- You've been hitting me up on Snapchat,
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,
and even in person to ask me if that was
me that you just saw on tv.
So, since so many people are asking me
and so many people are confirming it
on social media, I figured I'd do a quick video
to confirm. - Yes, Samsung does
have me in a Galaxy S8 commercial.
What's going on tech squad?
Andru Edwards here, editor in chief at GearLive.com.
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And today I'm going to tell you about the
Samsung Galaxy S8 commercial that you guys have seen me in.
But first, I also want to let you know,
since so many people have asked me about merch,
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to check out all the merchandise.
So back to the commercial.
Yes, Samsung did reach out to me as well as a group
of other people here on YouTube to kind of take clips
of the reviews we did for the Samsung Galaxy S8
and create a commercial for that product.
It's part of their real reviews campaign.
So instead of them telling you how great their phone is,
they take the best out of these different reviews
and kind of smash them together into a 30 second tv spot
and let creators like me or iJustine,
UrAvgConsumer, MKBHD, SuperSaf and Flossy Carter,
all tell you those things instead.
Now there's one version that's airing on tv,
which has just me, SuperSaf, Flossy Carter,
and UrAvgConsumer in it.
And that's actually running in the United States,
Canada, and Mexico as far as I can tell,
including Puerto Rico, Samoa, etc.
Then there's the online campaign,
which has a different video.
That one has me, SuperSaf, UrAvgConsumer and Flossy Carter
but also throws in iJustine and MKBHD.
I've seen that one mostly on YouTube
and some other websites.
Now that one you've probably seen on YouTube
on those ads where you can click to skip.
I don't know if it's over here or over here.
Where you can click to skip the ad
in the beginning of a video.
But that one also appeared right at the top
of the YouTube home page as well as the top
of the New York Times.
Now, people have been telling me they've been seeing
this tv commercial all over the place.
They've seen it on Jennifer Lopez's World of Dance show.
The Tony Awards.
The recent Manny Pacquiao fight.
Some show called Downward Dog,
which I think was already canceled.
Real Housewives. If you're a Bravo fan,
I think some other Bravo shows as well.
Cooking channel, prime time tv.
Pretty much everywhere.
Samsung is really trying to blow this one out.
And it's pretty cool because people keep tweeting me
and instagramming me and snapchatting me
and just saying, hey, is this you?
Is this you that I'm seeing on my television?
It looks so much like you.
If it's not you, it looks just like you.
But yes, it is your boy on your tv.
So if you see me at the top of YouTube,
or the New York Times,
it's also appeared inside the desktop version of Spotify
for those of you who aren't on a premium plan
and therefore have to see ads while you're using Spotify.
Let me know if you've seen this commercial.
If you've seen the commercial on tv or online,
let me know down in the comments below.
I'll meet you down there for further discussion.
Samsung did not sponsor this video here.
But big shout out to them for including me
in their campaign.
It's definitely cool and you'll probably see more
of that from other brands in the future.
I'm working on a couple things.
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Until next time, thanks so much for watching guys as always.
I appreciate your support.
I'm Andru Edwards and I'll catch you in the next video.
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