Huawei desperate for revenue

[Aryan0395]

https://wccftech.com/huawei-put-ads...-users/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

This articles shows that users are getting ads on their lock screen. Now this is not something unique to Huawei, many other Chinese companies have a history of putting ads in every corner of their smartphone software, but whats surprising is that Huawei is doing this on its flagship devices like the P30 and P20 series.
It shows that Huawei is actually desperate for some revenue and is looking at every option. Whats interesting is that users are predominantly getting ads of Booking.com if they use landscape image as their lock screen, so does that mean Huawei can actually tell what image you are using as wallpaper? What's to say that Huawei can't read other data that is stored in your phone?

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Chinese OEMs have had a long history with trying to cram ads into every nook and cranny of their software. Xiaomi, in particular, has received heavy criticism from fans about their aggressive ad placement in MIUI apps. Thankfully, Xiaomi will let users opt out of it via a toggle in future versions on MIUI. Now, it looks like Huawei just attempted something similar. A lot of users took to Twitter to complain about ads showing up on their lock screen; seemingly out of the blue. The ads seem to be overwhelmingly for hotel booking service Booking.com. The affected models include the P30 Pro, P20, P20 Lite, Honor 10, and P20 Pro. The ads are appearing for devices that are using the preinstalled landscape background wallpapers.



Alex@ValexWhoa
https://twitter.com/ValexWhoa/status/1139158911037116416

#Huawei has turned the random landscape backgrounds on the lock screen into ads. Wtf **** this


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6:43 PM - Jun 13, 2019

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Ed Spencer@efjspencer
https://twitter.com/efjspencer/status/1139125730862870528

Wtf. http://Booking.com ads on my lock screen. Anyone else with a Huawei getting this?


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4:31 PM - Jun 13, 2019

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RAYZ@justicefingers
https://twitter.com/justicefingers/status/1138810699277328385

@Huawei_Europe Why is there advertisement on my lock screen?! Have I signed up to this in some small print T&C somewhere?


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7:40 PM - Jun 12, 2019

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Dave Rooney@daverooney
https://twitter.com/daverooney/status/1139165324992045061

Ah hear... @Huawei why am I now being served ads on my lock screen? Stop it! Moreover @bookingcom what idiot in marketing thought this was ok? #ads #DigitalMarketing #Huawei #measure


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7:09 PM - Jun 13, 2019 · Caen, France

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Unlike Xiaomi, which displays ads only in certain regions, Huawei appears to have taken a more global approach. Some of the affected countries (via Reddit) include the likes of the UK, Netherlands, Ireland, South Africa, Norway, and Germany. The only silver lining here is that it is relatively easy to get rid of the ads. All one needs to do is to stop using Huawei’s wallpapers for their lock screen.

Why Huawei thought this would be a good idea is anyone’s guess. They’ve already received a ton of bad press following the recent US Government directive and moves like these won’t exactly help their cause. Huawei is yet to comment on the matter and judging by how things are going, it is unlikely that they ever will.

There’s no denying the fact that OEMs such as Huawei and Xiaomi subsidise the price of their devices. Both companies have done an excellent job of helping users with limited funds come online. Ads are essential for making the companies their money back, but one has to draw a line somewhere. The modern-day internet is little more than one giant ad and it is a tad infuriating to see ads crammed into a smartphone that you paid for.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

many huawei phones have the function to push some pics from the internet to your phone so tht the lock screen keeps changing.

not sure the ad is part of the lock screen or comes with the pic

 

[Aryan0395]

many huawei phones have the function to push some pics from the internet to your phone so tht the lock screen keeps changing.

Yeah thats called wallpaper via RSS feed, there are third party apps too for this but none of those put 'name of a company' on the lock screen. These are the users who used pre installed still wallpapers.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

Yeah thats called wallpaper via RSS feed, there are third party apps too for this but none of those put 'name of a company' on the lock screen. These are the users who used pre installed still wallpapers.

well I didnt get the ad on mine, could be part of their EU market strategy

 

[JSCh]

Oops! Here's Why Huawei Phones Had Ads On Their Lock Screens | Digital Trends

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“The lock screen images on our servers were inadvertently published,” a Huawei spokesperson told Digital Trends. “These have been removed and should no longer be appearing. Images that downloaded to devices can be deleted by sliding up from the bottom edge of the screen until the operation toolbar appears, then click the “delete” button and then “remove” in the confirmation window. We apologize for the inconvenience.”

