Tag: BlackBerry

Product placement slideshow: House of Cards 3

The first and second season of Netflix’s show House of Cards were marked by the heavy use of brands, especially Apple products and BlackBerry. At times the show looked like those two…

Product placement slideshow: House of Cards 2

On February 14 American streaming service Netflix released all 13 episodes of House of Cards season 2. The first season became a huge hit in 2013 and in the beginning of February…

Product placement in House of Cards

Product placement slideshow: House of Cards

After Netflix released its TV series House of Cards a lot of unsatisfied viewers vented their frustration on Twitter. Messages such as two below continue to appear on my Twitter feed: “Worst…

Product placement in pictures: Project X

What happens if you organize a birthday party, invite thousands of guests and they all come? Loud music, nervous neighbors, drugs, sex and rock ‘n’ roll, fighting, burning or drowning cars, the…

Product placement in pictures: Intouchables

Intouchables is a French film that premiered in November 2011 and in two months it became the second most successful French film of all time (in number of spectators in France). It’s…

Product placement in pictures: Crazy Stupid Love

Crazy Stupid Love, an American romantic comedy, opens up with a shot of different shoes and legs in a restaurant. After a minute of watching nice shoes and people playing with each…

Product placement in pictures: Horrible Bosses

I rarely enjoy movie comedies, mainly because they’re just not funny and the majority of their jokes are recycled and boring. Horrible Bosses falls in the category of fairly good comedies with…

Product placement in Happy Endings – Season 1 recap

Happy Endings is an American sitcom which reminds me of Friends for different reasons: three girls and three guys, two of them are married, two of them were almost married, but the…

Politicians and brands

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…

Product Placement in pictures: Due Date

Recently I’ve watched another mediocre movie, some sort of buddy-buddy comedy with annoying Zach Galifianakis and uninterested Robert Downey Jr. The movie had its usual dose of product placement, with one that…

Product Placement in pictures: Limitless

The premise of the Limitless is quite interesting: what would happen if you’d take a drug (called NZT) that enhances the brain power and allows the person to use 100% of his…

Interview: Stacy Jones of Hollywood Branded

Hollywood Branded Inc. is a Los Angeles based entertainment marketing agency, founded in 2007 by Stacy Jones. The agency specializes in product placement, celebrity endorsement, branded content, promotions, licensing. Hollywood Branded, the…

BlackBerry PlayBook and Black Eyed Peas

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.…