new media players to lose their Indie status.
PREDICTION #3 – The music industry’s streaming-driven turnaround continues and streaming revenues accelerate, but pure-play music services led by Spotify continue to hemorrhage money as losses mount.  Meanwhile, the giant “big box” retailers of the day — Apple, Amazon and YouTube (particularly YouTube) — brazenly march on, indifferent to that suffering with their fundamentally different underlying marketing-driven business models. 
Yes, Spotify boasts massive scale.  Yet, scale alone does not financial success make.  In fact, pure-play growth success leads to higher and higher losses due to sobering industry economics these pure-plays can’t stomach, but the behemoths can due to their multi-pronged business models.  These harsh realities mean that investors of many pure-play streaming music services will take a hard look at themselves in 2019 as they contemplate their next strategic next steps.  Many will realize that they can’t go it alone.  And that leads to more M&A, much like we saw this past year with SiriusXM buying Pandora and LiveXLive buying Slacker.  Spotify is not immune here.  Unless it successfully expands its business model and drives major new revenue streams, it too could be bought. Facebook anyone?
  NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 03: The Spotify banner hangs from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the morning that the music streaming service begins trading shares at the NYSE on April 3, 2018 in New York City. Trading under the symbol SPOT, the Swedish company’s losses grew to 1.235 billion euros ($1.507 billion) last year, its largest ever. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
PREDICTION #4 – Tech-driven media companies thrive and increasingly dominate the entertainment world by using data to their advantage.  They use AI, voice and machine learning to dominate further and even more broadly infiltrate our lives and impact our media and entertainment experiences.
Netflix, Amazon and Facebook increasingly mine their deep data about all of our hopes and dreams to maximize “hits” and minimize “misses” as compared to traditional media companies.  In many respects, the studios simply can’t compete.  Faced with that reality, the quest for data — and the services that provide, analyze and inform – takes on new urgency.  Further, the Hollywood establishment and creative community still have yet to understand – at least in large numbers — the power of new cost-effective tech-driven ways to test and measure new characters, stories and engagement in order to more smartly and efficiently place their big expensive bets.
Meanwhile, the new tech-driven media giants hope to increase their overall Media 2.0 dominance through the soothing voices of Alexa and Siri (sorry Google, yours is a little less so) and the overall AI/machine learning revolution.  “Virtual assistants,” “smart speakers” (or whatever you want to call them) increasingly dominate our home conversations, improve significantly over time, and serve up our favorite content via “intelligent” recommendations (as well as increasingly targeted and smarter incentives, promotions, ads and goods).  71% of us already use voice assistants at least once per day (most frequently for selecting the music we like to hear), so voice most definitely is here to stay.
More exotically, and perhaps somewhat alarmingly, AI also increasingly drives so-called “intelligent” creation.  AI already develops movie trailers that some believe approach the impact of their human-generated counterparts.  You be the judge — check out the first AI-produced movie trailer, care of IBM’s Watson, for the fittingly AI-themed 2016 motion picture thriller Morgan.  And, just imagine how much AI has advanced in just these past two years since then.  Can AI screenwriters be far behind?  Gong Yu, founder and CEO of China’s leading streaming platform iQIYI certainly doesn’t think so.  In his words, AI “will reshape the entertainment industry over the next 10-15 years, much more so than the Internet did over the past three decades.”  Just chew on that for a bit.
So, AI may become a real threat even to creative pursuits that, up to this point, most in Hollywood believe are untouchable by computers, bots, and robots.  Tesla maven and global futurist Elon Musk is downright dystopian and takes things even further, warning that AI may be an ultimate global threat to us all.  Musk tweeted in 2017 that “competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3.”   Those were his precise words, so that was either Musk’s particular form of Twitter-speak, or his mind had become a bit hazy during one of his notorious cannabis-fueled interviews!
Amazon is releasing a software development kit that will let developers integrate Alexa into smart screen devices.
PREDICTION #5 – Behemoths Apple, Google and Facebook, together with other tech-driven media giants and deep-pocketed financiers from around the world, increase their already-massive investments in immersive technologies and accelerate mainstream adoption of AR.
AR’s gold rush means continued growth in the related wearables market and consumer adoption of AR-driven eyewear.  Investors of all stripes also continue to throw boatloads of cash into the overall immersive space to fuel the development of experiences (including real world live entertainment and storytelling, not only games) to feed these new platforms.  Expect significant investment in content.  The immersive market opportunity is still so nascent, yet its ultimate promise is so great, that the money working to capture it in 2019 and beyond will seem endless.  And, when so much money chases a market, that market becomes our consumer reality.
The onset of 5G wireless networks will only hasten the growth of extended reality (XR) in all its forms.  Speaking of 5G …
GUANGZHOU, CHINA – DECEMBER 06: Attendees look at 5G mobile phones at the Qualcomm stand during China Mobile Global Partner Conference 2018 at Poly World Trade Center Exhibition Hall on December 6, 2018 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. The three-day conference opened on Thursday, with the theme of 5G network. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
PREDICTION #6 – 5G Networks launch, reveal their early media and tech promise and possibilities, and begin to transform our media and entertainment experiences (as well as the overall ecosystem that supports them). 
5G networks are critical for media experiences that require low latency, including AR, VR, and eSports.  For AR, 5G reduces the size of consumer headsets, because processing is now done on the network itself rather than on the device.  That makes wearables increasingly user-friendly and fuels further innovation and adoption.  5G also accelerates more high quality video consumption on our mobile phones, thereby pushing purveyors of premium OTT video like Netflix to increasingly focus on mobile-first content experiences.
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s and Meg Whitman’s new mobile-driven Netflix-like premium video service Quibi (formerly NewTV) certainly saw this train coming, and jumped on first.
Still a year away from launch, Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi keeps adding talent
PREDICTION #7 – The oft-overlooked, yet potentially game-changing, live entertainment and event plank increasingly finds itself in multi-platform Media 2.0 strategies, deepening overall brand engagement and monetization possibilities.  Expect more significant “offline”-related experiments, initiatives and M&A by both traditional and new tech-driven media companies.
Call this the “Amazon Effect,” as players across the Media 2.0 ecosystem stop scratching their heads about Amazon’s direct-to-theater film releases, brick and mortar retail expansion, and Whole Foods superstore operations – and, instead, increasingly study, respect and emulate them.  Netflix certainly did in 2018.  After trashing Amazon one year earlier for releasing its features first in theaters, Netflix announced it would begin to do the same.
Amazon understands what most still haven’t even considered – that direct, non-virtual offline consumer engagement may be the most impactful plank of them all, driving online engagement into the real world (and then back again) to create a virtual cycle of daily brand engagement and consumer monetization every step of the way.  Even traditional media company Viacom now shows signs of understanding these online/offline brand synergies.  It bought both youth-focused video industry conference VidCon and music festival SnowGlobe in 2018.
So, while MoviePass may go the way of the Dodo bird in 2019, movie theaters themselves will not die.  They simply will be re-imagined.  We humans, after all, are social creatures.  We like to get out, and we won’t be satisfied binging on Netflix alone.  Movie theater subscription services most definitely are here to stay, and Amazon will offer one soon for Prime members.  After all, in a fun fact that may surprise you, more museums populate the planet – significantly more – than McDonald’s.  See, there is hope!
ANAHEIM, CA – JUNE 23: General view of panelists at the 7th Annual VidCon at Anaheim Convention Center on June 22, 2016 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Tara Ziemba/WireImage)
PREDICTION #8 – The #MeToo Movement continues to transform the face (and faces) of both old and new media.  And, new faces will invest new industry dollars in new (and frequently very different) content choices, bringing us new (and frequently different) stories and transforming our media and entertainment experiences.
