Live-streaming quiz applications are witnessing a surge in China, such as Zhishi Chaoren, Baiwan Yingxiong and Chongding Dahui.

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The apps usually broadcast a live show. Players who can correctly answer all the questions from a host within the alloted time will share the prize pool ranging from 100,000 yuan ($15,340) to over a million yuan.

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The live-streaming sector has been called "vulgar", "boring" and "unreasonable" because of its routine shows and games. And the live-streaming platforms are worried about how to bring in more diversified user groups at a lower cost.

The live-streaming quiz appears to be an all-win business model for players, live-streaming platforms and advertisers by providing high-quality content, low costs, attractive prizes and lucrative commercial opportunities.

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Some observers have defined it as "an important business event in 2018."

However, the problem of homogenization development has already appeared behind the competition of the live-streaming platforms. What will they do when the quiz fever fades away? Finding their own positions and continuously providing high-quality content through sustained innovation are the keys to the vitality of those platforms.

(Compiled by Hu Xiaoyu)