{"id":3650,"date":"2015-04-06T04:44:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T04:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2015-04-06T04:46:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T04:46:11","slug":"half-of-samsungs-fans-at-s6-launch-event-were-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/half-of-samsungs-fans-at-s6-launch-event-were-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Samsung&#8217;s fans at S6 launch event were fake ?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 1000 people attended the Samsung\u2019s press conference a couple days ago in China. However, according to a report on <em>The Paper, <\/em>half of them were hired. The conference was held to introduce to the <a title=\"Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge Launched: First Hands on\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/samsung-galaxy-s6-and-s6-edge-first-hands-on\/\">Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge<\/a> to the China, the world&#8217;s biggest market.<\/p><div style=\"float: none; display: block; margin: 0 -10px; text-align: center;\"><!-- New Top AD MY Mobile 1 -->\n        <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n             style=\"display:inline-block;width:320px;height:100px\"\n             data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4796993490224996\"\n             data-ad-slot=\"2390501667\"><\/ins>\n        <script>\n        (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n        <\/script><\/div><\/p>\n<p>People, under 30, dressing like like, students or Samsung fans were paid $4.80 (RM 17) for at least an hour to stay at the conference. The recruiters were also paid $3.20 (RM 12) for each person they recruited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/112.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3652\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/112.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/112.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/112-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/112-145x95.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/112-165x111.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/112-240x159.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p><div style=\"float: none; display: block; margin: 0 -10px; text-align: center;\"><!-- MY End of Content -->\n            <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n                 style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\n                 data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4796993490224996\"\n                 data-ad-slot=\"7887885268\"><\/ins>\n            <script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script>\n            <!-- MY News Mobile Middle -->\n                                <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n                                     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\n                                     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4796993490224996\"\n                                     data-ad-slot=\"3890141663\"><\/ins>\n                                <script>\n                                (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n                                <\/script><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Those phones\u2019 hired fans had to tell the press that they admired the company and they are curious about the new phone of the company. One interesting story is that half of the pictures of the new <a title=\"Samsung Galaxy S6 review: Samsung answers all critics with the new S6 flagship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/samsung-galaxy-s6-review-samsung-answers-all-critics-with-the-new-s6-flagship\/\">Galaxy S6<\/a> and <a title=\"Breaking: New Galaxy S6 Edge reaches 69.000 points on Antutu Benchmark!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/new-galaxy-s6-edge-reaches-69-000-points-on-antutu-benchmark\/\">S6 Edge<\/a> were taken by the Apple iPhone. Some attendee were required to post pictures taken at the conference along with the name of the phone on WeChat app and like the Samsung Galaxy fan page, too.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who is after mobile news knows that 2014 was not a good year for Samsung. The company had lost its share in China, where Apple took over 27.6% market share. The iPhone 6 itself took 10.2%. Therefore, iPhone 6 is now the most popular smartphone in China, followed by Xiaomi Redmi and iPhone 6 Plus. In the attempt of getting fans back, Samsung had emphasized doing marketing for the flagships Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the right move?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Samsung-Logo-AH4.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"903844ba193d23ab2be2617b0fd6a8be\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- MY End of Content -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4796993490224996\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7887885268\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 1000 people attended the Samsung\u2019s press conference a couple days ago in China. However, according to a report on The Paper, half of them were hired. The conference was held to introduce to the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge to the China, the world&#8217;s biggest market. People, under 30, dressing like like, students or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Half of Samsung&#039;s fans at S6 launch event were fake ?!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Report said around 500 out of 1000 attendee at Samsung&#039;s S6 launch event were hired by the company.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.my\/blog\/half-of-samsungs-fans-at-s6-launch-event-were-fake\/\" 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