Revelations aren’t over.  Abuse was simply far too pervasive.  Old players are gone.  New, frequently younger, tech-driven media savvy faces get a seat at the decision-making table.  They change the game of “what” and “how” we experience content.
Ultimately, #MeToo both cleanses the overall new media industry, and fills our plates with very different media and entertainment choices.
(Staff photo by Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
PREDICTION #9 – Fake news, fraud and breaches of privacy continue unabated and accelerate, as does marketing concern for “brand safety.”  These seemingly unstoppable negative forces continue to place downward pressure on ad-dependent open platforms. 
Make no mistake, we are in the midst of hacking wars, the likes of which we’ve never seen.  This “good versus evil” reality is here to stay, and players across the tech-driven media and entertainment ecosystem either significantly increase their investments in counter-measures and related PR, or risk the wrath of consumers and the overall ad market (much like Facebook did this past year).
Twitter cleaned 70 million fake and automated accounts in a two month span last year (and 1 million more daily), Instagram conceded that over 50% of engagements on its posts tagged as #sponsored are fake, Spotify similarly conceded prevalent ad fraud and decreased its total reported content hours streamed by hundreds of millions of hours, and competing music service Tidal faced accusations that it had falsified tens of millions of streams.  Just a few examples of how pervasive fraud and audience manipulation has become in our Media 2.0 world.  These fake accounts create, in the words of Variety, “a shadow army of followers that has comparatively little monetary effect.  But perform the same manipulation with music streams, and it constitutes fraud.”
  Image: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch
PREDICTION #10 – Blockchain technology and crypto-currency-fueled investment and experimentation, already over-hyped and under-performing, continues apace.  Yet, once again, there will be little to show for it in the world of media and entertainment.  At least for now.
Early blockchain leaders continue to be irrationally overvalued, which is always the case with any nascent market.  But, on a happier note, the voice of blockchain technology – heard thus far mostly in investment circles with promises of “instant millions” (or even billions) – becomes increasingly heard for its more positive potential for the world of media and entertainment.  Blockchain technology conceptually holds revolutionary industry-transforming new offensive and defensive power.  On the offensive front, blockchain enables new ways to monetize content via micropayments and direct creator-to-consumer distribution sans today’s leading middlemen.  These possibilities begin to reveal themselves in 2019.  On the defensive front, blockchain promises to eradicate piracy, but that happens in years, not this coming year.
  THE BOTTOM LINE
2019 certainly will push 2018’s Media 2.0 boundaries noticeably further, driven by these and other industry meta-forces.  But, these changes will be barely noticeable compared to the seismic shifts to follow in the next ten years.
I close with Paramount futurist Ted Schilowitz’s perspective on all of this.  In our conversation, Ted points to two phenomena — the first of which he calls “the known unknown,” and the second he calls “the ten year curve.”  “The known unknown” refers to what he calls the “scary” fact that we all know that massive tech-driven change is coming, but we don’t know the “twists and turns that get us there.”  Meanwhile, “the ten year curve” refers to “big dynamic change waves” that follow ten-year cycles.  In Ted’s view, we just recently finished the YouTube and iPhone 10-year cycles, and now essentially everyone around the globe participates in those dual phenomena.
So, what’s “the next big thing?”  Ted calls it the “the evolution of the screen” – so-called “visual computing” via new forms of eyewear (wearables) that replace our smartphones.  Think Minority Report-like data and content interaction, and you get the general idea.  “Surprisingly little has changed with human/screen interaction in the past 30 years,” Ted points out.  He reminds me that while user interfaces have become more sophisticated, actual screen interaction is not massively different — comparing interaction on Mac screens 30 years ago and on iPhones today.
That is all changing right now — as you sit, read and soak in Ted’s thoughts either in print, or more likely on your own v.2019 screen.  According to Ted, we are only about 3.5 years into this 10-year visual computing cycle.  “In 2013-2014, we saw the first idea of commercializing a track-able screen, a spatial screen.  That is a massive change.  We will fundamentally change how we use our screens.  I see a very distinct future where these things will emerge from their cocoon and replace the iPhone, laptop, etc.  You will notice an evolution of 30 minutes per day, then one hour, then two hours, etc.” 
Think that overstates things a bit?  Well, Ted cautions you this way.  “It’s the exact same paradigm shift we saw with mobile phones decades ago.  Just imagine back then that you would – decades later (i.e., today) — carry a device with you almost every waking moment of your waking life.  Even Bill Gates would have said that is ridiculous.”
Yet, here we are.  Today.  In that “unimaginable” world.  That’s how fast it goes.
Ted is adamant about this inevitable “evolution of the screen” reality, and he is convincing.  “I know the next evolution is coming.  All of these experiments today are on their way to something really, really significant.  2019 will be very subtle in this revolution.  Still for the early adopter, because none of these head mounted immersive devices today will replace our smart phones.  But the constant and continuous evolution of this tech is happening
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BJYX 2021 Timeline : DREAMS Part I
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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.
Hello! Here we go again. It’s that time of the year where I post a compilation of everything about XZ and WYB from 012021-062021. All things related to their career. Text and links heavy. I tried to limit the photos. If you only want CPN, you should go here instead. Enjoy! 🤍🤍🤍
If you are having problems viewing the links on the app, open my post on chrome.
January 2021
01012021
* XZ studio posts picture of NYE show.
No matter how far the future is, no matter how wide the world is, you can only live up to yourself by moving forward bravely. In 2021, good luck, happy new year!
* GG posts on his weibo a video his performance of Wild Child
* Yibo official post pics from LOF
* GG new Zhenguoli Ad
* Web new Ad with Chunzhen
* Netease adds a live version of Rules of my world as a free new year gift.
* Lenovo x Web
* CCTV drama weibo update x GG
* Web x head and shoulders
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01022021
* XZ studio update x KXZ
* Xie yun paper cutting
* Yibo official update NYE show behind the scenes
* XZ studio update banner
01032021
* XZ studio update bts of nye and dance break
* Web trending due to wang leehom comment
“Hello Leehom laoshi! I’m very honored to be able to sing Descendants of the Dragon on the New Years stage. Too happy... right now I’m so excited I don’t know what to say”
* GG for wonderful city
* Web looks
* Wusheng Wang Yibo teaser
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* GG X wonderful city snippet
* GG X KXZ sales
01042021
* GG greets happy 8th to roseonly
* Web x Lyfen
01052021
* Web interview
01062021
* GG’s spotlight tops digital song list in both QQ music and Kugou
* GG new pic with roseonly
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* Web x swarovski
01072021
* Yibo official posts
01082021
* Yibo official posts a comic
01092021
* Douyin Awards pre recording, Web wins Douyin King
01102021:
* Police Day
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* Tencent white paper award. They both won but did not attend the ceremony.
Web : Star Index Annual Variety Star
GG : Star Index Singer of the Year
* Documentary, Rules of my World
01112021
* Teaser for wonderful city - GG cannot eat too spicy anymore
* Yibo official posts regarding malicious hot search
* Web is revealed to have missed his flight. Someone posted on Douyin the video of their last call to board.
* Both go on hot search Wang Yibo missed his Flight and Xiao Zhan woke up early to eat bandeng mian.
* Their studios post 1 minute apart from each other. Yibo official initially posted at a different time but deleted.
* GG’s wonderful city episode out
01122021
* GG weibo posts his shots of Chongqing and his message to the city.
01132021
* GG X Budweiser VCR
* New GG x Roseonly
* Web x Abby’s choice
01142021
* LOF last episode airs for VVIP members
* Web teaser for Evisu released
* Web new pictures for Abby’s choice
* Roseonly x GG presale for valentines day
* GG and Web on weibo hot search because Twitter topics officially opened for them
01152021
* Release of Web’s Evisu pics link two
* Evisu video shoot
* Web’s “rules of my world” single available on international platforms
* GG confirmed to attend Iqiyi scream night
Appearance links 👇🏼
* Compilation of GG appearance cuts
https://m.weibo.cn/status/4593794903445979?
