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more about #productplacement more comments → SeeingI: Weirdly, the guy eating looks just like me. #productplacement more » günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi: now that i know that that is a knife.. i do kind of have an odd feeling of compulsion to go buy another one... and the rest of the article... well.. v... more » smegz: This looks like reverse product placement, in that they are trying to associate a program with a commercial in the commercial, not the program. Like, ... more » tjhaflinger: This doesn't look like product placement to me. By the inventor's language, product placement might be called "Commercial-Integrated Programming", not... more » ICanHasComments: Clearly Denizen has never been forced to watch the "new" 90210 as an unpaid intern... Summer Road Trips sponsored by Dr. Pepper... A yard sale episode... more » atlasfugged: Before I read the patent, I thought this was probably relatively old, probably filed in the 80's or early 90's at the latest. But, the filing date of ... more » airmikee99003: Prior art should cancel this patent out. Jim Carrey's movie, "The Truman Show" talked all about product placement for advertising. That movie came o... more » WhiteMan'sBourbon: I don't understand the hostility to product placement. Wouldn't it be better to have people in TV shows always using brand-name items if it meant no m... more » Brett Benedict: I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says "program". #productplacement more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: 'an idea to integrate a brand of Vaseline into a Lifetime miniseries called "Maneater."' Does the Vaseline make it easier for the 'Maneater' to diges... more » not2techy: I once worked with a former cable exec who said that the sales figures for the shopping networks consistently showed the highest per capita sales in C... more » Magister: It looks like they also have some screen real estate, they could license. Maybe something could go above their banner? Is there anything on their HD w... more » bytememehard: All programs have product placement in them these days.Are you trying to insinuate that the fabulous programs on the HSN, like Ready to Wear Beauty, H... more » CaligulaSanchez: Yo dawg, I heard you like commercials so we put commercials in your commercials so you can watch commercials while you watch commercials. more » Snarkastic: This would have been a great idea...if they had had DOZENS OF KIDS do this. With one Valedictorian, it just seems like something one moron decided to ... more » -
#advertising
Someone Patented Product Placement in TV Shows
It's hard to believe that there is actually an inventor of product placement; like swine flu, it always seemed just nature's dark side. But someone thinks he did in fact invent it and is willing to sue to prove it. More » -
#advertisinginhell
Ads Now Inserted Into Other Ads
The Home Shopping Network is a 24/7 ad for various useless crap. But is one single nonstop layer of ads enough, for consumers to learn about various pieces of crap? Or maybe could they put some ads in those ads? More » -
#badvertising
'Viral' Movie Ad Fails in Every Way Possible
Marketing whizzes for a movie called I Love You, Beth Cooper figured that a good idea to generate "buzz" would be to pay some valedictorian for a product placement in her high school graduation speech. They were wrong. More » -
#productplacement
How Are We Tricking Kids Into Using Condoms Today?
Condoms: Are teenagers sufficiently aware of their existence? Despite being the subject of the world's highest number of bizarre ads, you can never be too sure. The newest ways to corrupt kids' minds, sexually: direct mail, and Leighton Meester videos. More » -
#advertising
Bing Will Annoy You Into Submission
Microsoft's new search-dealie "Bing" is going up against The Google, which is hard! Fortunately, Bing's marketing wizards have devised the world's most annoying ways to promote it. (*Bing* sound)! More » -
#douchetotems
Dude There's This Axe Body Spray Club in The Hamptons With So Many Sluts, I Swear
Haha, we know exactly what to make of this: Axe Body Spray is sponsoring a nightclub in the Hamptons for the whole summer. Brah: More » -
#productplacement
Desperate Chuck Fans in Futile Sandwich Frenzy
NBC went and sold the most blatant product placement in TV history in its show Chuck, and what do you know, it worked! Not for Chuck; that shit is getting canceled. But for Subway, yes! More » -
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#productplacement
NBC Sells Its Nonexistent Soul For a $5 Subway Sandwich
NBC has shockingly ruined the integrity of its dramatic show Chuck by allowing Subway what is perhaps the most blatant (and therefore laughable!) product placement in network TV history. Mmm, smell that chicken teriyaki. More » -
#endorsements
Child-Enslaving Murderer Prefers Our Brand—Shouldn't You?
The man you see hiding behind the blue binder is Josef Fritzl, the sick Austrian who plead guilty to enslaving his daughter for 24 years in his own rape dungeon. But what about the binder company??? More » -
#sitcommunism
The Future of Television is Laid-Off Bankers
Look, the nimble television networks are seamlessly transitioning into recession-era programming! Instead of sitcoms about upwardly mobile whites, it's sitcoms about downwardly mobile whites. With product placement for the poors! More » -
#gossip
Memorial to Biggie Smalls Is Also a Paid Ad For Sweaters
Rappers have been dropping brand names in their lyrics for cash for years; it's tasteless, but widespread. But why would you turn a memorial track for your dead friend into a Coogi ad? More » -
#marketing
30 Rock's 'McFlurry' Episode: More Protestations of Purity
Last week we totally harshed on NBC's 30 Rock for writing McDonald's McFlurry into its script in such a sellout-y way. But it was all natural, no ad money, just for fun, allegedly! More » -
#30rock
'30 Rock' McFlurryGate Overshadowing More Persuasive iPhone-Contra Affair
For all the e-ink spilled over whether 30 Rock gave the McFlurry too much product placement last week (even Jane Krakowski is unsure now!), we think there's a different, far bigger case to be made. More » -
#30rock
Tina Fey Denies McFlurry Payola, Disowns Twitter Account
Last night's McFlurry-obsessed episode of 30 Rock? Totally not a McDonald's product placement, avers Tina Fey, the show's writer and star, and we must believe her, as she is everything right and good about America. More » -
#television
30 Rock McFlurries Towards Product Placement Hell
Way back in October, people were already saying that NBC's 30 Rock had exhausted its "Yes it's a product placement, but it's also a funny storyline!" justification. Oh, how wrong they were. Mmm, McFlurry!
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