March 10th, Saturday.
The ICL league was about to officially begin today.
On Long Yu Corporation's side, Eric and Zhao Xuming arrived at the ICL league's competition venue once again. They were waiting for the official opening of the ICL league and the two crucial opening battles today.
At the same time, they were also paying attention to the public opinion on the internet. They were extremely optimistic about the opening ceremony of the ICL league today.
The ICL league had already played two exhibition matches on Wednesday and Thursday. Its popularity was steadily increasing.
Especially on Thursday when they moved out the world champion FV Team, the number of live-streams had exceeded 60,000.
A mere 60,000 did not feel like a lot, but Zhao Xuming had made a big fuss about the fact that other live-stream platforms were making fake data. He had successfully established the impression that Bunny Tail's live-stream data was real and the data of other platforms was fake in the netizens' hearts.
That way, the audience would no longer pay attention to the specific number of people on the live-stream platform. Instead, they would pay attention to the number of bullet screen comments and other data in the live-stream. They successfully eliminated the shortcoming of "few people in the live-stream" and successfully labeled the ICL league as "real".
All in all, the situation was great!
The early preparations had been completed. Today was Saturday, and the ICL league would officially open. Success or failure depended on this.
Zhao Xuming was not worried about the decline in popularity today even though the data of Bunny Tail Live-Stream was real and could not be faked.
Today was Saturday after all. There would be more viewers watching the competition on a holiday. What's more, it was the opening ceremony of the ICL league. The official platform had arranged a series of viewing and lucky draw activities, including team appearances, official documentaries, celebrity interviews, and so on. The popularity would definitely be higher than on Thursday.
In terms of the competition schedule, the second key battle of the best-of-three would still be played by FV Team and SUG. It was enough to ensure that today's competition would be the highlight.
Zhao Xuming was in a good mood.
He was exhausted during the preparation period for the ICL league, especially the broadcasting rights. Fortunately, the dust had settled now. All he had to do was lie down and wait for the popularity of the ICL league to increase naturally.
Soon, the ICL league officially opened!
The audience was still full. The captains of the various teams stepped onto the stage amidst the warm applause and cheers. The host enthusiastically introduced the preparation process, participating teams, and bright prospects of the ICL league. The various segments of the opening ceremony progressed in an orderly manner.
Zhao Xuming sat in the first row of the auditorium, looking at each member's face up close. He enjoyed this moment very much.
Then, he took out his cell phone and planned to go to Bunny Tail Live-Stream to see how popular it was today.
Zhao Xuming clicked on the live-stream of the ICL league and saw the number of viewers in the live-stream: 78525!
Close to 80,000!
Zhao Xuming couldn't help but raise his eyebrows as joy filled his heart.
Even though eighty thousand did not seem like a lot, everyone knew that the number of people watching Bunny Tail's live-stream was real.
No one would think that 80,000 viewers was less popular than 8 million viewers. Instead, they would subconsciously draw an equal sign in their hearts.
Compared to Thursday's 60,000, the number of people watching the ICL league had increased again. This was undoubtedly a good sign!
The bullet screen was filled with comments. It was enough to show how popular the ICL league was.
These bullet screen comments were all real after all. There were no fake bullet screen comments. Every bullet screen represented a real person watching the ICL league.
However, Zhao Xuming was stunned when he saw the contents of the bullet screen.
"Wow, the popularity of ICL today is not bad. It's actually a quarter of the GPL league!"
"ICL is an opening ceremony, okay? It's normal for more people to watch it. "
"Who gave you the illusion that the people watching ICL are similar to the people watching GPL? Obviously, 80,000 people watching ICL today is already a breakthrough in the ICL league. "
"I'm here to watch the GPL league. I'm here to visit."
"I thought that 70,000 to 80,000 people was quite a lot, but it looks ordinary now. It can't be compared to the GPL!"
"It looks like as long as there are more than 30,000 people, the bullet screen comments are basically enough. They have to be split up. However, the number of people in the live-stream will not lie! "
"There are already so many people live-streaming the GPL on the first day of Bunny Tail Live-Stream. How many people would watch all the live-streaming GPL platforms?"
Zhao Xuming could not help but be stunned when he saw the bullet screen comments.
What was going on?
Why were these people in the live-stream talking about the GPL?
Suddenly, Zhao Xuming recalled that he had requested for Bunny Tail Live-Stream to live-stream the GPL league at the same time when he signed the contract!
Could it be …
Zhao Xuming quickly exited ICL's live-stream and successfully found the GPL live-stream in the live-stream list.
Indeed, the GPL had also been broadcasted!
He looked at the number of people watching the GPL live-stream. There were 335879 people!
Zhao Xuming almost thought that he had seen wrongly. After taking a closer look, he finally confirmed that it was a six-digit number. 330,000 people!
That was four times the number of people in the ICL league!
What's more, this should only be the first day of the GPL league's official broadcast on Bunny Tail Live-Stream.
"Three hundred thousand people watched on the first day? That's ridiculous! "
"Could it be that Tengda has arranged other publicity activities?"
Zhao Xuming quickly returned to the front page of Bunny Tail Live-Stream to check and searched for relevant promotional content online.
