Manny Pacquiao is expected to have made $80 million off the very boring ‘fight of the Century’ this past weekend just off the ticket sales. Pac-Man made a few extra million on the side too by becoming the latest iPhone-loving celebrity to convert to a Samsung salesman.
As part of the sponsorship, Pacquiao – who’s tweeted from an iPhone from years – crafted his tweets on a Samsung Galaxy S6, including two selfies he posted at weigh-in and on his way to the ring with Jimmy Kimmel. Samsung also filmed an entire behind-the-scenes video of Pacquiao on a Galaxy S6 Edge. But now that the fight’s over and Pac-Man’s cashed in, he’s back to using Apple devices.
Here’s the Samsung spokesman’s latest tweet, sent from an iPhone.
Source: Twitter
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
12 responses to “iPhone-loving Manny Pacquiao gives Samsung a jab”
Can someone at Samsung PR stop wasting the money for this kind of commercial ads? They know celebrities don’t use their craps except LeBron James.
that is stupid, millions of ppl uses samsung including celebrities, samsung should instead market their phones thru celebrities who are already fans of samsung, instead of being embarrassed by typical celebrities tweeting that they are loving their new samsung , with the worst case is they sent the tweet via an iphone.
I can’t believe this is a news story. This is so stupid. Stop trying to make it seem like he’s taking shots at Samsung. He’s an iPhone lover by heart (like you guys mentioned) who helped promote Samsung’s S6 edge. That is where the story ends. That’s all. Nothing more to fabricate.
“As part of the sponsorship, Pacquiao – who’s tweeted from an iPhone from years”
“From years?”
WTF does that mean, Buster?
Or did you mean to say “for years?”
It’s evident from the plethora of posts written on this site that no one bothers to spell check their writing. I find it highly annoying and sometimes will not finish an article with such incorrect spelling and grammar because it causes me to wonder how I can take anyone at face value who doesn’t have enough care and concern to proofread their pieces. Yes, some are bound to be typos and I can generally spot the instances where one letter has been replaced by one near it and perhaps these folks are typing on a mobile device which doesn’t help, but come on. If you want to be taken seriously, read your own writing before posting. This message, will most likely, fall on deaf ears.
Samsung fails if Samsung can’t find someone who actually uses their phones to promote their phones. It must not be hard to find such people unless all celebrities are brain dead people.
Or maybe your thought that only brain-dead people use iPhones is utterly baseless.
The reality distortion is strong in you.
If all celebrities are using iphones then that would mean that either iphone is a very superior product or a very fashionable product. I am afraid I don’t see Iphone fitting any of these criteria.
So Buster, Manny explicitly told you this news right? Oh wait. That would be facts. Facts would be real journalism.
Nevermind.
Samsung is also spending $50 MM on the next james bond movie – $5MM more if daniel craig is on screen using it.
The author is very dumb…. Does he actually think Manny Pacquiao does his own Twitter, Instagram and Facebook??? He has ASSISTANTS for that. Dummy!
So Samsung could pay for Manny to show off the S6 but cannot pay a bit more for his ‘assistants’ to tweet on a Samsung too?