History Main / ProductPLacement

* ''Creator/MontyPython's Theater/Spamalot'', from the title itself to the ''Camelot'' song, which features a giant can of the food product.

* ''Theater/MontyPythonsSpamalot'', from the title itself to the ''Camelot'' song, which features a giant can of the food product.

* ''Fanfic/HitmanMiami'': Parodied in chapter three, which features product placement from Coca-Cola throughout.
* Parodied in ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62815/the-woeful-sad-sorrow-of-king-sombra The Woeful, Sad Sorrow Of King Sombra]]'', where King Sombra engages into some shilling for the Friendship Express while telling his story.

* VisualKei is similar to HipHop in this: nearly everything from an artist's fashion to his or her gear to, sometimes, the brand of preferred alcohol and/or tobacco is a ProductPlacement or sponsorship deal. And if a company (especially a gear or instrument company or existing fashion house) is lucky enough that one of "their" stars becomes the biggest breakout rockstar, they will be practically ''set'' for business for a long time (at least until people forget that artist and all his or her imitators wanting to be just like him or her). For example, the Japanese VisualKei guitarist and bassist equivalent of EverybodyOwnsAFord is, thanks to Fernandes being lucky enough to product place with [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] ''and'' [[Music/HiroshiMorie Heath]], "everybody owns a Fernandes."
** As an example, the following is a composite of a usual artist profile in VisualKei. The items have been randomized, and there is no artist name so this doesn't stick to a particular artist, but this is how far ProductPlacement goes into the image of an artist.

** Modern VisualKei {{Performance Video}}s are often similar. Early VK only had the instrument and gear and fashion form of ProductPlacement, with other direct forms of ProductPlacement somewhat eschewed by most artists, but modern videos often product place more. A good example of this is the available footage of the (as yet unreleased) 2010 version of ''Rusty Nail'' by Music/XJapan: there are product placements for, among other things, [[EveryoneOwnsAMac Apple]] with an iPhone getting prominent time, and for Maserati (the car Toshi is driving) and for Honda (the bike Heath has)... and those are just a few of the more obvious ones.

* At one point, Wrestling/{{WWE}} wrestlers {{Edge}} and {{Christian}} happened upon a vending machine selling RC Edge cola. Upon discovering that there's a cola "named after him", Edge declares, "Now, more than ever, Sodas Rule!"

* At one point, [[DGenerationX X-Pac]] was pretty blatantly shown drinking Hansen's Energy - even on the way down the ramp before a match. In fact, his entrance video briefly featured several closeups of a Hansen's Energy can.

* Another episode of Raw had Wrestling/JimRoss and Wrestling/JerryLawler doing a pitch for Subway, with Subway sandwiches on the announce table in front of them. After the next match, Santino Marella stole Lawler's sandwich and ran back to the locker room, cackling like a supervillain the whole time. Lawler then spent the better part of an hour pouting about his lost sandwich. It was one of the funniest examples of ProductPlacement on record, just because of everybody's reactions.
* And in yet another example, Subway spokesman Jared Fogle appeared on Raw to pitch Subway himself. CMPunk subsequently decided that Jared's message of healthy eating would fit well with [[SmugStraightEdge his own message]], and decided to make Jared join the Straight Edge Society -- whether he wanted to or not. Jared ended up getting rescued by DX, but not before an extremely funny segment with Punk [[LargeHam chewing scenery like there was no tomorrow]].
-->'''CMPunk''': ''"Bring me Jared from Subway."''
* An episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'' that had a fairly drawn out skit involving Maria working out on a Bowflex in as little clothing as possible, with someone dropping by to comment on how great the Bowflex is and how it'd help to improve Maria's in ring skills. The particular one was even eventually sold on WWE's website autographed by Maria! The fact that the next time something involved WWE and a Bowflex was the ChrisBenoit story, though, [[FunnyAneurysmMoment well...]]
* In 2013, Jerry Lawler and Michael Cole ordered Domino's Pizza to be sent to the commentary booth. Unfortunately for them, some audience members got the pizza instead.

* As Managing Supervisor of Raw, it is Vickie Guerrero's duty to eat Hardee's when they sponsor the show. Remember: chew, then swallow. (Hardee's also sponsored Smackdown that week.)

After reading all this, you must be hungry. What about a delicious Pizza Hut® and a Pepsi®? Yummy!

* As General Manager of Raw, it is Vickie Guerrero's duty to eat Hardee's when they sponsor the show. Remember: chew, then swallow.

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* A killed animated film called ''Food Fight'' would have been riddled with this, with the plot being the established characters/mascots fighting against generic {{Bland Name Product}}s. Apparently this sort of thing doesn't fly in the Oughties, so we'll have to make do with [[http://www.spike.com/video/mascots-mastercard/2664220 this commercial.]]

* In ''Rally Round the Flag, Boys!'' by Max Shulman, a bunch of advertising executives meet with the producer of a BiblicalTimes drama series sponsored by their client to debate the question: "How do we identify King David with Crackle-Crunchies?"

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* ''Anime/{{Basquash}}'', by its nature as a basketball-playing humongous mecha series, has a deal with Nike, to the point where a Nike logo is prominently displayed in the opening sequence.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** Pizza Hut has a very lucrative deal with ''Anime/CodeGeass: Lelouch of the Rebellion.'' While HumongousMecha and {{Evil Eye}}s battle it out, Pizza Hut signs are in every episode and the cast eat pizza every chance they get. This gets slowly phased out over the course of the series, but one element sticks around up to the very last scene of the series: C.C.'s prized possession is a plush of Cheese-Kun, Pizza Hut's mascot in Japan. The Pizza Hut logos are censored out in the American release because, [[WordOfGod according to a Bandai rep]], Pizza Hut wasn't too hot on the idea of sponsoring a show whose protagonist is a vengeance-minded terrorist. Cheese-Kun remains unedited, presumably because the only Americans who know what it is are Geass fans who watched the show subbed.
*** This is particularly impressive given that the show takes place in an alternate universe where the American Revolution failed and the Americas became the seat of a new absolutist British Empire after Napoleon kicked them out of the British Isles. Societies may change, civilizations may rise or fall, culture can vary radically, but evidently, Pizza Hut is the one eternal constant.
** The series also had a somewhat strange placement of Soproni Kékfrankos, a Hungarian wine (even mentioned in dialog). While the name of the wine is completely correct right down to accent, the name of the producer and Hungary itself is a bit misspelled. Leaving us to wonder if it is a real ProductPlacement or just a particularly careful BlandNameProduct.
** There are very prominent Biglobe logos (the leading Japanese ISP) where people are surfing the web. This wasn't translated in the dub and so flew right over the American's heads.
* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' features numerous advertisements for @Nifty, the ISP which originally streamed the episodes online. It also has the occasional Coca Cola logo as well. Like in several other series, Pizza Hut appears here and there (replaced by "[[BrandX Pizza Slice]]" in the English dub).
* The computer through which L communicates in ''Manga/DeathNote'' is a Mac, although the apple logo is never actually visible. Likewise, Light's computer isn't explicitly identified but is recognizable as a Mac G4. Since the series was set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, it's a bit out of date now.
* Speaking of Biglobe, some (authentic looking!) computer screen closeups in the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' [[TheMovie movie]] show Koushiro very obviously using that particular ISP to get online.
* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'':
** While [[NeonGenesisEvangelion the original TV series]] was very big on BrandX products, the ''Rebuild'' movies often have shot-for-shot recreations of scenes from the show. So scenes that originally had generic pizza boxes and soda cans in the background now have Pizza Hut and Pepsi logos plastered everywhere.
** The movies are chock full of it, with Pizza Hut (again!), Pepsi, Doritos, Yebisu beer (not [[OruchubanEbichu Yebichu]]), and UCC Coffee (whew!). Most of these have accompanying packaging advertising the movie as well.
** In the second movie, there is a Lawson Convenience Store ''inside Nerv Headquarters.'' Asuka also uses a WonderSwan-brand handheld gaming console.
