Brands & Films

Reflections on product placement in movies, music and on TV

Tag: Don Draper

Lovely Megan

Brands&Films has been covering Mad Men very closely, mainly from the product placement point of view. But the series isn’t interesting just from that aspect, but also as a character study, relationship analysis, use of real events in the storyline … Even more; Mad Men has produced some memorable episodes and even higher number of [...]

Top 40 Product Placements of all time: 10-1

Here it is: the best of the best. The fourth and the last part of the Top 40 product placements of all time. Just a quick reminder – this is my personal and very subjective list, based on the movies I've seen, articles and books I've read, the available data and my personal affinity. No. [...]

Product Placement in Mad Men – Season 4 recap

The 3rd season of Mad Men ended with a new agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and with big expectations for all characters. Everyone was glad that there was a fresh start. Fast forward to the last episode of the 4th season and here we go again: after the personal and business-wise turmoil, Don & co. [...]

Brand spotting in Mad Men: Christmas Comes But Once a Year (S04E02)

This year Christmas came early … at least in the Mad Men‘s world. I’ll continue with the product placement spotting in Mad Men, but I guess all episodes won’t be quite as brands-ful as it was the opening episode. The second episode includes two notable placements: Polaroid and Pond’s cold cream. Well, since I don’t [...]

Brand spotting in Mad Men: Public Relations (S04E01)

The highly anticipated opening episode of Mad Men's fourth season has included some visual and spoken product placement. Nevertheless it's the show about advertising, so that's quite normal. On the other hand writer Matthew Weiner had to replicate the spirit and the looks of the 60's and that include brands and ads. In upcoming weeks [...]