After the two had walked some distance away, Xue Yuantong said,
"They had so many phones."
"Yeah, they specialize in phone reviews." When that person had shown them his homepage earlier, Jiang Ning had noticed it was full of phone review videos.
"You can review phones?" Xue Yuantong found that strange. Whenever she bought a phone, she just went to a store and bought one.
Jiang Ning smiled. "Of course. There are quite a few intricacies to smartphones—CPUs, screens, cameras, operating systems, and so on. A lot of users don't understand those things, but with phone review videos, even people who don't can see a phone's strengths and weaknesses before deciding whether to buy it."
In 2014, self-media had only just begun to rise, and phone reviews and digital reviews were still a blue ocean market.
In another two years, digital reviews would explode. That would be the real golden age. Many phone reviewers would take ads from phone manufacturers until their hands went numb, earning a fortune.
If they could keep at it during this period and seize the early advantage, they would probably get a slice of the pie in the future.
"Oh, I see." Xue Yuantong asked, "What if they only talk about a phone's strengths and not its weaknesses?"
"Nothing to be done. Users have to judge for themselves," Jiang Ning said.
In the future, more than ninety percent of the self-media creators who got manufacturers' phones ahead of time would be paid for promotion. Their videos would pick out nothing but the good points, never mentioning the flaws in the slightest.
Xue Yuantong asked again, "What if they only talk about the flaws and not the strengths?"
Jiang Ning had heard of that too. Some self-media creators he had encountered in the past would take