At 5pm, the first exhibition match of the ICL league officially began amidst the tsunami-like applause and cheers of the audience!
The host greeted the audience at the venue and in the live-stream passionately, trying his best to stir up the atmosphere.
Eric and Zhao Xuming, who were at the scene, felt very proud.
This was IOI's own league. We finally had a league that could compete with GPL!
It had to be said that the atmosphere at the venue was still very explosive. The staff found by the ICL league were quite professional after all. The audience were all loyal fans of IOI. There was also a small portion of them who were specially hired to bring the rhythm of the scene. The applause and cheers were just right.
Zhao Xuming heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the competition had successfully completed the BP and entered the game without any hiccups. The boulder that had been hanging in his heart had finally been lifted.
He took out his cell phone and turned on Bunny Tail Live-Stream, wanting to see how the live-stream was going.
Logically speaking, there should be no problems.
As long as there were no problems at the venue, the signal transmitted to the live-stream would be OK. What other problems could there be in the live-stream other than being stuck?
Zhao Xuming clicked on Bunny Tail Live-Stream and quickly found the live-stream of the ICL league on the homepage.
The recommendation resources were indeed quite sufficient. There was a very eye-catching banner on the homepage. There was also a special IOI game section. Clicking on it would be the live-stream of the ICL league. There was no problem in all aspects.
Zhao Xuming felt much more at ease.
Boss Pei might be a competitor, and he had just caused a ruckus at ICS, but they had already signed the contract!
No matter what, Boss Pei was still a very contractual person. He would definitely follow the contract.
However, he fell into a daze when he saw the number of people in the live-stream when he clicked on it.
27985！
There were zeros and whole numbers. What's more, this number was constantly changing, sometimes increasing and sometimes decreasing.
Zhao Xuming thought that he had seen wrongly. Was there a single digit missing?
However, he leaned his face closer to the cell phone screen to take a closer look. After looking at it for a long time, he finally confirmed that he had not seen wrongly. There were less than 30,000 people watching!
Zhao Xuming was stunned. He looked at the bullet screen comments in the live-stream. There were quite a lot of them too?
All sorts of bullet screen comments were rolling. He could often see people giving small gifts!
Although there weren't many gifts, this was a competition's live broadcast room after all. There weren't many people who would send gifts. The key was still the intensity of the bullet screen.
Judging from the density of the bullet screen, there was not much of a problem. After all, the screen of the live broadcast was only so big. As long as there were a thousand living people, the bullet screen could keep rolling. If there were ten thousand living people, the bullet screen could be flooded. If there were tens of thousands of living people, the bullet screen had to be divided, otherwise, it would affect the normal viewing.
The ICL league had been publicized for so long after all. Many IOI players would be attracted in. It was normal for the bullet screen comments to be high.
More importantly, what was up with the number of viewers?
Less than 30,000 people was too shameful!
Other live streaming platforms could easily have millions or even tens of millions of viewers.
Even if it was a small-time streamer, if he said that his stream only had 30,000 viewers, he would probably be too embarrassed to go out and greet people.
Zhao Xuming's face fell. Boss Pei was actually waiting here?
The other promotional materials were all fine, but in the end, they secretly limited the number of viewers on the live streaming platform?
Obviously, the audience had also noticed the number of people, and many people were discussing it on the bullet screen.
"Isn't it exclusive? There are less than 30,000 people in total? "
"In other words, there are only 30,000 people watching the ICL league in the world? Pfft, I'm sorry to laugh out loud. "
"Sigh, IOI is still cold. I can't save it."
"It's far worse than GPL. I won't watch it anymore."
Zhao Xuming was very angry. Bunny Tail Live-Stream was too inappropriate!
Needless to say, Boss Pei must have instructed it!
He had deliberately lowered the popularity of the live-stream to create a feeling that ICL was not popular. His intentions could be punished!
Eric also noticed this, and his expression didn't look too good.
He had a PTSD mentality towards Boss Pei to begin with. He was afraid that he would be schemed against by Boss Pei in some way, so he had always been on guard.
Zhao Xuming immediately called Chen Yufeng.
There was no need to be afraid even if Boss Pei caused trouble. Both parties had signed a contract!
Zhao Xuming could immediately request for Bunny Tail Live-Stream to change if he was caught using such a sneaky method. Otherwise, he could request for free termination of the contract and terminate the cooperation between both parties.
Chen Yufeng's voice came from the other end of the line. "Hello? Boss Zhao, you should have watched the live-stream of ICL, right? Is there a problem? "
Zhao Xuming chuckled in his heart.
You still have the cheek to ask me if there's a problem? Wasn't this asking the obvious?
Zhao Xuming: "Boss Chen, you're not doing this properly!"
"Why do you want to limit the popularity of the ICL league live-stream?"
Chen Yufeng was stunned. "Limit the popularity? No? Why would we do such a thing? "
Zhao Xuming was even more unhappy. How could he dare to deny it?
