episode_0385
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An officetel located on the outskirts of Seoul.
Warm sunlight pours in through the half-open blackout curtains. Sunlight shining precisely on the face of a woman lying on the bed. The warmth made the slim, oval-shaped face, pointed nose, and pretty red lips tremble.
The thin eyelashes slowly lifted upward, revealing dark brown eyes. As the woman stood up and stretched her slender arms upward, the blanket slipped away, revealing her curvy body under the sunlight.
It was only after the sun rose in the sky that she opened her eyes to its warmth, and her true identity was Sarah. He was a streamer who had a relationship with Minho, who was embroiled in controversy over nuclear weapons, and at the same time, he was the person who was saved by Minho when a stalker broke into his house.
Sarah moved out of the house she had temporarily found at the time and moved into a comfortable officetel.
An elegant flower pot was placed at the entrance, and indirect lights that detect movement and cute props were installed in the entrance hall.
When you enter the living room, there is a comfortable sofa and rug, so you can comfortably entertain friends or family gatherings at any time.
And warm sunlight was shining diagonally through the large window on one wall.
It was a change that made the interior of the house where Sarah previously lived feel somewhat bleak.
Sarah made coffee in the kitchen, feeling the sunlight coming through the window. The warm scent of coffee tickled her nose as she woke up.
“Mmmm~”
I hummed and followed the same routine as always, grabbing a cup of coffee and sitting in front of the computer. She always woke up like this and drank a cup of coffee while doing non-broadcast work.
While she was sleeping, Sarah was checking new issues and emails when she saw a title that caught her interest.
[Inquiries regarding promotion of new games and Star Capital]
‘Star Capital?’
It was a game that Sarah had also heard of.
‘I said it was a recently released shooting game set in space… ‘
Deciding that it wasn’t a fishing email, she clicked on the title.
Click
Hello Sarah.
We are the promotional team for Star Capital, a new game that was recently released. We are moved by Sarah’s outstanding influencer activities and great influence, so we would like to ask if you could introduce and promote our game to Sarah’s fans.
Star Capital is basically a PvE shooting game, and provides the experience of growing by collecting resources and research materials from each planet in the space age. I would like to offer you the opportunity to promote and introduce the game through Sarah’s content and interaction with fans.
We are always ready to discuss customized cooperation plans that suit Sarah’s unique style and content.
… … .
‘You’re inquiring about advertising.’
Sarah rested her chin on one hand and tapped her cheek with her thin index finger.
There are a few things to consider when receiving these advertisements.
Financial aspects, such as advertising costs, were a secondary priority. This does not mean that the unit price is not important as I make a living by making money through broadcasting. However, in this industry, there was a certain range of advertising costs depending on the broadcasting weight, and those that placed the advertisements were investigated more thoroughly in the first place.
Since there were more than one advertisement that came to her, Sarah had an idea of the average price she could receive just by looking at the offers. Unless a new broadcaster meets a malicious advertiser, it is surprisingly rare for something like a price cut to occur.
‘There is also information shared through broadcaster connections.’
What was more important than that was the atmosphere of the broadcast and the fatigue of viewers.
If advertisements were received indiscriminately because of urgent need for money, there was a risk that viewers who felt different from the existing broadcast atmosphere would leave. There was a risk that viewers would feel tired even if they received too many advertisements.
Fortunately, Sera has not run any advertisements in recent months, so it is safe to assume that the latter case does not apply.
‘And the most important thing is something else.’
In Sarah’s opinion, the most important thing was the quality of the product to be advertised.
When a good product was advertised, viewers were more likely to like the advertisement rather than reject it. This tendency was especially true the larger the company advertising the advertisement.
The more advertising you receive from large corporations, the more indirectly you feel that the broadcaster you are watching is popular.
In commercial broadcasts with a good atmosphere, viewers tended to ignore minor disadvantages and only talk about the positive aspects through chatting. From then on, advertisements also become a type of content. Could it be said to be a game in which viewers participate?
‘how will we do it… ‘
Sarah put down her coffee cup and thought about her reply. She always responded to business emails, regardless of whether the advertisement was accepted or not.
