{"id":23794,"date":"2016-09-08T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T03:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=23794"},"modified":"2016-09-08T11:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T03:41:57","slug":"oppo-now-no-2-best-selling-smartphone-brand-ph-gfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/09\/08\/oppo-now-no-2-best-selling-smartphone-brand-ph-gfk\/","title":{"rendered":"OPPO now No. 2 best-selling smartphone brand in PH: GfK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OPPO is now the second best-selling smartphone brand in the ASEAN\u2019s fastest growing mobile market, the Philippines, according to German-based market research organization GfK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GfK\u2019s latest survey showed that OPPO increased its market share from 3.2 percent in July 2015 to 8.6 percent in July 2016, more than double its share from last year. The smartphone brand also rose from third spot in June 2016 at 8.5 percent, to second last July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur increasing shares show how we are able to capture what Filipinos want in a mobile device,\u201d said Stephen Cheng, OPPO\u2019s Brand Marketing Manager. \u201cWe not only meet consumer demands for quality smartphones, but we also offer them at more affordable prices. This is an important factor that paved the way for our growth over the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/OPPO_C1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-23795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/OPPO_C1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"oppo_c1\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/OPPO_C1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/OPPO_C1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/OPPO_C1.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OPPO attributed its rising popularity to its F1 series, whose selfie-enhancing features won over the Filipino\u2019s fondness for taking pictures of themselves. The company introduced the F1 phone in February this year, followed by the F1 Plus in April.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced only last August, the F1 series\u2019 latest addition, the F1s, sold out three days after its launch in concept and dealer stores nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the reception to the F1s, OPPO is optimistic that the company will eventually dominate the Philippine selfie market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOPPO will continue pursuing its growth in the market by indulging the Filipino fascination for taking selfies,\u201d Cheng said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPPO is now the second best-selling smartphone brand in the ASEAN\u2019s fastest growing mobile market, the Philippines, according to German-based market research organization GfK. GfK\u2019s latest survey showed that OPPO increased its market share from 3.2 percent in July 2015 to 8.6 percent in July 2016, more than double its share from last year. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,3],"tags":[394,1562,201],"class_list":["post-23794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-mobile-products","category-phones","tag-gfk","tag-oppo","tag-smartphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}