The Two Main Forces of the Self-Media Era: The Zhengzhou Gang and the Jiangxi Gang

They really have found a way to turn what was originally creative work in self-media into a labor-intensive operation. A single person can manage hundreds or even thousands of accounts, leveraging AI to produce and publish over ten thousand articles daily. With an average ad revenue from platform advertisers of about 1.5 RMB per article, the cost to produce one AI-generated article is less than 1 cent. On top of that, they can also take on sponsored content deals, which represents the real money (achieving guaranteed volume with upfront payments). It's quite impressive.

These operations are mainly concentrated in Zhengzhou (Henan), and Nanchang and Ji'an (Jiangxi), with company names typically including "cultural communication."

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