* XZ studio photoshoot 1
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4593707855126617
* XZ studio photoshoot 2
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4593763383255229
* XZ Studio live photos
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4593812175587054
* GG update on oasis
“New day full of energy!”
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* XZ studio douyin
01172021
* Web for Chinese Police Day broadcast - web performs longing for glory
* GG X Marvelous City special ep
* GG posts douyin videos
* Yibo official posts photos for National Police Day
01182021
* GG new zhenguoli photo x new flavor
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* Web new Ad for Lenovo
* Web new pictures for Abby’s choice
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01192021
* Vogue me - Web
* Teaser for Douyin Star night
* Photographer shared GG’s pictures
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* New roseonly Ad with GG
* Web x Bio-E
* Web douyin update
🌈 DOUYIN AWARDS ( Links 👇🏼)
* Douyin pics on Web’s performance
* Yibo official photoshoot
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4595127266316437
* Yibo official posts photoshoot video
* Yibo official photo posts
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4595205015865305
* Yibo official Douyin video of performance
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4595206744183451
* Web performs ROMW
* Web receives award
* Web receives award with ZLY
* GG red carpet
* XZ studio photoshoot
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4595165794932865
* XZ studio photoshoot video
* GG receives award
* GG and Web stats on Douyin
* GG douyin interview
01202021
* GG x Mengniu TVC
* Web x Lenovo Ad
* Web x Audi Ad
* GG x KXZ&Budweiser collab
* Mengniu Dairy new ambassador - GG with TVC
* Web x Lyfen
01212021
* GG Posts on oasis twice
link two
* Web posts his farewell message on the last episode of LOF
* GG VCR for QQ browser
* Web interview for Vogue film
01232021
* GG X TRUE FRUIT
* GG wins popular single of the year ( Guang dian ) at TMEA
01242021
* Web x KFC Ad
01252021
* Web x MinuteMaid
* XZ studio lunar new year giftbox
* GG wins Charming actor of the year
* Web x Chunzhen
* Yibo Lunar new year gift box
01262021
* XZ studio post adding 2 new photos on his 2020 bday shoot
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01272021
* Yibo official posts
* GG douyin update
* GG interaction with Andy Lau
* GG new video from photoshoot shared by Chen Man
* New KFC Ad x Web
* Colgate x Web
* Wang Yibo charts and debuts at #14 at Billboard
01292021
* Web x Ping An
* Web x KFC
* Web x CCTV 4 new year message
* XZ studio posts
01312021
* Yibo official posts January recap
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February 2021
02012021
* Web x Swarovski
* Web x Youko VIP
* T Magazine China announce Wang Yibo as their cover with limited sale copies of 50k
* New scenes from Doulou Continent released
* GG X BTV Spring festival
02022021
* T Magazine China x Web teaser
* Web x T Magazine China Cover
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* GG x roseonly BTS
02032021
* T Magazine China x Web photos
* T Magazine China x Web full video
* Web posts on Oasis with Chanel coco crush ring and N5 perfume
* GG X roseonly new picture
* Yibo official posts clarification on rumors that the reflection in his ring is a girlfriend.
The image shared today by Mr. Wang Yibo's Oasis microblog was taken by staff at the daily workplace, and the image reflected on the ring was also taken by staff at the scene. The post in Weibo was removed because the oasis is still booked due to platform rules restrictions. You can go to the oasis to communicate and interact. I hope to respect the facts, not make mistakes or over-interpret
02032021:
* Update on detained suspects on GG’s case. related to people who cause d a scene and disturbed xz studio office.
* GG x new VCR
02042021
* GG X opening screen on Tencent Video
* Web x Head and shoulders
* Web x handwashing vid with ttxs bros
* GG X Mengniu
* T Magazine China BTS video with Web
02052021
* At Midnight, Web released a new song in QQ music called “Youth comes in Time” MP3 link : https://t.co/2pEHz7OEK5?amp=1
* Web x Douyin update with interview
* Douluo Dalu premieres on Tencent and CCTV8
* GG posts on wb
“ready to wake up”
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* DC teaser for the premiere
* XZ Studio posts about release of DC
* GG on CCTV8 announcing DC premiere
* Web posts on Wb at 12:00 at the same as XZ studio
* XZ studio update
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* Web x Bravo Youngsters
* Web x Lyfen
* Web x Game for Peace
* Doulou Dalu press conference
02062021:
* GG announced as Tencent Video Spokesperson
* GG posts on his weibo about Tencent sponsorship
Take a break and get ready to go! I am Tencent Video spokesperson Xiao Zhan. Spring Festival at home, ask Tencent Video for good content recommendations ~ Let me see what you have
* GG releases VCR
* Bazaar announces that Web is the March cover
* XZ studio posts DC episode guide
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4601590566101521
* XZ studio posts tangsan gifs
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4601652189083739
02072021
* GG Oasis update
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* Web Douyin Update
02082021:
* Bazaar - Web cover goes on sale with 50k limited copies
* XZ studio douyin update
* Web posts on wb for youku VIP
* Web x Chunzhen
02092021:
* GG releases ost song with QQ music
* GG interview with Tencent
https://t.co/Rqy1ioIQcW?amp=1
* MV for GG’s OST song is released
https://t.co/RSW9DOqcVU?amp=1
* GG weibo update
“do you have time on New Year's Day? i have something to say. i have set the time and place, just waiting for you to come! at 19:30 on Feb 12 (New Year's Day), CCTV-8, 央视频, CCTV weibo 4hours live broadcast”
* Web x CCTV spring festival gala live broadcast
link two
* GG X Marvelous City - Final
02102021
* GG X Ruxi interview Part I
* GG X Roseonly NY VCR
02112021:
* Web x CCTV interview for spring festival gala
* GG x Interview with tencent
* GG X ruxi interview internet lingo
* XZ studio confirms GG’s attendance at Dragon TV NY show
* XZ studio updates NY greetings with new pictures of GG
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4603385121086891
* Yibo official changed their profile picture
* Web x Yanjing Beer
* Web x CCTV Spring festival gala performance
https://youtu.be/Bs4eG-MzKC4
* XZ studio updates new pictures
* GG posts on weibo
* XZ studio douyin updates
* Yibo official opens a Douyin account
* Web x KFC
* Yibo-official updates with photoshoot
* Yibo official update
02122021:
* XZ studio photoshoot one 2021& Winter Olympics
* XZ studio photoshoot two x BTV
* GG X BTV video
* Yibo official NY photoshoot
* Yibo official douyin photoshoot video
* GG X Tencent
* GG interview
* Web posts a selfie on his weibo
* Web seen wearing pink shoes on his flight leaving BJ
* XZ studio photoshoot x Dragon TV
* GG X Ruxi interview
https://t.co/TgueUu7Kd9?amp=1
* GG photoshoot XZ Studio
* GG photoshoot XZ Studio
* XZ studio posts BTV Live pics
* XZ studio pics
* GG shares his performance on weibo
* Compilation of GG’s performances on 2/12 - BTV and Dragon TV
link two
* Compilation 2/12
02132021
* GG x to those of you who know my name BTS
* The Oath of love weibo update
* Yibo official weibo update
* GG douyin update
* Web x Winter sports ambassador
02142021:
* Web x CCTV Spring festival gala BTS
* GG X ruxi interview cute moments
* XZ studio douyin update
* GG Douyin update - making marble art for Valentines Day
link two
* Web x Shu Uemura
* GG interviews Tangsan
02152021:
* GG X Tencent
* Web was trending on We*bo: Singer LiHangliang's daughter feeds WangYibo a piece of candy on DDU.