** The third movie mostly averts this, except for Kaworu's piano, which is made by Yamaha. There's even a lingering shot where we clearly see the logo.
* In ''Manga/{{Eyeshield21}}'', Hiruma is usually seen toting around a laptop. In some places, it is revealed to be a Sony Vaio.
* In an omake for the manga ''Manga/FairyTail'' there is, pretty bizarrely considering this is an entirely Fantasy ConstructedWorld, a blatant part of product placement at the end where Grey hands the two of them a bottle of Coca-Cola. Yeah, it's just weird.
* ''[[Anime/FreedomProject Freedom]]'':
** The anime OVA was sponsored by Nissin Foods as part of an anniversary promotion -- and apparently the only food available to the colonists on the moon is Cup Noodles.
** When the action shifts to [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] Earth, the only food available there is Cup Noodles too... but ''they'' have Seafood flavor! This leads to some serious FridgeLogic: are the people on Earth eating 200 year old Cup Noodles? If not, are there Nissin factories still operating on Earth even though everyone's dirt-poor? Since the {{dystopia}}n government on the Moon is trying to uphold the {{Masquerade}} that everyone on Earth is dead, do the Earth and Moon branches of Nissin have any contact with each other? Or is Nissin [[ParanoiaFuel part of the whole conspiracy]] in the first place?
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex: Solid State Society'' featured two Nissan concept cars which actually were revealed to the public for the first time through the movie.
** One of the concept cars has a numberplate that includes the sequence 3923. [[BilingualBonus Said aloud in Japanese, it's San Kyu Ni San (Thank You Nissan)]].
* A couple of the ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' movies prominently feature Haagen-Dazs strawberry ice cream, even tying it into the character development.
* ''The Disappearance of LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':
** At one point in the movie, a computer boots up and we get a few good seconds devoted to the startup screen for Windows 95. They even used the Windows 95 startup noise. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEJM9s0Wikc See for yourself.]]
** Not only Windows 95, but the computer's blatantly a ''NEC [=PowerMate=]'' (for the uninitiated, NEC was the creator of the TurboGrafx16, and it's semiconductor business fabricated [=CPUs=] for Sega back in the 32x, Saturn and Dreamcast days). They also made desktop computers and notebooks up until recently, when they decided to discontinue these to focus on the server and supercomputing sector.
* The ChristmasEpisode in volume 3 of ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'' featured Keroro using the "Yahoo!" search engine. The logo was even seen in the panel.
* ''Anime/MacrossFrontier [[TheMovie The False Songstress]]'' has a [=FamilyMart=] branch seen when Alto tries to follow Ranka. [=FamilyMart=] actually promoted the movie in its stores.
* ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha TheMovie 1st'':
** Pizza Hut sponsored it, complete with official art of the cast enjoying some delicious pizza. NanaMizuki, Fate's voice actress, even ordered a delivery just to collect a limited time offer special pizza box... with Fate Testarossa on the cover.
** A scene in has Nanoha, [[ThoseTwoGuys Alyssa, and Suzuka]] playing a generic JRPG, before switching it out for a few rounds of ''WiiSports''. It was Tennis, for those wondering.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** When Negi's party was scattered during Magic World arc, one of the few things that [[PlayfulHacker Chisame]] was able to bring with her was a [=CalorieMate=] Block she put in her robe.
** An in-story example: During the Battle of Mahora, (which almost all the students think [[AllPartOfTheShow is just a game]]), [[spoiler:Chao, the arc's BigBad]] pops up on the giant screens to do some EvilGloating. After which she does an ad for the restaurant she manages.
* And Pizza Hut strikes again in the 4th season of ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'', where the logo is often prominently displayed in the background, even in an amusement park.
* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', Clotho Buer can be seen playing with his Bandai WonderSwan.
* An episode of ''{{Nichijou}}'' contains a joke where the punchline involves Hakase encouraging Nano to bring along a Snickers bar as a snack in school.
* Yamaha is one of the main sponsors of ''Manga/NodameCantabile''. Consequently, ''every'' piano in that show is a Yamaha and melodicas are referred to as "pianicas".
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' not only uses {{Bland Name Product}}s (most of which are seen in the anime), but in the manga we see Kyouya using an Apple computer with the proper OS displayed on the screen. He even has a few recognizable icons such as Skype.
** The live-action version has him using an iPad.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** In the anime, James occasionally has a set of reference cards if Team Rocket happens upon a new Pokémon. When 4Kids still had the dub of the anime, they'd sometimes cut these scenes out because of potential advertisement for the Pokémon TCG. Sometimes they would just remove the borders on the cards to make them look less like the real world TCG cards.
** While on the topic of the 4Kids dub, this kind of editing got really stupid in the Advanced Generation. Most any things which had a picture of a Poké Ball on them were painted out (the ones on Ash's Hoenn Badge case and May's Ribbon cases were [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/houen/ep003.html turned into red stripes]]). Oddly enough, this only seemed to happen in the US/Kids WB! airings; most international dubs didn't feature that censorship.
** However, there's an even bigger product placement in two Sinnoh episodes--one has Meowth use a Wii Remote, and the other the Nunchuck attachment!
* Sunrise makes the list again. ''Anime/SoraOKakeruShoujo'' had logos of its toy and music companies flying by in the first few episodes, but then comes episode 14. There's a long scene of Nina, Bou and Min eating at a Pizza Hut, with the logo in the dead center of the screen.
* Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine in the English versions) drinks Pepsi in one episode of ''Anime/YuGiOh''. The reference was taken out in the American version. Starbucks coffee has also appeared. Many cards in ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' also happen to be shameless promotions for {{Konami}} games (Konami owns the rights to ''Yu-Gi-Oh'') such as ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' and even ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''.
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* This trope has been arguably [[EnforcedTrope enforced]] by {{Sony}} executives, as it is almost impossible to see any recent film from Sony Pictures Entertainment and '''NOT''' find at least one Sony consumer product (from VAIO computers to [[PlayStation PlayStations]] and in-between).
* ''All'' of Creator/AdamSandler's films have absurd levels of product placement. To wit:
** ''Film/BillyMadison'' and Snack Pack pudding
** ''Film/HappyGilmore'': Aside from the pro golf sponsors, the titular character endorses himself in a Subway commercial after being suspended from playing golf in order to raise the money to pay off his grandmother's house from taxes. In the finals tournament, he wears a Subway shirt. Also played for laughs by how ridiculously overacted the advertisements are: "I eat three every day to help keep me strong!", but that still can't justify the 4 or 5 explicit mentions of the restaurant that precede it.
** ''Film/TheWaterboy'': Coach Klein intentionally states that Gatorade is better than water to the title character, in order to allow him to channel the anger into a game-winning defensive rush.
** Then there's the Popeyes Fried Chicken sponsorship in ''Film/LittleNicky'', which passes beyond product placement and becomes {{Anvilicious}} in its [[{{Narm}} hamfistedness]]. In one scene, Nicky not only eats Popeyes, but says, "Man, Popeyes' chicken is [[PrecisionFStrike fuckin']] ''awesome''!" Could it get any worse? Oh yes, it could... Nicky's love of Popeyes is ''integral to his defeat of the BigBad''. Cue giant walking Popeyes bucket. There's also the "change Coke into Pepsi" scene, with Nicky's roommate making a face when he tastes the "miracle", which was actually included more as a reference to ''Film/PulpFiction'' (Jules mentions changing Coke into Pepsi as a miracle) but seeing Sandler's penchant for product placement, it was probably both.
** ''Film/MrDeeds'' has a whole scene dedicated to Deeds taking his staff out to Wendy's. He name-drops various menu items as he asks them how much they're enjoying the food. "How's that Frosty treating you?"