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The ads were displayed on the lock screens of Huawei and Honor phones, and showed links to sites like Booking.com. They arrived through Huawei’s Magazine app, which automatically rotates the lock screen wallpaper via images from a database. They can be manually deleted, as Huawei explained above, but if you use your own wallpaper, you couldn’t see them. The outcry was understandable: Advertisements can be intrusive, and placing them on phone lock screens without warning can put people off.
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[newb3e]

sell mate 30 pro forn150 dollar with unlocked bootloader

 

[lcloo]

Get the facts right. These are Google Ads. Google collects revenue, not Huawei. Google has the monopoly on Android OS advertisement.

Once Huawei's new OS comes out, only than will Huawei collects advertisement fees because they owns the new OS. This is where Google will lost $billions after Android OS is banned on Huawei phones.

 

[Aryan0395]

Once Huawei's new OS comes out, only than will Huawei collects advertisement fees because they owns the new OS

Yeah so that is why Xiaomi is putting ads in every nook and corner of their phone. They also use android, so does that mean they are being a good kid and generating more revenue for Google?
Lol...Google doesn't major chunk by showing ads in their android software (which is open source btw). Google earns by licensing fee which companies have to pay to google to earn the rights to include Google services such as Play store, Gmail and Gmaps etc...
All the the decisions on showing ads inside the software is the monopoly of OEM. That is why Samsung was notorious for ads about 5-6 years back and today its Xiaomi and other Chinese OEM.
If it's the decision of Google, why doesn't my samsung S7 shows a single ad in the software?

EU market strategy

Showing more ads should never be market strategy when u are trying to increase user base anywhere.
Anyways we have the answer in Post 5

 

[Type59]

Booking.com is a good site. I wont mind ads on my locking screen. Obviously need to verified by huawei team. Dont need dodgy spam messages.

 

[lcloo]

Yeah so that is why Xiaomi is putting ads in every nook and corner of their phone. They also use android, so does that mean they are being a good kid and generating more revenue for Google?
Lol...Google doesn't major chunk by showing ads in their android software (which is open source btw). Google earns by licensing fee which companies have to pay to google to earn the rights to include Google services such as Play store, Gmail and Gmaps etc...
All the the decisions on showing ads inside the software is the monopoly of OEM. That is why Samsung was notorious for ads about 5-6 years back and today its Xiaomi and other Chinese OEM.
If it's the decision of Google, why doesn't my samsung S7 shows a single ad in the software?


Showing more ads should never be market strategy when u are trying to increase user base anywhere.
Anyways we have the answer in Post 5

You are talking nonsense. Huawei sold only the hardware. Advertisement is generated from Google Ads. Go to Google Ads official site yourself. I deal with Google Ads before in my blogs so I know.

Google Ads: What Are Google Ads & How Do They Work?
Every second, there are 2.3 million searches performed on Google, and the majority of search results pages include Google ads. Paid for by businesses, Google ads can be an extremely effective way of driving relevant, qualified traffic to your website exactly when people are searching for the types of products or services your business offers.

In this article, you’ll learn what Google ads are, how Google ads work, and why you should run your own Google ads.

What Are Google Ads?
Google offers advertisements which appear in search results on google.com with the use of Google AdWords or advertisements that appear on other websites through the Display Network and Google’s AdSense program.

Below is an example of a Google search engine results page (SERP). There are two sections of paid Google ads, one above the "natural" or organic links and one at the bottom of the results page:

The sponsored results, or ads, (in the red box) are denoted with a green “Ad” label. The results that appear below the ads (in the green box) are referred to as organic results.

Google also offers Display Ads, which appear on the Google Display Network. The Display Network is an extensive collection of outside, third-party websites that have partnered with Google and agreed to serve Google ads. Google ads on the Display Network can be in text, image, video, or rich media format, and can be targeted differently. This includes remarketing and banner ads.

