{"id":646672,"date":"2013-03-13T15:33:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=154223"},"modified":"2013-03-13T15:33:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:33:17","slug":"samsung-ramped-up-advertising-in-2012-outspent-apple-by-68-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646672","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Ramped Up Advertising In 2012, Outspent Apple By $68 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-154226\" alt=\"Samsung\" src=\"http:\/\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/03\/samsung-advertising-outspends-apple.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Samsung is the top manufacturer of Android devices and to maintain its dominance in the marketplace, outspent Apple by $68 million in 2012. According to\u00a0ad research and consulting firm\u00a0<em>Kantar Media<\/em>, Samsung spent $401 million advertising its devices in the U.S. last year while Apple spent\u00a0$333 million.\u00a0Prior to that, Apple spent three times more on advertising in 2011 than Samsung. The increase in advertising is definitely noticed with the South Korean company investing millions in <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/149800-samsung-shows-off-extended-version-of-its-next-big-thing-super-bowl-commercial\/\">Super Bowl Ads<\/a>, having a big presence at\u00a0Mobile World Congress, and even consuming commercial time during the Oscars.<span id=\"more-154223\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wireless carrier executives claim that Samsung also spends a sizeable chunk on advertising off the screen with\u00a0in-store advertising, promotions, and training for sales representatives who help get devices into the hands of consumers. Better yet, that advertising backs quality products. <em>Patrick Remy<\/em>, VP of Devices at Orange in the UK, says customers rarely ever return Samsung devices.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887324096404578356651577771618.html&#038;sref=rss\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/154223-samsung-ramped-up-advertising-in-2012-outspent-apple-by-68-million\/\">Samsung Ramped Up Advertising In 2012, Outspent Apple By $68 Million<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/FIa2wtxXmgQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/G3HQ2IA-MsY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung is the top manufacturer of Android devices and to maintain its dominance in the marketplace, outspent Apple by $68 million in 2012. According to\u00a0ad research and consulting firm\u00a0Kantar Media, Samsung spent $401 million advertising its devices in the U.S. last year while Apple spent\u00a0$333 million.\u00a0Prior to that, Apple spent three times more on advertising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646672","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\/7705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}