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TiVo Causes Increase in Product Placement
ndansmith writes "Wired has got an article on how TiVo and other 'ad-skipping technologies' have caused an upsurge in product placements on network television shows. The 84% increase in product placements on TV over the last year has drawn protests from both the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. An example from the article: 'In a recent episode of the NBC series Medium, writers had to work the movie Memoirs of a Geisha into the dialogue three times because of a deal the network made with Sony earlier in the season. They even had the characters go on a date to an early screening of the movie and bump into friends who had just viewed Geisha to tell them how good it was.' Readers may also remember a controversial Cisco Systems product placement on Fox's 24."
How empty your life must be to revel in the death of someone you don't even know.
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
...said the Anonymous Coward.
It's offtopic I think, but I think T*Mobile's ads poking fun of Boost Moble was funny, I think it was Poser Moble.
It's even harder to place ads in SHOWS THAT ARE CANCELLED!!
Newsflash, they don't make that "Firefly" TV show anymore.
How ironic that millions of Christians do precisely the same thing about a man who died 2000 years ago and hasn't been seen since. Oh wait, that's ok because he commited suicide... for a reason.