Chapter 143 The Rabbit Tail Live's Unexpected Start

At the same time, Pei Qian was watching the streaming screen of Rabbit Tail Live, his head filled with question marks.

Who was this old man?

What was he talking about?

Oh, right, Yu Ping'an seemed to have called earlier, saying that Rabbit Tail Live was asking Useful App for people, wanting those young lecturers and scholars to start livestreaming lectures on Rabbit Tail Live.

It was done so quickly?

This was too efficient!

Pei Qian had originally thought that it would take at least a month for these young lecturers and scholars to officially settle into Rabbit Tail Live, but it didn't require any preparation at all. As soon as Rabbit Tail Live went online, these people had already started giving lectures on it!

If Pei Qian wasn't particularly surprised that these young lecturers and scholars were livestreaming, then the next question made him very puzzled.

Why were so many people watching?

This was a lecture, how was the number of people in the livestream room increasing? The barrage was getting denser and denser? There were even people giving gifts, for crying out loud?

Judging from the reactions of the audience, they seemed to be quite receptive!

Although the platform's popularity was very low, the atmosphere in all the livestream rooms was very good. There were no barrages of trolls, fishing, or insults like on other livestream platforms. The audience seemed to be very cultured.

The most terrifying thing was that even the promotional video had become a positive thing!

Sensing that the situation seemed to be a bit bad, Pei Qian immediately called Old Ma.

"Hello? Brother Qian? How is it? Rabbit Tail Live is doing pretty well, right! Try sending a gift, it will send carrots and vegetables. That carrot icon, I tell you, is too cute!"

Ma Yang's voice was full of excitement, but his focus seemed to have deviated very seriously from Pei Qian's.

Pei Qian didn't pick up on his words and asked directly, "Who exactly came up with the idea of inviting these young lecturers and scholars to Rabbit Tail Live?"

Ma Yang was very puzzled: "Isn't that what you wanted?"

Pei Qian: "?"

What the hell, my idea!

When did I ever have that idea!

Pei Qian looked shocked: "When did I say that?"

Ma Yang explained: "Didn't you give me a promotional video before, Brother Qian? The content of the promotional video was implying that Rabbit Tail Live can't just be a form of entertainment for the audience, but also allow them to gain something while watching the livestream, right?"

Pei Qian couldn't help but stare blankly, unsure how to respond for a moment.

So, it turned out that Old Ma had misunderstood because of the promotional video!

In other words, the source of the problem was actually Meng Chang?

But this was obviously not Meng Chang's intention, it could only be said to be an accidental result.

Blame Old Ma? Or blame Meng Chang?

Neither seemed right.

Pei Qian felt a little helpless. In the end, it seemed that no one was to blame. It could only be said to be a beautiful misunderstanding.

Pei Qian had no choice but to abandon this topic. After thinking for a while, he asked: "Then... the salaries for these young lecturers and scholars have all been set?"

Ma Yang immediately replied: "They've all been set, Brother Qian, you can rest assured. As long as they guarantee the livestream duration, they will have a fixed salary, and they will get a high percentage of the gifts from the audience. The treatment is definitely reliable! The contracts have already been signed."

Pei Qian: "..."

This efficiency was really fast.

Pei Qian originally wanted to ask if there was any room for recovery, but he didn't expect that even the contracts had been signed. Pei Qian thought about it carefully, he had to have a sense of contract spirit. There was no reason to tell them not to broadcast now.

Pei Qian was silent for a moment and said, "Alright, let's leave it at that for now, I'm hanging up."

Although Pei Qian knew in advance that these young lecturers and scholars were going to come to Rabbit Tail Live to give lectures, he never expected them to come so quickly and have such a good effect!

If these people had come a week or even a month after Rabbit Tail Live officially launched, then Rabbit Tail Live wouldn't have had much popularity at that time, so naturally not many people would have watched it, and it wouldn't have had a serious impact.