* Web x Lenovo Ad
* GG X BTV
* Douluo continent Douyin
02162021:
* GG X Ruxi interview
Then what are you like when you are with your friends?
I'm someone who likes to listen to other people's opinions and then comprehend what kind of opinion matches mine. Just take in many opinions.
As an actor, how do you deal with friendships?
Honestly I always have a very careful attitude towards making friends. Friends need to have mutual trust, must understand each other and must establish a feeling of safety. Only this way can be counted as friends
After becoming an actor, is it harder to find the opportunity or energy to maintain friendships?
True friendships don't need to be maintained, my old friends and I haven't seen e/o in many years but once we see each other it's still like before. This is how real friends are
Trans: @sunhuas at twitter
* GG X BTV : sings happy birthday to zhang qi
02172021:
* Web greets Rossi a happy bday on his oasis at 00:13
* Web x Chunzen Douyin
* GG x Ruxi interview
02182021:
* GG X BTV behind the scenes
* Yibo official post
* Web x Bravo youngsters
* GG interview
02192021:
* Web x DDU douyin
02202021:
* Web x Bravo Youngsters
* GG X Interview for Douluo Continent
02212021:
* GG announced as Weibo King
* Douluo Continent on hot search as the final episode on Tencent VVIP is released.
* All the Douluo Continent BTS
02222021:
* Web x Redmi
* Web x Shu Uemura
* Web x Redmi Ad
* GG X WeTv interview
* Web x Douyin post
* Web x Pechoin
* GG X Douluo Continent bts dancing
* Web x Bazaar BTS
02232021
* Web x Ariel
* Web x SKG
* GG weibo post, attending WB night
* Web x Redmi teaser Ad
* Web x Douyin
* Web x Shu Uemura Ad
02242021:
* Douluo Continent release photos of the cast photographed by Gabrielle
* DC cast shares set photos
* Web x Safeguard teaser Ad
02252021:
* Douluo Continent release photoshoot short film
* Web confirms attendance to weibo night
* Douluo continent cast bts photos
* Web x Bazaar mag short interview
210213 沙小荔× YIBO
describe what fashion in one sentence
��“it's attitude, i think as long as you like it”
whats your fav fashion item in 2020
—“shoes”
any items that you like to collect?
—“shoes.. hats”
what style in dressing do u like?
—“comfortable! skateboard style a lil bit”
02252021:
* Web x Colgate ad teaser
* Web x HFP
* Web x Redmi Ad
* Web x Safeguard
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02262021:
* Lantern festival greeting from Yibo Official
* Yibo official photoshoot
* Yibo official live photos
* Web performs Youth comes in Time @ CCTV Lantern festival gala
The full show https://youtu.be/KU_0oW6UYZI
* Yibo official photoshoot video bts
* Yibo official douyin photoshoot video
* Web trending on Weibo “wang yibo baby voice rap”
* Web x Weibo night teaser - 2 days to go
* Web x Redmi 3d billboard
* XZ studio greets happy lantern festival with Tangsan
02272021:
* Web x Colgate Ad
* Web x Youth comes in Time MV
* GG posts on Weibo “some things to say” as the 227 incidents comes to a full year.
* Web x DDU Douyin
* GG gets award for Guangdian
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02282021:
🌈Weibo Night
* GG red Carpet
* XZ studio photoshoot
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4609629218150209
* XZ studio post of live photos
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4609712505754966
* Web Red Carpet
* Yibo official photoshoot 1
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4609644465227140
* Yibo Official photoshoot 2
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4609676094998835
* Yibo official posts live photos
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4609887672470778
* Yibo official photoshoot bts video
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4609686966637383
* Web posted on his Weibo
* GG & Yeeebooo cuts on Weibo Night
* Compilation of all photos from various BXG fansites
* Web cuts - https://t.co/Ips01pf9ZI?amp=1
* GG cuts - https://t.co/PwsDS0jfKu?amp=1
* GG & Web off stage
* Compilation of Fancams
https://t.co/YLfMX8GKyi?amp=1
* GG & Web together on hot search
Wang Yibo, The Little Prince of the Palace
Xiao Zhan Red Carpet
tries to hold dress train but holds loneliness instead
Hope you guys laugh at me less
* Web x DDU special episode
******
March 2021
03012021:
* GG interview backstage with Weibo where he says he loves watching videos of cats and dogs.
* Web x Swarovski Ad
* GG x Douluo continent BTS
* GG x new year wish greeting
* GG X weibo night interview
* Yibo offical Feb recap post
* Web x Safeguard Ad
* Web x Colgate teaser Ad
03022021:
* Web x Colgate Ad BTS
* DOKI Hot list for Feb 2021 1- GG and 3 - Web
* Web x Safeguard Ad
* GG x Mengniu
* Web x Swarovski
* GG x Douluo Continent BTS
* Web x Home Facial Pro photos
* GG x Kai Xiao Zao
* Web x Home facial pro douyin
03032021:
* GG X Oasis post “missing you” in reference to his late grandfather.
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03042021:
* Web x Redmi
* GG X BTS interview talking about bruises
* GG x winter dreams poster teaser
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* GG X Winter dreams video teasers
link two
* GG X roseonly
* GG X winter dreams teaser
03052021:
* GG X announced as Molsion endorser
link two
* GG weibo post - Molsion Ad
* Molsion GG special packaging
* GG x Douluo continent BTS
* GG x Zhenguoli BTS
* XZ studio photoshoot 👇🏼
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4611403283172309
* XZ studio X Winter dreams stills 👇🏼
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4611493637658183
* XZ studio x photos during hockey game 👇🏼
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4611501241931331
* GG X BTV weibo update
* GG x performing something just like this
* GG X Weibo post
* GG X Winter Dream Full episode
03062021:
* GG singing Douluo Dalu OST behind the scenes
* Douluo Dalu OST available in itunes and apple music
* Web x T magazine china new pictures
* Web x Abby’s Choice
03072021:
* Yibo official post update 👇🏼
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4612040251146805
* Web posts on his weibo with new hair + eleme Ad
* Yibo official posts WILD AID behind the scenes shoot
03082021:
* Web announced as mentor on Bravo Youngsters to be aired 3/12 @ 9PM
* Web x PingAn
03092021
* GG X Molsion new Ad
* Web x Bravo youngsters BTS
* Designer FengChengWang posts about GG’s clothes that he used @Molsion Ad.
* VogueMe posts about GG & Web as artists who looks good with the wet look.
* Xiao Zhan's "Made to Love" ranks at #7 on IFPI’s list of the world's best selling singles in 2020.
03102021
* GG X Roseonly
* GG x Douluo Continent BTS
* Douluo Continent reaches 4 Billion views on Tencent
03112021:
* GG X new molsion Ad
link two
* Web x “中国再出发 (china sets off again)” narration
* GG X Douluo Continent BTS
* GG X Molsion is putting his advertisement in 1600+ cinemas over 160+ cities in china for the entire year.
