Chapter 89

The fourth recommendation.

By the time of the fifth recommendation.

The volume had already reached 600,000..

This is the last intelligent recommendation in Douyin's algorithm.

The recommendations after this.

Are no longer ordinary recommendations; they require manual intervention.

The sixth recommendation — the 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 view-count threshold!

This short video.

At seven in the morning, it crossed this threshold directly.

On Douyin's side, staff members also stepped in directly and gave it the sixth recommendation!

The sixth recommendation is different from the previous five.

This time, it has a direct chance to land on the homepage.

Put plainly, statistically speaking, when users open Douyin, the first thing they may scroll across could be this video.

Of course, there are still differences in probability.

The first-scroll probability for the sixth recommendation is 0.1 percentage points.

In other words, when Douyin's vast user base opens the app, the probability of this short video popping up first is one percent.

One percent doesn't sound like much.

But Douyin's user base, according to last year's statistics, is nearly six hundred million!

What's more, the sixth recommendation also has a bonus.

And that is the time slot.

Seven in the morning.

This is exactly when people have just woken up and are still lounging in bed.

Modern people always make it a habit to scroll through their phones for a few minutes after getting up.

So, after seven o'clock.

The effect of the recommendation exploded once again.

It lasted for twenty minutes.

At seven-twenty, this short video's view count had already reached an astonishing thirty million!

And the like count had also broken past three million!

And the accompanying effect that formed with it.

Was a massive wave of reposts and screen recordings.

Creating second, third, fourth… Nth rounds of spread.

By nine in the morning, this short video had completely exploded.

But the fire can still burn even fiercer!

Douyin's recommendations.

Are divided into nine tiers, from low to high.

After the sixth recommendation, the seventh and eighth should follow in due order.

But the staff of the business department.

Received word from above.

To skip the seventh and eighth directly.

And arrange the ninth, top-tier recommendation for this short video during tonight's peak user traffic — that is, during the one-hour window from nine-thirty to ten-thirty!

The ninth top-tier recommendation.

Is also called the "Heavenly Push"!

When the time comes, the first-scroll probability will jump directly to 50 percentage points!

In other words, when Douyin users open the app, at least half of them will scroll across this short video first!

But that's still not enough — there's also the investment of a massive traffic pool!

Making it easier for users who didn't see it to come across this video while scrolling Douyin!

And!

There's also the golden time slot — a full hour's boost!

Nine-thirty to ten-thirty — this is Douyin's all-network user peak!

After fermenting throughout the entire day today, everything will reach its absolute peak tonight!

The moves of the major platforms.

Naturally, they keep close tabs on one another.

Douyin's actions quickly caught the attention of Hu Ya's side.

Eight in the morning.

Hu Ya's business manager, Chen Xu, went directly through the PR department to contact the person in charge of Douyin's short-video business.

"Manager Chen, I understand what you mean, but I think — this isn't against the rules, nor is it illegal, is it?"

On the other end of the line, Douyin's short-video business lead was unbothered.

"This is a basic matter of industry ethics," Chen Xu said. "You know, this streamer named Brother Shiguang is our streamer at Hu Ya. What you're doing here — are you poaching talent, or poaching traffic?"

From the other end of the line came laughter.

"Manager Chen, you're being too serious. Speaking of which, business opportunities have always been there — it just depends on who grabs them first. As far as I know, this streamer has been live-streaming on your Hu Ya for quite some time now. Have you ever valued him?"

"We certainly value Brother Shiguang!" Manager Chen Xu said, "but one thing is one thing and another is another. The core of Shark is live-streaming content. You are using your short-video advantage to snatch resources from Shark's live-streaming content. This is highly unscrupulous. I am making this call today to inform your side that this could potentially trigger a legal dispute!"

"At that time, it would benefit neither of us!"

"Manager Chen, are you threatening me?"

"I am not threatening you; I am merely," Chen Xu paused, "stating the facts in advance."

"I welcome you, Shark, to take up the weapon of law to defend your own rights, but if we trace the source, this short video was not originally created by you, Shark, was it?"

"This is on-site content filmed by our own Douyin users with their own mobile phones."

"Admittedly, this streamer Mr. did indeed conduct this live stream on your Shark platform, but surely we cannot, on that account, deprive other people on-site of their right to film?"

"With all due respect," Chen Xu smiled, "filming in this manner constitutes an infringement of others' right to privacy, does it not?"

On the other end, the Douyin manager was not easily intimidated and retorted without yielding, "Admittedly so, but if no adverse consequences have been caused, and the person concerned has raised no objection, it should not count as such, should it?"

"You are going too far!" Chen Xu was somewhat angered.

"Does Shark really need this streamer Brother Shiguang that much?" the Douyin manager said slowly and deliberately.

This remark actually reminded Manager Chen Xu.

Chen Xu paused and also smiled, "Then I will remind you of one thing as well."

"Oh?"

"You do not suppose that this streamer Brother Shiguang needs you, Douyin, to pave the way for him, do you?"

On the Douyin end, they were very confident. "With all due respect, I actually do think so."

"Looking at the present day, let alone streamers, even those big stars, if we, Douyin, are willing to pave the way for them, they would be infinitely grateful!"

On the other end of the phone, Chen Xu laughed. "Do you really think so?"

"Is it not so?"

"In fact, we, Shark, do not even have this streamer Mr.'s contact information up to now! He, it seems, simply does not deign to walk any path paved for him by any of us."

"Stop spreading smoke screens."

"You can try it. Oh, by the way, on the Shark platform, Brother Shiguang's homepage has his contact information. You can give him a call and try." Chen Xu sneered.

Then, he hung up the phone.

What Chen Xu said was not false.

From the current situation,

this streamer named Brother Shiguang.

They need him more.

Rather than he needs them.

He, in fact, needs no person or faction.

This is a fundamental issue.