"Boss Chen, how can it only have over 20,000 popularity! This is not even comparable to an ordinary small streamer on another live-stream platform! How would the audience view the ICL league? The attention is not even comparable to an ordinary streamer? Do you think that no one is watching our league? "
Chen Yufeng smiled and explained, "Boss Zhao, you've misunderstood. This is the real number of people!"
"We definitely did not limit the popularity, nor will we limit the popularity. The number of people in Bunny Tail's live-stream is the real number of people. We will definitely not fake it."
"As for the other live-stream platforms …"
"The number they mentioned is the popularity, not the actual number of people. A live-stream with three thousand people would have a popularity of more than a hundred thousand; a live-stream with twenty thousand people would have a popularity of five to six hundred thousand. "
"Therefore, according to the popularity of other live-streams, the popularity of the ICL league should be around one million."
Zhao Xuming opened his mouth, speechless.
If the popularity of the live-stream could reach one million according to Chen Yufeng's words, the official platform would fake it a little and adjust the data. The peak would be two million or so. That should be about the same as the popularity of the GPL on some small live-stream platforms.
In that case, there would be no problem.
However, the key was that Bunny Tail Live-Stream did not seem to have any intention of helping the ICL league from Chen Yufeng's words!
Zhao Xuming was speechless. "Boss Chen, do I have to say this clearly?"
Chen Yufeng: "What is it?"
Zhao Xuming: "Data! You guys are a live-stream platform. How could you not know this? In order to make the audience feel that this thing is very popular, we should increase the data, right? "
"There's no problem with the bullet screen comments now. There's no problem with the discussion rate. The live-stream is also very smooth. There's no lag at all. However, the popularity and number of viewers …"
Chen Yufeng rejected him decisively. "Oh, Boss Zhao, that's what you mean."
"I'm really sorry. Boss Pei emphasized that all our data must be real when Bunny Tail Live-Stream was first established. We must not be adulterated. Therefore, I'm sorry, we can't make an exception. "
Zhao Xuming was baffled. "Not even once?"
Chen Yufeng: "As long as there's one time, the credibility of the website will be gone. It will be useless even if we release real data in the future. I hope you can understand, Boss Zhao. "
Zhao Xuming was speechless.
What a mess!
Chen Yufeng's words were reasonable. This was a principle that Bunny Tail Live-Stream had implemented since it was first established. It did not seem like it was specifically targeted at the ICL league.
However, the problem was, which live-stream platform did not fake it?
If they did not fake it, the scene would be too shabby!
The number of viewers who were less than 30,000 made Zhao Xuming feel too uncomfortable.
Zhao Xuming did not want to give up just like that. "However, our contract agreed that you have to cooperate with us in publicity. This popularity …"
Before Zhao Xuming could finish speaking, Chen Yufeng had already replied, "Boss Zhao, our contract did not say that we have to help you create fake data! I'm afraid this can't be considered a normal marketing strategy, right? "
"Look, our live-stream platform has done all the publicity work. The effect is obvious to all. There's no problem with the bandwidth of the live-stream. The audience's viewing experience can be guaranteed. "
Zhao Xuming: "This …"
That seemed to be the case. There was no mention of falsifying data in the contract!
It was mainly because Zhao Xuming and Eric felt that Bunny Tail Live-Stream would definitely do its best to promote it since it had spent a huge sum of money to buy the exclusive broadcasting rights of ICL. After all, if ICL was done well, it would bring a lot of popularity to Bunny Tail Live-Stream.
Fake data was the specialty of live-stream platforms. How could they not have it?
However, Bunny Tail Live-Stream really did not have it!
Zhao Xuming said, "However, the publicity for the ICL league will definitely be greatly affected. The effect will be greatly reduced!"
Chen Yufeng chuckled. "Don't worry, Boss Zhao. We'll handle the publicity for the ICL league. There won't be any problems!"
"Observe patiently for a few more days. The popularity will definitely continue to rise!"
Zhao Xuming hesitated for a moment, but he did not have anything else to say. He could only hang up reluctantly.
Eric asked when he saw Zhao Xuming hang up, "What did they say?"
Zhao Xuming repeated Chen Yufeng's words.
Eric fell silent as well.
This was too awkward.
Bunny Tail Live-Stream was indeed doing everything according to the contract. They were not at fault. Finger Games and Long Yu Corporation naturally could not terminate the contract directly.
Of course, they could also use the clause to forcefully terminate the contract. They only needed to pay seven million yuan.
However, the problem was that it was not worth it!
At the moment, Bunny Tail Live-Stream's live-stream and publicity work for the ICL league were quite satisfactory in all aspects. The only thing was that the number of people in the live-stream was not fake. The real data looked a little hurtful.
However, throwing seven million yuan to terminate the contract with Bunny Tail Live-Stream just because of this reason? Refund the exclusive broadcast fee? Find other live-stream platforms to cooperate with?
He would only do that if he was stupid.
Zhao Xuming and Eric were in a dilemma.
This was obviously not a big problem, but it was like a little bug that kept crawling in their hearts.
Eric thought about it carefully and said, "Let's wait and see for a few more days. If the effect is really bad and has a serious negative impact on ICL, we'll settle the score with Boss Pei! "
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