But the situation now was that these people happened to be giving lectures when Rabbit Tail Live had just launched, especially with Professor Kong Zhemin, a real industry bigwig, in charge. This immediately gave everyone the impression that Rabbit Tail Live was a "professional learning platform," and it couldn't be erased!

One careless move had a very far-reaching impact.

However, Pei Qian thought about it and realized that there was no good way to deal with it now.

It could only be said that Rabbit Tail Live's start was a bit beyond his expectations, and it had gained a certain amount of attention and popularity by operating differently from other livestream platforms. But could this popularity continue? Pei Qian didn't think so.

Most of the audience should just be curious, after all, giving lectures on livestream platforms was rare.

Once these people's three minutes of fame were over, they would definitely go back to other livestream platforms to watch game streams and beautiful women dancing.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian felt that Rabbit Tail Live's start was a bit unfavorable, but it was far from being unmanageable. He would continue to observe and then make a decision.

At least for now, Rabbit Tail Live only had popularity and definitely no profit.

Because Rabbit Tail Live's expenses were too high, including bandwidth costs, employee salaries, and the salaries paid to these young lecturers and scholars... and the income was only that tiny bit of gift money, and most of it had to be distributed to the streamers.

Therefore, there should be absolutely no possibility of any profit in the short term, so there was no need to worry too much.

As for the culprit, Meng Chang...

Forget it, he probably wasn't feeling well either. After all, Rabbit Tail Live had a good start, and his promotional video was a great contribution, so he could forget about the commission.

Pei Qian also believed that Meng Chang didn't deliberately try to screw him over, so there was no need to call him to question him.

Just then, Pei Qian's phone rang. It was Zhang Yuan.

Pei Qian: "Hmm?"

He was a little surprised. What could be the matter with the eSports Department?

The GPL's current matches were going smoothly. Could it be that there was news about the ICL organized by Long Yu Corporation?

Pei Qian immediately answered the phone.

"President Pei, I have something to report to you. It's like this, several vice presidents in charge of livestream platforms have called me. They know that Rabbit Tail Live has launched and are a little nervous. They want to ask if the GPL broadcasting rights we signed with them before will be affected."

GPL broadcasting rights?

Pei Qian was stunned for a moment, then reacted.

Currently, the GPL broadcasting rights had already been sold to several other larger livestream platforms. Although these platforms didn't have exclusive broadcasting rights, they could all broadcast the GPL, each broadcasting their own, without affecting each other.

However, the launch of Rabbit Tail Live obviously conveyed a rather dangerous message to these livestream platforms.

People in the industry were well-informed and could obtain a lot of information that ordinary viewers couldn't. After learning that Rabbit Tail Live was President Pei's industry, these people obviously attached great importance to it.

Because the GPL broadcasting rights were still ultimately in President Pei's hands!

If President Pei chose to breach the contract and said that only Rabbit Tail Live could broadcast the GPL league...

Of course, this possibility was not high.

But don't forget that there were also a large number of streamers on these platforms broadcasting GoG and games under Tengda, and after the GPL Spring Split, there was also the Summer Split, the Global Invitational Tournament, and the Spring Split of next year!

If President Pei was determined to take back all of this content and broadcast it exclusively on Rabbit Tail Live, it would be a huge blow to the livestream platforms.

Their content would be unprecedentedly weakened, while Rabbit Tail Live's content would be directly linked to Tengda Games and unprecedentedly strengthened.

Of course, this kind of barbaric and domineering approach would also be a kind of harm to Tengda. After all, other livestream platforms would also bring popularity to games under Tengda. Banning other livestream platforms to eat alone would also greatly reduce the actual popularity they would obtain.

But these livestream platforms knew very well that President Pei had always been an unconventional person, and this kind of thing was really uncertain.

Therefore, they were all very nervous and had to call Zhang Yuan to ask.

And Zhang Yuan couldn't answer either, so he had to ask for instructions from above.

