At the end of July Amazon announced their new e-reader – Kindle 3 and expectedly generated quite a buzz. The release of the highly anticipated gadget is scheduled for the end of…
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Blog posts about product placement in TV shows.
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…
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…
In the last 20-25 years I watched quite a number of TV shows, but only a few can qualify for the ‘Best of the best’ segment. These are: Moonlighting (my guilty pleasure),…
A few weeks ago a new production company DumbDumb released a video/ad »The Prom Date« for Orbit chewing gum. This is the first video in the series »Dirty Shorts« – a series…
During the last few weeks my focus was more on football World Cup than on product placement. Nevertheless I still spotted one example of product placement on Slovenian national TV – during…
Sheldon Cooper – the star of TV show The Big Bang Theory and also one of the geekiest geeks around (or the nerdiest nerd) uses Linux distribution Ubuntu. Is that good or…
The 18th and 19th episode of the TV series The Big Bang Theory had included some interesting examples of product placement. I have to admit that some of them weren't so efficient/controversial…
Lane: London Fog… How ludicrous. Don: Really? I have one. Bert: So do I. Lane: No, of course… It’s just the name. There is no fog in London. There is no London…
On March 21st Slovenian TV station Pop TV started broadcasting the show Slovenia’s got talent. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians and other performers of all ages…
A few days ago Apple’s iPad played a major role in ABC’s TV series Modern Family. You can read my analysis of this clever product placement here. We all thought that there…
Tomorrow (April 3) will be the US release date of one of this year’s most hyped products – Apple’s iPad. Recently some of the world’s most influential technology gurus, e.g. David Pogue…
In one of my recent posts (The Apple genius) I commented on the P.F. Chang’s product placement in the TV series The Big Bang Theory. For all those readers who are not…
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. –…
The fourteenth episode (S03E14) of The Big Bang Theory has some very interesting product placement, although it’s very unlikely that they were paid for. All of these were spoken placements and occurred…