Light friends Merge, oligarchs are ready

Four days ago, I was predicting that the next Alibaba-style oligarchy would be in the digital entertainment world, today at noon Light Media and friends of the century will officially announced the merger, Light Media initial shareholding 42%, the highest in two years is expected to reach 65%, light Media President Changtian as the new company "Light Friends" chairman and CEO, Wang Qindai, Chairman and CEO of China Friendship Century, will quit the new company.

It is not like the novel said, "My voice just fell, China's Time Warner will be ready", in fact, this trend is unstoppable, discerning can be seen, but my mouth is bigger. Even the other area I'm talking about is--http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/10574.html "> Mobile, which has a lot of elements in it, and don't forget the role of the Chinese friend century before the merger."

"The first of the Kingdoms" said: "The world trend, a long time must be divided, long will be combined." Politics is so, so is the economy? In the case of the digital entertainment industry, Time Warner of the United States, so did the Murdoch empire, which is the credit of mergers and acquisitions. Domestic home appliances channels are the same, the merger of the United States and Yongle to the original Gome, Suning, Dazhong, Yongle Quartet as the main body of the competitive balance was destroyed, so that the appliance chain into the oligopoly dispute. Not to mention telecommunications equipment, as operators have been concentrated, this has led to the merger of telecommunications equipment manufacturers. Economic principles tell us that when competition intensifies, mergers increase. Similarly, when the merger increases, the oligarchs will be ready.

Light media and the merger of Friends of the century, has been suspected of "oligarchy", with some suspicious symptoms.

First of all, from the scale, income, profit, the number of users, such as light friends should have become a leader in the digital entertainment industry, the general outline of the oligopoly flickering.

First of all, the merger for both sides is extremely complementary to each other to achieve their own purpose: the light of the media through the shell listing, and the Friends of the other SP to point out another way.

Secondly, it accords with the mode of "content + channel" required by the digital entertainment oligarchs. Light Media was founded in 1998, is currently China's largest TV program production and distributors, and China friendship Century is a senior telecom value-added service provider. A long in the content and suffer from the channel is controlled by state-owned television, a long channel and suffer from mobile to SP's New deal and for content more hungry than ever.

Again, this cooperation highlights the new direction for the Internet platform and mobile platform, especially mobile TV platform. Of course, the recent focus is on the television program broadcast platform and the film distribution platform, after all, this is the profit big head. However, the future of the world, must be the Internet platform and mobile platform, especially the world of mobile television. This, "light friends" than the light of the media and the Chinese friends of the century should be clear.

In many ways, light hurray from today as the leader of China's digital entertainment provider, but there is still a long way to go before a suspected oligarch becomes a real oligarch. Bless the Light friends can walk all the way! (Author: Liu Xingliang)