MSFT or Windows Phones ads in your City?

[k0de]

I am just curious about MSFT ground level advertising. By ground level I mean billboards on highways, ads on buses and bus stations, trains and train stations, movie theaters, local news papers etc.

I'm in New York and sadly I haven't seen any for MSFT or Windows Phone. But plenty for IOS and Android.

What about you. When was the last time if any that you saw a MSFT ad at ground level?

Your thoughts?

 

[LBLEIJE]

In the Netherlands Microsoft advertises with the Lumia 630 for 130 euros. They not only advertise in Amsterdam but also in small towns (30.000 inhabitants). They advertise manly at bus stops.

 

[sameermehta2]

In India people know WP devices but Microsoft is not aggressive as Samsung or now iPhone also (in India)

 

[Scienceguy Labs]

I don't see any where I live. Would love to see something every once in a while. Worse still, is the fact the places that sell Microsoft/Windows Phone products barely even advertise in the stores. Every time I go into Best Buy, every single tablet running Microsoft is powered off, not logged in, or completely drained of power. Same for our AT&T store. Recently, our AT&T store had a Surface 2 on display that was just showing the log in screen. I asked a rep if they could log in for me, but was told that they didn't know the password. Seriously?? lol In comparison, all other brands are powered up, and ready to play around with.

 

[prasath1234]

In India people know WP devices but Microsoft is not aggressive as Samsung or now iPhone also (in India)

Ya I second that samsung keeps on advertising the hell out of galaxy grand 2 or note 3.it is harassing indian youth by constantly displaying ad.which inturn tempts folks to get one of those.

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[sameermehta2]

And I also think with respect to India's market every tom,**** harry has an Samsung cheap android phone which is just used for video watching or song listening,the thing android has penetrated so badly that everyone wants to be on the same bandwagon

 

[sameermehta2]

I think the sharing of media and information freedom has given tremendous boost to Android

 

[prasath1234]

No the fact that we Indians think that Google is god nd are invested into Google ecosystem nd services we don't want to try wp.we miss apps like Google maps,Google plus,hangouts which are popular in India.

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[prasath1234]

India is nearly 90% android which is sad.hope wp atleast get 25% market share.then only all indian developers care for wp.nd we need a device like Moto g.

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[Torcher Death]

Have seen absolutely no ads on billboards or buses & so, but yes to newspapers & TV ads (terrible ones though).
Another thing worth pointing out is that, it feels like companies that advertise are almost ashamed to admit that they have developed apps for WP as well, cause I always see that the apps for iOS & PlayStore are displayed on the ads, but not WPstore, even when their app is available.
A promising fact though is that I have seen phones like the L620 & L1020 popping up in a lot of other ads.

 

[prasath1234]

Ya but here also in India iPhone are displayed in advertisement not even Droid.I think this way iPhone is advertised in India rather than iPhone 5s ad.

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[sameermehta2]

As far as apps are concerned every bank has got the app also every other major app is there on WP as far as I only consider India market

 

[sameermehta2]

Really man I can do everything on my WP what I used to do on my android phone which was live with Walkman

 

[prasath1234]

What about local apps like call taxi app.fast track call taxi has an app same is not for windows phone.

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[prasath1234]

And new device xiaomi mi 3 is making people go crazy because it has snapdragon 800 for a throw away price.then Asus zenfone gives u 2 gb ram for as low as 10,000 now android is advertised hell nd lot.

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[sameermehta2]

Well I am just roughly taking all the major app, if I go in too much depth then many local shops are not present for is or android also say for example local banks , also I think for cabs that would depend on the city in Mumbai you have an app by meru cabs and some others also.

 

[sameermehta2]

But in general Microsoft should be more aggressive in sales department of WP(man I love this flow keyboard)

 

[dhugos]

IMHO, I think MS some other work to do before they start advertising on billboards. I love my Lumia 920, but why MS can't get phone salespeople to actively sell them or any other WP, even with all their carrier exclusives - I have no idea. It's like MS doesn't want to gain market share.

 

[sameermehta2]

Bang the sales managers for revenue generation and product awareness programs

 

[Wam1q]

There is a lot of negative perception created by phone vendors. I own a Lumia 1020. I found that a friend of mine had a Samsung Focus. I was seeing how WP7.8 was like. Another friend of mine saw that phone and said "What's that? A Windows Phone? It is so difficult to use! There are no apps. There is no customisation! How do people even use that? Bla Bla..." He hadn't even tried WP. I asked him where he got all that from and he said that a phone vendor told him. I showed him the phone myself and he saw that the old phone worked really great. He was impressed by the fluidity of the OS. MS should try to remove the negative perception in the ads.