408: Chapter 408 Infamous! Xinghuo Media's Black Market Influencer Shop!

After Su Yang finished the recruitment process, these talents arrived in Rongcheng one after another to join Linyi Film and Television.

By this time, the kickoff press conference for Linyi Film and Television's "only you in the whole world" had also concluded.

Seeing that the online reports regarding the press conference were quite positive, and seeing Chen Tao and "only you in the whole world" trending on hot searches, along with many netizens leaving comments of anticipation, he felt quite satisfied.

At the very least, the preliminary promotional work needed to be solid, which would also make it easier to sell the drama!

Besides this, Spark Media was also helping Tang Ximing increase his exposure!

Don't look at how down-and-out he is now; he was quite successful in his prime, having at least managed to reach the status of a second-tier actor.

There was still a portion of the audience who remembered him.

As long as his memory could be jogged, it would lay the foundation for his comeback and contribute to the drama's promotion!

Spark Media's strength in online promotional capabilities was still growing with each passing day.

Especially with the rise of a large number of competitive mid-tier influencers at Spark Media, combined with the influencers who had jumped ship to join Spark Media, the total number of influencers with over a million followers at Spark Media was nearing one hundred.

Two of the livestream shopping hosts had also made a name for themselves, and the other thirty-plus livestream shopping hosts with decent talent were also striving to improve!

Furthermore, the number of full-time employees at the branches in the northern city of Fengtian and in Shanghai had both exceeded one hundred, and they were already actively expanding their business.

The total number of peripheral self-media influencers signed with Spark Media had also broken through to six thousand.

They also controlled a vast number of accounts across various platforms... among which quite a few were involved in the entertainment industry!

Entertainment celebrity gossip was a major category in itself; after all, the public loved to consume news about stars and the wealthy!

The momentum of Spark Media's rise was very obvious!

Of course, the number of companies wanting to poach influencers signed to Spark Media was far lower than before.

For one, Spark Media's reputation had already been established.

When it came to incubating and cultivating influencers, they were recognized as one of the top in the industry, not much worse than the industry leaders.

After all, the resource advantages of industry leaders were more obvious, and sometimes cultivating influencers could truly be done by brute force!

Some MCN Companies that had partnerships with Spark Media would occasionally send people to Spark Media to learn from their experience.

And Spark Media's behind-the-scenes production team had also made a name for themselves within the industry!

It wasn't for any other reason, but mainly because the few million-follower influencers who had been poached would see their popularity and follower counts plummet within a period after leaving Spark Media!

They had clearly jumped ship to a larger MCN Company in the hope of achieving better development.

Yet after switching jobs, their follower count didn't increase but decreased instead.

From a million followers, they would directly plummet to nine hundred thousand or eight hundred thousand, and overall popularity data, livestream shopping sales, and advertising order performance data would also drop significantly—who could stand that!

There had already been a potential self-media blogger whom Su Yang had personally signed back in the day, who, after reaching a million followers and being poached to a new company, watched their follower count and various data plummet all the way, leading to a complete mental breakdown and an announcement of retirement from the internet...

Su Yang couldn't help it; after all, she had already left Spark Media.

That special buff of +50% follower attraction naturally became ineffective!

Without the attraction effect, some fans might feel the videos were boring and would simply unfollow.

Those fans who didn't unfollow would also gradually become inactive zombie fans!

Those old fans who left might leave a message when "unfollowing": "Your current videos have no appeal!"

"No creativity, feels boring..."

And various other comments!

In the industry's view, this was the result of that influencer losing the support of Spark Media's behind-the-scenes team.

This indirectly proved the strength of Spark Media's behind-the-scenes staff!

Moreover, Su Yang's Spark Media behind-the-scenes team was indeed a group of elites, all of whom he had personally recruited!

With first-class elites on average, plus a +30% content quality improvement buff, combined with sufficient rest time and near-top-tier salary and benefits in the industry... the quality of the content they produced was naturally very high!

