my return 2002

Chapter 219 A Magical Summer
On May 2005, 5, at the audition site in the Rongcheng competition area, a capable girl with a neutral dress and short hair appeared in front of the TV and sang a song "I only have you without him in my heart", maybe even this girl didn't think of it , She walked into the memories of countless people in this era.

This song with a very different style actually came from the 50s. It is a work of a Panamanian composer. It was spread to China and was covered by Liu Wenzheng and Teresa Teng, but few people have actually heard this song.

On such a crude stage, sung by a girl who looks a little "weird" and whose singing skills are a little immature, everything seems so logical again.

This girl is called Li Yuchun, she is popular, and not just popular in Rongcheng, as Li Yuchun passed all the way to enter the top ten competition in Rongcheng, her fans have spread all over the country, fans in some places even took the initiative to support, self-made Various posters took to the streets to win votes for her.

In fact, the Rongcheng competition area is a very strong competition area. Players such as Zhang Liangying and He Jie in the same competition area are better than Li Yuchun in terms of singing skills and external conditions, but in terms of popularity, Li Yuchun is the best.

On this day, when Shen Lang came back from the company, he found that Feng Xiaoxiao and Yuan Quan were both there, and they were both nervously staring at the TV.

Shen Lang curiously went up to take a look, the two of them were actually watching the top ten match in the Chengdu Division.

"You guys actually watch this?" Shen Lang was a little puzzled. In his impression, those who like to watch Super Girl should be those who dream of being a star, like Feng Xiaoxiao and Yuan Quan who are highly educated and have a job. For girls who have experienced it, it shouldn't be attractive.

Feng Xiaoxiao smiled and stretched out his hand to Shen Lang: "Bring me the phone, I will vote for Li Yuchun in a while."

Shen Lang took out his mobile phone, but he didn't give it to her directly, but asked curiously: "Can you tell me why you like her?"

"Because she accomplished what I always wanted to do but didn't have the courage to do it." Feng Xiaoxiao tilted her head and said with a smile.

Shen Lang suddenly realized that this year's Super Girl was criticized by many people later on. For example, Zhang Liangying was clearly top-notch both in appearance and singing skills, but she only won the third place. On the contrary, Li Yuchun, who won the championship, was very ordinary in all aspects. .

After listening to Feng Xiaoxiao's words, Shen Lang realized that the reason why Li Yuchun's popularity is so high lies in her "ordinary". That's a more professional game, but it's too far away from ordinary people.

And this year's Super Girl is unprecedented in scale and momentum. According to Mango TV, 15 people across the country signed up for the audition.

Ordinary girls appear in front of the TV. They may perform poorly, sing out of tune, or even be too nervous to speak, but they are better than most people who only dare to point fingers in front of the TV. , much more courageous.

Many people would be nervous even standing on the podium in front of familiar classmates, let alone facing so many TV viewers across the country?

Another important point is that although Li Yuchun was a little green at the beginning, she has a big heart, and her stage performance is getting better and better. The thrill of becoming.

Watching her move forward step by step, gritted her teeth to cheer for her, canvassing votes for her, not just for her, but more for her dream that she didn't have the courage to realize.

"Shh, it's starting."

The TV screen flashed, and the top ten competition in Chengdu officially started.

The host first read some sponsorship advertisements of Mengniu and YY, and then began to announce the voting numbers of the ten contestants.

"Mobile users: Send ** to . to support your favorite contestants. In addition, our online voting channel has also been opened. You can log in to YY to enter the Super Girl Voting Zone and vote for the contestants."

Yuan Quan and Feng Xiaoxiao looked at Shen Lang in surprise: "Isn't Mengniu the title sponsor of this show? Why do you think YY has more advertisements?"

"Mengniu only spent 400 million, and I spent a total of 3000 million. What do you think?" Shen Lang spread his hands.

"Is this the banknote ability?"

Feng Xiaoxiao took out his laptop as he spoke. After logging in to YY, he saw a Super Girl advertisement on the top. After clicking on it, he entered the voting section.

"Ah, why can I only cast five votes?" Feng Xiaoxiao pouted.