* Web x Eleme
* Web x Stride teaser for new endorser
* Web x Pechoin
03122021:
* Web x Nike ( Air Union )
* Yibo official posts photos for Bravo Youngsters https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4613969962340120
* Yibo official posts video
* Yibo official shares live photos from bravo youngsters
* Full episode Bravo Youngsters: https://youtu.be/Z1ynpPxCCEE
03142021:
* Web announced as Strides’s Global ambassador 👇🏼
Pictures
Ad video 1
Ad video 2
* Yibo official shares photos for the night’s ttxs episode
03152021:
* Web x Redmi
* GG X CCTV teaser
* GG x CCTV news 40th birthday VCR
* Web hashtag on Douyin has reached 60 Billion views
03162021:
* Douluo Continent Weibo posts farewell
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4615322637700613
* XZ studio posts farewell to Tangsan
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4615328921295696
* GG weibo update, Goodbye to Tangsan
* Yibo official posts against rumors of him dating
* GG X oasis post
03172021:
* Web x Richora teaser
* Web x Richora sets for sale
03182021:
* Web x Richora Ad
* Web x Richora pictures
* Web x Richora Ad BTS
* GG x Roseonly constellation series
03192021:
* Web x Richora Ad
* GG x Weibo update
link two
* GG announced to participate in a stage play
* GG X nike air max
03202021:
* Web x Richora Ad
* GG X Kai xiao Zao
03212021:
* GG lawyer’s post and XZ group encourages to stop falsehood
03222021:
* GG x Hockey pictures 👇🏼
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4617495601750124
* GG x Winter Dreams BTS
* Web x Eleme
* GG law firm releases statement
* Web x Richora advertisement report
03232021:
* GG X molsion teaser for new designs👇🏼
https://t.co/AIoSIPRyaB?amp=1
03242021:
* Web announced to star in Faith makes great.
03252021:
* Web cuts ties with Nike
link two
* Web deletes all his posts related to Nike
* GG X Kai Xiao Zao
* Web x Luoyang set photos
03262021:
* GG announced as Li-ning ambassador.
* GG x Li-Ning
* Web x China Unicom teaser
03272021:
* Web x Faith Makes Great
03282021:
* Web x China Unicom
* Web x China Unicom Ad
* GG goes on weibo hot search for news and info of his rehearsal for a dream like a dream play
03292021:
* GG X Roborock Ad
link two
* GG X Yu Gu Yao announcement and first look
* GG x Yu Gu Yao opening ceremony
03302021:
* Douluo Dalu reaches 5 billion views
* Xiao Zhan’s 光点/ Spotlight/ Made to Love has been released on SKorea’s music platforms MELON and FLO under the title <광점> (Gwang Jeom) 肖战 and Spotlight have earned 1st & 2nd spots on MELON search!
03312021:
* GG X Budweiser ME3 Ad
* GG x Roborock Ad BTS
* Yibo official month end post
*******
April 2021
04012021:
* Yibo official April fools post
* Web x New Hair
04022021:
* Yibo-official x Bravo youngsters pictures
* Yibo-official x Bravo youngsters video
* GG x Roseonly
04032021:
* Yibo official team denies rumours of him being casted in the drama adaptation of The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage.
04052021:
* GG weibo post condemning the sisheng incident https://mobile.twitter.com/sunsandships/status/1378861326655647746
* GG x 满汉大餐 Ad Teaser
* GG x A dream like a dream rehearsal pictures
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04062021:
* GG X Man Han photo ad - opening screen on weibo
* GG x Roborock BTS
* Web x Ping An Ad
* GG x Man Han Ad
* Web x Chunzhen
* Web x new shots from Evisu Campaign
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* Web x Luoyang Tourism
04072021:
* Web x Evisu new picture
* Web x Redmii
* GG X Li-ning new look via their weibo video promoting AW fashion show
* Web x KFC
* GG video in Li-Ning AW Fashion show
04082021:
* Web x Evisu new shots from the campaign
* GG x OCAK teaser Ad
* GG x 蒂兰圣雪冰淇淋 teaser Ad
04092021:
* Web x KFC
* GG X Official OCAK commercial
* OCAK gift box set
* Xiao Zhan Studio obtained radio and television program production and operation license from Fujian Provincial Radio and Television Bureau on April 1.
* Web x China Unicom - 300 days countdown to Beijing Olympics
* Web x Chunzhen new picture in preparation for online event and new sales on 4/12
04112021:
* Web x Chunzhen Ad behind the scenes
* OCAK clarification regarding malicious customer service reps
* GG x Zhenguoli Ad teaser
04122021:
* Web x Chunzhen
* Web x Redmi
* GG x 蒂兰圣雪冰淇淋 campaign photos
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* GG x 蒂兰圣雪冰淇淋 full Ad commercial
* GG x New zhenguoli Ad commercial
* Yibo official post
* Deluxe ice cream first day sales
04132021:
* top international songs spotlight and wugan
* GG x Ocak poster
* GG x Man Han noodles poster
* GG x Deluxe ice cream new photo
* GG comments on Na Ying’s post for support
* Web x Teaser for faith makes great
* GG x Zhenguoli new poster
04142021:
* Web x Ariel
* GG teaser poster for A dream like a Dream play as Patient number 5
* GG X Li ning posters
* GG x Zhenguoli Ad behind the scenes
* Web posts on his weibo for Chanel
* GG posts on oasis as he rehearses for the play in Wuhan
04152021:
* Web x G shock teaser
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* GG x Roborock Ad behind the scenes
* Web x Ariel commercial
* Web x Bio- e
* Web x DDU photos
04162021:
* Web poster for G shock watch
* Web x Shu Uemura Ad photo
* Web x Stride commercial
* Web officially announced as G shock’s new endorser
* GG recommending Chongqing noodles
* Web x Photos for Chanel
* GG x deluxe ice cream commercial
* Web x Shu uemura commercial
* Web x Teaser for new endorsement Bank of Communications CC
* GG x VCR in support
04172021:
* Web x KFC Ad poster
* Web x Bank of communications commercial
* XZ Studio shares photos from A Dream like A Dream rehearsal
04182021:
* Web x Bank of communications Ad posters
* Web x Bank of communications full commercial
* Web x Oishi Ad posters
04192021:
* Yibo official post
* Web x Pechoin Ad Picture
04202021:
* GG x Roseonly Ad Picture
* Web x Faith makes great new trailer snippet
* GG posts on Oasis
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* Web x Minute Maid Ad Video
* GG x Man Han Feast noodles Ad Picture
04212021:
* GG x Molsion new design Pictures
* Web x Youku VIP Ad Pictures
* Web x Safeguard Ad Video
* Announcement of the thanksgiving live broadcast for GG’s A dream like A Dream
04222021:
* GG x Roborock Ad picture
* Web x Day Day up pictures
* GG’s A Dream like A Dream stage play Debut ( Links )
Rehearsal photos
XZ studio posts photos
Theatre program write up
Flowers given for GG                                        
GG focus video
Fake kiss scene
A look at the set
GG taking a bow video
GG saying thank you to healthcare workers
Photos from 一肖如梦丨midnightdream :https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4628927849693735
Photos from 朱砂痣·肖战 https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4628926565717076
29 minutes cut from the live broadcast
Links to repos
Master post
* Web x Redmi Ad Picture
04232021:
* GG posts on his weibo RE: A dream like A dream
* Web x Safeguard Ad Video
* Web x Safeguard Ad video behind the scenes
* Web x G-shock Ad picture
* Web x G-shock Ad video
* Web x Redmi Ad photo
* GG ‘a dream like a dream’ photos shared by Tino
* Web x Eleme Ad picture
* XZ studio posts regarding stopping of sending flowers
* CONGRATULATIONS TO WANG YIBO for winning best selling digital single of the year in Netease Cloud Music Award 2019-2020 - Rules of My World.
* Web x Ariel Ad video
04242021:
* GG x oasis update
* Official photos of GG behind the scenes of a dream like a dream
* Bank of Communications’ offline Ads for their campaign with Wang Yibo.