If using AdSense, your ads would appear in the selected areas on a website:

Why Google Ads Appear
The Google AdWords auction is focused around keywords – advertisers choose a list of keywords to target that are relevant to their business offerings, the words that people are most likely to use when searching for their product. They then bid on these keywords, basing each bid on how much they are willing to pay for a Google user to click on their ad. This bid, combined with a Quality Score assigned by Google based on the quality of your proposed ad, determines which Google ads appear on the SERP. When users click the ads, the advertiser pays a certain cost (the cost per click, or CPC), which is calculated according to the below formula:

This is where the term Pay-Per-Click (PPC) originates.



If Google is free, how does it make so much money?
Last year Google made £2.5bn in the UK. So how does a company make so much money when it seems to provide all of its services for free?

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Google is an advertising company and its biggest product is you, the user. The company controls almost 90 per cent of the search market in the UK, and almost 96 per cent of Google’s revenue still comes from advertising.

Every day the site returns 1 billion search results globally and serves up billions of ads alongside. The secret to success is in the scale of its operation.

The main product is its huge pool of users and extensive data about how they behave online. This data is used to match companies with potential customers, serving up ads that users are more likely to want to click.

Your online habits from YouTube, search and Gmail are all used to profile your behaviour. On top of this, Google follows your surfing habits through its Analytics and Adsense codes, embedded on web pages to track your interests outside of search.

Targeted advertising
Companies use Google AdWords to have their results displayed to specific audiences, thanks to the search engine’s advanced algorithms. AdWords is a cost per click service, so if you do not click a link then Google does not make any money directly from your search.

AdWords brings in roughly 70 per cent of the company’s advertising revenue. In 2011 the top sectors advertising were finance, insurance, retail and travel and the most expensive search terms were insurance, loans and mortgage.

Google’s AdSense allows advertisers to join its network and display ads on its website. A large number of news websites in the UK use this service, so when you log on to scan the headlines, Google makes money and learns more about your browsing habits. Display advertising is usually charged at cost per page impression, because the huge volume of online traffic ads is often sold cheaply at a cost per thousand impressions.

Trusted brand
But Google is not just a search business. It provides maps, cloud computing and documents, email services and a social network. These services are expensive to run but help to draw more users in, build a trusted brand, and gather more vital data about users.

Google is expected to make $3.6bn from YouTube this year as traffic continues to grow and more pre-roll video ads are displayed. But the company is also sharing wealth with users who post popular videos taking in six-figure payments. YouTube has also branched out into a film “rental” site in direct competition with Lovefilm and Nexflix.

The company dominates the mobile market, licensing out its Android operating system for free, but making a large profit from the venture through search traffic, display ads and a percentage of every Play Store sale.

Collecting user data

Google’s browser Chrome holds a 30 per cent market share, allowing the company to generate search queries without having to share revenue, as is the case with Firefox and Safari. Chrome provides valuable data about browsing habits for the company, and has been described it as an “exceptionally profitable” product.

All of this data collection has left some customers feeling nervous. But with Google’s dominance of the web, it can be hard to escape the company’s reach. Google even collects information on the exact location of users, using Chrome and mobile devices.

Google assure users that it anonymises any collected IP addresses after nine months, and cookies in search logs after 18 months, saying this “strikes the right balance” for privacy concerns.

 

[Aryan0395]

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That is a notification from Google now feature that is google assistant.
Now go die somewhere.

 

[prashantazazel]

I'm going to support Huawei for a long time. Got one for my girlfriend and one for my brother.
Amazing phones. Not faced any issue with ads, till now.
I would like to see an Amoled screen on the flagships, though.

 

[lcloo]

That is a notification from Google now feature that is google assistant.
Now go die somewhere.

Loser! talking non-rational and full of hates!

 

[Aryan0395]

Loser! talking non-rational and full of hates!

Yeah, learn what a notification is....
Lol...

 

[rott]

Loser! talking non-rational and full of hates!

What do you expect from 82? Stop engaging him.