We all know that there are massive restrictions when it comes to the use of Olympic symbols and advertising in the Olympic venues and events. Only a handful of Olympic sponsors and…
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As we heard the news that British movie director Danny Boyle would be responsible for London 2012’s opening ceremony, we expected that his screenplay would include some elements of modern culture, rather…
When Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner scored his second goal vs Portugal in the European Football Championship a few days ago, he lifted his jersey and lowered his shorts. There wasn’t wearing anything…
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…
Here it is: the annual review of the best of the best in product placement and branded entertainment. In my previous feature The Best of 2010 I chose iPad’s placement in Modern…
Brands & Films has been recently featured in a piece on product placement on ABC News and in a ‘5 things’ section on Slovenian blog Pepermint. ABC News ran a story about…
Sasha Vujacic is Slovenian basketball player, currently with the New Jersey Nets, but is (unfortunately) probably better known as Maria Sharapova‘s fiancé. On July 2, Sharapova lost the final match of this…
A couple of weeks ago all major news agencies had run a story about product placement in the Chinese propaganda movie Beginning of the Great Revival. Apparently in one scene, the actor…
A few days ago young Danish painter Nadia Plesner won an unusual battle against LVMH, one of the world’s largest fashion companies. Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy had filed a lawsuit against her…
In the end, Friday's royal wedding was a complete success: over 2 billion TV viewers, over a million people on the streets of London and 500,000 in front of Buckingham Palace, countless…
Magnum, an ice cream brand owned by the British/Dutch company Unilever, has recently launched its latest ad / interactive advergame or we could just call it an experience: Pleasure Hunt. It was…
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. It employed aspects of mass culture, such as advertising,…
Special announcement for readers and visitors of this blog: since last Saturday Brands&Films has its own Facebook page and Twitter profile. On the Facebook page you will find links to new blog…
In 1977 New York was not in a great shape. The criminal rate was high and the morale of New Yorkers was low. The New York officials then decided that something had…
It was on the 19th February 2010, 365 days ago, when I published the first post on Brands & Films titled The King of Drinks. Since then I've managed to write (and…