Shen Lang is also a little helpless about this. Mango TV and mobile operators have too much interest in SMS voting. At the beginning, Mango TV was only willing to give one ticket to one account. After several negotiations, they agreed to give five votes .

Feng Xiaoxiao rolled his eyes: "Then I will register another account."

Almost at the same time, a large number of users began to flood into the website for YY registered accounts. At first, Liang Han didn't take it too seriously, thinking it was just a burst of excitement, and it would be fine after it passed, but Liang Han soon realized that something was wrong, and the background displayed The server is under increasing pressure.

There was no other way, Liang Han could only connect to the backup server in advance, and at the same time dialed Shen Lang's number.

"Mr. Shen, should we restrict user account registration? Many of these users are only registering for voting. This will take up a lot of our server resources."

Shen Lang directly rejected his plan: "Let them go and let them register. Now is the time for us to increase the number of users. Even if one account out of a hundred accounts can be converted into a long-term user, it is worthwhile."

"But...the backup server has already been opened, but it seems to me that there are not a lot of registered users. I'm afraid the server will go down if this continues." Liang Han said with a wry smile.

"How about this, YY space hasn't been released yet, you connect the server of YY space first, and I will ask Mr. Lei to re-purchase later."

"Okay, I see."

Liang Han and YY's technical staff began to get busy. Debugging and connecting to the server was not an easy job, especially the running server.

After Shen Lang made the phone call here, Feng Xiaoxiao had already registered five YY numbers and voted for Li Yuchun, and Yuan Quan also used up the voting quotas for each of the fifteen text messages on three mobile phones. Really clear.

Shen Lang had no interest in the talent show, but he patiently accompanied them to the end. Sure enough, Li Yuchun entered the top seven in the Chengdu competition with an absolute advantage of 2 votes ahead of No.[-].

The three sisters who were eliminated were crying bitterly. Speaking of which, the competition system of Super Girls is actually quite cruel. If you want to enter the top ten in the country and compete for the final championship, you must first get at least the top three results in this division, and the division The champion will advance directly, and the second and third place will compete with the second and third places from other divisions for the final five spots.

It was too late after watching the game, so Yuan Quan stayed and slept with Feng Xiaoxiao, and Shen Lang could only guard the empty room alone.

The next day, Shen Lang was woken up by the ringing of his mobile phone. He wiped his eyes in a daze, and saw that the time was only seven o'clock, so he yelled at the other end of the phone angrily: "Who? Let people sleep?"

"Mr. Shen, we are going to be popular, YY is going to be popular!" Liang Han's exhausted and excited voice came from the other end of the phone.

Shen Lang woke up suddenly: "How is it, how many users were added last night?"

"130 million, a full 130 million new users! And the retention rate is not bad. On average, one of the twenty accounts is online for more than an hour."

No wonder Liang Han was so excited. You must know that YY currently has only 3000 million registered users. What is the concept of an increase of 130 million in one night?Although the retention rate of these users is a little bit low, it is enough. This is only the first round of the top ten competition in one division, and there are five divisions in the country.

The final final of Super Girl will not end until the end of August. There is no doubt that YY will become the fastest-growing communication software in China during these three months.

Later in the competition in the Yangcheng competition area, a girl with the same slightly neutral dress quickly stood out and gained countless fans. Her name is Zhou Bichang.

The "Liberation" she sang directly surpassed the original singer Zhang Huimei, making many people think that this song is her original song.

Just like the hot weather in midsummer, the talent show Super Girl was not favored by many people at the beginning, and it became popular in one fell swoop. In terms of the scale of the competition, the influence, and the popularity of the contestants, it far surpassed any previous talent show.

With this column, Mango Satellite TV has completely established the status of the first brother of local satellite TV. Many companies that have rejected the sponsorship of Mango Satellite TV before regretted it.

The two biggest sponsors of Super Girl, Mengniu and YY, became the biggest winners this summer.

The "yogurt" that Mengniu mainly promoted was once sold out of stock, and the turnover in May and June alone increased by 2.7 times.

