I have written several blog posts about shameless product placement. I call it product placement prostitution. Placing a product inside a scene in a way that focuses the viewers’ attention on the…
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Transformers is Michael Bay’s hugely successful movie franchise that now consists of four movies, released in the span of seven years. One of the main characteristics of the franchise is blatant and in-your-face…
Nicki Minaj’s latest video Pills N Potions is a simple one. Nicki was filmed in various poses and wearing various outfits. There was also rapper the Game, Nicki’s onscreen love interest. To…
I just watched World War Z, Brad Pitt’s biggest box office hit. It’s a movie about zombie apocalypse. Unfortunately, it’s too long and inconsistent, with underdeveloped back story and for many of…
The title says it all: it’s a disgrace. Even if Avril Lavigne & co. wanted to show the irony of product placement in music videos, it doesn’t look like it. It’s just…
The fifth adventure of New York cop and genuinely tough guy John McClane is called A Good Day to Die Hard. Bruce Willis has to travel to Russia to help his estranged…
Let’s clear one thing first: product placement prostitution occurs when corporate money directs the movie. We’ve seen cases of that phenomenon before, with some very blatant examples, e.g. Sex ant the City,…
On Sunday American television ABC aired the 2011 American Music Awards and generated quite a buzz. Unfortunately it was mainly because of one unnecessary event: we have witnessed another example of product…
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…
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…
Here’s the third part of the Top 40 product placements of all time. It’s my personal and very subjective list. You can check placements from positions 21 to 30 here: Top 40…
December is the month for various lists, best-ofs, worst-ofs, Top 10s, Top 100s … So; here are some of my favourite moments of 2010 – the best examples of product placement and…
On Friday, 19th November, an interesting debate started on social news website Reddit: What Movies Have Had the Worst Product Placement? The user, who opened the topic, presented his/her idea: “Here’s mine:…
There was a scene in the Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps that could be used as an example of bad product placement. It happened at the dinner. Present were Gordon Gekko, his…
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…