Ellie Goulding is a 24 year old British singer, who became the winner of Sound of 2010, BBC’s annual poll of music critics and industry figures that was established in 2003 to…
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Blog posts about product placement in music videos.
In 1995 BMW made history with its deal with the producers of James Bond movies. It was a three-movie deal which gave BMW a chance to include its car models in GoldenEye,…
When Britney Spears released music video for her song Hold it Against Me the main talk on Twitter was about product placement in the video. It contains several brands that are very…
This is the first guest post on Brands & Films. It was written by Alexander Appelhans, a student at the Queen Mary University of London who wrote an essay as a part…
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…
American rapper 50 Cent has recently announced his line of headphones called Sleek by 50. This was a very bold move by the popular artist, because he's coming to the product segment,…
A few days ago Seth Godin posted a very interesting blog post: “Are $300 headphones worth it?” He had in mind Dr. Dre's headphones Beats which are positioned from $119.95 to $449.95.…
Britney Spears’ latest music video “Hold It Against Me”, which premiered on Thursday, 17th February 2011, received a lot of hype. It was shown for the first time on MTV, just before…
Nicole Scherzinger is mainly known for two things: she is/was the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls and she is the current girlfriend of Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton. At the moment…
While writing a blog post on Beats by Dr. Dre headphones (which will be online soon) I remembered that one of my recent buys was influenced by “product placement”. Last April I…
A week ago American singer Ke$ha premiered her latest music video We R Who We R. I don't really like that kind of music although I found one part of the video…
In september Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM) announced their the new BlackBerry tablet, called PlayBook. It’s BlackBerry’s attempt to get a piece of the new tablet market, currently owned by Apple’s iPad.…
Last week British singer Taio Cruz released a new single Higher, actually three different version of the single. The US version featured American singer Travie McCoy, the Worldwide and UK version featured Kylie…
It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better New York is cold, but I like where I'm living There's music on…
Earlier this year Ofcom, UK's communications industries regulator allowed product placement in films, TV series, entertainment shows and sports programmes. This decision could've come earlier, but neveretheless a couple of weeks ago…