Those other companies make starship look like the godly company
I'm a bit surprised to read all that, I thought the entire ponit of sending your rookies to produce and similar shows is for them to gain popularity and bring it back to the company down the road, but if you do not have any playns how to capitalize on it.. what was the point in the first place to ever training rookies
Well the pandemic did not help but.
of teh 12 girls who made IZ*ONE
1 AKB
2 HKT they had groups to go back to Sakura chose to strike out on her own as she had been a member for about 10 years.
2 Starship - Starship waited and did not have all of teh girls who were in pd 48 make IVE.
2 Woollim - Woollim chose to head hunt Juri with their other 2 pd 48 girls and debut Rocket Punch in 2019 adding Eunbi or Chaewon was just not a great idea.
1 Yuehua - Yuehua also chose to debut their pd 48 girls in early 2019 in Everglow.
the pandemic really hurt rocket punch since tehy were planing to leverage Juris popularity like lesserafim has sakura.
and because of them both debuting groups and the pandemic still active no chance to do a new group.
1 Stone - Stone has never debut a group that did not come from a tv show. I am not even sure any of the idol school girls or any girls are still training there.
1 8 D - was a food company that branched out. far as i know Hyewon is their only female they do have a boy group.
1 - Urban works is mostly actors Minju was training with what seems to be the only other girl idol that debut from them
1 WM - WM is the most surprising as they just sat on Chaeyeon. They clearly have no trainees ready to go or could not find any way to make them work with Chaeyeon. I was expecting her to be the leader of a new group for them. It appears that OMG's bump up and renewal caught them.
With OMG now so successful they are trying to keep that running, but have not shown a plan for a next girl group.
In the past i would say there are 10-15 agencies where a girl might have had a chance to do well. Now with gg's becoming more fandom driven that may increase. Part of that is just because of how successful IZ*ONE was.
in the past some of the worst agencies have had strong groups (CCM, DSP[well that is harsh dsp was great until the guy die and his wif took over] TS)
some agencies like say Cube and pledis are good at making group but suck at running them. cube is dependent on lightning striking the group usually driven by one person see Hyuna and Soyeon. but clc and lightsum do not have that and cube looks clueless.