Chapter 1 At the Same Time

Meanwhile, Pei Qian, Ma Yang, and Chen Yufeng were also watching the iCL League live broadcast on Tiewei Live.

"President Pei, the number of viewers for the iCL League yesterday was less than 30,000, but today it has reached more than 60,000. It's clear that the FV team has a high level of influence and popularity."

"Yesterday, Zhao Xuming called me, very dissatisfied with our live streaming platform displaying real numbers. He hoped that we would help them fake popularity, but I flatly refused!"

"I believe that in the future, they will understand our good intentions."

Pei Qian nodded slightly, "Yes, you did the right thing."

Although Pei Qian also hoped that Tiewei Live would promote the iCL League properly, this matter also had a priority.

In Pei Qian's heart: the priority of keeping Tiewei Live from making money is greater than the priority of promoting the iCL League.

He had already set the rules for Tiewei Live, including ensuring the authenticity of all data such as the number of viewers and gifts in the live broadcast room. This was a key condition for ensuring that Tiewei Live would never be profitable in the long run.

The iCL League had to be promoted, but it couldn't affect Tiewei Live's losses. Chen Yufeng's decision was very much in line with Pei Qian's wishes.

The match was in full swing.

The FV team and the SUG team were evenly matched and wonderful. After all, the SUG team had been practicing with them throughout the World Championship period, and their strength had improved by leaps and bounds. The two teams knew each other very well, and they had also thoroughly understood the version. In addition, this was an exhibition match, and everyone was very relaxed, so the program effect was very good.

Various barrages of comments were frantically swiping across the screen in the live broadcast room, which looked very lively.

Apart from the five-figure number of viewers, which looked a little shabby, everything else was perfect.

Pei Qian nodded slightly with satisfaction. It seemed that the matter of buying the exclusive broadcast rights for the iCL was coming to an end.

The money had been spent, and the live broadcast of the iCL League had been successfully launched. At present, it seemed to have brought some popularity to the Tiewei Live platform, but this popularity was far from enough to make Tiewei Live profitable.

Chen Yufeng said, "President Pei, according to the previous plan, the GPL League will also be broadcast on our platform this Saturday. The relevant preliminary preparations have been completed."

Pei Qian: "Oh, okay."

In fact, Pei Qian didn't want to broadcast the GPL League, because it was his own industry, didn't cost any money, and the broadcasting rights could be obtained easily.

Why would he put something that doesn't cost money and only earns popularity on Tiewei Live?

But there was no way. When he signed the contract with Eric and Zhao Xuming before, they required that the GPL League also be broadcast on Tiewei Live.

The reason was also very simple. They were afraid that Tengda would cause trouble, so they hoped to bundle the GPL together.

If there were problems such as lag or crashes on the live streaming platform, the GPL would also be affected. Eric and Zhao Xuming felt that in this way, President Pei would not engage in any small tricks.

Although Pei Qian had not planned to engage in small tricks in the first place, Eric and Zhao Xuming didn't believe it. They had to use this method to gain the trust of these two people.

Therefore, relevant clauses were also agreed upon in the contract.

Pei Qian had no choice. Since he couldn't bear to part with the child, he couldn't catch the wolf. So, let's broadcast it.

Anyway, other live streaming platforms had already been broadcasting for so long, and the people who watched the games had basically been divided up by other platforms. The GPL's landing on Tiewei Live at this time shouldn't bring too much popularity, right?

The work on Tiewei Live's side should be coming to an end. Pei Qian took out his mobile phone and casually browsed the forum.

It had to be said that the discussion about the iCL League was still very high among the IOI player community.

Especially today, with the appearance of the world champion FV team and the wonderful exhibition match, the popularity of the forum was very high.

In these posts, there were discussions about the match, the strength levels of all the clubs in the iCL League, and the star players.

Suddenly, Pei Qian frowned.

The titles of several popular posts felt a little strange!

《iCs League Protests Against Finger Company's Double Standards!》

《Don't Say That the iCL Viewership is Cooling Down, Exposing the Hidden Rules of Live Streaming Platform Data Fabrication!》

These two posts were very popular, and Pei Qian first clicked on the first one.

This post mainly moved discussion content from overseas forums, pointing out that Finger Company treated the iCs League and the iCL League differently, which led to protests from the iCs clubs and viewers.

And Finger Company had already responded, saying that it would lower the starting price of the iCs League spot, admitting defeat.

The key was that this post also analyzed the many details of this matter in a serious manner and came to a conclusion: Tengda must be behind this!

The overseas league of GOG was also in preparation, deliberately giving overseas clubs a very low starting price for the spot, which formed a stark contrast with Finger Company's side, so the iCs clubs were incited, forcing Finger Company to admit defeat…

Pei Qian looked confused.

What the hell!

This pot has nothing to do with me, don't throw it on my head!

