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• The Dead Zone: Drift

  Published: August 20, 2007, 6:23 am

  Tags: Infomercial, Pepsi, Product Placement, Productplacement, Visa

  Filed under: OpEd, The Dead Zone, Episode Reviews(S06E10) All season, I have been trying to put a positive spin on bad writing, poor casting choices (Sheriff Turner, remember her? Barely? We never see her, so maybe they think she was a poor choice too), episodes that seem recycled from other seasons, and others that are completely forgettable and

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• Product Placement Dept.: Mike Rogers, Weary of Saying I Told You So, Moves On to the Profit Stage

  Published: September 4, 2007, 2:31 pm

  Tags: Blogactive, Endless Cummer, Gays, Larry Craig, Mike Rogers, Outing, Product Placement Dept, Republicans, Scandal, Senate

  Mike Rogers of Blogactive is having a very good Late Summer, indeed! Last week, he got to say, “I wrote about Larry Craig’s sex-loo fondness last October” to whomever would listen,...

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• Product Placement Dept.: Mike Rogers, Weary of Saying I Told You So, Moves On to the Profit Stage

  Published: September 4, 2007, 2:31 pm

  Tags: Blogactive, Endless Cummer, Gays, Larry Craig, Mike Rogers, Outing, Product Placement Dept, Republicans, Scandal, Senate

  Mike Rogers of Blogactive is having a very good Late Summer, indeed! Last week, he got to say, “I wrote about Larry Craig’s sex-loo fondness last October” to whomever would listen, and for once, everybody wanted to listen! This morning he got the ultimate full-release sought after in this town: a fawning butt-licking by the

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• Top Chef challenge winner gets MacBook Pro

  Published: September 6, 2007, 3:00 am

  Tags: Macbook Pro, Macbookpro, Product Placement, Productplacement, Top Chef, Topchef

  consistently high level of product placement on Bravo's shows, it's not all that surprising to see a Mac in the mix -- style maven Tim Gunn even sports a MacBook Pro on the host desk for his new show. What I wasn't expecting was the high level of enthusiasm the winner showed for the prize -- jumping up and down with glee, and the other chefs

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• Seinfeld plugs Bee Movie on 30 Rock'

  Published: October 4, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Dreamworks, Product Placement, Movie Marketing

  deal. Instead they were the product of people just thinking the over-the-top mentioning of the movie would be kind of funny. All of this is in addition to the fact that NBC partnered with Seinfeld for 20 minisodes that will air on the network to promote Bee Movie. What those minisodes (think webisodes but not, you know, on the web) will look

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• Jay-Z Brings Back "That Ace of Spades": Armand de Brignac Champagne

  Published: October 11, 2007, 10:25 pm

  Tags: Jay Z, Product Placement

  Hype Williams makes a gorgeous video for Blue Magic and Jay-Z gives Armand de Brignac Champagne a lovely product placement. Here we go again! By the way, I actually talked to Armand CEO Brett Berish a while back. He basically said what I'd already read in the papers. My jaw...

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• Blue Magic Video Product Placements & Esquire's Ultimate Bachelor Pad Marketing

  Published: October 18, 2007, 10:33 pm

  Tags: Product Placement

  KEF MUON Speakers by Ross Lovegrove (Photo: Business Wire) Pharrell's blog breaks down the Billionaire Boys Club / Ice Cream placements in Jay-Z's Blue Magic video: PHARRELL...Ice Cream Denim Jacket featuring the Swarovski Crystals Monster Popsicle Logo (only 50 made), The...

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• The Pack's Swear They Do Meets Travis Barker's Famous Stars and Straps

  Published: October 22, 2007, 7:16 pm

  Tags: Product Placement

  The Pack f/Eddie Rap Life & Terry Kennedy [production: Travis Barker] - Swear They Do I don't know the backstory on this song but The Pack's Swear They Do video above features Famous Stars and Straps clothing and possible skate team members or the like in addition to The...

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• New Iron Man photos a win for Audi

  Published: November 28, 2007, 12:04 pm

  Tags: Movie Marketing, Paramount Pictures, Product Placement

  It’s so nice when product placement results in something extra because of the release of pictures like this, isn’t it? The R8, which is shown being driven by Stark in the movie, is just one of a number of Audi vehicles that will appear in the movie as a result of the placement deal it signed with Parmount that was reported back

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• Mercedes goes all-in with National Treasure 2 sponsorship

  Published: December 13, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Disney, Movie Marketing, Product Placement

  started out as simple product placement turned into more substantive cross-marketing for Mercedes and their involvement in National Treasure: Book of Secrets, reports the Hollywood Reporter. Initially the car maker was just providing cars to the movie’s production, specifically a C-class sedan and a GL-Class SUV, cars that feature

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• David Lynch's Thoughts on Product Placement

  Published: January 31, 2008, 10:32 am

  Tags: David Lynch, Davidlynch, Product Placement, Productplacement

  -- how does Lynch feel about product placement? -- the filmmaker shortly, and succinctly answers. Ah, he makes me smile.I can only hope more of these come out of the woodwork, or that Lynch makes some more himself. He could weigh in on sexuality, special effects, boozing celebs, Oscar nominations and winners, blowing budgets...What would you like

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• Instead Of Video Spam, Try Video Product Placement

  Published: February 4, 2008, 3:41 pm

  Tags: Seo, Video Seo, Marketing, Product Placement, Youtube

  will be something akin to product placement. People primarily want to be entertained. So when they watch a video they’ll want to see something that entertains them. Video makers who produce short entertainment videos will need to make those videos pay or they’ll just be frittering their hours away. Enter product placement.

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• Iron Man Featuring Audi R8: Technology That Amazes

  Published: April 9, 2008, 1:21 pm

  Tags: Product Placement

  Iron Man and Audi R8 Ad/Trailer Iron Man isn't really a hip hop movie per se but it does include an appearance by Ghostface, plus, Iron Man's cool! Audi hopes to absorb some of that coolness with a campaign built around Audi's placements in Iron Man. Audi's publicists break...

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• Brawndo, the irony mutilator [Product Placement]

  Published: April 25, 2008, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Brawndo, Product Placement, Redux Beverages, Roflcon

  Redux Beverages, whose other product is a drink called Cocaine, gave LOLcats fans a nod by informing them, "Yes, you can has caffeine." (Photo by dantekgeek)

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• Amuse-Biatch Photoessay: Cheftestant Pleads for Help After Being Trapped Inside One of the Glad Family of Products

  Published: May 16, 2008, 9:51 am

  Tags: Product Placement, I M Melting, Photoessay, Stephanie Izard, Dale Talde, So Glad

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