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Eleven Herbs and Sell Outs
Last week’s episode of NBC’s sophomore comedy “Community” jumped wholeheartedly onto the product placement bandwagon, with a plotline that trapped the gang in a runaway flight simulator built and...
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Calvin Klein Billboard “Suggestive of Rape” Gets Axed
The Australian Herald Sun reported this Tuesday that a Calvin Klein billboard ad (shown below) would be pulled by the Advertising Standards Bureau, due to protests by sexual assault workers and women’s...
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One Day You’re In, and the Next Day You’ve Sold Out: Part III
Cue this Thursday’s episode of Project Runway. Chrysler: Chrysler: Hilton: Chrysler: Hilton: Hilton: Chrysler: Hilton: Hilton: Hilton: What is this show about, again?
View ArticleAn Exercise in the Bizarre
Have you seen the recent Adidas commercial for Derrick Rose shoes starring Ken Jeong? I don’t want to impugn the wonderful Ken in any way, but . . . . . . could this ad really ever sell shoes?
View ArticlePuppy Politics
Staying close to home this weekend, the hardworking staff couldn’t help but come across this campaign ad for Massachusetts State Treasurer candidate Steve Grossman (Dem). Background context:...
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One From the Vaults
As stealth advertising aficionados, we’d be remiss not to revisit this old chestnut. IT’S . . . (picspam by sparkagrace) . . . the Friends Pottery Barn episode, a.k.a. “TOW the Apothecary Table!” The...
View ArticleA Sterling Campaign
After spending a lot of time looking at ads invading television content, it’s sometimes strange to see the reverse – television content invading ads. This is by no means a new phenomenon, but is...
View ArticleGoing Viral
The video below, sent in by eagle-eyed reader Eric Suliga, shows the blurring of content and product promotion at its finest (or worst). Created by Hi-Tec Sports, the vid has already collected over 7...
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Oh, Mother
While packing for Thanksgiving, I finally found time to clean out the old DVR, and stumbled upon a product placement doozy left over from October. Early this season the CBS series How I Met Your...
View ArticleMeet the “Promercial”
Further complicating the conundrum of branded television content, ABC - in partnership with Diet Dr Pepper – aired a round of “promercials” on January 5th that garnered the attention of both viewers...
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