On the front page of Bunny Tail Live-Stream, the most eye-catching spot was still the promotional material for the ICL league. On the other hand, the promotional content for the GPL league could not be seen at all.
There did not seem to be any relevant publicity on the internet.
Zhao Xuming did not believe it and continued searching. Finally, he found clues in the discussion posts on the forum.
Tengda Corporation seemed to have done publicity in GOG's game!
GOG was a dual-terminal game. The data on the PC and mobile versions were interconnected. In fact, there was no special publicity. There was only a promotional picture of Bunny Tail Live-Stream on the main page after entering the game program. One could jump to the webpage with a click. What's more, there was an additional indication that one could see more professional data in the background by watching Bunny Tail Live-Stream!
Zhao Xuming clicked on the GPL live-stream again. Indeed, he realized that there was a small floating bubble in the upper right corner of the original live-stream. A small window popped up after he clicked on it.
There were two pages on this small window. They were 'internal data' and 'historical data'.
The internal data was mainly the real-time data of the current match, while the historical data was the data of a certain hero or a certain team in the entire season.
These data were all presented in the form of very vivid icons. One could browse different aspects of data by dragging them up and down. What's more, these data were changing in real time.
After every team battle in the competition, one could see the output data of the team battle and the economic changes of each hero.
The bullet screen comments in the live-stream scrolled quickly. There were also many discussions about this new function in the discussion about the content of the competition.
"What do you mean by a professional live-stream platform? Brothers, put the professionalism on the public screen! "
"Let me say something. Those who come to Bunny Tail Live-Stream to watch the competition are all professional viewers. Brothers, are you alright?"
"With this data, it's obvious who's in C and who's messing around. There's nowhere for the slackers to hide."
Apart from these discussions, all sorts of numbers could be seen floating past the bullet screen after every team battle. Obviously, it was more convenient to play with numbers with the help of this function.
Zhao Xuming used this function and felt that it was really useful!
These data usually floated in the upper right corner as a small floating bubble. It did not affect the competition. After a wave of team battles ended and both sides calmed down to develop, the audience could click on the floating bubble to take a look at the internal data and search for some more interesting data.
What's more, these data changed in real time as the competition progressed. It gave people the feeling that they were in control of the entire data like God. It was obviously different from the dry viewing experience of other live-stream platforms.
It was also because of the promotional page on GOG's game client and the real-time data function unique to Bunny Tail Live-Stream that attracted a large number of viewers!
Zhao Xuming was completely stunned!
Didn't we sign a contract to promote the ICL league with all our might?
The reason why he asked Bunny Tail Live-Stream to put the GPL league on Bunny Tail Live-Stream was mainly because he was afraid that they would cause trouble and make insurance!
In the end, the number of people watching the GPL league was four times that of the ICL league. The difference in popularity between the two sides was obvious!
What was going on?
Zhao Xuming realized that all the foreshadowing he had done previously seemed to have been earned away by the GPL league!
Previously, he had hired fake reviewers to set the pace online and tried his best to popularize the inside story of the live-stream platform's' data creation '. That was to give everyone the impression that' Bunny Tail Live-Stream is all real data 'and then prove that there were a lot of 80,000 viewers in the ICL league.
Initially, these few steps had been very smooth. They were about to make the ICL league popular, but they did not expect the GPL league to jump out and pick the fruits!
If the 80,000 viewers of the ICL league were very popular, what about the 330,000 viewers of the GPL league?
Wouldn't that destroy the ICL league?
What's more, this was only the data of Bunny Tail Live-Stream alone. There were also ZZ Live-Stream, Waiwai Live-Stream, Wolf Fang Live-Stream, and so many other platforms watching the GPL league at the same time.
The difference in numbers was probably ten times, right?
Of course, these people on Bunny Tail Live-Stream must have been drawn over from other platforms. However, the popularity data of other platforms were fake to begin with. No one could tell that the popularity of other platforms had decreased.
Thus, all the preparation work that had been done previously seemed to have benefited the GPL league …
However, Zhao Xuming could not do anything about it even though he was angry.
That was because Boss Pei had indeed given almost all the resources of Bunny Tail Live-Stream to the ICL league according to the provisions of the contract, including various recommendation resources. Even the homepage had a promotional banner for the ICL league all year round.
Zhao Xuming and Eric had taken the initiative to request for Bunny Tail Live-Stream to broadcast the GPL league.
What's more, Boss Pei did not promote the GPL league much. He had only hung a promotional page in the game to guide traffic and specially developed a small program for in-game data.
However, the final outcome was completely unexpected. The ICL league had been laying the groundwork for so long, but the popularity had been snatched away by the GPL league!
The most annoying thing was that this behavior was completely in line with the contract between both parties.
What's more, strictly speaking, the ICL league did not suffer much losses. It was still profitable overall. However, most of its popularity had been taken away by the GPL and Bunny Tail Live-Stream.
In other words, Eric and Zhao Xuming had thought that they were making a killing, but in the end, they realized that they were only making a small profit. The real winner was Boss Pei.
As for the losers, it was obviously the other live-stream platforms!
Zhao Xuming leaned back in his chair dejectedly. "It's over. Boss Pei is still better than me! I've been tricked by Boss Pei again! "
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