Brands & Films

Reflections on product placement in movies, music and on TV

Month: February, 2012

Product placement in pictures: Intouchables

Intouchables is a French film that premiered in November 2011 and in two months it became the second most successful French film of all time (in number of spectators in France).
It’s based on a true story of Philippe Pozzo Di Borgo, a French businessman, who was injured in a para-glider accident in 1993 and became [...]

Where is Lisbeth Salander’s home? A review of Millennium Tour in Stockholm

Every Saturday at 11:30 a bunch of people from all over the world gather in front of the yellow building at Bellmansgatan 1 in the capital of Sweden. There are locals, Norwegians, Finns, Germans, Americans, Italians, Venezuelans … and sometimes even visitors from Slovenia. :)
The purpose of coming to this unspectacular place is a bit [...]

Brands & Films’ second birthday

Dear readers,
Today is Brands&Films’ second birthday. It all started in the beginning of 2010 when I decided to start a blog. My friends encouraged me to do it and on 19th of February I published the first post The King of Drinks. And since then it’s been a fantastic ride.
For me the second year was [...]

Reddit on The Big Bang Theory

One of the main characteristics of hugely popular American sitcom The Big Bang Theory are Sheldon Cooper’s T-shirts. In every episode we can see him wearing at least one T-shirt with some interesting prints. You can check some of them here.
In the 16th episode of the fifth season Sheldon wore a blue T-shirt with Reddit’s [...]

Siri stars in The Big Bang Theory

The last episode (S05E14) of American sitcom The Big Bang Theory involved one of the best product placements in the recent months: iPhone 4S’ feature Siri. It was beautifully integrated as one of the main stories from that episode.
Raj got a brand new iPhone and of course immediately tested the Siri feature. We all know [...]