Chapter 577

Chapter 577: Night and Day.

Compared to the worried Adidas,

Jiang Zhenkun, the president of Pomelo, was hyped up.

After Chen Huan sent his two papers to the various mathematicians and after CCTV learned of it and reported it on the evening’s news.

Pomelo received another waved registration.

More than 1 million people registered to their websites after half a day.

Before they won the exclusive right to broadcast the Lakers playoffs games, Pomelo only had 50 million registered accounts with 5 million daily and active users.

But only a month passed by since then, Pomelo had now 200 registered accounts and with 30 million average active users daily. When the Lakers were playing, there would be 70 to 80 million people watching!

Just on the fourth game where the Spurs got eliminated, the peak live viewers reached 113 million and setting a record only second to ‘Princess Returning Pearl’.

‘Princess Returning Pearl’ was a godly drama as it didn’t only perform really well in China but all over the world!

Jiang Zhenkun already thanked his ancestor for a sports game to attract so many viewers.

His investments of 30 million dollars had already long been earned back with the advertisements.

Nike alone invested 15 million dollars when they reached the second round in the western conference for their sneakers advertisements.

Nike brands inevitably appear during every Lakers game as well as the sneakers they promoted.

It was said that Nike sneakers sales soared by 37% that month. Nike’s executives were ecstatic while Adidas’ were fuming in jealousy.

Because Chen Huan was endorsing Adidas but it was Nike who snatched their advertisement spot so was tempted by Nike every day, it was obvious which brand they would choose.

So Adidas were eyeing a spot for the upcoming finals.

Once Chen Huan’s team eliminated the Warriors, they would try to buy the finals’ advertisement spot for a huge price.

Nike was certainly unwilling to back down as they were already contracted with Pomelo and was also favorite to renew for the finals.

Now that the news of Chen Huan proved Fermat’s Theorem came out, Jiang Zhenkun was worried they wouldn’t have any exclusive news but Wang Zhen gave him a nice surprise.

At 4 am China time, Wang Zhen posted something on her personal and the official website Weibo.

This was a temporary authority given to Wang Zhen by him since it would allow her to post the latest news as fast as possible.

Before every playoff game, Wang Zhen sat in the first row and would post videos of each game, which made their Weibo almost being overwhelmed by the people.

The various post-game interviews with Chen Huan and Wang Zhen also got a lot of attention.

This kept the popularity of Pomelo high during the playoffs so they didn’t lack enthusiastic fans every day.

Even those screen licking women that were only there for Chen Huan would continue to pay attention, which gave them a lot of traffic.

This was also a big part of why Jiang Zhenkun rewarded the team with 10 million and clearly stated that he would celebrate their success with them when the team returned.

The value of that team was beyond comprehension and Jiang Zhenkun was proud of himself for making that decision.

Although he had to spend a bit more, the effect it brought was incomparable to the few tens of millions and it was worth at least 2 billion!

Wang Zhen made another big contribution!

The picture she took of Chen Huan sleeping and tired himself, coupled with the words he said, instantly ignited the fans in Weibo and Pomelo.

Not even CCTV had firsthand information about Chen Huan but Wang Zhen unexpectedly got it.

This timing was very important.

So much that this picture and post was spread through the internet.

Pomelo once again received a lot of attention.

Looking at the attention received on Pomelo as well as the trending discussion involving them, Jiang Zhenkun had to urge Wang Zhen a bunch of kisses.

It was awesome!

A little interview and picture was enough to drive off CCTV, how many people would remember Pomelo now?

Unquantifiable!

Seeing the effect it had when it was at 7 or 8 am, Wang Zhen received a bonus of 1 million Yuan.

Jiang Zhenkun also sent her a message that asked to keep it up and that there was no limit to the amount of bonus!

Wang Zhen knew how to socialize as he took the whole team to go out to eat in Los Angeles in the most expensive French restaurant and spent 70k dollars.

It was so that those colleagues of hers wouldn’t think that she pocketed those bonuses alone and be jealous of her.

She even wanted to invite Chen Huan at the beginning but he received a lot of questions from the professors as soon as he went back home so had no time to go out.

This deflated Wang Zhen who finally mustered the courage to plan her crime.

Well, it was also a crime in the US to give alcohol to a 17 years old.

What Wang Zhen wanted to do was a double crime.

(︶ω︶)

While Pomelo was happy, Shanhai Streaming was feeling down and regretful.

Especially the princess.

A determined person like her who had never lost out in her life got actually slapped by Pomelo, she felt an indescribable feeling.

Honestly, Pomelo never deliberately tried to attack Shanhai Streaming and irritate the princess.

Jiang Zhenkun wasn’t stupid. Why would he go fight a 80 billion USD worth company while being a company worth 1 billion USD?

So Pomelo only published about their own achievements and never mentioned whose foods they stole it from.

They didn’t mention it but Zheng Rongrong knew it clearly!

This was a good project she ordered her subordinate to do but the vice president of operation, Qi Shoujian, considered himself too big and felt that no other streaming service would compete against them so low-balled and put pressure on the Lakers.

Qi Shoujian’s plan wasn’t bad in other circumstances.

There were only two streaming services in China who could compete with the expensive broadcast right of the Lakers.

They were the second ranked Shanhai Streaming and the first ranked Youyi.

The problem was Youyi and Chen Huan were antagonistic toward each other!

Shining Technology wanted to debut ‘Lightning Boys’ but arrogantly used Lu Xiaofeng as a point to gain attention.

It would be nothing if it was just some regular advertisement but they used slander and devious plans to do so, which offended Chen Huan greatly.

In the end, Chen Huan not only reversed the situation but also slapped their faces harshly.

From that moment, the two were enemies.

So even if they could buy the rights, the Lakers had to first consider Chen Huan’s unwillingness to cooperate with it so it could end up as a joke.

So Qi Shoujian’s thinking was normal.

Unexpectedly, he got cut off under his feet by a second-rate streaming service like Pomelo. The angry Zheng Rongrong scolded Qi Shoujian and was later directly demoted from his vice-president post after Chen Huan break out performances

The more popular Pomelo got, the angrier the princess was.

All the traffic, attention, various bonuses for the popularity etc… should’ve gone to Shanhai Streaming!

If it was given to them, they could definitely do a post-match better than ever. How could they be cheap like them who had to rely on the TV signal of another company and only send a single TV crew there?

Zheng Rongrong had no doubt they would be able to create even more excitement and increase their users by 100 million and increase the value of Shanhai Streaming by another 10 billion USD!

Sadly,

The opportunities were no longer available to Shanhai Streaming.

The princess realized now that one should believe in fate.

Luck had been along the path the moment she met Lu Xiaofeng and Chu Liuxiang.

The valuation of Shanhai Streaming rose from 30 billion to 80 billion USD now and half of the credit should be given to the two of them.

The setbacks started to happen once they separated.

‘Princess Returning Pearl’ was a clear proof of the two not giving an opportunity to Shanhai Streaming to work together.

The same was with Chen Huan going to the NBA.

If the things with ‘Stingy Chu Liuxiang’ didn’t happen, Chen Huan would definitely tell Cui Zhong about it before he left for the US and have him quickly act.

But now, Chen Huan didn’t tell them anything.

Then Pomelo ended up picking the peaches.

It seemed that they could no longer be reserved and feel haughty, they must re-establish a great relationship with them!

Otherwise, it would feel really bad as they witness other parties succeed with the help of two again and again!