February 23rd, Thursday.

The e-sports promotional video that Meng Chang and the Advertising Marketing Department were responsible for was in full swing, about to start official filming.

Meng Chang was once again impressed by the efficiency of his subordinates—they were truly efficient.

Among them, two or three had come from Fei Huang Studio. Whether it was finding locations, casting actors, or filming, they handled everything with ease. Meng Chang had originally thought the preliminary preparations would take at least three to five days, but under their high efficiency, it could be cut in half.

After all, these employees in the Advertising Marketing Department knew that ensuring work efficiency meant guaranteeing their own rest time. Could their efficiency not be high?

Among the staff in the Advertising Marketing Department, Meng Chang particularly liked a young man named Gao Ti. He was young, sharp-minded, handled tasks efficiently, and especially his name made Meng Chang very fond of him, thinking it had good fortune.

Gao Ti had also been transferred from Fei Huang Studio. Most of the preliminary filming work for this promotional video was being organized by him.

Indeed, Mr. Pei’s team was filled with talented people. Meng Chang felt very comfortable leading such a team because he didn’t need to worry about his orders not being executed properly, which naturally greatly increased his chances of getting a high commission.

Meng Chang was continuing to conceptualize the script details for the promotional video when he saw Gao Ti rushing back from outside, walking straight to his desk.

“Bro Meng, the venue, actors, and props are all pretty much arranged. After preparing some more details and perfecting the script, we should be able to start filming officially in the next couple of days and finish next week.”

“However… there’s something I need to report.”

“Of course, this is just my immature suggestion. Whether to adopt it or not is up to you.”

Meng Chang was pleased, both for Gao Ti’s efficiency and for the respect he received.

He nodded, openly showing his appreciation for Gao Ti: “Hmm, go on.”

Gao Ti said: “Bro Meng, actually there’s a GPL training base here in Jingzhou, at Mingyun Villa. It’s probably only a few dozen minutes drive from here.”

“Although it’s a bit remote, if we’re filming inside the clubs, we could use ready-made scenery there. Plus, this task was personally arranged by Mr. Pei, so the clubs would definitely cooperate unconditionally.”

“Using those club locations could save some time.”

Previously, Gao Ti had suggested applying to Mr. Pei for funds to go scout locations at various clubs nationwide, but Meng Chang had rejected this proposal.

Because Meng Chang knew clearly in his heart that the promotional video he wanted to film was actually criticizing e-sports. He wanted to film the relatively poor training conditions of clubs, and the clubs had their dignity—how could they let him film?

So there was no need to ask for trouble.

Now, Gao Ti offered a new proposal: go film at GPL’s training base.

The implication was that while other clubs wouldn’t let them film, GPL’s clubs definitely could be filmed freely, because this was work arranged by Mr. Pei, and all of Tenda’s subsidiaries had to cooperate unconditionally!

Meng Chang fell into thought, and after a moment, he still shook his head.

“I don’t think it’s necessary. Let’s set up our own scenes.”

Gao Ti didn’t ask further, just nodded: “Alright, I’ll arrange it right away.”

The reason Meng Chang chose not to film at GPL’s training base wasn’t because he found it troublesome or for other reasons, but mainly because he was afraid it would be too obvious and might offend people.

In his promotional video, he was already using GOG’s game footage. If the training base in the video could also be matched with GPL’s teams, that would be terrible!

It would basically be explicit.

Meng Chang didn’t want it to be so obvious, as it might provoke viewers’ rebellious psychology and create some negative effects instead.

So it was better to set up his own scenes and subtly satirize things. If they really fell out, the situation could become very ugly. Those clubs behind GPL weren’t small operators. For example, Shenhua, a major corporation, wasn’t someone Meng Chang could afford to offend.

Therefore, Meng Chang still didn’t adopt this suggestion and decided to continue with his own sets.

Moreover, setting his own scenes had many advantages. For instance, he could make the players’ living environment more exaggerated. As long as it wasn’t too excessive and maintained a certain level of realism, some deliberately arranged details could better highlight the hardships of players’ training.

This kind of small-scale falsification generally wouldn’t be investigated, especially since no specific club was named.

But if they used existing clubs for filming, these problems would be very difficult to solve. If the big sponsors behind those clubs took it seriously, Meng Chang would be in deep trouble.

After Gao Ti left to handle these matters, Meng Chang was happy to be a hands-off manager and casually searched for recent related news online.

“Hmm? It seems ICL League has also started promotional buildup?”

Meng Chang noticed that the “IOI Championship League” jointly organized by Longyu Group and Finger Company seemed to be about to open soon, with Longyu Group putting significant effort into promotion.

