Review on the Effectiveness of Brand/Product Placement in Films and a Comparison Between Brand Placements in Hollywood and Bollywood Films

With the emerging technological innovation, several companies have adopted different marketing techniques to make themselves popular and gain ground in the competitive market space. The use of television commercials has been one of the most utilized technique to disseminate information about products and services that are branded by particular company or organization (Gass and Seiter 23). When one watches television, he or she is always bombarded by several commercials with many marketing messages which are repeated over and over during television commercial breaks. Most of these television commercials utilize several similar persuasive or rhetoric techniques aimed at luring one either to buy, vote, or to otherwise influence him

Advertisements have become more common and can be found in almost all locations in the society; however they vary depending on the content and the medium they use to convey the information. It can be noted that television has become one of the most influential and powerful medium since it gives both visual and hearing attributes. Television is preferred by many organizations among them being Power ads since it gives a leading hand in competition since it basically influences the consumers not because of the unique product qualities but the mode at which the advertisement is made. Advertisement being one of the marketing strategies has to be designed in a way

I appreciate your point of view that at times misplaced advertising devalues film and television to an extent. The real bone of contention is, how a marketed product is placed in uniformity with the demand of the specific presentation. The extra money earned by the producers through product placement gives them more economic power to make the content better. For example, being able to rent a superior sound studio for dubbing. A thorough well-thought product placement provide film and television producers another avenue of income and in-turn the product manufactures get their desired visibility.

TV commercials have many ways to persuade an audience to buy their products, for example, during Coca-Cola TV commercial “Coke Mini (Hulk vs Ant-Man)”, it shows the power of coke mini. Coca-Cola wants us to know that its new coke mini is so delicious that the intense flavor is irresistible, doesn’t matter if you are big or small you’ll want one. Coca-Cola implement humor, famous super heroes, advertisement inside advertisement, showing the emotions of the characters inside its commercial and action movie like commercial, to persuade the audience into buying the product they are selling, which is coke mini. The Rhetorical Analysis of the commercial “Coke Mini (Hulk vs Ant-Man), will be focusing on how it persuades audience into buying its products.

In today’s market of technology and visual stimulation it becomes more and more important for advertising campaigns to stand out and be innovative, and it is this idea that drove one Canadian beer company to do something that had never been done before. In light of waning interest, Kokanee, owned by the Labatt Brewing Company, enlisted the help of Toronto based Grip advertising agency to (with its entire yearly marketing budget) create something really big for there next campaign. Grip’s innovative response to this challenge was to do something completely new and create an ad in the form of a full-length feature film, which they would call: “The Movie Out Here”

In the documentary “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,” Sprurlock’s on a mission to find a big marketing company to sponsor his movie. He goes on a wild goose chase to find the company that meets his needs as far as what he expects out of the movie; and to meet the needs of the company as well. Viewers get to see the business part of advertising and how product placement determines the success of a company. Spurlock travels these parts of advertising by filming a movie that can only be made possible with several brands in return of having them featured in the movie. Sprurlock shows people a look at what goes into product placement. His main purposed for the film is to get America to see how ad-driven our society is. While doing this, he also uses rhetoric strategies along the way.

Over the course of viewing a movie, I keenly focus on real-life brands and companies that are featured throughout each scene. As a founder of a start up brand, I constantly prepare for unique market strategies and creative ideas that can provide the greatest promotion of the product. The use of brands in movies is critical to a company’s day-to-day operations, and it yields extremely high earning potential. Throughout the film Happy Gilmore, both Subway and Wilson are heavily featured in an attempt to spark interest among the consumer. I will be examining the use of Subway and Wilson in the film in an attempt to determine the effectiveness of these product placements in relation to my personal habits as a consumer.

As people become more used to watching televison on demand without adverts or with less adverts, companies are looking for new ways to market their products. They have come up with the idea of integration where a brand or service is shown in a film. The recent James Bond film “Skyfall” included integration of the brands Aston Martin, Audi, Aurora, Caterpillar, CNN, Coca Cola Zero, Heineken, Jaguar, Range Rover, Royal Doulton, Sony, Scrabble and Omega amongst others. Integration has always been there, but is now on the increase. Filmmakers may be expected to increasingly work around these brands which will have to feature in the film, a practice which threatens artistic integrity. However with funding platform sites such as Kickstarter this can be kept to a minimum.

Children spend numerous amount of time watching television, playing videogames, and using computers. For businesses, these children represent the ultimate prize, an unprecedented, powerful, and elusive new demographic to profit from. Their goals now are to insinuate their brands into these children’s lives and marketers have begun to place products directly into children entertainment by subtle “product placement”. Product placement which is the significant placement of product within movies or television programs (O'Quinn, Thomas C; Allen, Chris D; Semenik, Richard J, 2009). According to the text, advertiser love the exposure that product placement provides because many consumers have turned to solutions that avoids traditional advertising, with technology like the TiVo, the consumer can skip commercials. Competition can be intense and businesses go to ethically questionable extreme ways of pushing goods, services, and beliefs.

Many people know that small companies and large corporations use advertisements to persuade them to purchase something, whether it is food, hair products, or anything sold in stores. However, they do not know that companies pay advertising companies to create their ads and use symbols to catch your interest. One main company that uses advertisement is movie companies. They use a great deal of advertisements when trying to promote movies by using commercials, billboards, and movie posters. The movie NOAH uses many different symbols in its movie poster. The creators of the ad use creative layout, clever symbols, and its age and religiously specific.

Marketing products and services to customers forces marketers to look in depth to what the customers are thinking. They need to be able to catch the customers’ attention and make them want to buy or use a specific product or service. There are hundreds of ways marketers can achieve this, but since the world has turned digital, marketing in turn has turned its focus toward outlets that allow them to utilize this. One of the most popular methods of this is commercials. They are considered such an effective marketing tool because the company is able to get their message directly to their audience. One thirty second commercial can be seen instantly by millions, especially during the Super Bowl where the commercials attract their own set of viewers

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Brand image is important to consumers and television ads are a great way to get their name out. Most of this population is aware of this product and only some of this population would purchase it.

When producing a film budget is a huge factor to consider. Product placement can create a large amount of the films creative budget. Film has always been used as a form of entertainment but since the 1980’s product placement has become more of a regular occurrence within this media. (The Truman Show, 1998) is a great example of how product placement is used within a film. Within the first four minutes we are shown a great example of “faux placement” where a fake product, in this case DOGFANCY, is shown to us as a popular social magazine. Within 30 seconds of this, Truman is forced against a poster advertising Free Range Kaiser

Product placement in the marketing world has become more and more evident in the past few decades. More specifically, product placement in the movie industry has been one of the most successful ways to advertise products. Oftentimes, products are associated with a film, or vice versa. Such is the case with Reese’s Pieces candies and Stephen Spielberg’s film, “E.T”. While it is a very expensive way of companies to advertise their brands, it is one that pays off immensely if executed properly.