Just ask yourself: between an employee who works 12 hours a day for low pay and an employee who works about eight hours a day for a generous salary, who is more likely to guarantee video content quality and creativity?

To be honest, some employees working 12 hours a day might not necessarily have a work efficiency that can keep up with Su Yang's elite employees who work eight hours a day!

Whether they are slacking off or not, everyone knows in their hearts!

As for poaching Spark Media's behind-the-scenes staff, there were a few who had been poached.

But so far, there hadn't been any instances of entire teams being poached.

After all, the average MCN Company couldn't offer such high salaries, nor could they provide corresponding benefits!

Many Spark Media employees stated that they had been spoiled rotten by their boss.

If they went to other companies, they definitely wouldn't be able to adapt!

Secondly, Spark Media's overall strength had increased, and with the appearance of Linyi Film and Television, Su Yang's ambition to enter the entertainment industry was clearly revealed, making those signed influencers even less willing to take the risk of leaving.

If Spark Media developed smoothly in the entertainment industry, the resources they could provide would be even more tempting!

Finally, there were very few MCN Companies willing to poach people from Spark Media now!

Aside from the large number of lackluster influencers who had flowed out of Spark Media in the early stages, causing significant losses to those MCN Companies that had poached them.

The remaining half of those poached from Spark Media, who were clearly developing well and had very strong momentum at their new MCN Companies, would also "inexplicably" and suddenly "crash and burn," leaving many MCN Companies both confused and furious!

There were those caught driving under the influence, those arrested for group activities involving "you-know-what," those who became addicted to drugs, those whose past improper remarks were dug up, those detained for fighting in bars, those who couldn't handle the pressure and became depressed wanting to retire from the internet, and those who wanted to go solo and ended up in court with their former companies...

All sorts of things, all kinds of bizarre cases.

Yet there was absolutely no evidence indicating that these events were orchestrated by Spark Media!

Su Yang indicated that when he performed Business Deduction, these influencers were prone to exploding.

Although they had changed environments, their "nature" was very hard to change!

And the new environment was likely not even as good as the environment at Spark Media!

Consequently, those MCN Company bosses all began to wonder if Spark Media had such good feng shui that it was blessed by the heavens!

Combined with the fact that the normal influencers who left Spark Media were very prone to plummeting popularity, causing heavy losses for the MCN Companies that poached them... after all, they were poached as million-follower influencers, and the breach of contract fees set by Spark Media were quite exorbitant!

This led to the "reputation" of Spark Media's signed influencers becoming somewhat notorious now.

Spark Media gradually gained the nickname of "Shady Influencer Shop" within the MCN circle!

Small companies couldn't afford to poach them, and large companies didn't really want to.

They also began to fear Spark Media's increasingly powerful strength and didn't want to cause unpleasantness.

It felt better to just poach those signed influencers from small companies who had already shown their strength.

Or find purely independent influencers who showed slight potential to cultivate!

Consequently, the entire internal group of signed influencers at Spark Media became relatively stable!

And Hongyu Law Firm, under Su Yang's name, also made a name for itself in the Rongcheng influencer circle, cultivating several young lawyers who were adept at helping influencers defend their rights; recently, some of them had even received business from Shanghai and Guangzhou!

It couldn't be helped; the batch of influencers Su Yang sold off were either those who were prone to causing trouble or those who easily got into disputes with MCN Companies!

Similar lawsuits were fought one after another, and after fighting them, they gained experience and fame!

Just two days after "only you in the whole world" started filming, Su Yang finally heard a pleasant notification sound:

[Ding~ The number of your Linyi Film and Television employees has reached one hundred. You have obtained the achievement reward: 3 Charisma Points, Acting Genius Talent; all buff bonuses for your film and television production company have been increased.]

[Ding~ Your Linyi Film and Television has obtained a special buff: +50% content quality improvement, +30% public attraction improvement.]