Drop your new Samsung Instinct into a YouTube video, win $20
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Filed in EV-DO, Handsets, Samsung, Sprint
In a move that smacks of desperation marketing genius, Sprint has quietly launched a new Samsung Instinct competition. The rules are simple: record a video of you and/or your friends getting crazy with your new Samsung Instinct, upload it to YouTube, and enter it into the contest. Sprint will debit $20 to the first 1,000 entrants. End of story. The producer of the winning video will receive the $10,000 grand prize. Nice. The contest is set to go live on the 30th of June, so you have a couple of days to practice your Instinct antics before you share your gift with the world.
[Via iSmashphone]
Tags: Samsung Instinct, Sprint, youtube
LOL. Having to pay someone to help you compete against the iPhone isn’t a good sign. I’m not a iPhone fan (HTC BABY!!!), but it seems that they picked a fight with the wrong mofo. Too funny.
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I love how the contest is titled, “SELL OUT!” Haha, do they mean the phone will sell out ala the iphone? Which it won’t… or do they mean SELL OUT! as in the selling of samsung’s soul to try to be Apple?
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Sprint has a 1,000 customers?
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Man everyone is a comedian lately.
Shouldn’t you all line up to buy the new iPhone.
But hey a few years ago all of you where in line for a Razr, look at Moto now. Look back at Apple they where scraping dirt not too long ago.
The whole world goes in a sine wave, up now down later …
In any case:
1adonis1 : No one said the video is to compete with iPhone, its a marketing strategy. Not a bad one at that.
hmm HTC those are the makers of those phones that never get a firmware fix even when the most basic features don’t function (video, Bluetooth,..). But hey they will just come out with a new improved styling …
bob/bluehorseshoe they sold 62,000 the first day.
In any case I think Sprint and their phone selection could be better (much better), but it would be somewhat strange if as soon as there is a king of the hill everyone else would have to roll over and die. In such a case Apple should be dead long ago, including their phone “invention”.
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I can’t believe how lame this contest is. I like how you they control (why is that word coming into social media?) the product placement by superimposing their own hand holding the phone into your video, thus ensuring two disastrous things:
1) Any creative way of inserting the phone that a consumer might come up with is not going to happen.
2) You don’t have to buy the phone. Since when do marketers not help their clients sell product?
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