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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."
Or maybe even a SPELL CHECKER to make sure that at least words TYPED IN ALL CAPS or BOLDED WITH HYPERLINKS are spelled right.
Man. I can't wait till we do product placement for Speak and Spells.
-- I have fans? Wow.
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How about significantly less commercials and NO product placement?? Try the UK! Over here the ITC have strict rules on when networks can and can't show adverts, how many can be shown and so on.
Oh, yes! More government control of EVERYTHING in our lives is the answer! Thank you! What an insightful idea! (note to self, make sure and post this as AC)
I am not left-handed, either!
In a story about a union standing up for its employees, I was kind of expecting to read more "if he doesn't like it, he can quit his job, divorce his wife, abandon his kids, divorce himself from civilization and live in a shack! It's free enterprise, mofo!" comments.
Or do those only appear when discussing tech industry workers?