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unusual facts about product placement



Clairtone

The Project G system was featured the 1967 film The Graduate, marking an early example of product placement.

Fantasticar

In an element of product placement, the Fantasticar has the Dodge logo (presumably inspired by the Juggernaut meme) on its front end, prompting Johnny to ask if it is powered by a Hemi.

Mama Spent Money When She Had None

Katherine assures her that everyone's in the same boat when Bree drives by to show off her new car, a hybrid Lexus LS.

Zool

However, some criticism was aimed at the blatant and pervasive product placement in the game for lollipop company Chupa Chups, in the first three levels (the "Sweet Zone").


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I Stay in Love

As a form of product placement, her fragrance is shown on a dresser in her Boudoir.

La Chaîne Info

In 2006, the channel's web site appeared twice in the James Bond film Casino Royale, a product placement that the channel says it didn't pay for.

London International Awards

In 2011, LIA gave a one-off award sponsored by JetBlue to filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, dubbed "The Greatest Award Ever Sold," for its analysis of product placement and the inner workings of the ad industry.

Proud American

The film holds the distinction of having obtained additional funding through overt sponsorship of the two companies, as well as MasterCard and American Airlines, whose product placement can be observed throughout the film.

The Bulgari Connection

Such heavy use of product placement was not only a novelty in literature but also unprecedented for a published, established author (The Bulgari Connection was her 23rd novel), and a front-page article was published about it in the New York Times, quoting such writers as Rick Moody, J. G. Ballard, Michael Chabon, and Jeanette Winterson.