the power of nine percent as a group and their popularity

"...ent. staffs of successfully debuted idols revealed that...produce programmes has been running for a long time, but only the first season: Idol Producer, Nine Percent's (members') managements earned money"

"at that time iqiyi's regulations were not fully furnished, there was no market, so all the money went to management companies. until the second & third year, all the benefits have already been eaten by others (previous seasons) but there's a market now & regulations are strict"

basically, nine percent members' management companies get to profit off them being members of nine percent instead of iqiyi getting the profits

my opinion:
which kinda explains why they weren't getting together, since adsj isn't earning as much, why will they make the effort?

their popularity from being in 9% & IPD earns $ for their mgmt even though they don't unite and promote as nine percent. but imagine how much they've earned from the fan meeting tour & their ~50 days together (keep in mind that to the nines is one of the best selling albums)

also probably explains why iqiyi tries so hard to get the boys back on their shows, they were so reluctant to let go of them and now that their low profit contract is up, it's a good time to make use of their popularity, using the topic of "nine percent" to attract viewers again

source: 2021 c-ent analysis of iqiyi's survival shows https://weibo.com/ttarticle/x/m/show/id/2309404591133001908735?_wb_client_=1

adding on to this thread,

a popular question that have been circulating ever since the new seasons of ywy and chuang, "is this the end of c-ent survivals?"

the answer is, it's not the end but it is tiring.

(cont'd) "c-ent survivals, till today, do they still have lots of trainees available to go on survival shows? we don't think so. on the day of recording*, there were newbies and there were also people that were doing well at other sectors but here to try out as an idol-

(cont'd) "the ppl who are invested in this aren't growing really quickly, as there are still lots of them thinking about idol producer 2 years ago, the legend in their hearts"

*this is an article from one of the media that participated in the media q&a segment in ywy3 episode 1

source and article: https://weibo.com/ttarticle/x/m/show/id/2309404606337702035731?_wb_client_=1