Pei Qian realized that he now had a physique that attracted blame. This matter was clearly not done by him, but whether it was netizens or competitors, they all pinned it on him. It was outrageous!

Pei Qian didn't take this news too seriously.

If Finger Company wanted to lower the price, then so be it. Anyway, the starting price of GOG's North American League had been reduced to 1 million, and other regions were even lower. It couldn't make much money anymore, and it was no longer a big threat to Pei Qian.

He clicked on the second post to check.

"Recently, many people with ulterior motives have come to the forum to stir up trouble, saying that the iCL League's first broadcast had less than 30,000 viewers, that the league was cooling down, and that no one was watching it. There are also many people who are discussing and echoing it in a serious manner. I just want to laugh."

"Don't people really think that the popularity of those two or three million, tens of millions on other live streaming platforms is real?"

"Let me popularize it. The millions of popularity on other live streaming platforms are all calculated based on algorithms, and the backend can be adjusted at will. In fact, for the millions or tens of millions of popularity, the real number of viewers in the live broadcast room is only ten or twenty thousand!"

"If you compare it slightly, you will find that the barrage density of the iCL League's live broadcast room is much higher than the barrage density of many streamers on other platforms with millions of popularity, right?"

"This is because Tiewei Live is Tengda's industry, and the purpose of Tiewei Live is 'Never Falsify'! All the data in it is real! The iCL League and Tiewei Live are clearly a breath of fresh air in the entire live streaming industry, but they are mistaken for 'going to cool down.' It's really outrageous!"

There were several similar posts, and the popularity was good.

These posts cited extensively, listing a large amount of data, including the barrage density, popularity changes, and so on of various live broadcast rooms, and compared them with Tiewei Live's data, strongly supporting their point of view.

Although no one knew the specific conversion ratio of popularity and the number of viewers on other live streaming platforms, it confirmed that all other platforms had data fabrication.

In addition, with Tengda's reputation as a guarantee, it completely proved that Tiewei Live's data was real!

The popularity of these posts was not low, and it seemed that someone was forwarding them everywhere. There were discussions on Weibo, forums, and other places, setting off a wave of "condemning the hidden rules of live streaming platform data fabrication!"

Netizens were obviously very resonant.

"Indeed, the fake data on live streaming platforms is becoming more and more excessive! Millions or tens of millions of popularity at every turn, are you really treating people like fools? Is everyone in the country watching live streams?"

"There are too many hidden rules behind it. Promoting streamers increases popularity, suppressing streamers decreases popularity, and there are various agreement gifts, burning money while trying to get the streamers to spit the money back out…"

"It's all business, the water is too deep."

"The money of the rich is returned in full, and the money of the people is divided into three or seven."

"Indeed, it's unreasonable to criticize the number of viewers of the iCL League. Do you really think that all the popularity on other platforms is real? Maybe it's less than 30,000!"

"Don't be embarrassed, the number of viewers of the iCL League today has skyrocketed to more than 60,000! Looking at the density of the barrage, it completely kills many streamers on other platforms with millions of popularity!"

"Tiewei Live is actually a live streaming platform made by President Pei? Then the data must be real!"

"Ah, is President Pei going to change the live streaming industry again? I'm going to Tiewei Live to take a look!"

"After being treated like fools by these live streaming platforms fabricating data, they will realize how difficult it is to see real data these days. I won't say much, I support Tiewei Live, I support President Pei!"

Obviously, under the unremitting promotion of these posts, Tiewei Live has established a second memory point in the hearts of the audience: real data!

Once the audience accepts this, the result will be: for the number of viewers on Tiewei Live, the audience will adopt a different standard of measurement.

If there are 50,000 popularity on other live streaming platforms, the audience will think that this live broadcast room is cooling down; if there is one million popularity, the audience will think that it's okay; if there are seven or eight million popularity, the audience will think that this live broadcast room is very popular, but they will also feel that the official is deliberately promoting it and faking the data?

But Tiewei Live is different.

If there are 1,000 people watching, the audience will think that this live broadcast room is still popular; if there are tens of thousands of people watching, then it is definitely very popular!

And the key to this is trust.

If other live broadcast rooms promote themselves as real data, the audience will not believe it; but with the credibility of Tengda Group all along, most of the audience will believe this.

Moreover, when the entire live streaming platform is vying to fabricate and fake popularity, Tiewei Live is like a breath of fresh air, making a deep impression!

Many people have learned that Tiewei Live is Tengda's industry because of this, and they have said that they will go and see it.

Pei Qian was a little confused.

What's going on!

You guys should discuss the iCL League properly, why did you lead the topic to Tiewei Live!

It's okay to do publicity for Tiewei Live for no reason?

"That's not right, these posts seem to be concentrated, and the popularity has risen very quickly for no reason…"

Pei Qian carefully studied the content of these posts and the speed at which this topic became popular, and inexplicably smelled the familiar scent of shills.

Could it be… someone is making trouble?