You may think product placement is a relatively new phenomenon – it’s actually been around since the 1920s, if not earlier when it was used in the film The Garage, starring Buster…
Tag: James Bond
One of the recurring motifs in the James Bond movies are the so-called Bond girls. According to Wikipedia there is a point in every Bond movie when James Bond meets the principal…
As we all know, product placement can range from subtle to more direct, in-your-face approaches. The placement of different type of venues and restaurant chains is no exception, and interestingly enough, venues…
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…
Brands influence the way we think, whether we are conscious of it or not. We are bombarded by commercials, on average, hundreds of times a day, from everything from movie trailers before…
When I first heard about product placement, that was some 15 years ago, I found the fact that the first product placement was Jack Daniels whisky in Mildred Pierce, a movie from…
* This is guest post written by Kristine King On October 9, 2012 Skyfall, the 23rd installment of James Bond, opened in theaters after a much publicized marketing deal of product integration…
I published a lengthy piece on product placement in the latest Bond movie a couple of months ago in the blog post Product placement in pictures: Skyfall. At that time I could…
The latest Bond movie Skyfall has been massively successful, but which James Bond actor grossed most at the box office? Who drove the coolest car and had the best looking girl? My…
A lot has been written about excessive and blatant product placement in the latest Bond movie Skyfall. But let me say somethingdifferent: product placement in Skyfall wasn’t excessive and wasn’t blatant. Actually…
Phang Nga Bay, depending on the day you go, can be either an eerie otherworldly obstacle course of unforgiving rocks shooting dramatically out of choppy, swirling waves, or an awe-inspiring landscape of…
The helicopter skims over the waves of the translucent aqua waters, as James hovers precariously at the open door, binoculars trained unerringly on the sea bottom. The missing nuclear-missile equipped plane is…
Wandering through Gamla stan (The Old Town) is one of many interesting things you can do in Stockholm. This part of the city dates back to the 13th century and consists of…
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,…
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…