Chapter 1294 So Boss Pei's Target Is IOI!

Several hours later, Zhao Xuming's plan was complete.

Although he hadn't yet discussed it with the live streaming platforms, Zhao Xuming had been dealing with them for years and knew the personalities of the executives at each platform very well. He was confident that this plan was perfect, and most platforms would have no reason to refuse.

Because on the surface, these platforms would actually benefit from adopting this plan.

Of course, whether they actually benefited was another matter.

In any case, Tenda would be the one making money. Even in a win-win situation, Tenda would definitely win more.

He sent the plan to Boss Pei again, and this time he received a positive response very quickly.

The speed of the reply made Zhao Xuming suspect that Boss Pei hadn't even looked at the details of the plan carefully.

However, considering Boss Pei's extraordinary talent and the fact that the overall framework of the plan had been determined beforehand, it wasn't surprising that Boss Pei could read through it so quickly.

Zhao Xuming certainly wouldn't ask Boss Pei to read it again and look at the details. Wouldn't that be foolish?

He looked at the time. There was still more than an hour before he got off work.

Without further ado, he had to take this opportunity to communicate with the vice presidents in charge of the various live streaming platforms and finalize the overall framework of this cooperation to avoid any unforeseen problems.

As far as Zhao Xuming knew, the various live streaming platforms were ostensibly competing fiercely for the broadcasting rights to the GOG Global Invitational Tournament, and even seeking exclusive rights, but they were also making preparations behind the scenes.

They had long had contingency plans in case they couldn't get the broadcasting rights to the GOG Global Invitational Tournament.

After all, the competition between these platforms was too fierce. What if one platform really spent a fortune to buy exclusive rights? What would the other platforms do?

Of course, they had to make preparations so they wouldn't be caught off guard.

This contingency plan was actually a helpless measure after failing to obtain the broadcasting rights to the GOG Global Invitational Tournament, and could only involve allocating some resources to the IOI competitions.

They had to take care of both sides. If these live streaming platforms didn't even understand this, it would be difficult for them to survive to this day.

If the broadcasting rights were sold normally, it would be fine for these platforms to make preparations. Zhao Xuming wouldn't care.

But now that the plan had changed, Boss Pei's attitude was clearly "I want it all."

Zhao Xuming's approach in implementing the plan would naturally have to change as well.

He first called Zhu Yan, the vice president of Wolf Fang Live.

"Hello, President Zhao, is there any news about the broadcasting rights?" Zhu Yan's attitude was very enthusiastic.

The two had cooperated a long time ago, but at that time Zhao Xuming was trying his best to promote the domestic broadcasting rights of the iCL League.

Now, Zhao Xuming's identity had changed, and he had become the person in charge of GOG's national server, which meant it was even more important for Zhu Yan to maintain a good relationship with him.

Although he didn't quite understand Zhao's promotion, for Zhu Yan, continuing to deal with Zhao was not necessarily a bad thing.

After all, the two were relatively familiar, and dealing with Zhao was always more reassuring than dealing with Boss Pei.

Wolf Fang Live, as one of the two major platforms that had emerged after fierce competition in the country, and which started with gaming, was naturally very eager for the exclusive broadcasting rights to the GOG Global Invitational Tournament, and was also the most willing to spend a high price among the current platforms.

Wolf Fang Live's ultimate goal was to obtain exclusive rights, but this was a bit difficult. After all, although they had money, it was difficult for them to offer a price that even Tenda could not refuse.

So Zhu Yan felt that the more realistic situation was to achieve the minimum goal, which was to obtain broadcasting rights.

But under the premise of obtaining broadcasting rights, the key issue was how to spend less money.

Zhao Xuming smiled. "President Zhu, I've already sent you the new plan. This is a plan that Boss Pei has already approved. If you have no problems, then we can proceed according to this."

As soon as he heard that it was a plan approved by Boss Pei, Zhu Yan immediately perked up.

If Boss Pei had approved it, the plan was basically set and wouldn't be changed.

"No problem, President Zhao, please wait a moment."

Zhu Yan immediately opened the plan on his computer and quickly scanned it.

Then, Zhu Yan's eyes widened, revealing a surprised expression.

Originally, Zhu Yan had a very high psychological expectation for the bidding price of the GOG Global Invitational Tournament broadcasting rights.

Because it was worth that much money!

If it was an unknown small event, then the broadcasting rights would actually have a lot of flexibility and room for maneuver, but the GOG Global Invitational Tournament was different.

Not only was last year's Global Invitational Tournament very successful, but the GPL League and the GOG leagues around the world had accumulated a lot of popularity, and this popularity would explode at the GOG Global Invitational Tournament.

This popularity was completely predictable.

If the operator of GOG was not Tenda, but another company, it would now be raising prices as much as possible, raising them to the limit that each live streaming platform could bear.

And these live streaming platforms would not have a good way to deal with it, and could only accept it by selling everything they had.

But the plan he was seeing now made Zhu Yan a bit dumbfounded and deeply surprised.

First of all, it stipulated an extremely low guaranteed amount of only 10 million.

This guaranteed amount was not a problem even for Wolf Fang Live, which had deep pockets. Any small platform could squeeze out this money without much difficulty.

After all, the broadcasting rights for the GPL Spring Split were already over 12 million.

Of course, there were additional requirements. In addition to the guaranteed amount, they also had to pay extra according to the popularity of the live stream. The higher the popularity, the more money they would pay. There was a specific calculation formula.

But popularity was something that fluctuated.

