Chapter 164 Thirty Seconds

Zhu Yan immediately wanted to find Zhao Xuming for an explanation.

Although the contract had already been signed in black and white, as long as both parties negotiated, there was still room for redemption.

But before that, the problem with the live streaming platform had to be dealt with first.

Zhu Yan immediately sent a message to his super admins: "Strictly prohibit spoilers in the iCL League live stream! Anyone who spoils will be banned for 5 hours!"

There's nothing that authority can't solve, and if it can't be solved, then add more authority!

Spoilers had too much of an impact on the iCL League viewing experience, and Zhu Yan didn't dare to take it lightly. He could only ban these spoiling viewers and try to ensure the viewing experience of most viewers.

Otherwise, before this matter was resolved through negotiation, if someone kept spoiling, wouldn't the popularity of the iCL League live stream plummet?

The super admins all obeyed and began to slaughter in the iCL League live stream. Soon, a string of red "muted" words floated up.

But despite the bans, the popularity of the live stream was still declining.

Although this clumsy method ensured the viewing experience of most viewers, the problem was that most viewers already knew the fact that "Langya Live is 30 seconds behind Tuwei Live."

After all, not everyone could ignore this delay.

Moreover, those active viewers who were banned were definitely angry and would naturally not continue to stay on Langya Live.

As a result, a group of people inevitably ran to Tuwei Live and became someone else's popularity.

Zhu Yan was very angry and immediately took out his phone and dialed Zhao Xuming's number.

…

At this time, Zhao Xuming was in his office, watching the popularity of the iCL League on various platforms.

The other live streaming platforms were different from Tuwei Live and all used fake data, with popularity basically around two or three million. Although he knew that the actual number of people wasn't that high, this kind of explosive popularity still made Zhao Xuming very happy.

It was great that the iCL League could be distributed!

So many live streaming platforms broadcasting together was definitely a good thing for the cultivation and expansion of the iCL League's audience, and Longyu Group was definitely not at a loss.

Just then, the phone on the table rang.

Zhao Xuming immediately answered, "Hello? President Zhu, what's the matter?"

Zhu Yan's voice was unhappy: "President Zhao, you didn't handle this matter fairly!"

Zhao Xuming was stunned: "What's the matter? What's unfair? President Zhu, you're confusing me."

For Zhao Xuming, this was simply inexplicable. The only project he had been cooperating with Langya Live recently was the iCL League, so what was unfair about it?

I kept mediating and helped you successfully obtain the live broadcasting rights to the iCL League. You should be thanking me, so why are you complaining about me?

Zhu Yan became even more angry when he saw Zhao Xuming pretending to be stupid: "President Zhao! Your 30-second delay proposal has caused us a lot of trouble! The audience has discovered that our live broadcast time is 30 seconds behind Tuwei Live, and they're all running to the live stream to spoil, which has seriously affected the entire live stream's barrage environment. Now many viewers have run back to Tuwei Live!"

"Isn't this a serious impact?"

"President Zhao, we are also partners of Longyu Group, just like Tuwei Live. You can't favor one over the other!"

For Zhu Yan, the value of the iCL League to Langya Live mainly lies in its popularity and the platform's prestige.

The actual number of viewers watching the iCL League on Langya Live wasn't high, and there wouldn't be too many rich people sending gifts. He didn't expect to make a profit at all. But this kind of league can bring popularity to the entire platform, make the platform more competitive in terms of content, and can also recover costs through sponsorships and other methods.

Many live streaming platforms don't make money now, but as long as they炒 (chǎo - hype) up the popularity, they can continuously obtain financing and allow the entire company to continue to develop and grow.

But now that the iCL League's popularity on Langya Live was constantly declining, it was obviously more painful for him than losing flesh.

Zhao Xuming was dumbfounded.

What does this have to do with me?

I just came up with a proposal on a whim, and you didn't raise any objections to this 30-second delay, did you?

Why are you blaming me now!

What made Zhao Xuming even more speechless was that Zhu Yan also implied that he was "favoring one over the other," that is, helping Tuwei Live scheme against other live streaming platforms.

Zhao Xuming couldn't express his suffering. Why the hell would I do that!

President Pei and I are not related and are even competitors. Why would I be so bored as to scheme against you!

But it was useless for Zhao Xuming to explain now, because looking back at this matter from the result, it was indeed easy to be misunderstood.

Longyu Group first sold the exclusive broadcasting rights to Tuwei Live, and then took the lead in finding other live streaming platforms to distribute the rebroadcasting rights, and finally actively proposed a 30-second delay…

It could only be said that he was taking the blame unfairly, but it was reasonable.

Zhao Xuming immediately said righteously: "President Zhu, absolutely not!"

"When I proposed the 30-second delay, it was mainly because Tuwei Live was at a slight disadvantage in this transaction. I made this proposal to facilitate the transaction! You didn't strongly object, did you?"

