Google’s aggressive global marketing push pays off for its Pixel smartphone over holidays: analysts

[ad_1] Ads for Google’s Pixel phone were everywhere this holiday: Splashed across glossy magazines, the front of the New York Times website and spinning on TV during National Football League games.  That aggressive marketing push produced a decent debut quarter for the smartphone, the first high-end device Google made itself, according to analysts and industry insiders. The early traction came…