** ''Film/JackAndJill'' takes this to its logical extreme by actually ''making the (male) Sandler character an Ad executive''. One review counted no less than twelves different products being advertised during the movie, including (but not limited to) Dunkin' Donuts, Royal Carribean Cruise Lines (both of which are integral to the plot in the vein of the Popeye's Chicken placement above), Pepto-Bismol, Coca-Cola, Oreos, Sony electronics, Subway, and Red Vines.
* ''Main/AngerManagement'': There are "{{Establishing Shot}}s" peppered throughout the movie, except all they establish is that the characters are in a neighbourhood that has a lot of billboards advertising the Army.
* This also appeared in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', with the stranded Earth expedition continually whipping out the newest Dell gear for months on end, even before the Daedalus reached them. This is TruthInTelevision: Any movie or show featuring a government organization must have Dells if it wants to be accurate. NASA and the military are the biggest users of Dell products, as Dell has one of the best support systems for failed equipment, saving the tax payers money. Chances are, if the film features the government, there will be Dell products.
* ''Babylon A.D.'' had an airliner with a Coke Zero ad painted across its entire surface. Actually, New York City seems to be obsessed with Coke in the future; it had billboards everywhere.
* The ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' movies. Hoo boy...
** Pepsi Free ([[HilariousInHindsight hilarious now that it's rebranded as Caffeine Free Pepsi]]). What makes this one especially notable and funny is that, during filming, Micheal J. Fox apparently had difficulty ''ordering'' the damn Pepsi!
** [=DeLorean=] motors -- this is somewhat questionable as the DMC-12 car had been out of production and [=DeLorean=] Motors bankrupt and out of operation for two years by the time that the first film began production.
** Texaco comes to mind; the only location besides the courthouse that's in 1955 ''and'' 2015 Hill Valley. They would probably have worked it into III as well if the lack of gas stations in the wild west hadn't been a plot point. The filmmakers say Shell actually offered them more money, but they went with Texaco instead because of how different their [[http://www.completegamester.com/pages/AR-Signs/automobile/TEXACO36.jpg 1955 logo]] looked from their [[http://www.haski.com/images/texaco.jpg 1985 logo]].
** And despite being set in 1885, Part III managed to work in a product placement, too; the pie tin that Marty throws like a Frisbee (another trademarked item, by the way) is from the now-defunct Frisbie Pie Company. Yup, they were real.
** The film got a fair amount of money from the California Raisin Board specifically for the purpose of product placement. The film staff had promised that the film would do to California Raisins what E.T. had done to Reese's Pieces. Needless to say, the California Raisins execs weren't too happy to find that their funding only resulted in a bench (partially covered up by a sleeping hobo) with their product's name on it.
** Western Union will keep your letter for 70 years and deliver it at the appointed place and time, to the minute, in the middle of nowhere, during a thunderstorm. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome They're THAT awesome.]]
** Other visible labels: Calvin Klein, Nike, Pizza Hut, [=AT&T=], and Mattel.
* ''Film/BadBoys 2'' has Mike and Marcus commandeer a car from, of all people, Dan Marino on a test drive, in order to chase after the bad guys. While the car is never actually mentioned by name, Mike directly says "Dan Marino should definitely buy this car. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Well, not this car, because I'm gonna fuck it up, but one just like it.]]"
* At one point in the film of ''Film/BeingThere'', Chance and Eve watch ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood''. ''Series/SesameStreet'', ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', ''Main/CaptainKangaroo'', ''Series/GetSmart'', ''Main/TheHollywoodSquares'', and ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' are also seen on TV, as well as ads for Posturpedic mattresses, Die Hard batteries, Natural Light beer, Mounds candy bars, Fuzz Buster radar detectors, Gatorade, and Quaker State motor oil.
* In ''[[Film/{{Blade}} Blade: Trinity]]'', RyanReynolds explains to the hero [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv0ZPj0JLQ4 the one thing all vampire hunters need.]]
* ''Film/BladeRunner'': Atari, Pan Am, etc.
* ''Film/BlueVelvet'': Frank asks what kind of beer Jeff likes, who responds, "Heineken." Frank shouts, "Heineken?! Fuck that shit! ''Pabst! Blue! Ribbon!''" This is something of a subversion, given that Frank is a complete psychopath. His favoring a low-cost domestic beer over an imported Dutch beer is probably meant to show how little class he has.
* Chuck Nolan's two companions for several years on a DesertedIsland in ''Film/CastAway'' are a Wilson volleyball and a [=FedEx=] package. Despite often seeming like a big advert for [=FedEx=], the producer said it turned out to be too much hassle to figure a way to have them pay for the placement.
* The 2004 ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' shows our heroine stare seductively at a Jaguar's hood ornament, after jumping into the middle of the street and the car almost hits her.
* ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' had one of the first examples of this in the movies with a prominent Budweiser commercial.
* ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' features heavy Nokia product placement ([[spoiler:an otherwise desolate subway room is quite on-your-face with Nokia's advertisement]]).
* In the movie ''Film/CoolRunnings'', the TitleDrop occurred in a scene with a prominently placed bottle of Coca-Cola. And near the beginning, there's a shot of eight sprinters about to race while in front of a MASSIVE Coke advert.
* ''Film/CryWolf'' was made as the result of a contest hosted by Chrysler. Easy guess what kind of cars everyone owns.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' has The Lamborghini. For bonus plug points, all the shots of The Lamborghini were filmed with the IMAX camera, while all the shots in the scene involving Gordon, Reese, Dent, The Joker, and the hospital (bar the explosion) were filmed in 35mm. [[SarcasmMode Much more subtle.]]
** Saying nothing of the fact that there's a Starbucks Coffee shop in the background when the Joker's firing a submachine gun into traffic.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' has some filming that was done at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. When Bane is "interviewing" Dr. Pavel on the field, there is a very prominent Doritos advertisement on the scoreboard behind him. Also, neon sign advertisements for real brands can be seen when Selina Kyle is meeting Stryver in the bar.
* In the future world of ''Film/DemolitionMan'', every single restaurant and fast-food chain has been bought out by Taco Bell. And the characters often sing commercial jingles (the only form of "classic" music that's clean and wholesome enough for the incredibly uptight San Angeles). In Europe, where there are no Taco Bells, all logos were replaced with Pizza Hut logos and the lines were redubbed accordingly. However, some versions omit the name of the restaurant all together.
* Just try to put a number on the shameless product placements in ''Film/{{Disturbia}}''.
* Strangely averted in ''Film/{{Doomsday}}''. The filmmakers decided the CoolCar should be a shiny new Bentley. Bentley, however, is too classy to do product placement, so they had to buy three brand-new cars at full price. They then wrecked two of them filming the chase sequences.
* In the JeanClaudeVanDamme/Dennis Rodman film ''Film/DoubleTeam'' the grand finale occurs at the Coliseum between JCVD, a tiger, land mines and Mickey Rourke. When the heroes are outrunning the explosion, the corridors of the Coliseum appear to be infested with prominently placed Coca-Cola machines, to the point the heroes weather out the worst of the blast by hiding behind one of the explosion defying machines.
* ''Film/EdTV'', which anticipated reality television, was about a man named Ed who signed up to be on a television show that would consist of broadcasting his entire life, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. As the network never interrupted the broadcast to show commercials, they made money by placing advertisements in [[{{Crawl}} scrolling text along the bottom of the television screen]]. The film itself shows these advertisements whenever a television appears, and as ''[=EdTV=]'' becomes more and more popular, the advertisers change, changing from local businesses to organizations with deeper pockets. By the end of the film, even "The Islands Of The Bahamas" are buying ad space on ''[=EdTV=]''. According to the commentary the creators were even lucky to get the organizations to allow their brand to be shown on the screen, because of the satirical stance of the movie.
* Famously, Hershey's got "Reese's Pieces" into the movie ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', after M&Ms balked on the project, thinking the movie would flop.
* ''MacAndMe'' seems dedicated solely to shilling McDonalds and Coca Cola at every opportunity. One character works at McDonalds and wears the uniform through the whole film.
* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'' is the film that taught the world that Head & Shoulders shampoo will not only keep your hair silly smooth '''and'' dandruff free; it'll also save humanity (Aliens are poisoned by selenium sulfide, which is in the shampoo). At the end of the film the main characters appear in an in-universe advert for Head & Shoulders.
* 2007's ''Film/FantasticFour: Rise of the Silver Surfer'' is rife with placement, including a Dodge logo on the nose of the Fantasticar, but it also spoofs it with Johnny's over-logoed uniform near the beginning of the film.
* ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' features the titular character watching {{MTV}} early in the film. The year it came out was also the year media conglomerate Viacom bought the network, who made damn sure to place its logo in every film they could find. You can also see an early example of product placement when Ferris is seen drinking Pepsi not once, but twice, with the label shown prominently each time.
* In a similar vein, ''Film/FightClub'' had Project Mayhem members smash in a Volkswagen Beetle and break into a Mac store -- apparently, the director was approached by those companies. Project Mayhem break a large spherical sculpture and send it rolling into a Starbucks shop. On the DVDCommentary, the director said that once they had permission to use the Starbucks logo, they decided to stick it in anywhere they could possibly manage. They also note how a soft drink logo is used to highlight a gun.
* ''Film/TheFifthElement'' has a McDonalds with [[FanServiceWithASmile sexy semi-dressed cashiers]], not to mention a driveup window for the flying cars in the middle of a logo that filled the entire screen, as well as several flying 'road train' type trucks, with each trailer bright red with the Golden Arches on it... In a sequence featuring the actor Mac [=McDonald=]. * [[http://www.instantrimshot.com/ rimshot]]*
* The Disney rendition of ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' either uses product placement, or spoofs it; hard to tell. This is most obvious with the pair of Nike Airs that George -who has until recently never worn shoes before ''in his life''- pulls out for a trans-continental run and makes a big show of putting them on. Other instances may include a brand of coffee (HilarityEnsues when the caffeine -apparently foreign to George's system- synergizes with the sugar high he's on) and McDonalds (which George eats while riding on top of a trolly car).
* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'': Technically the entire movies is this for Hasbro, but the film also includes Double Bubble, Norton [=AntiVirus=], Cisco Systems, Chrysler, Hummer, Opel...
* ''Film/GoodByeLenin'':
** In one case it's actually plot-relevant. The protagonist's mom was a fervent government officer from Communist EastGermany, she fell into a coma after a heart attack, and the doctor told them to avoid strong emotional jolt. Only problem is, the BerlinWall fell and Germany reunified while she was still in a coma. The whole movie is about the protagonists' attempts to hide the AwfulTruth from his mom until her heart is in better condition. Cue a gigantic red banner that turns out to be a Coca-Cola ad being hoisted on a nearby building as the fervently Communist mom looks worried at the scene.
** The director also added that the protagonist's sister works at Burger King because that company was easier for the producers to work with for filming locations than McDonalds. The latter ''does'' maintain a Potemkin restaurant specifically for the purpose, but it's kept to the latest store model and located in City of Industry, CA. Convenient for the latest Hollywood teen flick, but for a Berlin-based production set 13 years in the past...not so much.
* In ''Film/TheGoonies'', Chunk famously befriends Sloth with a Baby Ruth candy bar. There's numerous other food-and-drink related items shown, including Pepsi and Domino's Pizza.
* The 2000 adaptation of ''{{Hamlet}}'' (set in the modern day) was chock full of these, but the most glaring one may have been when the ghost of Hamlet's father walked into a Pepsi machine and disappeared.
** Hamlet delivers his famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy in the middle of a Blockbuster Video store. Specifically, he's in the action film aisle--ironic, since Hamlet's defining flaw (which that very soliloquy highlights) is his ''inaction''. Blatant schilling or clever filmmaking? Why not both?!
* The FilmOfTheBook for ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' had one {{egregious}} example:
-->'''Harry Potter:''' Are you sure you don't want any help looking?
-->'''Luna Lovegood:''' That's all right. Anyway, my mum always said things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end.
-->[looks up to see ENORMOUS CLOSEUP OF RED CONVERSE ALL-STARS]
-->'''Luna Lovegood:''' If not always in the way we expect.
* In ''[[Film/{{Hellboy}} Hellboy 2]]'', Hellboy and Abe drink copious amounts of Tecate brand beer while singing about lost love. Tecate is one of the few beer brands that will pay for product placement even if characters drink it to excess.
* In one scene of Disney's ''Film/HocusPocus'', "[[{{Satan}} the Master]]" and his wife are tossing the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Bar Clark Bar candy bars]] to the Sanderson Sisters, but after discovering the weirdness of the sisters, the wife forces them to leave with the Clark Bars. Once they're back out on the prowl, Mary at first thinks that she has "[[ImAHumanitarian the chocolate-covered finger of a man named Clark]]", but when she eats the Clark Bar and discovers that it's candy, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint she asks why "the Master [would] give us candy"]], to which Winifred replies, "Because he's NOT our Master!" Also, while still at "the Master's" house, Mary turns on the TV and sees [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ABvOay1g7U a commercial for DuPont Stainmaster with a running baby in it]], and [[{{Squee}} she gets ecstatic]].
* Early on in ''Film/HomeAlone'', there's a very long, blatant shot of Kevin's cousin Fuller taking a very long sip of Pepsi, with the logo prominently displayed.
* The first shot in ''Main/TheHurtLocker'' is of the bomb disposal bot running over a Pepsi can in a massive closeup.
* Jeff Goldblum's [=PowerBook=] 5300 in ''Film/IndependenceDay''. He later went on to do voiceovers in tons of Apple ads. (Ironically, the 5300 is probably one of the least cool Macs ever made -- not actually a bad computer, but rather bare-bones for the time. Well, except for that incident involving the flaming [=LiIon=] batteries.)
* Disney's ''Film/InspectorGadget'':
** When Claw causes the billboard to fall on top of Gadget's car, we see the Yahoo! logo on it, and hear the "Yahoo-oo!" jingle (from the adverts from around the time the advert was made).
** It also has Penny press a button in Gadget's car to dispense Skittles. Later after getting dropped off at home and taking a bus to Claw's office and finds the car surrounded with Skittles, saying that he has had the Skittles "knocked outta me!".
* ''Film/IRobot'':
** WillSmith's character's 'Converse All-star' trainers get several mentions including a close up of him removing them from the box near the start of the film. The Audi is acceptable as it adds a sense of realism however the close up of the JVC stereo is pretty hard to accept. Apparently we will still be listening to CD's in the future.
*** Parodied on a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch [[XMeetsY combining I, Robot with]] ''TheJetsons'', when after Del crashes through a window leaving only his shoe behind, there is a close up of the shoe with red flashing letters "On sale now, viewers!"
** And then there's the Fed-Ex delivery robot.
* ''Film/IronMan'':
** Tony's Audi is quite prominent.
** The film also has a nice close-up on the screen of Tony's Verizon phone as he's talking to Stane near the beginning.
** The first thing Tony Stark asks for after being rescued is an American burger. He shows up in the next scene conspicuously discarding a Burger King bag.
* Michael Bay movies take a lot of heat for this. For example, the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture semi-futuristic]] film ''TheIsland'' features visible product placement in nearly every scene -- including a (now) out-of-date Xbox logo.
* ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' features numerous onscreen plugs for Coca-Cola. The scene where Buddy Hackett and Mickey Rooney fly an airplane through one of their billboards is merely the most prominent of these.
* Film/JamesBond:
** Nearly every Bond movie ever made endorses specific brands of cars (Aston Martin most famously), vodka (Smirnoff), champagne (Bollinger), and firearms (Walther Arms), among other things.
** JamesBond and his association with Aston Martin is legendary, although BMW got the product placement for Bond cars during the Brosnan era until ''Die Another Day'', when Ford got the sponsorship rights again and pumped the movie full of Ford brands (Aston, Jaguar, Ford, etc.).
