Pei Qian was speechless.
The 2 million yuan sponsorship wasn’t much, considering that Mr. Pei was giving foreign clubs sponsorships of 1 million dollars each.
But the key point was that the DGE Club wasn’t like those long-established clubs. They couldn’t compete in tournaments and didn’t have much exposure. Who would be bored enough to sponsor them?
Could they even recover this money?
Pei Qian calmed down a bit and opened the picture Zhang Yuan had sent to look at it again, finding the keywords: YiYi Live Streaming.
“Why would a streaming platform sponsor DGE Club?”
“Could it be…”
Pei Qian suddenly realized the situation was not good.
DGE Club indeed couldn’t participate in official tournaments, but nothing said they couldn’t stream on platforms!
Streaming platforms came with built-in exposure!
This was a very dangerous signal that needed intervention!
Pei Qian understood clearly that in a few months to a year, various domestic investors would enter the market, and streaming platforms would pop up like bamboo shoots after rain, starting a crazy money-burning war.
Many streamers’ status would rise during this period, even resulting in many sky-high contracts!
What if DGE Club had such a streaming genius?
Pei Qian felt somewhat relieved. Fortunately, Zhang Yuan had exposed this early, so there seemed to be room to salvage the situation.
He quickly took a car to the DGE Club.
…
After arriving at the DGE Club, Pei Qian carefully examined the contract.
Zhang Yuan stood nearby, seeing that Mr. Pei was reading very seriously, and couldn’t help letting his imagination run wild.
“It seems Mr. Pei cares about DGE Club’s profitability. He rushed over as soon as he heard the news!”
“And he’s reading the contract so carefully. Is he worried there might be some trap in the contract and wants to double-check?”
“I didn’t take a cut from Huang Wang’s streaming contract. I wonder if Mr. Pei supports my approach.”
After a while, Pei Qian put down the contract.
Zhang Yuan quickly tested the waters: “Mr. Pei, I didn’t take a cut from Huang Wang’s streaming contract, mainly because…”
Pei Qian raised his hand: “Hmm, you did the right thing on this matter!”
“Are there any other team members who want to sign streaming contracts?”
Zhang Yuan shook his head: “No more. YiYi Live Streaming signed with Huang Wang mainly because they saw his potential as a streamer: skilled, talkative, with a good physique and image. Most of our other team members don’t have the second quality, and they’re not very entertaining in games, so in the streaming platforms’ view, they don’t have as much commercial value. Even if they could sign, they wouldn’t get as much as 2 million.”
Pei Qian relaxed a bit.
Good!
Zhang Yuan’s understanding of Tenda’s spirit was somewhat useful.
Since the club didn’t take a cut from Huang Wang’s 2 million contract, it had nothing to do with him.
With this precedent, even if other team members signed with streaming platforms, it wouldn’t affect the club. Moreover, other team members definitely couldn’t sign such big contracts.
However, there was still a hidden threat. What if Huang Wang had a great effect while streaming and accumulated a large number of fans, indirectly obtaining a lot of attention for DGE Club?
So, this person was a hidden danger!
Pei Qian silently made a note. This kind of excellent employee and major hidden trouble would need to be properly addressed at some point.
Not now though—there was no opportunity, and the situation wasn’t that urgent yet. It could be dealt with in the long term.
Currently, more urgent was the issue of the DGE Club’s sponsorship fees!
If YiYi Live Streaming had sponsored them, they must have thought sponsoring DGE Club was profitable, most likely due to DGE Club’s status as “Tenda’s favored child.”
With sponsors, once there’s a first, there will be a second. One of humanity’s essences is to repeat.
Two million wasn’t much, but what if there were several two million?
That would be very awkward.
Pei Qian created the DGE Club to burn money. If they could offset all expenses with sponsorships, wouldn’t that be a waste of effort?
Of course, Pei Qian could choose to frantically shower the DGE Club with bottomless pit-style money. After all, there were plenty of places to spend it. But it must be recognized that bottomless pit-style spending would also greatly increase outside attention, possibly sending the wrong signals.
Then others might also frantically raise prices and blindly sponsor. What then?
This possibility existed.
So, the sponsorship issue had to be nipped in the bud.
It wasn’t reasonable not to accept sponsorships, but controlling the number would be fine, right?
Pei Qian considered for a moment and said, “DGE Club can accept at most three sponsors at the same time.”
“Only three places on the uniform can print sponsors’ logos: the right chest and the upper arms.”
“All sponsor logos must be small, with length and width not exceeding 15cm.”