* Article On GG’s play
04252021:
* Web x Faith makes great
* Web x Pictures for DDU link two
* Web x Redmi Ad picture
04262021:
* XZ studio posts photos from ‘ a dream like a dream’
* Yibo official posts
* Web x Redmi Ad picture
* Web x Minute maid Ad picture
* Web x HFP Ad video
* Web x Colgate Ad teaser video
* Web x Unicharm Ad GIF
* New photos of GG BTS ADLAD
* Web x Redmi Ad Picture
* Aiman brand endorsements index
04272021:
* Web x Yanjing beer Ad VCR
* Web x Anta Ad picture
* Web x SKG Ad picture
04282021:
* Web x Anta Ad picture
* Web x Aux Ad Picture
* Web x Colgate Ad video
* GG x Roseonly Ad Picture
* GG comments on a post about Stefanie Sun
* New OOL poster
* New OOL Trailer
* New BAH trailer
04292021:
* Gshock 3rd Ad for Web
* Xiao Zhan - Blog World Magazine cover for their special report on A Dream like A Dream
* WYB Gshock Ad video and picture link two
* Web x Minute Maid Ad picture
* WYB x Anta new spokesperson campaign photo and video
* WYB x Anta offline Ads
* XZ public welfare message of safety for Labor Day
04302021:
* WYB new endorser for AUX Ad video and photos
link two
* WYB for new KFC Coffee online store Ad picture
* XZ Updates douyin with a funny video
* XZ studio posts a vlog of boss eating food from Wuhan
* WYB Shu Uemura video Ad
* XZ for Roseonly Ad Pic - announcement of live show on May 7
* WYB KFC Coffee Ad photos
* WYB Vogue interview
*****
  ٩(。•́‿•̀。)۶ Go to May-June here! Tumblr won’t let me  save cause post is  too long.  
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2018 : EXO at Festivals
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JANUARY 2018
180126 - Nippon TV Sukkiri - EXO
EXO - Electric Kiss [1]
FEBURARY 2018
180205 - IOC General Assembly Opening Ceremony - Baekhyun
South Korea National Anthem [1]
180215 - CCTV Spring Festival Gala - LAY
Message for fans [1]
Lay - The Best Stage [1]
Full [1]
Sina Interview [1]
Youku Interview [1]
Tencent Interview [1]
iQiyi Interview [1]
Huang Bo Weibo Update [1]
180225 - Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony - EXO
Press Conference [1]
Full Performance - Kai Solo + Growl + Power [1]
Ivanka Trump with EXO [1]
Evgenia Medvedeva Instagram Update [1]
Kai Solo Practice [1]
JUNE 2018
180623 - Lotte Family Concert - EXO
Full Cut - The Eve + Kokobop + Ment + Boomerrang + What U Do? + Power [1] / [1]
JULY 2018
180721 - SM 'The Station' Music Talk Concert - Baekhyun
Rain (Cover) [1]
Take You Home [1]
Ment [1]
AUGUST 2018
180803 - Lollapalooza 2018 - LAY
Sheep (Alan Walker Relift) [1] [fancam]
Official Recap Video [1]
Behind the Scenes [1]
180826 - A-Nation - EXO
Greeting Video [1] [2]
Full Cut - The Eve + Kokobop + Coming Over + Ment + Cosmic Railway + What U Do? + Electric Kiss + Run This + Power [1]
SEPTEMBER 2018
180902 - Incheon Airport Sky Festival - EXO
Full - The Eve + Ko Ko Bop + Ment + Universe + Ment + Power [1] [broadcast version] <raw>
180909 - Spectrum Dance Music Festival - EXO-CBX
Full Performance Cut - Hey Mama + Vroom Vroom + Sweet Dreams + Rhythm After Summer + Cherish + Blooming Day [1]
Backstage Interview [1]
180915 - KBS Music Bank in Berlin - EXO
Opening [1]
EXO - The Eve + Kokobop [1]
EXO - Power [1]
Chanyeol - Wind of Change (Cover) [1]
News Report [1]
Backstage [1]
180927 - Korea Sales Festa - EXO
Greeting Video [1]
EXO - The Eve [1] / [1]
EXO - Kokobop [1] / [1]
Ment [1]
EXO - Power [1] / [1]
EXO - Universe [1] / [1]
OCTOBER 2018
181006 - Gangnam Yeongdong-daero K-Pop Festival - EXO-CBX
Full Performance Cut - Blooming Days + Vroom Vroom + Sweet Dreams [1]
181012 - IBK Concert - EXO
Intro [1]
EXO - The Eve + Kokobop + Power [1]
Ment [1] [subbed]
EXO - Boomerang [baekhyun]
EXO - Universe [do]
181020 - Busan One Asia Festival - EXO
Greeting Video [1]
EXO Full Cut - The Eve + Kokobop + Ment + Power + Ending [1]
181020 - TMall Double 11 Festival - LAY
Lay - Boss + Mask [1]
181028 - MBC Show Champion in Manila - EXO
Greeting Video [1]
Full Cut [1]
Red Carpet [1]
EXO - Kokobop [1]
EXO - Boomerang [1]
EXO - What U Do? [1]
EXO - Power [1]
NOVEMBER 2018
181110 - TMall Double 11 Festival - LAY
Press Conference [1]
Lay - Namanana [1]
Lay - Mapo Tofu [1]
181124 - K-Concert in Macau - EXO-CBX
Greeting Video [1]
Hey Mama [1]
Cherish [1]
Ment [1]
Vroom Vroom [1]
Sweet Dreams [1]
Ment [2]
Blooming Day [1]
DECEMBER 2018
181209 - MAYA International Music Festival in Bangkok - EXO-CBX
Greeting Video [1]
Full Fancam - Hey Mama + Vroom Vroom + Sweet Dreams + Rhythm After Summer + Cherish + Blooming Day + Ment [1]
181225 - SBS Gayo Daejun - EXO
Red Carpet [1]
Opening Intro [1]
EXO - Miracles in December [1]
VCR [1]
EXO - Love Shot [1]
EXO - Baekhyun-Sehun Dance break + Tempo [1]
Ending [1]
181228 - KBS Gayo Daechukje - EXO
Red Carpet [1] [Jin-Dahyun-Chanyeol (MC Cut)]
EXO Special - Intro + Sign + Sehun Solo + Tempo + Love Shot [1]
SM Special - Kai x Jisung + Monster (EXO x NCT U x NCT Dream) [1]
SM Family Interview [1]
Full [1] [2] [3]
Ending [1]
181231 - Hunan NYE Countdown - LAY
Greeting Video [1]
Full [1]
Lay - Assembly Call + Namanana + Give Me A Chance [1]
181231 - MBC Gayo Daejejeon - EXO
Love Shot + Tempo [1]
Baek Jiyeong × CHEN - Like being hit by a bullet [1]
All Artists - Hope [1]
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2018 was a year of massive mergers and acquisitions with AT&T/Time Warner, Disney/Fox, and Comcast/Sky. The #MeToo movement made headlines, and the dominant emotion in boardroom discussions around Hollywood and beyond was fear … lots of fear in the ranks of our tech-infused world of media and entertainment (as well as in the world itself).
So what does the crystal ball predict for 2019?
Here are some of the narratives that will shape the world of entertainment next year and set the stage for the roaring 20s of the media industry.
PREDICTION #1 – Blood continues to spill in the relentless battle amongst premium OTT video giants, as Apple and Disney join the subscription video fray and add to the epic collective assault on Netflix.  In the midst of it all, smaller “niche” players either find their singular voices that attract “fandom” and broader monetization, or risk being marginalized and swallowed up by their strategic investors (for a fraction of what they would have commanded a couple years back). 
Originals continue to be the primary weapon used in the premium subscription streaming video battlefront, extending media’s new “Golden Age” for creators and further skyrocketing content-related development and production costs (including the price tags for A-list marquee talent).  Fierce premium OTT video competitors increasingly use content both offensively and defensively, like Disney withholding its crown jewels from Netflix (Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel, Princesses, X-Men, Avatar).  Netflix feels the heat, as will its investors, as the collective crew of “Netflix-Killers” put increasing pressure on its pure-play business model.
