Tag: vodka

Product placement in pictures: Spectre

Spectre is 24th James Bond movie and one of the biggest, most anticipated movies of the year. Daniel Craig is still agent 007 and Christoph Waltz is the main villain Ernst Stavro…

Product placement in pictures: Spring Breakers

Spring Breakers is an interesting movie by an interesting director Harmony Korine. It follows four college-aged girls (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine) on their spring break. However, the…

Budweiser’s product placement: Flight vs That’s My Boy

Perhaps you’ve read about Budweiser’s complaint over their appearance in the latest Robert Zemeckis’ movie Flight, starring Denzel Washington. If not, here’s a short recap: Anheuser-Busch (the owner of Budweiser brand) has…

Lykke Li & Friends of Kanon

“Corporations have no friends. They have employees. Employees who are paid to blindly care about their company and what it is about. At Kanon, we are a group of people who have…

Famous cocktails: from silver screen to bars and clubs

If you think about famous cocktails from movies or TV shows which one springs to mind: vodka martini from some James Bond movie, Cosmopolitan from Sex and the City, White Russian from…

Tigerblood – Diddy's cocktail made from Ciroc vodka

Last week Diddy (formerly known as Puff Daddy and P Diddy) twitted: »Dont drink the peepee! Drink TIGERBLOOD!! Redberry Ciroc+Cranberry Juice« If you don't know what it's all about, you probably missed…

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…

Absolut strikes again: Lemon Drop

A few months ago I wrote about an absolutely lovely short movie I'm Here that was sponsored by Absolut Vodka. In the post Absolutely brilliant I mentioned that Spike Jonze, the director…

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…

Absolutely brilliant

Anne: »What do you dream about?« Sheldon: »What do you mean? We can’t dream.« Anne: »Of course you can. You just make it up.« At the 2010 Sundance Film Festival filmmaker Spike…

Product placement prostitution

Last week SKYY Spirits announced that SKYY vodka will be again named the official vodka for the movie Sex and the City 2. The company will also offer limited edition bottles designed…

Not the Stoli

Here’s another reflection on drinks in TV shows. Stolichnaya is a Russian vodka produced from wheat and rye grains. It was the first Russian vodka to be imported to the U.S. –…