âHmm? So many files?â
After sitting down, Ye Lingchen saw that the table in front of him was full of documents.
Xiao Feifei raised her hand to rest her chin on it. She then said, âThese are all the entertainment newspapers that were talking about iPartment. Some others are documents sent by major advertisers. â
Many of the advertisements there had scoffed at iPartmentâs high asking price, but each of them now thought of increasing the price to buy it back.
âGoodness me, iPartment has received that much attention now?â
âThatâs right,â Xiao Feifei answered. âLook at these newspapers. Some of the contents have already begun analyzing iPartmentâs in-depth research reports and analysis reports. It isnât just the general public that watched our TV series. It even stunned many of the players in our industry.â
Ye Lingchen nodded and began curiously reading the newspapers on the table.
They were all major entertainment newspapers from that morning. It was obviously the company who ordered those newspapers and attention must be paid to it every day. Feifei Xiao subscribed to all types of morning newspapers, and the largest page space of each newspaper was given to iPartment. It was very eye-catching.
[Shocking! Banana TV strikes back!]
[iPartmentâs counterattack! Waves of rave reviews!]
[Actor Y once again produced a miracle. Will you still question him?]
[How will iPartmentâs ratings fare? Will they have the last laugh?]
[Taking comedy to a whole new level! This is the definition of comedy!]
[iPartment came out with style! Will it usher in a new era of slice-of-life comedy?]
[A sky-high price for their network premiere copyright! Is Actor Y inflating the price?!]
[Can iPartmentâs quality be maintained? Weâll wait and see!]
Ye Lingchen touched his nose and could not resist smiling. âTheyâre exaggerating it too much. Theyâre so good at fabricating things.â
Xiao Feifei replied, âItâs not like youâre not familiar with how the news media is. They just love sensationalizing. Their priority is to catch your attention first, so the more eye-catching a piece of news is, the better. Generally, theyâll always exaggerate and overemphasize a good piece of news to infinite proportions, but if there are any errors, theyâre the first ones to step all over you and slander you!â
Ye Lingchen nodded. That was precisely how the media conducted themselves.
It was foreseeable that iPartment would inevitably be criticized and condemned if their ratings dropped or their quality deteriorated in the future. Such was the media, where all kinds of foul comments would appear!
Ye Lingchen did not regard the media as kind and eye-catching just because he saw the good news.
At the same time, the heated discussion on the internet had not stopped since the previous night.
Even at three or four in the morning, many netizens were still talking about the iPartment contents and discussing the punchlines. Some kinder individuals made highlights of all the hilarious bits, including all the engaging quotes from iPartment.
However, the topic that everyone was most concerned with was the ratings, whether it was the casual observer or major television stations. How much would they get in terms of their rating?
[What in the world are they doing right now. Why hasnât it come out yet?]
[Are those statistics people slacking off? Their efficiency is just too low!]
[iPartmentâs ratings wonât be too bad. In any case, I think itâs a good watch!]
[F*ck man, Iâve been refreshing the ratings but it just wonât come out!]
[When will it come out! Canât they be reliable? I spent my time just waiting for this!]
[Speed, speed, speed!]
[What time did they go to work? In this kind of situation, shouldnât they calculate it overnight without sleeping?]
[Actually, how much are the ratings? Iâm freaking anxious right now!]
[The TV series released at the same time canât be compared with iPartment. Their ratings will definitely be blown out of the water. Iâm so looking forward to it.]
[Upstairs, youâre too optimistic. Iâd like to first disclose that Iâm not trying to say anything bad about iPartment. Iâm a factual truth-seeker and I want everyone to be mentally prepared. Generally, the first episode of the program wonât be too good, unless itâs a famous piece of intellectual property or something that many people look forward to even before the broadcast. The basis for this is that it must have a certain audience base, but iPartment didnât even have a good following before its release. Banana TVâs audience base is even more worrying. I think episode 3 or 4 may have a 1% rating, but yesterdayâs ratings should not exceed 0.9%!]
[Expert! The analysis upstairs makes sense.]
[I also agree that the quality of iPartment is very good, but not so good that it could go against reality!]
[0.9% is already awesome enough. If its quality doesnât drop in the future, it will definitely be frightening.]
[That canât be. I love it so much and it should be at least 1%.]
[Thatâs baseless! But everything else is possible. Itâs good enough that it caused so many heated discussions.]
There were many experts in the discussion and each of them was carefully analyzing everything.
Soon, the viewership voting activity appeared on Weibo again. The viewership ratings of several major television series were once again taken out for a vote. On that occasion, the support rate of iPartment increased significantly unlike the last time, and many people even guessed it would surpass For My Love and Palace.
[Netizens are crazy! Some people even think that the ratings of iPartment could reach one-point-three percent!]
[Diehard fans, Iâm here to make a post waging war. Yesterday, the ratings of iPartment werenât as good as For My Love and Palace. The prerequisite to surpassing us in the future is that you must maintain your quality. Do you really think the ratings are something to be played around with?]
[Why is that impossible? Iâll support iPartment and their ratings will be number 1!]
[Exactly! We canât lose the momentum! I think it can exceed 2%!]
[Upstairs, good job.]
There were plenty of supporters and everyone was arguing incessantly, but the most voted range was between 0.7% and 1%.
The ratings of For My Love was the same as that of Palace, which was estimated to be between 0.8% and 1.1% .
âLooks like many netizens are very supportive of us!â Ye Lingchen could not help but smile when he looked at the discussion on the Internet. There were times where he thought that netizens were very cute.
For him, the previous nightâs ratings were not important at all. One should always see the long-term performance of a TV series and the subsequent word-of-mouth. In fact, the initial ratings did not represent anything.
As for the other major television channels.
âHow is it? Are the ratings out yet?â
âNot yet! Soon.â
âHey, did you read the discussions on the Internet?â
âI did. How ridiculous. Theyâre all a bunch of laymen joining in the fun.â
âTheyâre laymen, without a doubt. There are even people who say that iPartment will surpass For My Love but they didnât even look at how far behind it is in terms of public foundation.â
âJust treat it as though itâs something to humor you.â
âiPartment may be dancing happily now, but this type of TV series collapses easily. If the quality of their later episodes isnât good, itâll be impossible to surpass For My Love!â
âIf you take out all the exaggerating and the badmouthing, how much do you think it would be?â
âMaybe zero-point-nine percent.â
âMm, it should be around that number.â
âIt remains to be seen if the ratings can exceed zero-point-nine percent. After all, this is just the first episode!â
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