Currently, quite a bit of news had leaked out, including ICL’s participating teams, team rosters, league version previews, and so on.

Behind this content was clearly Longyu Group’s authorization, with the simple purpose of building early momentum and creating anticipation among viewers.

Before the official opening, there would definitely be many waves of promotion.

Meng Chang estimated that when ICL League officially started, there would surely be a promotional video.

“Isn’t this perfect?”

“ICL’s promotional video can serve as perfect assistance for me!”

Meng Chang could easily guess what ICL’s promotional video would generally be like: nothing more than filming the upbeat spirit of various teams, capturing handsome shots of professional players, and simply taking panoramic shots of competition venues.

In short, this type of commercial promotional video would definitely focus on looking cool.

That would create a sharp contrast with Meng Chang’s promotional video!

When everyone watches, they’ll see IOI’s promotional video looking so good, while Tenda’s e-sports promotional video is so discouraging—they’ll definitely prefer the former!

Moreover, Longyu Group would definitely put out many resources for promotion, which would draw many viewers’ attention to the e-sports field. When Meng Chang released his promotional video, he could easily catch viewers’ attention without much effort.

Meng Chang’s goal was to do reverse marketing for the e-sports industry. The higher the attention, the better the effect, and naturally, the higher his commission.

Since that’s the case, why not?

Of course, force works both ways. Meng Chang’s promotional video would be like throwing cold water on the entire e-sports industry, and it would definitely hurt ICL as well.

But Meng Chang didn’t care.

Because his promotional video used all GOG game footage—it shouldn’t affect IOI, right?

The visual differences between these two games were quite significant. Viewers shouldn’t be blind enough to mistake them.

Even if ICL got caught in the area of effect, so what? It wouldn’t affect his commission at all.

For Meng Chang, as long as he didn’t offend people too severely and create too many enemies, all his goals were focused on getting a high commission. He wouldn’t care about anything else.

…

Meanwhile, at the “Useful APP” office area.

Chen Yufeng, in charge of Bunny Tail Streaming, made a special trip to find Yu Ping’an to discuss cooperation.

Currently, Useful APP was still under continuous updates and maintenance.

Mr. Pei had already said earlier that Useful APP was a Yu Gong Moving Mountains-like long-term project, so Yu Ping’an didn’t dare slack off at all. He conscientiously developed more features, maintained good APP versions, enriched professional content, and also devoted part of his energy to using technical and legal means to defend rights and combat plagiarism of knowledge on Useful APP.

So far, through the joint efforts of all developers and professors, lecturers, young scholars, and graduate students from Handong University, Useful APP had completed its preliminary content framework, though it still lacked fame.

Most of the content on this APP was related to classical poetry and ancient texts, with its main function being to help AEEIS with automatic poetry composition.

Yu Ping’an also knew that Useful APP’s content was severely lacking, so he hadn’t asked Mr. Pei for more promotional funds for marketing.

He still focused mainly on finding experts and professionals in various fields for knowledge production, completing entries and explanations on Useful APP.

After some pleasantries, Chen Yufeng explained his purpose: he hoped to leverage Useful APP’s resources, negotiating with those young scholars and lecturers currently writing entries on Useful APP, asking them to start live streaming lectures on Bunny Tail Streaming.

Of course, Bunny Tail Streaming wouldn’t let people lecture for free—there would be a base salary.

Chen Yufeng’s words left Yu Ping’an stunned.

Other streaming platforms spent money signing gaming pros and female streamers, while Bunny Tail Streaming wanted to pay for signing up experts and scholars?

But thinking about it again, wasn’t this the same logic as Useful APP? Then it made sense.

Yu Ping’an thought about it. Bunny Tail Streaming’s request did have some conflict with Useful APP’s needs.

After all, excellent young lecturers and scholars were rare—these were precious resources. They usually had to teach and do research. Their spare time was already limited. Organizing materials for Useful APP or lecturing on Bunny Tail Streaming—they could probably only choose one.

Unless they were the rare super productive individuals.

This involved resource allocation. If Yu Ping’an readily agreed to Chen Yufeng’s request and ended up with all these young lecturers and scholars going to Bunny Tail Streaming for money, affecting Useful APP’s work, wouldn’t that be shooting himself in the foot?

Tenda departments did help each other unconditionally, but the premise was not to affect their own department’s work.

After considering for a moment, Yu Ping’an said: “How about this? Let me call Mr. Pei for instructions.”

“Let Mr. Pei decide on the specific allocation.”