"The contract has already been signed, and now you're pushing all the responsibility to me. Isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

"In my opinion, President Zhu, since this friction has already occurred, we still have to think carefully about how to solve this problem. How about this, I'll go and discuss it with President Chen of Tuwei Live again and see if this 30-second delay can be cancelled…"

"Of course, if the contract details are to be changed, your side will definitely have to make some concessions in other areas. And if President Chen doesn't agree, I can't do anything either…"

Zhu Yan nodded: "That's the only way."

After all, both parties had already signed the contract. The liquidated damages for this kind of contract were very scary. If they forcibly breached the contract, they not only wouldn't be able to broadcast the iCL League, but they might also have to pay a large sum of money in litigation.

Zhu Yan regretted it immensely, feeling that he had been fooled!

He previously thought it was a harmless little problem, but now it had become a thorn in his side.

If President Pei really insisted on fulfilling the contract, then Zhu Yan and Zhao Xuming would have no choice but to be impotently furious.

…

At the same time, Pei Qian was still flipping through the information submitted by the human resources department in his office, considering who should be selected as the person in charge of this "Snack Market."

It wasn't easy to accurately find a candidate who could complete his mission from the many employees of Leng Mian Girl. He had to be carefully selected.

However, after looking at so much information, Pei Qian's target was almost decided.

Pei Qian looked at the time. It was already after five o'clock in the afternoon, time to get off work.

So he stretched and prepared to leave.

"By the way, are many live streaming platforms starting to broadcast the iCL League today?"

"In that case, the popularity of Tuwei Live should drop, right?"

Pei Qian suddenly thought of this and opened Tuwei Live to check the number of people in the iCL League live stream.

Because the number of people in the live stream was all real data, he didn't even need to log in to the backend to see the real changes in the data.

The peak number of viewers for the iCL League before was about 80,000. Now, he hoped that this number could be halved. It shouldn't be a big problem, right?

Pei Qian saw the number of people in the iCL League live stream. Sure enough, there were only more than 60,000 people left.

Today was also a key battle. Logically speaking, the number of people should continue to be maintained at around 80,000, and the 20,000 that had dropped were obviously running to other platforms.

This was only the first day. Many iCL League viewers still had the habit of watching the games on Tuwei Live. As time went on, more and more viewers should go to other platforms to watch the games.

In other words, it might not even be 60,000 in the future.

Pei Qian couldn't help but nod slightly.

Although it didn't reach his highest expectations, and the number of people wasn't halved to 40,000, it was still commendable that 20,000 people had left!

Although the density of the barrage was completely unaffected, Pei Qian was still very happy to see the number of people in the live stream decrease.

But just as Pei Qian was about to close the live stream, he suddenly felt that something was wrong when he saw the strings of barrages floating by.

"Huh, why does it seem like this side is faster?"

"Indeed, this side is so fast!"

"Is it really 30 seconds faster than the enemy platform?"

"Coming from Langya Live!"

"I'm from ZZ Live!"

"Brothers from Waiwai Live, raise your paws!"

"Don't刷 (shuā - spam) the names of other platforms, aren't you afraid of being banned by the super admins?"

"It's okay, the super admins here are very tolerant and won't ban people for this."

"Damn spoiler dogs, forcing me to watch the game here!"

Seeing the discussion in these barrages, Pei Qian suddenly had a bad feeling.

Then, something even more terrifying happened.

The numbers in the live stream suddenly started to increase. The original 60,000 people continued to rise, a few hundred at a time, or even a thousand at a time. The numbers were changing every second!

Especially when a wonderful team fight was over, this change would be particularly drastic, and you could even see the spectacular scene of thousands of people pouring in at the same time!

And at the end of the first game, the number of viewers watching the iCL League on Tuwei Live also successfully reached a peak.

91377 people!

That was 10,000 more viewers than the previous peak number of viewers!

Pei Qian rubbed his eyes, almost thinking he had seen it wrong.

After confirming again and again, that's right, it was indeed 90,000 people!

Obviously, this 90,000 people was caused by some viewers from other live streaming platforms running to Tuwei Live to watch the game.

In fact, there was a group of people who originally didn't watch the iCL League.

But after the iCL League was distributed to various live streaming platforms, all the live streaming platforms were desperately promoting and channeling traffic, attracting these viewers who originally didn't watch the iCL League.

But during the viewing process, they were inexplicably disgusted by the spoiler dogs, so some people ran to Tuwei Live to watch the game, which resulted in the number of viewers on Tuwei Live increasing instead of decreasing!

It could be said that this 30-second delay objectively played a role in absorbing popularity from other live streaming platforms…

Chen Yufeng had previously shown Pei Qian the contract, but at that time, Pei Qian's main attention was all focused on the specific amount of the contract, as well as the odds and ends that other platforms had sent in addition to cash. He hadn't noticed this "30 seconds."

Now he suddenly realized that this 30-second clause was a big problem!

Pei Qian couldn't help but slam the table, almost blurting out.

"Damn! I was tricked by Zhao Xuming!"