Confucius and the Butterfly

Zhang Xiaolong is currently feeling annoyed.

From developing Foxmail to Foxmail being acquired by Penguins, several years have passed.

Now he is responsible for the development of Penguin Mail.

He has gone through various difficulties, from working on the client-side of Foxmail to joining Penguins and working on the web version of Penguin Mail.

Whether it's due to the team's lack of experience in web development or the need to integrate the features and logic of Foxmail with the Penguin Mail system, it has been a challenging journey.

All of this has consumed a considerable amount of Zhang Xiaolong's energy.

And now, the Guangnan Research Center has reached a bottleneck in its development, almost unnoticed.

Zhang Xiaolong can clearly feel that as a social tool, the ceiling for email has been reached.

In order to break through this bottleneck, he has been trying out numerous new features.

Earlier this year, he and his team developed a new feature for Penguin Mail called "Reading Space."

This feature is essentially a microblogging mode.

It can be used to subscribe to various major website blogs and send broadcast messages.

In the recently developed version of "Reading Space," he specifically added a feature that integrates with Xinlang Weibo.

All these efforts were made to increase user engagement with Penguin Mail.

Zhang Xiaolong picked up his Jianpai cigarette and walked outside.

"In the end, as a social tool, email can no longer keep up with the times. Creating a reading space, imitating the information broadcast of microblogs, may have short-term effects. But in the long run, the data will eventually decline."

He muttered to himself.

At the same time, he remembered that another team at Penguins was already developing their own microblogging platform, preparing for a showdown with Xinlang Weibo.

"The popularity of microblogs can't be easily replicated. No matter what tricks we play with email, it's still just email."

Zhang Xiaolong shook his head. While he could complain about it, he still had to continue working.

He took out his phone, sat on a bench, and opened Angry Chickens, ready to play a couple of rounds to relax.

"The developer is quite interesting. Stupidity and cuteness as the first productivity, a simple game mode, and incentivized by points."

After playing four or five rounds, an ad popped up in the game.

Zhang Xiaolong took a look. The ad was simple, featuring a beautiful girl holding a banana in a seductive pose.

The slogan below was even more direct: "Everything you want is here."

"Oops, I'll just click and see."

With 2G network, the download speed on the phone was not impressive.

After the download and installation, Zhang Xiaolong opened the app.

"..."

It turned out to be just an app market application. The ad was a bit too ambiguous.

Zhang Xiaolong couldn't help but burst into laughter, mocking himself, "At forty years old, I'm still stuck on the concept of food and desire like Confucius."

But upon closer inspection, he noticed some clever ideas in this ad.

If you really want to say it violated any rules, it didn't. And if you want to say it was ambiguous, it was purely the audience's imagination.

Yet, whether it was the creative idea or the slogan, it perfectly matched the product itself.

This kind of advertisement, which didn't cross any lines, was stirring up some latent desires in users' hearts, achieving its promotional purpose.

"It's quite interesting."

...

6 p.m.

The banana ad distributed through Angry Chickens achieved perfect results.

Within just a few hours, the total number of installations surpassed 200,

000.

Lu Zhou looked at the data with a delighted expression.

"Xiao Tong, well done!"

"..."

At this moment, Tang Yutong didn't know if Lu Zhou was praising her for bringing Angry Chickens or for the effectiveness of the ad.

But as she thought about it, her mind turned into a mess.

"I shouldn't have boarded Senior's tricky ship in the first place!" Tang Yutong thought to herself.

She made a sound that was both shy and embarrassed.

Lu Zhou continued, "Yes, excellent. The click-through rate of the ad reached 25%, doubling the average. You deserve credit for this."

Upon hearing that, Tang Yutong suddenly stood up, waved her fist, and hammered it on Lu Zhou.

"Don't talk about the ad anymore! Who's in a hurry with whom!"

Ha!

One sentence directly shocked everyone, while Lu Zhou immediately started to invest money.

Meng Xiaoqin couldn't help but laugh at the commotion between the two.

She walked up to Tang Yutong, couldn't help but rub her face with both hands, and said, "Hahaha, blame me. Blame me for tempting you, alright."

"..."

After a while, Lu Zhou regained his composure and said, "Alright, let's move on. Let's summarize the situation. Zhou Wen, you go ahead."

During this time, Lu Zhou had assigned Zhou Wen to work on data analysis, so he no longer paid much attention to the overall data.

He had also delegated the reporting task to Zhou Wen.

Holding the report he had just printed, Zhou Wen began to explain to everyone.

"At 2 p.m. today, we launched the banana ad on Angry Chickens. The detailed results are as follows:

Total installations: 200,000. Ad impressions: over 800,000 devices. Click-through rate: 25%.

The bounce rate of the ad..."

On the side, Wang Zhengye, whether it was due to a moment of absent-mindedness or something else, said, "So, 800,000 people watched Xiaotong eating a banana?"

Lu Zhou thought to himself, "My goodness. Please, don't tease Xiaotong."

Since the banana optimization, Wang Zhengye's thinking had started to resemble that of a similar product, Big Rice UI. Wang Zhengye's mind was becoming more and more sharp.

Lu Zhou saw this and thought that this guy, who usually doesn't talk much and seems a bit introverted, would undoubtedly become a valuable member in the future.

But while you're sharp-minded, don't let your mouth run too fast!

At this time, Huang Dong also took over the conversation.

He stammered as he spoke to Wang Zhengye, "That's not all. I just opened Weibo, and 'Banana Goddess' became a hot topic..."

Meng Xiaoqin interrupted, "You two silly boys, say a little less."

By now, Tang Yutong was already extremely embarrassed, and her face turned a few shades redder.

Of course, she still felt a sense of accomplishment deep down.

Although Lu Zhou had anticipated that the ad would perform well, he didn't expect the immediate results to be so astounding.

He had anticipated that the ad's success would be limited to the number of installations.

To instantly become a hot topic on Weibo was beyond his expectations. He couldn't help but marvel at Tang Yutong's luck.

Once a certain level of topic intensity formed in the current hot Weibo discussions, undoubtedly, the banana market would experience explosive growth in the coming days.

Lu Zhou looked at the lively and joyful group in front of him and couldn't help but sigh, "The ancients didn't deceive me."

Meanwhile, in another corner unknown to Lu Zhou, a forty-year-old man clicked on the banana ad.

A topic product that was supposed to be launched at the end of this year took a step forward quietly under Lu Zhou's influence.