Netflix should be afraid of Disney’s OTT play
Meanwhile, the newly expanded list of virtual MVPDs (multi-channel video program distributors) fix their initial flaws, offer consumers real competitive choice, and hasten consumer cord-cutting even further.  Whereas we started 2016 with 2-3 real, viable mainstream choices in the U.S. for live television, as of 2019, consumers now can access nearly 10 (cable, satellite, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, DirecTV Now, Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, fuboTV, etc.).  And, even in these nationalistic times, let’s not forget about massive international players like Tencent, Alibaba or Baidu’s iQIYI, which went public in the U.S. markets this past year.
Amidst this battle of video giants, several smaller so-called “niche” or segment-focused video players either expeditiously find their uniquely compelling voice and build a fandom-fueled multi-pronged monetizing brand around it, or simply get lost in the noise.
FILE – This June 27, 2015, file photo, shows the Hulu logo on a window at the Milk Studios space in New York. Hulu said Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, that the company is dropping the free TV episodes that it was initially known for as it works on launching a skinny bundle of streaming TV. (AP Photo/Dan Goodman, File)
PREDICTION #2 – Media-Tech driven M&A continues to rule the day in all segments.  On the video side, both traditional media companies and undercapitalized and underperforming privately-held new media companies languish in this beyond-crowded OTT video space and become logical M&A targets.
M&A is a hallmark of the overall digital, multi-platform tech-infused transformation of the media and entertainment business.  Just like AT&T closed its acquisition of storied traditional (yet slow-moving) Time Warner ($85 billion), Disney beat back Comcast to acquire Fox’s entertainment assets in 2018 ($71.3 billion), Comcast struck back and acquired Sky ($39 billion), and SiriusXM acquired the remaining 81% of Pandora it didn’t already own ($3.5 billion), expect more massive deals in 2019, together with a number of smaller, yet still significant ones.  Viacom/CBS is one likely candidate.
And don’t just look within U.S. borders.  No virtual wall exists in our borderless new media world, which means that M&A’s pace will accelerate internationally as well.  Remember, the Comcast/Sky deal represents a U.S. behemoth’s ambitions to significantly expand its footprint into multiple European territories.  Lots of mega-companies around the globe desperately hope to expand their footprints to places where, up to now, they have never been.
To be clear, not all M&A will flow from weakness.  Sometimes the numbers offered simply will be too high to reject.  But make no mistake.  Weakness will abound amidst hyper-competition, and winners will swallow up losers in an environment of accelerating M&A.  Many of the so-called niche-focused OTT video services still primarily rely upon ad dollars (especially the younger ones), but remember, Google and Facebook already own about 2/3 of that global digital advertising market.  That means that most pure-play OTT video players simply cannot succeed on ad dollars alone.  And, for most, other means of monetization will be beyond their reach, as they fail to deliver a sufficiently compelling, differentiated and emotionally connected media experience.  So, much like Uproxx did this past year when Warner Music Group acquired it (likely for a song), expect several of the new media players to lose their Indie status.
PREDICTION #3 – The music industry’s streaming-driven turnaround continues and streaming revenues accelerate, but pure-play music services led by Spotify continue to hemorrhage money as losses mount.  Meanwhile, the giant “big box” retailers of the day — Apple, Amazon and YouTube (particularly YouTube) — brazenly march on, indifferent to that suffering with their fundamentally different underlying marketing-driven business models. 
Yes, Spotify boasts massive scale.  Yet, scale alone does not financial success make.  In fact, pure-play growth success leads to higher and higher losses due to sobering industry economics these pure-plays can’t stomach, but the behemoths can due to their multi-pronged business models.  These harsh realities mean that investors of many pure-play streaming music services will take a hard look at themselves in 2019 as they contemplate their next strategic next steps.  Many will realize that they can’t go it alone.  And that leads to more M&A, much like we saw this past year with SiriusXM buying Pandora and LiveXLive buying Slacker.  Spotify is not immune here.  Unless it successfully expands its business model and drives major new revenue streams, it too could be bought. Facebook anyone?
  NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 03: The Spotify banner hangs from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the morning that the music streaming service begins trading shares at the NYSE on April 3, 2018 in New York City. Trading under the symbol SPOT, the Swedish company’s losses grew to 1.235 billion euros ($1.507 billion) last year, its largest ever. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
PREDICTION #4 – Tech-driven media companies thrive and increasingly dominate the entertainment world by using data to their advantage.  They use AI, voice and machine learning to dominate further and even more broadly infiltrate our lives and impact our media and entertainment experiences.
Netflix, Amazon and Facebook increasingly mine their deep data about all of our hopes and dreams to maximize “hits” and minimize “misses” as compared to traditional media companies.  In many respects, the studios simply can’t compete.  Faced with that reality, the quest for data — and the services that provide, analyze and inform – takes on new urgency.  Further, the Hollywood establishment and creative community still have yet to understand – at least in large numbers — the power of new cost-effective tech-driven ways to test and measure new characters, stories and engagement in order to more smartly and efficiently place their big expensive bets.
Meanwhile, the new tech-driven media giants hope to increase their overall Media 2.0 dominance through the soothing voices of Alexa and Siri (sorry Google, yours is a little less so) and the overall AI/machine learning revolution.  “Virtual assistants,” “smart speakers” (or whatever you want to call them) increasingly dominate our home conversations, improve significantly over time, and serve up our favorite content via “intelligent” recommendations (as well as increasingly targeted and smarter incentives, promotions, ads and goods).  71% of us already use voice assistants at least once per day (most frequently for selecting the music we like to hear), so voice most definitely is here to stay.
More exotically, and perhaps somewhat alarmingly, AI also increasingly drives so-called “intelligent” creation.  AI already develops movie trailers that some believe approach the impact of their human-generated counterparts.  You be the judge — check out the first AI-produced movie trailer, care of IBM’s Watson, for the fittingly AI-themed 2016 motion picture thriller Morgan.  And, just imagine how much AI has advanced in just these past two years since then.  Can AI screenwriters be far behind?  Gong Yu, founder and CEO of China’s leading streaming platform iQIYI certainly doesn’t think so.  In his words, AI “will reshape the entertainment industry over the next 10-15 years, much more so than the Internet did over the past three decades.”  Just chew on that for a bit.
So, AI may become a real threat even to creative pursuits that, up to this point, most in Hollywood believe are untouchable by computers, bots, and robots.  Tesla maven and global futurist Elon Musk is downright dystopian and takes things even further, warning that AI may be an ultimate global threat to us all.  Musk tweeted in 2017 that “competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3.”   Those were his precise words, so that was either Musk’s particular form of Twitter-speak, or his mind had become a bit hazy during one of his notorious cannabis-fueled interviews!
Amazon is releasing a software development kit that will let developers integrate Alexa into smart screen devices.
PREDICTION #5 – Behemoths Apple, Google and Facebook, together with other tech-driven media giants and deep-pocketed financiers from around the world, increase their already-massive investments in immersive technologies and accelerate mainstream adoption of AR.
AR’s gold rush means continued growth in the related wearables market and consumer adoption of AR-driven eyewear.  Investors of all stripes also continue to throw boatloads of cash into the overall immersive space to fuel the development of experiences (including real world live entertainment and storytelling, not only games) to feed these new platforms.  Expect significant investment in content.  The immersive market opportunity is still so nascent, yet its ultimate promise is so great, that the money working to capture it in 2019 and beyond will seem endless.  And, when so much money chases a market, that market becomes our consumer reality.
