Tv shows used fake businesses instead of ads for real ones

I feel like every single time I watch tv now there's an advertisement in the show, but it used to be tv shows would make up names of businesses or parody existing ones with a clever play on words. Every time I see or hear one I go "well, that just paid for their entire season "

 

I always loved All*Mart used by comics.

 

There was a time when 'product placement' wasn't used much or at all in TVs and movies. I'm guessing that practice got going in earnest in the 80s and later.

What's good about fake products in shows is that someone can actually bring that fake product to market and make some money off of it (reverse product placement).



.

 

yeah and the cool thing is the types of people that put fake products in shows instead of real ones are also the kind of people that wont be gay and try and sue over it

 

To think there was a time in the U.S. when there weren't moving billboards behind home plate at every baseball stadium.

.

 

Get over it if you want TV to continue.

 

I really don't know if I do, literally everything I watch is a re-run. I've almost got every show I watch memorized

 

In its present form, I'd prefer it didn't... though maybe it should suck though. I do understand the economics of it so I just watch less... leaving free time for other pursuits. it's better for me to do other things anyway.

 

lol

 

I always thought ACME was a real company after watching Loony Toons as a kid.

 

Acme is a real company. They make bricks. lol

 

I prefer realism when I am watching a movie or TV show. To me it is not realistic that Tony Soprano and his family would be siting at the dinner table with a 2 liter bottle of "cola" on the table for the kids while the adults pour from a bottle of no-name wine.

It's when product placement becomes obnoxious that I start getting irritated. In the movie 'Twister,' every soft drink that appears on the screen is a Pepsi Cola product. Including all the hundreds of empty soda cans that they took out of the trash and cut up near the end of the movie. Again, how realistic is that?

 

grocery store