House now using product placement!

They have done it before. I remember Taub backing up a Mazda? and started talking about the rear camera and how easy it is to reverse or something.

It makes sense to do this though. Even people who are illegally downloading the show are being exposed to adverts they cant skip. As long as they don't start getting too in your face, I don't really mind.
 
Mark A said:
They have done it before. I remember Taub backing up a Mazda? and started talking about the rear camera and how easy it is to reverse or something.

It makes sense to do this though. Even people who are illegally downloading the show are being exposed to adverts they cant skip. As long as they don't start getting too in your face, I don't really mind.
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Talking about the product is 'too in your face' if you ask me, i don't mind having products in shot etc, it's when they actually script it in to show off features. It's just a massive facepalm moment.
 
Product placement has only recently been bought into the public eye, it's been around for years, where its intentional or not.

Since doing my marketing degree I can't watch a TV show without wondering how much company A paid to have the tv star use their product (sad I know)


Wayne! Listen, we need to have a talk about Vanderhoff. The fact is he's the sponsor and you signed a contract guaranteeing him certain concessions, one of them being a spot on the show.
Wayne Campbell: [holding a Pizza Hut box] Well that's where I see things just a little differently. Contract or no, I will not bow to any sponsor.
Benjamin: I'm sorry you feel that way, but basically it's the nature of the beast.
Wayne Campbell: [holding a bag of Doritos] Maybe I'm wrong on this one, but for me, the beast doesn't include selling out. Garth, you know what I'm talking about, right?
Garth Algar: [wearing Reebok wardrobe] It's like people only do these things because they can get paid. And that's just really sad.
Wayne Campbell: I can't talk about it anymore; it's giving me a headache.
Garth Algar: Here, take two of these!
[Dumps two Nuprin pills into Wayne's hand]
Wayne Campbell: Ah, Nuprin. Little. Yellow. Different.
Benjamin: Look, you can stay here in the big leagues and play by the rules, or you can go back to the farm club in Aurora. It's your choice.
Wayne Campbell: [holding a can of Pepsi] Yes, and it's the choice of a new generation.
 
mrk said:
Not if you watch Fringe, they use Windows PCs and Android phones and they don't make stupid blips and buzzes when something happens on screen either!
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Except that one episode in season one where Olivia turned her computer on and it sounded like something from the eighties.
 
Ahh just remembered another one. Dexter and Nikon. Although I'm happy about that as I'm a Nikon user :p.
 
I watched the film Splice recently, pretty good film, but it wasn't until I noticed the 2ft tall Munny (google it) in the background that I started to wonder how much product placement is actually intentional. I know Apple spend millions on advertising every year, and who can forget the blatent JVC and Audi adverts in i, Robot.

What annoys me is, intentional product placement/in-game advertising present in games today.

What happened to the days of GTA I & II when you could steal a Porka lol
 
Watched the episode in question last night. If they had put the Explorer shots in subtely and seamlessly then I wouldn't have a problem but it just seemed so terribly forced. Perhaps it was more because we have been discussing it here but it just looked and felt really old.
Ultimately, I don't really mind them providing it's not to over the top and kept to a sensible limit but I would prefer not to have them.
I shan't be buying a Ford Explorer anytime soon though.
 
Ahleckz said:
I guess the board just decided, once Cuddy quit, that Foreman would be the best man for the job. Maybe they felt that it was best to get a doctor in to head up the hospital after the more administrator based role that Cuddy took. Though, you could argue that whilst he was the head of the department it was a total disaster and he proved he was unable to manage people (as seen by his firing of 13) and was poor with stress.
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Cuddy is a Doctor as well and knows House from med school.
 
Jay794 said:
I watched the film Splice recently, pretty good film, but it wasn't until I noticed the 2ft tall Munny (google it) in the background that I started to wonder how much product placement is actually intentional. I know Apple spend millions on advertising every year, and who can forget the blatent JVC and Audi adverts in i, Robot.

What annoys me is, intentional product placement/in-game advertising present in games today.

What happened to the days of GTA I & II when you could steal a Porka lol
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A lot of it is intentional because any brand name that is shown on screen in any TV show or film has to be cleared with the company. In the cases where it isn't, the production/film company will pay the owner of the brand money for its use. Whereas if product placement means the studio gets paid for featuring it in their show. So product placement is a better alternative than having to get clearance to use a brand name only to then pay for that privilege.