** Bond also takes care to show off his watch, formerly Seiko and currently Omega (and Omega has released movie tie-in watches). In the books, Bond wore Rolex watches, which also appeared in the early movies (although Rolex refused to provide them).
** There is a suspiciously high number of KFC viewings, going as far back as ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
** One of the more baffling product placement choices was in ''Film/LicenceToKill.'' Most of series' famous title sequences feature dancing silhouette girls fitting the theme of the movie. In ''Licence,'' however, the sequence was literally a commercial for Olympus-brand cameras; the sequence showed the brand name multiple times and had a photography theme, even though the only thing remotely relevant to that in the movie was a fancy gun disguised as a camera that was used exactly once.
** ''Film/CasinoRoyale'':
*** The film was obviously sponsored, produced, and distributed by Sony, because Bond uses a Sony Ericsson cell phone, a Cybershot camera, a Walkman, a Blu-ray recorder, and a Vaio laptop.
*** It also has blatant appearances of Virgin Airlines and Vaio Computers. And Richard Branson.
** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'':
*** Bond's new favorite beverage is Heineken. This came as the result of a $45 million dollar deal, covering almost one third of its budget.
*** Sony products continue to make blatant appearances, including Vaio computers and Bond's phone, an Xperia T. The release of said phone was also tied in with ''Skyfall''.
* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'': "Ah, Taco Bell, Taco Bell, [[LampshadeHanging product placement at Taco Bell!"]]
* Humorous product placement used as stealth character reference: Nicoale Carpathia, the Antichrist of the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book series, is seen in the first film of the book series using a Macbook with the Apple logo visible. Given what [[Literature/TheBible Bible legend]] says about the fall of man...
* ''Film/LeonardPart6'' was awash in blatant and pointless product placement. At one point, an outraged BillCosby confronts his daughter and her septugenarian boyfriend, and [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Leonard_Part_6_1987.aspx?Page=5&Highlight=26185E4504015E0D01080C4247441D014B115359081A000A04021145134E0E1D1C014E244F090055 holding a Coca Cola bottle next to his face the whole time]]. Coca-Cola owned [[ColumbiaPictures the studio]], so they were featured wherever possible, but dish soap and antacids even became part of the plot.
* OlderThanYouThink: the 1949 Marx Brothers film ''Love Happy'' (their final film) has a chase scene (and gags) around a series of billboards for various products of the era, including Harpo escaping his pursuers by riding the neon image of Mobil Oil's Flying Red Horse.
* It is no coincidence that almost every motorcycle seen in ''MadMax'' is a Kawasaki.
* ''MarvelComics'' films:
** The movies from the Marvel Studios label seem to exist solely to the purpose of selling products. In fact, all of the films were basically $150 million plus ads made to promote ''Film/TheAvengers'' (perhaps giving that film the most expensive ad campaign ever).
** They appear to have some sort of deal with Dr. Pepper:
*** In the first ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'' movie, Peter Parker uses his newfound web-slinging powers to grab a can of Dr. Pepper off the dresser. In the second film, when he's working at the pizza shop a Dr. Pepper soda fridge can be seen in the background.
*** In the second ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie, Logan searches for beer in the mansion. After learning there is none, he settles on, of course, a Dr. Pepper. Later at Bobby's house, he raids the fridge for beer. Several bottles of Dr. Pepper can be seen inside the fridge.
*** The infamous Dr. Pepper machine pops up again in ''Film/{{Thor}}''. There's also a several ''very'' noticeable scenes showcasing the local 7-Eleven (which had a lucrative collector's cup promo running alongside the film), as well as a pretty blatant reference to the [[TheMightyThor title character]] having eaten an entire box of Pop-Tarts.
** Both ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' feature various Acura models driven by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. There were even commercials aired prior to the release of ''Thor'' declaring that Acura was the "Official Car of S.H.I.E.L.D."
* ''Film/TheMatrix'':
** The original Matrix featured Nokia phones. Although the version for the movie was customised to include a slider which would snap open; the one in real life was unfortunately not quite so cool.
** ''Reloaded'' and ''Revolutions'' had a deal with Powerade. In one scene in the latter film, Trinity and Morpheus chase the Trainman through a subway station amidst very large, neon-green Powerade posters. Also, the characters in the movie use Samsung cell phones. (Which were specifically designed for the franchise, and were also sold to the general public.)
* ''Film/MenInBlack'':
** The first film somehow makes for that elusive variety of product placement where it's subtle; the [[CoolShades Ray-Ban sunglasses]] the film's protagonists wear look cool and integrate into the action without appearing to have been clumsily shoehorned in. In the title song from the film's soundtrack, however, they're clunkily name-checked by WillSmith.
** In the sequel, a background alien is seen eating french fries from McDonalds.
* The primary school playground in ''Main/{{Millions}}'' has a Coca-Cola machine on it (which actually isn't allowed in primary schools in the UK).
* The future of ''Film/MinorityReport'' may be a grim one for those accused of crimes they haven't yet committed, but it has plenty of opportunity for The Gap, Burger King, Guinness, American Express, Aquafina, etc.
* ''Main/MissionToMars'' has one character making a model of DNA out of M&Ms, and a can of Dr. Pepper being poured out to find a hole in the spaceship.
* ''Film/TheMothmanProphecies'' featured a scene, prominently featured in the TV spots and trailers, where the creepy voice on the telephone correctly guessed what the protagonist was holding in his hand. The choice of Chap Stick could work as examples of ProductPlacement, Narm ''and'' NightmareRetardant.
* There was the sibling singers' Servando and Florentino Primera [[NonActorVehicle movie vehicle]] ''Muchacho Solitario''. We can understand that it is relevant to the plot to say that one of the main characters works as a trunk driver delivering pop soda; it was equally relevant that the brand of the soda delivered (Golden, another Polar brand) was displayed so blatantly? It was so bad, several movie critics and some humorists referred to the film as "The newest Golden commercial with Servando and Florentino, ''Muchacho Solitario''."
* Whoever watches ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding'' has one product brand in their brain after leaving the theater: ''Windex''.
* Billy Wilder's ''One, Two, Three'' has plenty of placement for Coca-Cola... but it's entirely justified, since the film is all about a Coke executive in Berlin. The exact same Coke bottling plant in Berlin was in ''Film/GoodbyeLenin'' as well.
* The ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' film adaptation:
** Apple products. Medusa? Defeated by the power of the Ipod touch, logo plainly in view. And they talk to Luke on a Macbook. Come on, at least TRY not to be blatant!
** Apparently even ancient Greek Gods wear [[Film/IRobot Converse, vintage 2010]].
* The 2011 Morgan Spurlock documentary ''Pom Wonderful presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold'' is an case of HeavyMeta taking RefugeInAudacity on the topic of placement. The movie documents the negotiations for product placement... in the very film you are watching, uring 20 other sponsors deemed "The Greatest _______ Ever Sold;" the documentary follows him negotiating with sponsors for Product Placement and exploring the role of marketing on society. Then to promote the movie, he wore a suit with embroidered sponsor logos on talk shows (with the deodorant sponsor at the underarm for $5000) and bought naming rights to Altoona, PA for two months.
* The venezuelan movie ''Puras Joyitas'' was sponsored by Empresas Polar, the biggest food and drink company in the country. This translates in very blatant product placement, like the very first scene where some security guards are going to a very prominently placed Pepsi machine (Polar haves the license for Pepsi distribution in Venezuela), which is made in a way that many people confused it for a commercial for the drink. And that's the tip of the iceberg: all the beer the characters drink is Polar brand beer (in their different versions), one car has a trunk filled by boxes of food products made by Polar (namely, tuna cans and instant iced tea); and when a pĺot-relevant recipe is displayed, in a corner of the screen was a truly big logo of Harina P.A.N corn flour brand (two guesses of its makers, first one doesn't count.)
* The final battle for the title in ''Film/RealSteel'' takes place in the "Bing arena". Sure, Microsoft, that's definitely gonna happen. In addition, advertisements for various things can be seen plastered all over the arena, but considering that robot boxing is a professional sport, the ''lack'' of them would be jarring.