Some fellow broadcasters do not check emails at all or do not reply even after reading them. In Sarah’s experience, such habits are fine when things are going well, but they are not very good in the long run.
‘This also has the disadvantage of becoming a hassle for me. Should I look for an MCN soon?’
If you join an MCN, your agency will take care of minor tasks, but Sarah does not yet have a separate MCN.
As the channel’s growth stagnated, I considered joining an agency to make a breakthrough, but at that exact time, I became involved with Minho.
Thanks to this, the growth of the channel, which had been stagnant, continued again, and MCN was pushed back. After that, I didn’t have time to think about being a stalker or anything. Even if we just focused on getting the broadcast back to normal, there wasn’t enough time.
‘Should I reject this advertisement? ?’
Sarah thought for a moment and came to that conclusion. Of course, it was a good opportunity to be offered an advertisement for a new game from a famous game company. But timing was the problem.
Sarah was thinking about diversifying broadcast content after the stalker incident. Thanks to this, Apex Hunters, which was previously a regular content, was barely played. At a time like this, receiving an advertisement for a game that had something in common as a shooting game was bound to have an impact on her plans.
‘It’s especially true because it’s an advertisement for a famous game company… ‘
Sarah, troubled, took a sip of coffee.
Minho had a significant share in the reason Sarah wanted to increase broadcast content. It was thanks to the channel’s growth that it became associated with him on the air.
Sarah was recognized by viewers as the broadcaster who was closest to Minho because she had once moved in with Minho and rushed to save him as soon as he received a rescue call during a stalker incident.
Thanks to this, many viewers flocked to Sarah’s broadcast on days when Minho was off or the broadcast schedules did not overlap. It could be seen as a kind of trickle-down effect.
Of course, there were suspicions that there was something between the two, but as Minho quickly became a person playing in bigger waters, the possibility of that was greatly reduced.
The viewer base, which grew purely due to her friendship with Minho, was not satisfied with Sarah’s existing content, which was simply Apex Hunters. In the first place, viewers of Minho’s broadcast did not show much interest in ordinary broadcasts.
So naturally, in order to continue the growth of the Serado channel, it had to show more progress than before.
‘Who would have thought that you could save people by going on entertainment shows like that?’
He saved a beautiful woman who almost drowned in the choppy sea, and even went to see Comic Con and rescued the beautiful woman from being kidnapped.
Since her level naturally became higher than Sarah’s, the people who forced her and Minho together also disappeared. This was true even though she was an influencer with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Sera was a little dissatisfied with that.
‘You can tie it in a little bit… ‘
Sarah suddenly remembered that thought and shook her head.
‘no. I can’t just cause trouble to Minho oppa. I already received help… ‘
Stabilizing the temporarily increased viewer base was entirely up to her ability. I had to depend on Minho’s reputation forever, so I had no shame in seeing him.
‘Anyway, this advertisement is a good opportunity, but I’ll have to pass it up.’
After making that decision, Sarah began writing a reply. The moment she wrote the email and was about to press the send button, her smartphone vibrated.
Wow~
“… … .”
Sarah paused with the cursor over the send button and checked the smartphone screen. Minho’s name, the name she had been thinking about until now, appeared there.
‘Minho oppa?’
Sarah answered the phone with a happy voice after hearing it for the first time in a long time.
“Hello? Minho oppa! What’s going on?”
-Sera, an advertisement came in this time. Would you like to try it together? From what I heard, they also contacted you.
“If you’re doing it with your brother, you’re welcome! What kind of advertisement is this?”
-Great. It’s a new project called Star Capital, and I thought it would be more fun to do it together.
Sarah immediately deleted the rejection email she was writing. I put content diversification out of my mind for a while. Getting together with Minho was a much higher priority than that.
Sarah, who readily accepted Minho’s offer, suddenly had a question and asked.
“But the merger is only for the two of us? It looks like up to four people can play.”
Sera, of course, I wanted to host it alone with Minho, but it seemed better from a broadcast perspective to have four people in the show.
Minho seemed to think about her question for a moment and then opened his mouth.
-hmm… I think I just found the remaining two seats.
“Just now? That fast?”
Sarah tilted her head. Minho’s reaction was as if he had spontaneously recruited the person right next to him as a member.
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