Zhu Yan estimated the amount based on the expected popularity, and the discounted amount was about 35 million.

And Zhu Yan's psychological expectation was 30 million to 40 million for the broadcasting rights and over 100 million for exclusive rights.

Moreover, his psychological expectation could be slightly increased.

There was even a more shameless option, which was to reduce the popularity themselves, so the amount of money they paid would be reduced accordingly.

Because the plan only looked at the popularity finally displayed to all viewers in the live stream, and didn't mention anything about the live streaming platform changing the popularity itself.

If it wasn't clearly written in the contract, then it would leave room for argument.

President Zhao and Boss Pei would definitely not make such a low-level mistake, so this actually meant that this was not important.

Of course, if they made the popularity too high for the sake of face, they would have to spend more money.

But no matter what, the decision was in the hands of the live streaming platform itself. They could control whether they wanted to spend more or less.

Not only that, but the plan also stipulated that they could use the platform's recommended resources to offset the money.

For example, if they originally had to pay 40 million according to the popularity, and a homepage recommendation slot was worth a certain amount of money, and they hung it up for a few days, then that money could be directly deducted from the 40 million.

Of course, the value of these recommendation slots was determined by Tenda based on the traffic and popularity of each platform, and would not differ much from the real value of these recommendation slots.

But no matter what, to Zhu Yan, the recommendation slots on his own platform were basically free!

Of course, the recommendation slots would affect the overall arrangement of recommendation resources, and it would be a loss if they weren't promoted well.

But no matter what, it wasn't as valuable as real money.

Zhu Yan read this plan over and over again, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that he was making a big profit, which was a bit difficult to understand.

Had Boss Pei become a philanthropist?

That couldn't be. It didn't fit Boss Pei's personality.

Had President Zhao made his own decision?

That was even more impossible. President Zhao was not that kind of person. And President Zhao had said from the beginning that this was a plan that Boss Pei had approved.

Zhu Yan said with some surprise, "President Zhao, this plan is generous!"

"I can hardly believe it!"

"Is there anything special about this plan? Please enlighten me, President Zhao."

The plan was so favorable that Zhu Yan was worried that there might be a trap.

Zhao Xuming smiled. "There's nothing special about it. One thing is to allow everyone to freely control the popularity. The Global Invitational Tournament is a very lively event after all, and everyone can share the joy. The other thing is that Boss Pei values recommendation resources, especially when it comes to IOI..."

"You know what I mean, right?"

Zhao Xuming spoke rather cryptically, but Zhu Yan quickly understood.

What did it mean to let everyone share the joy?

It actually meant that they would sell the broadcasting rights of GOG to more platforms in this way in order to get more popularity.

Why did he mention IOI?

It was obviously saying that Boss Pei hoped that the recommendation resources obtained by each live streaming platform could completely overwhelm IOI!

In summary, Boss Pei's meaning was actually very clear: I can collect less money for the broadcasting rights, but the popularity of the GOG Global Invitational Tournament must be maximized, especially the popularity must crush that of the IOI World Championship!

What? You say it already crushes it?

Then how can we crush it even more? That depends on everyone's performance.

Zhu Yan understood.

If Boss Pei didn't ask for anything else and just lowered the price, it would make Zhu Yan feel very strange.

But now it wasn't strange, because Boss Pei had given up some of his benefits, but he did have something he wanted, which was popularity, which was to completely crush the IOI World Championship and give IOI one last heavy blow!

That would be easy.

Zhu Yan was really afraid of offending Boss Pei. After all, these live streaming platforms had to rely on Boss Pei's games, and Boss Pei's personality was rather strange. No one could guess what he was thinking, and it was often impossible to cooperate with him even if they wanted to.

With someone like this, it was best not to offend him. It was most important to maintain a good relationship.

Zhu Yan quickly made a decision.

If GOG wanted recommendation slots, then they would give them!

Anyway, the broadcasting rights for IOI had already been finalized. They were bought at a fixed price, and there were no requirements for recommendation slots.

Since these recommendation slots could be exchanged for money at GOG, then they would give GOG more of them.

For live streaming platforms, this was obviously a choice that maximized their profits.

Although they didn't buy exclusive rights, and other platforms could also buy broadcasting rights at a bargain price, as long as the price was low, everything was negotiable for Wolf Fang Live.

The price that Boss Pei gave was enough to dispel most of their dissatisfaction, and they even had to be grateful.

As for whether IOI would have any objections...

First of all, the broadcasting rights for live streaming platforms and IOI didn't have so many twists and turns. They were all bought at a fixed price, and the money had already been paid. What recommendation slots I arranged was none of your business, right?

Secondly, Long Yu Corporation's attitude towards the national server of IOI was obviously not as positive as before. It was said that Long Yu Corporation was cooperating with Tenda to develop a game. It was hard to say whether they would be angry about this matter.

From Tenda Group to various live streaming platforms to Long Yu Corporation, it was estimated that there would not be much of a reaction to this matter.

Those who would react might be Finger Company and Da Ya Ke Group.

But so what? These live streaming platforms wouldn't directly deal with them anyway.

So no one cared whether IOI would have any objections. Under the dual factors of popularity and money, it was an inevitable choice to give more recommendation slots to the GOG Global Invitational Tournament.

Zhu Yan immediately said, "Understood, President Zhao, we will maximize the recommendation resources!"

"I can't control what other platforms do, but at Wolf Fang Live, I guarantee that the first thing viewers see will be GOG!"