Blatant Product Placement on t.v. | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1163810 United States 11/17/2010 07:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | evidence of a dying (propaganda) medium, television? Quoting: TheHungerSite.com 1120306You don't know much, do you? Blatant product placement has been going on since the day television began, and it used to be a LOT worse than it is now. The Flintstones, for example, used to shill for Winston cigarettes (not just in commercials, but in bits embedded right into the plots of the shows). |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1132160 United Kingdom 11/17/2010 07:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Great post OP. They are unashamedly blatant aren't they? Here in the UK product placement on commercial television was given the green light recently (some point within the last couple of years IIRC), not sure if its in place yet or not, I haven't noticed anything quite as blatant as these though, and am worried if it goes that way! On the other hand though, if they're anything like these, then for sheer comedy value it might be fun! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1011642 United States 11/17/2010 07:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1132160 United Kingdom 11/17/2010 08:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If your watching TV your being advertised to. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1011642Generally true, especially over there. We pay a compulsory TV licence fee over here (almost £150 per annum), and have some non-commercial channels funded by this fee (various BBC channels) and they are advertisement free and have quite strict regulations about promotion, and brand names and what have you, still they're often getting their knuckles wrapped over it. |
TheHungerSite.com (OP) User ID: 1120306 United States 11/17/2010 04:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If your watching TV your being advertised to. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1011642movies too. Behind the Screens: Hollywood goes Hypercommercial my favorite part of the movie comes in at 4:46 where he talks about the reverse psychology they try to play with product placement in movies, check it out to get the idea of what i'm trying to say. more Media Education Foundation films on commercialism [link to www.mediaed.org] |