Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 410 Iijima's Strategy

"After repeated discussions with the management team, the members must focus on AFO's debut song during this period, and the release of individual songs by the members will have to be put on hold..."

"After the debut song is released and the time is right, we will discuss this project again."

Smiling gently at Xia Fan, Iijima Yozo explained in a regretful tone...

It was precisely because the resources for this project were so good that she couldn't agree to it.

After all, he was the agent of this limited group with the ultimate mission of "freezing Xia Fan by any means necessary".

You know, during the limited group activities, the original agency will generally not do such "irrational" things as spending money to promote their own idols, because the popularity gained by doing so will most likely be diluted by the entire group, or even be sucked away by members of the same group belonging to other companies.

Therefore, in the eyes of the experienced Iijima, this was just a counterattack by Company B after they saw their intention to "freeze" Xia Fan...

"But……"

"Okay, I'll go back and discuss this with President Higashino."

Xia Fan wanted to say something else, but Iijima had very good reasons and didn't seem to have any intention of continuing the conversation, so he lowered his head and left.

"Humph, so what if he's a beautiful boy who only appears once in five thousand years, the god of talent shows, or a natural idol..."

"As long as the rights to performing arts and business activities are in the hands of the limited group, you have to obediently lie under your sister's skirt."

Staring absentmindedly at the computer screen, Iijima smiled coldly.

"Big sister, what are you laughing at, so happy?"

"Don't tell me you have a new boyfriend?"

"I think someone is going to be frustrated."

The staff of the agency team came in one after another, holding their laptops.

"Ahem, now that everyone is here, let's start today's summary meeting..."

Putting away his smile, Yozo Iijima showed a professional look and announced the start of the meeting.

"As for the rehearsal progress of the theme song, it is basically still within the estimated plan, but some members are unable to keep up due to their weak foundation. Specifically..."

"As for the channels for publicity and promotion cooperation, we have already contacted the websites, platforms and even TV stations on the list for business opportunities."

"The members are carrying out their activities and practices as normal according to the schedule. There is nothing special..."

"By the way, the first version of the poster shot by Martin could not pass the review because it was too explicit. The partner requested a reshoot and the schedule has been adjusted."

The staff members began their daily reporting with familiarity.

It has always been the habit of Iijima's management team to hold a short meeting before leaving get off work every day to summarize the work and adjust the strategy in a timely manner.

"Very good. In addition to a certain degree of exposure, the entire team's recent work focus has been on the preparation of the theme song."

"How's the formation of the fan club going?"

After listening carefully to the employees' reports one by one, Iijima Yozo asked in a low voice.

In the early stage of team formation, creating a theme song as a carrier of commercial activities is of course the top priority, but it is also very important to establish a fan club to inherit the popularity during the talent show period. "The official website of the AFO fan club has been launched and promoted through various channels of the company, but the number of registration applications received so far is less than 10% of the expected..."

"From the registration information, Xia Fan's fans, who have the largest base, have basically not been attracted. We are trying to increase publicity efforts and expand publicity channels..."

The employee in charge of the fans' website management reported in a serious manner.

"What? Xia Fan's fans didn't submit an application?"

"How is this going……"

This situation was obviously beyond Iijima Yozo's expectations, and made her frown.

Among the current AFO fan data, the majority of fans are those who only support Xia Fan...

The real purpose of her establishing a fan club was to transform these huge number of Xia Fan's "single fans" into "group fans" of the AFO group through clever propaganda and guidance, and then into single fans of other members...

Iijima's team has mastered the operations of "fan call forwarding" and "popularity sharing" on several previous boy bands.

But if Xia Fan’s fans do not register, no matter how mature the technology of the economic team is, it will be useless.

"Let's wait and see. We have asked Xia Fan not to use his social media accounts. He doesn't have any big events with high exposure in his recent schedule. If those nymphomaniacs can't help themselves, they will come over..."

"Humph, if they don't register for the official fan website, do they have other websites where they can see Xia Fan's behind-the-scenes footage, private photos, and schedule announcements?"

"As for the popularity of the media, how are the topics that were planned to be hyped?"

With a confident smile, Iijima Yozo turned his attention to other things.

"Topic hype... We produced the members' training footage as planned, as well as the behind-the-scenes sweet CP video of Kishiyo and Basong..."

"But the feedback data since the launch is very poor, and the amount of discussion it has triggered is very small. Most of the people who come to protest are 'Songbao fans', saying that Kishi is too 'weak' and that they need a tough guy to create a CP with Basong..."

When asked about this, the staff responsible for public opinion management looked unhappy.

"Big sister, the AFO group's public opinion and popularity data have dropped drastically since the end of the talent show."

"The most recent peak in public opinion was Xia Fan's video about 'lightning through the fanatic fan group'..."

"Look, should we release some material related to Xia Fan to boost the public opinion exposure of the entire group?"

Out of professionalism, he made his suggestions carefully.

The limited group formed through a talent show will find it difficult to maintain high popularity due to the termination of platform broadcasting and traffic delivery after the show ends, but according to past practices, they can at least inherit 30% to 50% of the popularity.

The current online public opinion about the AFO group is less than one-tenth of what it was during the "Idol Birth Festival" broadcast.

The reason behind this is, of course, because since the formation of the group, Iijima Yozo has not given Xia Fan, who accounts for 90% of the group's popularity, any shots or exposure, whether it is behind-the-scenes footage, rehearsal videos, or various schedule activities...

"No, the popularity of the members can be accumulated slowly, so it's better to maintain the status quo for now."

After refreshing the topic lists on major social platforms and confirming that Xia Fan was not on the list, Iijima Yozo actually breathed a sigh of relief.

In this age where netizens’ memories are shorter than those of goldfish, if there is no topic, heat, or exposure for one minute, no matter how legendary an artist is, he or she will be drowned by waves of public opinion and sink to the bottom of the forgotten sea.

(End of this chapter)