{"id":322406,"date":"2010-02-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/99accb59af543bbb0299973c79025971"},"modified":"2010-02-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:00:00","slug":"article-verizon-wireless-drops-female-campaign-pushes-pre-plus-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/322406","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Verizon Wireless drops female campaign, pushes Pre Plus for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I have no problem with advertising campaigns targeting a certain demographic, but given the capabilities of the Palm Pre, I found the idea of targeting the Palm Pre Plus to Mothers to be a bit off-base.&nbsp; Fact of the matter is women, teenagers, business individuals, and first-time smartphone buyers could find a lot to like in the webOS-powered device.&nbsp; Verizon Wireless seems to have realized this&#8230;or they changed the advertising campaign since Valentines Day is over.&nbsp; At any rate, the nation&#8217;s largest wireless carrier is now positioning the device to all customer types.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To sweeten the deal, the new campaign features the same BOGO promotion from earlier in the month &#8211; buy one Palm Pre Plus or Pixi Plus, and get one Pixi Plus for free after a mail-in rebate.&nbsp; BOGO offers and an advertising campaign that emphasizes the fact that the device is a feature-packed smartphone worth considering by any individual.&nbsp; Sounds like a deal to me!<\/p>\n<p>{Widget type=&#8221;youtube&#8221; id=&#8221;YCIP4IzpYKs&amp;&#8221;}<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/verizon-drops-moms-advertises-webos-awesomeness-it\" >PreCentral<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/A3Ku-UyNFRDFBgssHscvqwjX3iE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/A3Ku-UyNFRDFBgssHscvqwjX3iE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/A3Ku-UyNFRDFBgssHscvqwjX3iE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/A3Ku-UyNFRDFBgssHscvqwjX3iE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/u9c9_FrCno8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I have no problem with advertising campaigns targeting a certain demographic, but given the capabilities of the Palm Pre, I found the idea of targeting the Palm Pre Plus to Mothers to be a bit off-base.&nbsp; Fact of the matter is women, teenagers, business individuals, and first-time smartphone buyers could find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}