* The Dr. Phil product placement in ''Film/RedEye'' goes horribly awry. The main character expresses that she thinks the book is boring and later in the movie [[CillianMurphy the villain]] reads it to her [[spoiler:after she regains consciousness]] in the creepiest tone possible.
* ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'' is just filled to the brim with Sony products, with logos prominently onscreen, especially their "Vaio" brand for computers, mostly in the Evil Umbrella Corporation's labs and offices. But not just there; even Alice's little shortwave radio is a Sony (and very definitely not one of their better efforts).
* ''Film/RoboCop'' fought crime in a modified 1986 Ford Taurus. Even better: the [[PunnyName 6000 SUX]], driven by the villain and wrecked in one scene, is a BrandX of the Taurus' ''competitor'', the Pontiac 6000.
* In ''Film/RoboCop 2'', [=RoboCop=] goes to an arcade that only seems to have games made or licensed by Creator/DataEast. Other arcade games made by Data East included ''[=RoboCop=]'' and ''[=RoboCop=] 2''.
* Bing and Bing Maps are prominently seen on Alba's laptop in ''Room in Rome''.
* TheSmurfs coo, "Ooooh, Google," when Patrick Winslow in ''Film/TheSmurfs'' tells them the search engine he's using on his "magic window" to find out things that [[RecursiveCanon humans know about the Smurfs]] and blue moons.
* ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'' is positively rife with placements - a character quickly chugs a can of Red Bull, placing the empty can directly in front of the camera before driving off on his bike with very obvious Kawasaki logo in the first few scenes; several characters are shown with high tech objects like laptops including a screen-filling apple logo), [[PlayStationPortable PSPs]] and {{Nintendo DS}}es; and the movie climaxes in a scene in which the plots resolution is directly linked to one character's gaming past.
-->'''Air Marshal Flynn:''' All prasies to the PlayStation!
* In ''Film/SourceCode'', a mobile phone displays a search engine page prominently showing the Bing logo.
* The [[WackyRacing Mega Race]] sequence from [[Film/SpyKids ''Spy Kids 3D: Game Over'']] featured AMD billboards.
* The 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'' film reboot has kid Kirk on an in-car comm with a prominent Nokia logo on the startup screen.
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' has AT&T as the provider for Federation video calls.
* Creator/JoanCrawford, after her marriage to Pepsi magnate Alfred Steele, began insisting on Pepsi product placement in her films starting with 1957's ''The Story of Esther Costello''.
* The 1984 ''Film/{{Supergirl}}'' movie has one of its biggest action set pieces take place in and around a Popeyes Fried Chicken franchise. Popeyes is even prominent in the background of some of the most memorable stills from the movie of Helen Slater as Supergirl. Sadly, this does ''not'' lead to a teamup of the Maid of Steel and a [[{{Popeye}} certain sailor man]].
* ''Film/SupermanII'' has several, the most memorable probably being when Superman flings one of his fellow Kryptonians through a giant electronic Coca-Cola billboard. Of course, given that the movie's Metropolis was a blatant [[CaptainErsatz stand-in]] for [[BigApplesauce New York City]], and the fight took place in the equivalent of Times Square, that's exactly what you ''would'' expect to see there. What you wouldn't see in RealLife is a huge Marlboro logo painted on the side of a truck.
* Taken to the logical extreme in Morgan ''SuperSizeMe'' Spurlock's documentary ''Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold''. Out of 200 companies it seems only 20 have a sense of humor...
* ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'':
** Justifed since it's about {{NASCAR}}, where cars are obviously plastered in ads. The three that get most attention are Wonder Bread (sponsoring Ricky Bobby's #26), Old Spice (sponsoring Cal Naughton, Jr.'s #47), and Perrier (sponsoring Jean Girard's #55).
** Ricky taking the family out to Applebee's.
** When Ricky and Girard crash on the last lap of the Talladega race, the NASCAR on NBC coverage goes to an Applebee's commercial. Even though it's somewhat lengthy, the two cars are still flipping and crashing down the straightaway when they return to the race coverage. It is a TakeThat to NASCAR on NBC, which fans had criticized for inserting frequent commercial breaks that frequently missed restarts from caution flags, and large portions of lengthy green flag runs, to the point that some called it "[[FunWithAcronyms Nothing But Commercials]]".
** It's taken to ridiculous heights to lampoon the whole practice (while still indulging in it), with NASCAR on FOX commentator Mike Joy noting that Ricky Bobby "never met a sponsor he didn't like" in the race where he drives with a huge view-obstructing Fig Newtons sticker plastered on the windshield ("He sold the windshield!" "This sticker is dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love Fig Newtons.")
** Ricky Bobby himself is required by contract to promote one company's products, even in his family's mealtime prayers, and selling ad space on his ''windshield''. Note that NASCAR doesn't allow you to put ads on your windshield for the obvious reasons shown in the movie.
* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
** Domino's Pizza boxes can be seen all over the first film. This is very deliberate. To really drive this home, in one VHS release, the movie is preceded by a Pizza Hut ad.
** In the sequel, the on-the-run scientist teams up with the subway-hiding Turtles to brew up some hideous looking chemical gunk to make some evil monsters go away. In a [[TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] glass held very close to the camera. Thus conveying the message that [[SpaceWhaleAesop Bart Simpson will change your genetic structure]].
* Characters in ''[[Film/{{Terminator}} Terminator 2]]'' can barely turn around without bumping into a Pepsi-drinker or a Pepsi vending machine.
* One would have learned by now that just because it's after the apocalypse, it doesn't meant there can't be product placement. In ''{{Terminator}} Salvation'', a bunch of survivors hide in an old burned-down 7 Eleven, for one. One line in an article at Product Placement biz.com reads "ABB Robots will be shown in the film as robot manufacturers". To quote C-3PO, "machines making machines? How perverse!" John Connor listens to his mother's tapes on an old Sony tape recorder and the resistance drives Jeeps. Partially subverted in that the filmmakers worked with Ducati to develop the moto-Terminators, but they do not display any Ducati insignia.
* In ''Film/ThinkLikeAMan'', anyone who could conceivably be wear Nike shoes or apparel is. There are also many gratuitous basketball running-on-a-treadmill scenes towards this end.
* In the 1999 remake of ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair'', Rene Russo practically chugs a Pepsi One with the label pointed directly at the camera.
* The second ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' film, ''The Cradle of Life'', featured the new 2003 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. Jeep produced limited-run "Tomb Raider models" available in the colour it appeared in in the movie.
* The ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film series was plagued by this, as Michael Bay apparently even set a RECORD for most product placement in a film with no fewer than 47 brands in the film!
** Every Autobot's altmode was a make of car owned by General Motors, except Optimus Prime, who was an (unbranded) Peterbilt Model 379 long-frame semi tractor; GM doesn't make an appropriate vehicle anymore, probably wasn't keen on reaching back to TheEighties for a GMC General, and no fan would accept Optimus Prime as an H2. Then again, the whole franchise is based off a [[MerchandiseDriven line of toys]], so quitcherbitchin. Also keep in mind that, later in the movie, an {{Xbox 360}}, Mountain Dew vending machine, and a Nokia cell phone are featured... ''coming to life and attacking people''.
** When Ironhide gets his alt mode, the camera actually zooms on the GM logo appearing on his front grill. He might as well be a walking GM ad. Not only is the GMC logo prominently dead center in all his driving scenes, but he's got the logo (split in half) on his shoulders in robot mode.
** Conversely, none of the Decepticon altmodes were General Motors makes. Barricade, for instance, was a (heavily customized) Ford Mustang. Most of the Decepticons are military vehicles, which is probably why. As cool as it is, F-22s aren't available for private sale yet. Beside Barricade, all the non military decepticons of the first movie are: a) a robot scorpion, b) a radio, and c) an alien spaceship.
