Chapter 415: Chapter 249 Perfect Transition_2
Besides being work colleagues, the few of us also shared a profound revolutionary friendship, so Wang Yan and Han Qiang informed Zhang Yang of this matter immediately.
"Damn! Playing dirty with me! You’ve chosen the wrong person! Since the gloves are off, let’s make it bigger!" Zhang Yang pondered for a long time, gritted his teeth, and came up with a sly idea.
Soon, under the instruction of Zhang Yang, Han Qiang and Wang Yan returned the call to the poachers, expressing that they might consider jumping ship! But the specific contract details need further negotiation.
The other party, who got a positive response, immediately informed Zhang Xiaoming. As the instigator, Zhang Xiaoming had worked hard for this moment and seemed to see an opportunity with these quality streamers.
As for Zhang Yang’s side? The consideration was fake; the delay was real!
Starting that evening, the accounts of Black Pit Jianghu and Wild Fishing Jianghu began very rare indoor live streaming!
The core demand was simple: without mentioning specific sensitive terms, they engaged in free raffle interaction, continuously, to try and channel as much traffic as possible to the new platform account, squeezing the maximum value out of these two accounts on the Yingke platform!
For the next week, Han Qiang and Wang Yan would engage in seemingly formal talks with the brokerage company every day. Meanwhile, during the day, in the late afternoon and evening, there were two outdoor streams and one indoor summary stream, filling up the live broadcast schedule completely.
With the investment of nearly six figures in prizes and high-intensity streaming, the followers of the new Kuaishou account skyrocketed at a rate of over ten thousand per day.
A week later, the Kuaishou account’s followers successfully broke through the 100,000 mark, while over at Zhang Xiaoming’s side, they were slow to catch on.
The poaching efforts were futile; there were issues with one clause or dissatisfaction with another detail, going back and forth without reaching any consensus. Instead, the bold traffic diversion operations continued unabated.
Feeling that he was being made a fool of, Zhang Xiaoming got thoroughly mad and directly used his authority to temporarily suspend Zhang Yang’s streaming account under the pretense of indirect traffic diversion through multi-platform streaming.
The account suspension was for 72 hours, or three days!
Initially intending to give Zhang Yang’s side a shock, Zhang Yang was much tougher than they expected. On the very day of the account suspension, he published a letter to the Yingke fans and brothers via WeChat Official Account!
In the letter, Zhang Yang detailed the long-term unfair treatment his team received on the Yingke platform, such as being given the cold shoulder, having their permissions restricted, and the ins and outs of the poaching incident.
The content included not only a written description of the events but also provided some call recordings, WeChat communication screenshots, and other evidence, firmly nailing the high-level executives at Yingke for using underhanded tactics to pressure streamers into signing contracts!
At the end of the open letter, Zhang Yang’s team confidently stated that starting from the day of the suspension, the sister accounts of Black Pit Jianghu and Wild Fishing Jianghu officially announced that they gave up the live streaming accounts on the Yingke platform and would fully migrate to Kuaishou platform for fishing content live streaming.
The open letter sent the live-viewing fans into a frenzy!
Since Zhang Yang started in self-media, his public image has been very hardcore, an absolutely skilled outdoor fishing host without any blemishes to be criticized.
Many people might not pay much attention to live streaming usually, but occasionally checked updates on the WeChat Public Account, and these longstanding positive reputations all turned into support for Zhang Yang at this moment.
Within less than a day, the comment section under the open letter received over ten thousand comments, with the heat continuing to ferment.
The unscrupulous platform’s oppression and coercion of streamers was solidly established, and Zhang Yang’s team, as the victims, enjoyed a wave of support from followers and indeed gained numerous substantial benefits.
In the following three days, due to the heat brought by the open letter incident, the new Kuaishou account increased by more than fifty thousand followers, reaching a total of 150,000 followers in a short time.
It seemed like they lost accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, but Zhang Yang clearly knew that the fragile period of transitioning between old and new platforms had successfully passed.
Through two rounds of fan migration, from the WeChat Official Account to Yingke, and then from Yingke to Kuaishou, most of the current account followers were those highly enthusiastic hardcore loyal fans.
The fan base seemed to have decreased, but it was all elite!
The new account succeeded in getting started, and subsequently, Zhang Yang gathered everyone from the team together for a new round of workflow arrangement in the upcoming period.
This account migration did not consciously distinguish between different categories of Black Pit and Wild Fishing, but directed all fans to a new account called Rising Star Outdoor Fishing.
This also marked a milestone for Zhang Yang’s company, signifying a shift from a focus on black pit bait and minor meds, which started it all, to a large-scale comprehensive fishing tackle company.
The team members remained the same, but the accounts merged from two into one, resulting in significant changes in the daily live streaming tasks.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the account will start reservoir fishing live streaming during the day, while on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, Wang Yan and Zhou Chu will stream black pit fishing.
As for 8 PM, most of the time Zhang Yang will conduct indoor live streaming, answering various fishing questions from anglers on-site, etc.
With this reorganization, the reservoir fishing segment, black pit segment, and fishing skills sharing segment clearly delineated their roles, developing stably and orderly.
Having talked about Zhang Yang’s situation, let’s go back to Zhang Xiaoming.
After the poaching incident was thoroughly exposed, Zhang Xiaoming, as the main perpetrator, fell into a media storm due to the highly improper nature of the incident, which also harmed the platform’s foundations.
Seeing the increasingly intense media ferment, the platform’s senior management, unable to withstand the immense pressure, chose to sacrifice a pawn to save the king, pushing out Zhang Xiaoming as the scapegoat.
The Yingke live streaming platform officially issued an apology letter, announcing the dismissal of Zhang Xiaoming as the main person responsible and genuinely inviting Zhang Yang’s team to return to the platform to continue live streaming!
The result, naturally, was pointless; a good horse doesn’t turn back for old pastures.
In Zhang Yang’s understanding and development plan, the Yingke live streaming had completed its phased historical mission and was destined to decline.
After the turbulence of platform transition, time unknowingly reached the end of October.
With fewer and fewer suitable weather conditions for outdoor fishing in the North, Zhang Yang’s team began a new round of optimization for their live streaming content.
The reservoir fish species adjusted from large fish like grass carp and carp to larger crucian carp, which can withstand lower temperatures, while the black pit, after a significant temperature drop, moved directly to a newly opened indoor shed locally.
From late autumn to the end of the year, it was a period of steady development for Zhang Yang’s team.
The gradually on-track Kuaishou live streaming platform developed very well, and by the year’s end, when the company went on vacation, the Kuaishou account follower count had surpassed the 400,000 mark, solidifying its status as the leading outdoor fishing host on Kuaishou.
Amidst Zhang Yang Company’s business adjustments and the transformation of live streaming accounts, Meng Fan and Liu Zi brothers were also in a period of rapid growth in their fishing skills.
Zhang Yang was responsible for providing technical guidance, while the young brothers dedicated most of their time to rigorous competitive fishing training and competitions.
During the few months of autumn and winter, they participated in more than a dozen various competitions, and although they did not win many prizes, their understanding in training and technical improvements through real matches had big advancements.
When the winter competitions reduced, the brothers would huddle in the local practice shed, competing with other competitive anglers, rapidly growing in fishing skills and competition experience.
With fewer live content during winter, Zhang Yang and Zhao Bingguang didn’t stay idle; they carefully reviewed the company’s product line and launched a new batch of classic fishing tackles, aiming directly at the upcoming Tianjin Meijiang Fishing Tackle Exhibition in spring.
Briefly putting aside the short New Year holiday and visits to relatives during the New Year period, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, the company officially resumed work.
2016, a new year has begun!