The onset of 5G wireless networks will only hasten the growth of extended reality (XR) in all its forms.  Speaking of 5G …
GUANGZHOU, CHINA – DECEMBER 06: Attendees look at 5G mobile phones at the Qualcomm stand during China Mobile Global Partner Conference 2018 at Poly World Trade Center Exhibition Hall on December 6, 2018 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. The three-day conference opened on Thursday, with the theme of 5G network. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
PREDICTION #6 – 5G Networks launch, reveal their early media and tech promise and possibilities, and begin to transform our media and entertainment experiences (as well as the overall ecosystem that supports them). 
5G networks are critical for media experiences that require low latency, including AR, VR, and eSports.  For AR, 5G reduces the size of consumer headsets, because processing is now done on the network itself rather than on the device.  That makes wearables increasingly user-friendly and fuels further innovation and adoption.  5G also accelerates more high quality video consumption on our mobile phones, thereby pushing purveyors of premium OTT video like Netflix to increasingly focus on mobile-first content experiences.
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s and Meg Whitman’s new mobile-driven Netflix-like premium video service Quibi (formerly NewTV) certainly saw this train coming, and jumped on first.
  PREDICTION #7 – The oft-overlooked, yet potentially game-changing, live entertainment and event plank increasingly finds itself in multi-platform Media 2.0 strategies, deepening overall brand engagement and monetization possibilities.  Expect more significant “offline”-related experiments, initiatives and M&A by both traditional and new tech-driven media companies.
Call this the “Amazon Effect,” as players across the Media 2.0 ecosystem stop scratching their heads about Amazon’s direct-to-theater film releases, brick and mortar retail expansion, and Whole Foods superstore operations – and, instead, increasingly study, respect and emulate them.  Netflix certainly did in 2018.  After trashing Amazon one year earlier for releasing its features first in theaters, Netflix announced it would begin to do the same.
Amazon understands what most still haven’t even considered – that direct, non-virtual offline consumer engagement may be the most impactful plank of them all, driving online engagement into the real world (and then back again) to create a virtual cycle of daily brand engagement and consumer monetization every step of the way.  Even traditional media company Viacom now shows signs of understanding these online/offline brand synergies.  It bought both youth-focused video industry conference VidCon and music festival SnowGlobe in 2018.
So, while MoviePass may go the way of the Dodo bird in 2019, movie theaters themselves will not die.  They simply will be re-imagined.  We humans, after all, are social creatures.  We like to get out, and we won’t be satisfied binging on Netflix alone.  Movie theater subscription services most definitely are here to stay, and Amazon will offer one soon for Prime members.  After all, in a fun fact that may surprise you, more museums populate the planet – significantly more – than McDonald’s.  See, there is hope!
  PREDICTION #8 – The #MeToo Movement continues to transform the face (and faces) of both old and new media.  And, new faces will invest new industry dollars in new (and frequently very different) content choices, bringing us new (and frequently different) stories and transforming our media and entertainment experiences.
Revelations aren’t over.  Abuse was simply far too pervasive.  Old players are gone.  New, frequently younger, tech-driven media savvy faces get a seat at the decision-making table.  They change the game of “what” and “how” we experience content.
Ultimately, #MeToo both cleanses the overall new media industry, and fills our plates with very different media and entertainment choices.
  PREDICTION #9 – Fake news, fraud and breaches of privacy continue unabated and accelerate, as does marketing concern for “brand safety.”  These seemingly unstoppable negative forces continue to place downward pressure on ad-dependent open platforms. 
Make no mistake, we are in the midst of hacking wars, the likes of which we’ve never seen.  This “good versus evil” reality is here to stay, and players across the tech-driven media and entertainment ecosystem either significantly increase their investments in counter-measures and related PR, or risk the wrath of consumers and the overall ad market (much like Facebook did this past year).
Twitter housecleaned 70 million fake and automated accounts in a two month span last year (and 1 million more daily), Instagram conceded that over 50% of engagements on its posts tagged as #sponsored are fake, Spotify similarly conceded prevalent ad fraud and decreased its total reported content hours streamed by hundreds of millions of hours, and competing music service Tidal faced accusations that it had falsified tens of millions of streams.  Just a few examples of how pervasive fraud and audience manipulation has become in our Media 2.0 world.  These fake accounts create, in the words of Variety, “a shadow army of followers that has comparatively little monetary effect.  But perform the same manipulation with music streams, and it constitutes fraud.”
  PREDICTION #10 – Blockchain technology and crypto-currency-fueled investment and experimentation, already over-hyped and under-performing, continues apace.  Yet, once again, there will be little to show for it in the world of media and entertainment.  At least for now.
Early blockchain leaders continue to be irrationally overvalued, which is always the case with any nascent market.  But, on a happier note, the voice of blockchain technology – heard thus far mostly in investment circles with promises of “instant millions” (or even billions) – becomes increasingly heard for its more positive potential for the world of media and entertainment.  Blockchain technology conceptually holds revolutionary industry-transforming new offensive and defensive power.  On the offensive front, blockchain enables new ways to monetize content via micropayments and direct creator-to-consumer distribution sans today’s leading middlemen.  These possibilities begin to reveal themselves in 2019.  On the defensive front, blockchain promises to eradicate piracy, but that happens in years, not this coming year.
  THE BOTTOM LINE
2019 certainly will push 2018’s Media 2.0 boundaries noticeably further, driven by these and other industry meta-forces.  But, these changes will be barely noticeable compared to the seismic shifts to follow in the next ten years.
I close with Paramount futurist Ted Schilowitz’s perspective on all of this.  In our conversation, Ted points to two phenomena — the first of which he calls “the known unknown,” and the second he calls “the ten year curve.”  “The known unknown” refers to what he calls the “scary” fact that we all know that massive tech-driven change is coming, but we don’t know the “twists and turns that get us there.”  Meanwhile, “the ten year curve” refers to “big dynamic change waves” that follow ten-year cycles.  In Ted’s view, we just recently finished the YouTube and iPhone 10-year cycles, and now essentially everyone around the globe participates in those dual phenomena.
So, what’s “the next big thing?”  Ted calls it the “the evolution of the screen” – so-called “visual computing” via new forms of eyewear (wearables) that replace our smartphones.  Think Minority Report-like data and content interaction, and you get the general idea.  “Surprisingly little has changed with human/screen interaction in the past 30 years,” Ted points out.  He reminds me that while user interfaces have become more sophisticated, actual screen interaction is not massively different — comparing interaction on Mac screens 30 years ago and on iPhones today.
That is all changing right now — as you sit, read and soak in Ted’s thoughts either in print, or more likely on your own v.2019 screen.  According to Ted, we are only about 3.5 years into this 10-year visual computing cycle.  “In 2013-2014, we saw the first idea of commercializing a track-able screen, a spatial screen.  That is a massive change.  We will fundamentally change how we use our screens.  I see a very distinct future where these things will emerge from their cocoon and replace the iPhone, laptop, etc.  You will notice an evolution of 30 minutes per day, then one hour, then two hours, etc.” 
Think that overstates things a bit?  Well, Ted cautions you this way.  “It’s the exact same paradigm shift we saw with mobile phones decades ago.  Just imagine back then that you would – decades later (i.e., today) — carry a device with you almost every waking moment of your waking life.  Even Bill Gates would have said that is ridiculous.”
Yet, here we are.  Today.  In that “unimaginable” world.  That’s how fast it goes.
Ted is adamant about this inevitable “evolution of the screen” reality, and he is convincing.  “I know the next evolution is coming.  All of these experiments today are on their way to something really, really significant.  2019 will be very subtle in this revolution.  Still for the early adopter, because none of these head mounted immersive devices today will replace our smart phones.  But the constant and continuous evolution of this tech is happening
Via Jonathan Shieber https://techcrunch.com
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Productoras chinas fijan salario máximo para actores tras escándalos fiscales
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