Yeah. The Nissan Versa bit in the first season was prety lame.
Most Obnoxious Product Placement?
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Yeah. The Nissan Versa bit in the first season was prety lame.
It may be lame, but you remember it, and that's all the companies care about. I certainly thought about Heroes as I was buying my Versa.
It at least makes some sense in-universe that characters would be excited about driving a new model of car. I'll admit I rolled my eyes when the Rogue was introduced, but if it gives the show more money to do cool things, then I'm okay with it.
It at least makes some sense in-universe that characters would be excited about driving a new model of car. I'll admit I rolled my eyes when the Rogue was introduced, but if it gives the show more money to do cool things, then I'm okay with it.
I loved Casino Royale, but I will admit the Sony product placement was pretty bad.
From the Sony Ericsson as mentioned above to the Blu-Ray playing security camera in the Caribbean to James Bond having a Sony VAIO open after Vesper's demise was kinda pushing it.
From the Sony Ericsson as mentioned above to the Blu-Ray playing security camera in the Caribbean to James Bond having a Sony VAIO open after Vesper's demise was kinda pushing it.
Also true.Casino Royale was one long Sony ad with a few James Bond scenes.
Yeah, that just compounded the excessive phone advertising - err, usage. It got ridiculous and even a bit distracting after a short while.
No, but apparently highly trained spies do.
A character named 'Lisa Catera' popping up on Chicago Hope.
Ok, yeah. That one wins.
Pop-up ads and banner ads have gotten more and more obvious, distracting and disruptive over the years. (I guess a side-effect to DVRs)
^ You know, I don't even remember the Nissan placements on "Heroes."
But watching "Eureka" become a shill for Degree so blatantly just drove me up the damn wall. It really takes you right out of the show.
But watching "Eureka" become a shill for Degree so blatantly just drove me up the damn wall. It really takes you right out of the show.
Heroes in its first season advertised the Nissan versa and at the beginning of season 2 The Rouge.
Smallville takes the cake for product placement. From Lois promoting a new Ford to Chloe and "Acuvea to the rescue" to her yaris. Then Pete and stride gum.
then we have Knight Rider with the Dodge ram and terminator TSCC too
For a movie my choice would be "Back to the future" from Nike to pizza hut to texaco, to pepsi and the list goes on. Oh and the star of the movie, the Delorean
Flashing DMC whenever they got a chance
Then there's Transformers with the all GM autobot fleet to any hasbro product they could put in the movie
Smallville takes the cake for product placement. From Lois promoting a new Ford to Chloe and "Acuvea to the rescue" to her yaris. Then Pete and stride gum.
then we have Knight Rider with the Dodge ram and terminator TSCC too
For a movie my choice would be "Back to the future" from Nike to pizza hut to texaco, to pepsi and the list goes on. Oh and the star of the movie, the Delorean
Flashing DMC whenever they got a chance
Then there's Transformers with the all GM autobot fleet to any hasbro product they could put in the movie
Good one. I had almost forgotten about her.
The Cheerios box in "Superman: The Movie" was kinda jarring. It's just that it's so prominent in the shot, in a movie that doesn't have a lot of corporate logos, and placed at such a direct angle facing the camera. If the box were sitting at an angle, it wouldn't attract such attention.
I can't quite pinpoint the moment in "Casino Royale" where the Sony logos became too much but it was there. (It was probably the VAIO computer he was using after Vesper's death.)
"Transformers" changing Bumblebee from a VW Bug to a Camaro.
Actually, this was a case where money wasn't the issue. This was Zemeckis & Gale making deliberate choices to depict real-world products that people use in their daily lives and show how they change over time. The companies chosen were often chosen not for how much money they were offering but for how much their logo changed between 1955 & 1985. That's why you see Pepsi & Texaco instead of Coca-Cola & Shell. Pepsi & Texaco changed their logos. Coca-Cola & Shell didn't.
They certainly didn't get any money for using the Delorean because DMC was out of business by the time they started making the movie. A Delorean was used because they needed it for the joke where the kid reading the comic book thinks that it looks like a space ship and then the gull-wing door opens.
The only company that really provided a lot of money to the movie for product placement was California Raisins. Some over-enthusiastic Universal guy told the California Raisin people that "Back to the Future" was going to do for raisins what "E.T." did for Reese's Pieces. Zemeckis was unable to find a good way to put raisins in the movie. Ultimately, the only California Raisins presence in the movie is on the bus bench that the bum is sleeping on when Marty arrives in 1985 again. That was when they decided to give the California Raisins people their money back.
I can't quite pinpoint the moment in "Casino Royale" where the Sony logos became too much but it was there. (It was probably the VAIO computer he was using after Vesper's death.)
"Transformers" changing Bumblebee from a VW Bug to a Camaro.
Actually, this was a case where money wasn't the issue. This was Zemeckis & Gale making deliberate choices to depict real-world products that people use in their daily lives and show how they change over time. The companies chosen were often chosen not for how much money they were offering but for how much their logo changed between 1955 & 1985. That's why you see Pepsi & Texaco instead of Coca-Cola & Shell. Pepsi & Texaco changed their logos. Coca-Cola & Shell didn't.
They certainly didn't get any money for using the Delorean because DMC was out of business by the time they started making the movie. A Delorean was used because they needed it for the joke where the kid reading the comic book thinks that it looks like a space ship and then the gull-wing door opens.
The only company that really provided a lot of money to the movie for product placement was California Raisins. Some over-enthusiastic Universal guy told the California Raisin people that "Back to the Future" was going to do for raisins what "E.T." did for Reese's Pieces. Zemeckis was unable to find a good way to put raisins in the movie. Ultimately, the only California Raisins presence in the movie is on the bus bench that the bum is sleeping on when Marty arrives in 1985 again. That was when they decided to give the California Raisins people their money back.
Funny, I always thought that was AMC as in the car company of the time. I didn't know it was created independently.
I, Robot was the first one that came to my mind. The placement of JVC and Converse is blatant enough but the Audi product placement is just mind numbing.
For one, they constantly make sure the logo can be seen at almost all times. Secondly, Spooner's 'futuristic' vehicle looks like little more than a slightly modified TT to me. And finally, it seems as though just about EVERY CAR in that particular future is an Audi
. Not only can you see multiple variations on the TT but also the A2, for example. What a dreadful, dreadful thought.I do love the movie, however. And I've resorted to just smiling in relation to the product placement.
Speaking of Audi how about Iron Man?
From Tony's car to Peppers car to the SUV that ran over Iron Man and then there's burger king.
From Tony's car to Peppers car to the SUV that ran over Iron Man and then there's burger king.
Near the end of The Dead Zone... Eek.
"Thunderbirds" - a hideous near future where the news broadcasts are sponsored by Ford. 
Yep, I think that one pretty much takes it. First there was the episode with the Degree "experiments" in the lab, then the episode with Carter repeatedly going back in time to the point where they could show off the Degree deoderant over and over again, then there was the episode where the Degree product was an integral part of the plot. Ugh.