** Perhaps the most gratuitous product placement in the ''Transformers'' movie (and there is ''a lot'' to choose from, besides the cars) is the slow, dramatic zoom-in on...a Panasonic sd-card. Maggie even holds it with tweezers so that her fingers don't block the name, while turning it gently in the light to make sure we don't miss its holographic reflective label while having ''plenty'' of time to read it. This is just so depressingly obvious in a movie where the other placement is usually entertaining in its own right (like [[FanNickname Dispensor]], Agent Simmons and the "nasty" little Nokia phone, and Bumblebee upgrading his model when Mikaela hurts his feelings).
** Anoter blatant example is the XBox 360 Transformer who makes the 360 booting sound before transforming.
** In ''Revenge of the Fallen'', there's a poster for ''{{Cloverfield}}'' that's impossible to miss. If you're asking why it fits in this, consider that the ''Transformers'' films and ''Cloverfield'' are both distributed by Paramount.
** Parodied by Screen Junkies' WebVideo/HonestTrailers in their trailer for ''Transformers'':
-->'''Narrator:''' Starring: [[Advertising/TheBurgerKing Burger King]], Panasonic, eBay, Cadillac, GMC, Music/TheStrokes, Pepto-Bismol, xBox, ''Furbies?!'' Pontiac, Mountain Dew, Chevrolet, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Chevrolet]], [[AndStarring and introducing]], [[RuleOfThree Chevrolet.]]
** ''Dark of the Moon'':
*** It got off a little easier in the car department, at least; due to GM's financial woes, they were able to actually licence some non-GM vehicles for use by both the Autobots and Decepticons -- Wheeljack and Soundwave were both Mercedes, while Mirage was a Ferrari. None of them seemed particularly forced upon the audience; in fact, Mirage's logo was never even visible. There is a brief plug for Soundwave's SLS AMG alt mode, but it's mostly Sam talking about how improbably expensive it is, and it doesn't change the fact that the one who transforms into it is portrayed as unambiguously evil, and is blown up by film's end.
*** It also had Sentinel Prime's Rosenbauer Panther Fire truck form, which is probably one of oddest Product Placements yet, as Rosenbauer is fire vehicle only company doing all it's business selling work vehicles. Not likely something that will be purchased by a film goer, and he has the airport model to boot. The odds of an airport safety worker watching the film and deciding Sentinel is cool and their airport needs a Panther seems unusually slim. But it's officially licensed with a "Rosenbauer fire fighting technology" seal on even the Sentinel prime figures.
*** And Megatron was a Mack Truck, despite it only showing up in two brief shots. Him driving up in Africa and a quick shot of him entering Chicago. You don't even see the logo clearly, but the toy has it right on the front and has the Mack seal on the package. It's funny that Optimus who's trademark alt mode is a truck and who probably gets the most driving scenes out of all the characters gets a genericised prop truck for all 3 films, but Megatron's two scene one film truck mode was not.
* In the 1996 film ''Film/{{Twister}}'', the main characters pilot a red Dodge Ram pickup truck which carries them safely through obstacles that destroy lesser vehicles. The truck meets its end bravely marching through a cornfield into a giant tornado (yes, seriously) to deploy a tornado-measuring MacGuffin named DOROTHY.
* ''Film/TheTransporter'' series. In the first film, Frank uses a BMW, though in the sequel and the third film, he has since switched to Audis. The second film's CrowningMomentOfAwesome is when a bomb is placed on the undercarriage of Frank's car, and Frank jumps the car off a roof, snags the bomb on a construction crane, and lands the car as the bomb goes off in the background. The Audi is unscathed.
* ''Film/TropicThunder'' has a movie agent playing Wii Sports one-handed throughout a rather long phone call. And of course, Tivo figures heavily into the resolution of the climax.
* ''TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'':
** It was notorious not only for using Product Placement, but also for having several prominent products fail [[http://everything2.com/title/Product+%20placement+%20in+%202001%253A+%20A+%20Space+%20Odyssey by the time 2001 rolled around]].
** The ContestedSequel ''[[Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact 2010]]'' features an Apple //c computer and a copy of ''OMNI'' magazine, which went out of print in 1995.
* An exception to Apple dominance is Dell, as the logo on its laptop lids and monitors not only is distinctive, but also stretches across the entire width of the product (especially prevalent are laptops by Alienware -- which is part of Dell). This led to a glaring anomaly in the film ''VForVendetta''; in an early scene Lewis Prothero, "The Voice of London", is seen delivering a political commentary which describes the United States as being a state in crisis, suffering from civil war, widespread famine and verging on if not actually in economic collapse. And then we see every computer monitor bearing the familiar "Dell" logo (Dell being an American company... although they ''could'' have come from the "former United States", or Dell UK, or one of Dell's factories in Malaysia).
* In the movie ''WildHogs'', every beer, even in the biker bar, is a Michelob.
* There's an odd case in ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture''. [[TakeThat/{{Film}} Mulder has gone out into the alley behind a bar to relieve himself and ends up sprinkling a poster on the wall for ''Film/IndependenceDay'']] -- arguably ''The X-Files'' main competition. Strangely enough, Fox released both films.
* ''Film/YesMan'' has the main character Carl order a Temperpedic mattress and do the wine test vigorously on it, order a Rolling Rock beer, speed by a UPS truck, and rent the movies ''Film/ThreeHundred'' and ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' from Blockbuster. He also rambles for a bit about how much he likes Red Bull now that he's had his first one, and several characters discuss the advantages of a Costco membership card.
* The romantic comedy ''Film/YouveGotMail'' takes its title from the (in)famous America Online sound bite. AOL mail is used prominently in the film itself. This despite being more based on an older film, ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner'', which received a ShoutOut as the name of one of the shops in the film.
* ''Film/{{Zookeeper}}'' has product placement for TGI Fridays in the trailer no less. And it's done by a gorilla!:
-->'''Gorilla:''' Is TGI Fridays as good as everyone says it is?
* ''Film/{{Warrior}}'' was obviously sponsored by the Tapout clothing brand, which is a big MixedMartialArts sponsor in real life. The brand is mentioned a number of times for sponsoring the film's MMA tournament, and the two surviving founders have cameos. The film is dedicated to the memory of the third founder.
* There is an embarrassingly bad example in the international version of ''Literature/NightWatch'' (2004) movie where Anton is given a cup of Nescafe. The coffee is well lit in the foreground and takes up the whole screen. Also when a screw drops into another characters coffee cup, that is also Nestle/Nescafe.
** The original version has a scene, where a secondary character trying to seduce Svetlana quotes Nescafe ad.
** In fact the movie is choke full of product placement, but most of it, fortunately, stays unnoticed by foreign audience. Some Russian viewers are disgusted. The majority take it humorously. Some claim the sheer amount is director's RefugeInAudacity, deliberate and successful SoBadItsGood.
* In ''Film/StirOfEchoes'', one of the side effects of a vengeful spirit's haunting is making the main character thirsty, so he's frequently seen guzzling down Minute Maid orange juice. At one point he fills his refrigerator completely full of Minute Maid cartons.
* When the G8 leaders meet in ''[[Film/TwoThousandTwelve 2012]]'', their laptops are all identical Sony Vaios. This creates a rather jarring effect, perhaps enhanced by the fact that the leaders were basically cardboard cut-outs anyway.
* Despite the many name-brands appearing in ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', most of them are stylistic choices (for example, Scott drinks Coke [[NumerologicalMotif Zero]]). The only paid product placement in the movie is Blackberry smartphones, which, one imagines, not many viewers would notice if it wasn't pointed out to them.
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* ABC Daytime has a product placement deal with Campbell's that has resulted in a number of embarrassingly shoehorned references to their soup, V8 Fusion, Prego sauces, and other products on ''Main/AllMyChildren'', ''Main/OneLifeToLive'', ''Main/GeneralHospital'', and, perhaps most {{egregious}}ly, ''The View''.