In the past two months, through online and offline publicity, the number of YY user registrations has exceeded 500 million, and the number of online users has exceeded [-] million. Although it is only one-third of QQ, it has also successfully counterattacked Fetion and QQ. MSN, successfully sits on the second throne of instant messaging software in the Mainland.

There was an uproar in the public opinion for a while. At the beginning, everyone was paying attention to the battle between QQ and MSN. public software.

However, what is unexpected is that, in just two months, YY has broken the pattern of the instant messaging software duo competing for hegemony.

For a while, QQ and MSN were at a loss for this sudden opponent.

MSN conducted a survey on YY, combined with the survey results, MSN executives came to a conclusion that YY was just lucky to bet on an inexplicable talent show, and I don’t know whether to spend too much energy on it, or to focus on it Deal with QQ.

In fact, it is no wonder that MSN dismisses YY. At this time, the main user group of YY is generally between 10 and 25 years old, and 90% of them are underage post-70s. Many of them are registered on YY because of Super Girl Account, the retention rate of the account is not high, and many of them only log in on weekends.

On the contrary, MSN users are all white-collar users, with high user stickiness, who are online almost every day. Moreover, these white-collar users have stronger financial strength, and it is easier to monetize traffic.

Compared with MSN's "optimistic attitude", Penguin is not so relaxed.

The rise of YY was unexpected by all of them, and it was still in this way. The executives who had been negotiating with Penguin on Mango TV had already buried their heads under the table.

Although Xiao Ma was also very annoyed, he didn't vent his anger on others. Thinking in another way, who would have thought that such an ugly-looking talent show would be so popular?

"Okay, now is not the time to pursue responsibility, everyone talk about how to deal with YY!"

Brother Xiaoma's voice was a little anxious. In fact, he had been paying attention to Shen Lang a long time ago, especially after YY appeared. However, YY's tepid performance gave him an illusion: maybe, he really looks like Shen Lang. So, is it just to provide services to gamers?

Zhang Zhidong knocked on the table, and shouted a little irritably: "What's wrong? Everyone, don't they usually have ideas? Why are you dumb now?"

A single MSN has already made him burnt out, and now YY has popped up. Penguin's stock price has been falling all the way these days, and it has shrunk by 15%. If it continues like this, it will seriously affect investors' confidence.

Some executives asked: "Can we contact Mango TV and launch advertisements?"

This plan has been approved by many executives. The influence of Super Girl is too great. If you can't beat it, then join it.

Brother Xiao Ma also looked at the executives of the Propaganda Department, but the latter shook his head with a bitter face.

"I have contacted Mango TV before, but they said that they signed an exclusive agreement with Zhulang Technology, and no other instant messaging software can be allowed to appear in any form of Super Girl's advertisement."

Many executives looked at each other, and the meeting room was dead silent.

Brother Xiao Ma and Zhang Zhidong looked at each other, smiled wryly and shook his head, this is indeed Shen Lang's style, not giving the opponent any chance to exploit loopholes.

"I think everyone should have seen that YY is not an easy opponent to deal with. It may even be more difficult to deal with than MSN, because it knows the mainland better and understands us better."

Brother Xiao Ma took a deep breath, and said in a heavy tone: "So, we need to change our thinking now, put MSN aside first, and deal with YY with all our strength, at least, we can't let it continue to grow and develop!"

"Believe me, once it fully grows, it will definitely be our confidant!"

At this time, no one felt that Brother Xiaoma was scaremongering. YY's momentum was too strong, and it had already seriously threatened the status of QQ.

"I remember that QQ Voice has been released for a few months. Why are users so infrequent now?" Brother Xiao Ma asked his name with a gloomy face.

An executive raised his hand and said helplessly: "QQ users are still accustomed to direct video chat, and there is not much demand for voice chat rooms. YY users are mainly gamers, and it is difficult for us to leverage."

Brother Xiao Ma is very dissatisfied with this answer: "Nothing is immovable. The reason why we can't attract users shows that our QQ voice is not good enough. From now on, your team will try our best to tap the potential of QQ voice. , if you can't do it, then leave, penguins don't raise waste!"

(End of this chapter)