256: Section 256

However, looking at the current market situation, Pony almost without any hesitation, directly said, “Since that’s the case, let’s temporarily abandon the community group buying layout.”

“The market potential in the takeout field is not comparable to that of community group buying.”

“Otherwise, why would Wang Mo initially say that he developed a group buying and takeout software, instead of saying it’s a lifestyle group buying and community group buying software?”

“If the potential of community group buying were truly comparable to takeout, then Meituan wouldn’t have waited until now to launch it.”

Listening to Pony, the others also nodded.

Most of their choices were in this direction.

After all, the potential of the takeout field has already been revealed considerably.

The standalone takeout software Ele.me already boasts over ten million daily active users.

This is enough to illustrate the vast blue ocean in the takeout sector.

As for this so-called community group buying, they had never heard of it before, so naturally, they had no interest.

Not to mention now.

Their market share in the takeout market is tied for second with Baidu Takeout.

It's important to know that Baidu Takeout and Ele.me are both software specifically for takeout, and yet the takeout feature of Penguin Group Buying has already managed to catch up with them, which is enough to show how exaggerated Penguin Group Buying's strength in the takeout field is.

At this moment, Pony’s voice rang out again.

“However, even if we temporarily cannot copy the Meituan Select feature, this feature shouldn’t cause much of a stir.”

“This feature, at most, will just be the icing on the cake for Meituan; it won’t have any decisive impact on the Thousand Group Battle.”

After Pony finished speaking, everyone else nodded again.

And after confirming that they temporarily couldn't copy the Meituan Select feature, Penguin Group Buying's internal attitude towards this feature became one of wait-and-see.

No one could have imagined how exaggerated the influence of this feature would ultimately be.

Besides Penguin Group Buying, other contenders in the Thousand Group Battle, after evaluation, also found that they similarly couldn't launch or copy this feature in a short period.

Therefore, Meituan Select became the only community group buying feature on the market.

Just as the outside world thought Meituan wouldn't invest too much effort into this feature, on the tenth day after Meituan’s entire large-scale promotion, Meituan’s promotional direction began to fully shift to the Select feature within Meituan!

Chapter 182: Main Promotion of Select Feature, Live Inspection!

Originally, before this, Meituan’s promotional direction was still focused on conventional group buying.

It was still promoting in the daily life and leisure sector, and various advertisements were also in this direction.

Although Meituan’s large-scale promotion began after the Select feature appeared, the Select feature was rarely mentioned in Meituan’s advertisements.

It was precisely because of this situation that many people believed that Meituan’s internal priority for the Select feature was not high.

After all, Meituan Takeaway had appeared several times, but Meituan Select was like a child without a mother; besides users discovering it by clicking into the feature interface themselves, there was no other way to know about it.

So many people didn't know Meituan had a new feature.

However, just as the outside world thought Meituan didn't value the Meituan Select feature, Meituan's promotional efforts suddenly shifted entirely to this aspect.

The day before, the major variety shows sponsored by Meituan were still talking about Meituan's advertisements, but the next day, these advertisements changed to promoting various aspects of Meituan Select.

Regarding Meituan itself, it was only briefly mentioned with “they have what I have too,” and then the focus heavily shifted to promoting the Select feature.

Almost overnight, Meituan’s promotional direction changed so thoroughly.

This situation left many people bewildered for a time.

After all, such treatment was something even the Meituan Takeaway feature had never enjoyed.

Many people then realized that Meituan hadn't promoted this feature before because something bigger was coming.

Meituan's actions also made many people suspect whether everyone had underestimated the potential of this feature; otherwise, why would Meituan promote it on such a large scale in this direction?

For a time, many other contenders in the Thousand Group Battle began to feel a bit worried.

However, because they did not have the qualifications for offline operations, they could only hope that this feature would not have the influence they anticipated.

And after Meituan began to massively promote the community group buying feature, more and more users became aware of and started using this feature.

Under such circumstances, the number of users for Meituan Select’s feature began to increase crazily.

One week after Meituan shifted its promotional direction, on a regular morning at nine o'clock, A Niu, the tech blogger, uncharacteristically opened his live stream.

After moving to the Douyin live streaming platform, A Niu's fan count had increased significantly, and the number of viewers for each live stream was much higher than when he was on Douyu.

Seeing A Niu suddenly start streaming early today, many fans who poured into the live stream couldn't help but ask, “A Niu, what’s going on today? Why are you streaming so early?”

“Exactly, usually it’s in the evening, isn’t it?”

Facing the questions in the bullet comments, A Niu smiled.

“I have something on tonight, so I can’t stream.”

“So I’m doing it in the morning instead.”

“I’ll probably stream until around noon, twelve o’clock.”

Listening to A Niu, the bullet comments didn't continue to dwell on it.

A Niu then entered his usual game streaming session.

Although he calls himself a tech blogger, most of his live streaming time is spent playing games.

However, because the time was different from usual, the number of people in the live stream in the morning was also a bit lower.

After continuing to stream for more than an hour, A Niu suddenly received a call.

Because he was still playing the game, A Niu directly put the phone on speakerphone beside him, so all the viewers in the live stream could hear the words of the person on the other end of the phone.

“Have you gone out?”