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Why is Verizon NOt Marketing their best phone? The Incredible.

Fantasma

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Mar 17, 2010
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What happened to the Incredible marketing I think I've seen like one boring commercial which does not even show the phone and one or two radio ads, thats it? WOW~

when you have the best phone out in the market shouldn't they be marketing it? The motorola is still be marketed as the best phone in all the radio ads and commercials they have...

Its so annoying I'd like to see the incredible being marketed everywhere.
 
With the amount of money they've invested into the Moto Droid, they want to make sure they have maximized their returns. Also, as others have stated, if they start advertising the Incredible, what happens to the remaining Moto Droids? Remember, they were on a BOGO sale, so VZW was essentially giving them away at half off. Once they clear stock, I'm sure we'll see more advertising (we are STILL seeing advertising for the Moto Droid even though the release date was almost 6 months ago, so VZW has plenty of time to push the Incredible)
 
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Personally I don't mind seeing moto droid commercials. They are about 100x better than suffering through those "this is what i did with mah iphone today" commercials.


2) Motorola pays Verizon to air the Droid commercials featuring the Moto Droid. Maybe if HTC starts ponying up ad cash, Verizon will start running Incredible commercials on TV.
Has this been reported some place?
 
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What happened to the Incredible marketing I think I've seen like one boring commercial which does not even show the phone and one or two radio ads, thats it? WOW~

when you have the best phone out in the market shouldn't they be marketing it? The motorola is still be marketed as the best phone in all the radio ads and commercials they have...

Its so annoying I'd like to see the incredible being marketed everywhere.

Why? They are out of stock with phones. I don't think they need much advertising... :thinking:
 
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2) Motorola pays Verizon to air the Droid commercials featuring the Moto Droid. Maybe if HTC starts ponying up ad cash, Verizon will start running Incredible commercials on TV.
Why would Motorola pay VZW when VZW depends on their products to get contracts? Where did you see this? I'm pretty sure most, if not all, advertising is through VZW's budget.
 
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The Droid Eris commercials were pushed by HTC not Verizon. Maybe HTC will promote the Droid Incredible as well?
This may be true for the Eris, however, it did not apply to the Moto Droid. There was a figure floating around on the net about how much VZW spent (I believe around $100 million?) on advertising.
 
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The phones are gone in the northeast, at least thats what ive heard.

However, I'm watching the Yanks game tonight, theyre in detroit, and theres a verizon sign on the right field wall that says "The NEW Droid Incredible"

So they appear to be advertising it at comerica.

And I have started to see commercials for it more often on TV. Not very frequent, but starting to pick up I think. In upstate NY at least.
 
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