Pei Qian was silent for a moment.

To be honest, he was really tempted.

Currently, the GPL had already signed broadcasting contracts with several livestream platforms, and if he were to breach those contracts... how much would the liquidated damages be!

But on second thought, forget it. This money was outside of his plan. Compared to the previous tens of millions of contract, the liquidated damages would have to be at least three to five times that. It wouldn't be easy to take out such a large sum of money all at once, given that the expenses of various industries had already been arranged.

What's more, Pei Qian didn't want to compete with other livestream platforms for popularity.

He never thought of making Rabbit Tail Live the leader of the livestream platform industry, he just wanted to maintain a niche, unpopular livestream platform to continue burning money.

In that case, he shouldn't do exclusive broadcasts of the GPL.

Trying to burn money in the short term and accidentally burning all of his competitors to death, resulting in making more money, was a stupid thing that Pei Qian wouldn't do.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian said: "You reply to them, Rabbit Tail Live's development direction is different from those platforms, and it won't constitute a direct competitive relationship, so they can rest assured. The broadcasting rights for GoG games and the GPL will not be affected either, they can continue to broadcast with peace of mind."

Everything Pei Qian said was true. "Won't constitute a direct competitive relationship" meant that Rabbit Tail Live didn't want popularity or money, it simply wanted to spend a bit of bandwidth fees. It really wouldn't constitute a competitive relationship with other livestream platforms.

Zhang Yuan said: "Okay, President Pei, I'll go reply to them now."

...

Yangcheng, ZZ Live headquarters.

"Okay, President Zhang, I understand, thank you!"

Liu Liang, the vice president of the company, hung up Zhang Yuan's phone, breathing a sigh of relief while feeling a little puzzled.

ZZ Live's cooperation with Tengda could be traced back to the ZZ Cup Meme Competition in August of last year. At that time, ZZ Live had just received a large amount of financing and was developing rapidly. It cooperated with DGE Club and other GoG clubs to create a wave of popularity for its platform.

After that, whether it was the broadcast of the Global Invitational Tournament or the broadcast of the GPL Spring Split, ZZ Live had successfully obtained the broadcasting rights from Tengda. Liu Liang and Zhang Yuan had naturally established a good cooperative relationship.

But despite this, Liu Liang's recent work had not been going smoothly.

Currently, the livestreaming industry was about to become a red sea. After a large amount of capital poured in, these old-fashioned livestream platforms were greatly impacted. Many new platforms spent a lot of money to poach streamers and start price wars, even buying water armies to smear and report other platforms, making Liu Liang exhausted and busy every day.

Therefore, Liu Liang was terrified after hearing that President Pei had also created a Rabbit Tail Live.

It would be terrible if President Pei also joined the livestream platform war!

Money was only one aspect, the key was that Tengda currently had several popular games. If Tengda said that it didn't allow other livestream platforms to broadcast its games, those livestream platforms would have no choice but to obediently comply.

Therefore, Liu Liang called Zhang Yuan as soon as possible to ask about President Pei's attitude.

Now that Zhang Yuan had called back and said that President Pei didn't have the intention of "killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of his own," Liu Liang could finally rest assured.

But at the same time, Liu Liang had a new question.

According to what Zhang Yuan said on the phone, President Pei personally said that "Rabbit Tail Live's development direction is different from other livestream platforms and it doesn't constitute a direct competitive relationship," so they shouldn't worry.

Then the question came.

Compared to other livestream platforms, how exactly was Rabbit Tail Live's development direction different? Why didn't it constitute a competitive relationship?

As everyone knew, President Pei was a business genius. He often didn't cater to the needs of users, but knew how to create needs, and even saw the future development trend of certain industries.

Compared to other livestream platforms, Rabbit Tail Live's development direction was different. Did that mean that President Pei wasn't optimistic about the current development direction of the livestream industry and had another view on the future development of the industry?

This seemed to be a very worthwhile problem to study in depth!