RE House: it's been in the show since day one. It's super common on American TV, just some TV shows can work it in better than others.
 
spudbynight said:
Cuddy is a Doctor as well and knows House from med school.
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I know that, but she spent a lot of her time not actually doing doctor work and was out of that loop for some time. I suspect the managers probably wanted to bring in someone that had a fresher knowledge of medicine rather than someone who had been behind a desk for a while.

It's really odd discussing what the non-exsistant managers were up to whilst the interview process, which never happened, was going on!
 
Just because someone mentioned it earlier, Foreman is such a crap character, he killed one character, got fired from his other job, is a grade A pratt and rarely if ever gets a case right but has gotten multiple ones wrong.

THe fact he got rehired, and now is the dean is a joke. There has been a lot of bad writing in the show, where everyone constantly tries to manipulate him for random reasons, when House is actually doing his job and every other member of the show has put lives in danger more often than house, just trying to manipulate him. Like trying to force him to detox and him almost cutting off a kids arm, but had they not tried to force him off the drugs, it wouldn't have happened.


Rage over, insomnia and show plot holes aren't a good mix :p

Anyway, product placement, I went through a couple season 8 ep's again, or season 7, and saw that "this car slows down if it thinks you're going round a corner too fast" thing. While irksome and unnatural to be honest, if that is how we get more sitcoms/drama's on tv and less reality tv, I'm all for it. 2-3 irksome minutes in a show vs, a 45 min reality tv show instead, easy choice.

Why can't TV shows get a proper digital distribution though, ok lets be honest(we all download tv :o shuuushhh!!!) I'd happily pay for it if it was cheap and widely available straight away. If they did that, I'm sure reality tv almost no one would actually pay money to see on an ep by ep basis. As random garbage wasting time people will just put something on tv, a lot of people wouldn't go out of their way to pay specifically to watch just those shows though.

I wonder what say Firefly could have made if all the fans were buying each ep online, worldwide at the same time. I think if they could see how many people were buying Firefly worldwide, rather than the few watching it in the stupid way they aired it(changing times, random order and with big gaps between episodes iirc), it might have encouraged them to give it a proper slot and sell it to other countries properly.
 
I robot set the bar for terrible product placement.

"damn Will, what are those seriously awesome shoes?"
"converse, vintage 2004 style ;)"

:o
 
shipinabottle said:
Haha that Day's of Our Lives clip was brilliant

I've always wondered whether Walter's car in Breaking Bad was product placement, i've never seen a car like it, it is disgusting, yet he's never changed it from day 1.
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Pontiac Aztec. Don't think it is product placement though, it's a really old model now and it seems it's just used more as a "average man with an average ugly car" sort of thing. Considering the amount of rattles it seems to have I don't think it'd be a good advert for Pontiac anyway!
 
drunkenmaster said:
Anyway, product placement, I went through a couple season 8 ep's again, or season 7, and saw that "this car slows down if it thinks you're going round a corner too fast" thing. While irksome and unnatural to be honest, if that is how we get more sitcoms/drama's on tv and less reality tv, I'm all for it. 2-3 irksome minutes in a show vs, a 45 min reality tv show instead, easy choice.

Why can't TV shows get a proper digital distribution though, ok lets be honest(we all download tv :o shuuushhh!!!) I'd happily pay for it if it was cheap and widely available straight away. If they did that, I'm sure reality tv almost no one would actually pay money to see on an ep by ep basis. As random garbage wasting time people will just put something on tv, a lot of people wouldn't go out of their way to pay specifically to watch just those shows though.

I wonder what say Firefly could have made if all the fans were buying each ep online, worldwide at the same time. I think if they could see how many people were buying Firefly worldwide, rather than the few watching it in the stupid way they aired it(changing times, random order and with big gaps between episodes iirc), it might have encouraged them to give it a proper slot and sell it to other countries properly.
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I agree on all points. Most of my favourite shows from the last decade have been one-seasoners and it's beginning to **** me off. Firefly, Invasion, The Event, Flashforward, Surface etc etc etc. The only show I currently watch which is still in production is Terra Nova. It's not fantastic but I've literally got nothing else to watch. Walking Dead and True Blood are ok too I guess, but my point is that it'd be awesome if the makers of one-season-wonder shows actually had a way of seeing how popular they are. Firefly was the perfect example and would have blossomed into a fantastic show if allowed to continue.
 
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