product placement
Small Screen
Chuck Exists Only To Sell Subway Sandwiches
6:33AM Hamilton Nolan | Last month TV comedy Chuck had that Subway sandwich product placement that was so laughably flagrant we thought, “This will surely hurt the credibility of ‘Chuck!’” How young and naive we were. Turns out that that Subway deal is literally the only reason that Chuck still exists: More »
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Desperate Chuck Fans In Futile Sandwich Frenzy
11:37PM Hamilton Nolan | NBC went and sold the most blatant product placement in TV history in its show Chuck, and what do you know, it worked! Not for Chuck; that shit is getting cancelled. But for Subway, yes! More »
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NBC Sells Its Nonexistent Soul For A $5 Subway Sandwich
12:21AM Hamilton Nolan | US network NBC has shockingly ruined the integrity of its dramatic show Chuck by allowing Subway what is perhaps the most blatant (and therefore laughable!) product placement in network TV history. Mmm, smell that chicken teriyaki. More »
‘30 Rock’ McFlurryGate Overshadowing More Persuasive iPhone-Contra Affair
8:08AM Kyle Buchanan | For all the e-ink spilled over whether 30 Rock gave the McFlurry too much product placement last week (even Jane Krakowski is unsure now!), we think there’s a different, far bigger case to be made. More »
‘Sex and the City’ Wins ‘Whore of the Year’ and Other Notable Product Placement Honors
5:55AM STV | The soul-deadening imposition of commercial brands on your moviegoing experience got even more shameless this morning when the oft-overlooked ring of Hell know as “brandcameo” unveiled the winners of its fourth annual Product Placement Awards. You could probably guess at least most of the heavyweight competitors — your Apples, your Fords, your Manolos — from a glance at the last year’s worth of releases, but that doesn’t make the year’s findings any less remarkable in context: The surveyors counted an average of 22.1 brands in each of the 20 films this year to have a No. 1 weekend at the box office. That number is down from 2007, when an average of nearly 25 brands were counted among the year’s 32 top releases. More »