** ''Main/GeneralHospital'' also included in 2008 an in-show plug for Acai berry juice, which is endorsed by several stars of the show, including Steve Burton, whose character drank the juice when ill and immediately felt better. Behind-the-scenes rumors suggest this was written into the story without ABC's permission and caused the show to lose Tropicana as a sponsor.
** It also became a latter annoyance for ABC as this "endorsement" was used on obnoxious web ads (i.e. the "one weird old trick" ad showing a badly drawn woman with a massive muffin top) faking news sites claiming that ABC News, Oprah and other news organizations endorsed acai products, when in truth they were mentioned either in passing, in segments telling you '''not''' to buy the product, or not at all.
* ''Series/TwentyFour'':
** Jack Bauer and associates will always drive the model of car that is their main sponsor for that season, while villains will drive other brands. It has often been commented that you can tell whether a character is actually a spy based on whether he's driving a Ford or not. (Note that in the one season Toyota is the show's main sponsor, and the Fords are driven by bad guys.)
** Season 7 has a rather blatant one, where the plot seems specifically written for the characters to show off the high tech features of the Hyundai Genesis (namely, to play an audio recording).
** Cisco Systems has been featured rather prominently in the last couple seasons. Admittedly, it's kind of amusing watching Cisco Systems trying to be sexy.
** During the early run, all the good guys used Macs and the bad guys generic Wintel boxes. Recently the good guys started using HP computers. In the fourth season, the terrorists used Alienware gaming laptops, which is rather odd seeing as terrorists are usually on the run, therefore needing [=PCs=] with better battery life... unless [[{{Irony}} terrorists happen to enjoy playing]] ''Counter Strike'' [[{{Irony}} in their spare time]].
* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': "I would never date a guy who didn't drink Snapple."
* ''[[Series/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]''. Gomez is in the police station, ranting at how unfair life is, how certain things and concepts are 'pure evil', and is on the topic of a money-grubbing psychopath who has brainwashed his beloved brother. Meanwhile, in the back, is a product plug in the form of the police station's very bright, very noticeable Coke machine. Someone Missed The Point. That...or someone had a very delicious 'TakeThat' moment against Product Placement.
* ''Series/{{Alias}}'':
** Characters all used Nokia cell phones with the "Nokia Tune" ring for the first couple of seasons. Of course, as anyone who's ever seen ''TriggerHappyTV'' knows, the correct response to that is to go "'''HELLO!''' I'm on the train! Yeah, it's really packed!"
** The beginning of one episode has Sydney and Vaughn chasing a bad guy through a mall parking lot. When the bad guy takes to a car, Sydney points out a vehicle that would let them continue the chase by shouting "The F-150!" You'd think that would be a rather clumsy thing to say while running after bad guys, and something like "That truck" would be more efficient. This was made much worse by the fact the car in question wasn't easily accessible, it had to be reached by navigating several parked cars and couldn't simply be driven out of the bay, it had to barge its way out, smashing several cars that were parked in front. Truly not the way to grab a car in the middle of a high-speed chase that was in the process of changing from a foot chase to a car chase.
* ''Series/TheAmazingRace'':
** It has, on a few occasions, featured an episode where all the remaining teams are given some fancy branded cell phone for no reason other than to read a clue off of it or get a text message from home. The real reason for the phone is, of course, to say the brand name and get it on camera a lot.
** Another example was contestants getting an email from America Online.
** Or more blatantly, challenges that involve contestants not only finding the Travelocity gnome, but carrying it with them for the rest of the episode. Which Travelocity turned into a commercial of its own. Wrap ''that'' one around your heads!
* ''Series/AmericanDreams'' had so many examples it would take too long to list them all. First they had modern musicians singing classics almost every week and then there was, well, just about every product ever listed on the show. Fortunately because the show was somewhat built around nostalgia it tended play better. The scene with a father and son discussing how to eat Oreos seems funny and even sweet when the cookies are a new invention. Although certain things like "Feildings"(AKA Budweiser) being the only beer that seemed to exist even in Viet Nam did tended to bug. Also Sarah Ramos had to get sick of saying "Campbell's Tomato Soup" about halfway through season three.
* If it were up to the execs who broadcast ''Main/AmericanIdol'', everybody would [[EverybodyOwnsAFord own a Ford]] and drink nothing but Coca-Cola all day. ''Series/MadTV'' spoofed the hell out of this one, using Ryan Seacrest's love for {{Dramatic Pause}}s to play the Coca-Cola commercial with Mya and Common (during the show!) over and over again.
* Justified in ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' since the career of being a model is all about selling products. Especially Covergirl cosmetic products. Any contestant who gets their slogan wrong gets told off a ''lot'' for their lack of GenreSavvy.
* Almost all of the tasks in ''Series/TheApprentice'' involve the contestants promoting a product, selling a product, or figuring out a way to improve a product. Like ''America's Next Top Model'', it is largely the point of the series, though.
* ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' very shamelessly promotes Microsoft Windows 8.
* ''Series/TheBiggestLoser'' frequently has the trainers recommend low-calorie foods and weight-loss products to the contestants.
* ''Main/BigLove'' included a bunch in the first episode, including a plug for Land's End delivered by the youngest boy in the family.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'':
** They pimp Toyotas like they're going out of style. It starts with characters referencing car models by name, progresses to little asides about backup cameras, and just recently, the fact that a Prius can tell you when you're in the wrong lane became the catalyst for a episode's (major) B-plot when Hodgins and Angela get jailed for testing it out. At this rate, a Toyota's going to be added to the main cast by the beginning of next season.
** In the season 4 episode "The Double Death of the Dearly Departed", as Bones and Booth [[spoiler:smuggle a corpse out of a funeral home]], Cam states "your Sequoia... was blocked, so I grabbed Angela's Matrix." After Bones asks if there'd be enough room, Cam pointedly comments "it'll be fine, there's plenty of room!" This scene also features an example of OfCorpseHesAlive.
** Then there was an entire shot in another episode that was basically written to say "You know that cool parallel-parking thing Ford has? Toyota has it too."
** Quite a few episodes feature very clear shots of Windows and Windows Phone. The end credits, of course, mention that Microsooft provides "compensation".
** The episode "The Gamer In The Grease" had Hodgins, Sweets and Fischer all going to ridiculous lengths to make the line for the premiere of ''Film/{{Avatar}}''. In order to avoid the CelebrityParadox that would occur by Fischer (who is played by Joel David Moore who played Spellman in Avatar) seeing the movie they had him miss the film entirely as he was too busy hooking up with a hot geek girl on line.
* In the season 2 episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "Innocence", Buffy and Angelus fight amongst prominently-displayed posters for then new (and presumably not hated yet) ''QuestForCamelot''.
* ''Series/BurnNotice'':
** The first series was all about Sam's Cadillac. Series two glorified a Saab; one crucial high speed chase in the summer finale of season two turned on the Saab's outstanding Electronic Braking System. Sam later lost his Caddy, and Fi sold the Saab in the season three midseason finale.
** There was also an episode where Michael basically gave a {{Combat Commenta|tor}}ry about how the car he was using for a high-speed chase was ideal and listed down its features.
** Then there was the one where the electronic stability control in a Saab convertible proved useful to Fiona's skills as a wheelman.
** They had On-Star showing up every few episodes in season two. It paid for quite a few of the action sequences, so it was worth it.
** EVERYONE except for Sam has a Razr, unless they're tearing it apart to make a bomb.
* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' gleefully shills for Subway and Red Bull, to the point that they regularly [[LampshadeHanging hang lampshades]] on Subway's Five Dollar Footlong special, a fact that didn't go unnoticed by [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/090420.html Real Life Comics]]. In later episodes, the iPhone seems to pop up in just about every scene.
* A ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode features a KFC-sponsored spaceship simulator. Naturally, this is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, not to mention a sub-plot in season three involving a character literally named Subway.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' (Las Vegas) features the GMC Yukon Denali S.U.V.: the logo is readable on screen and it's even been mentioned by name a few times. On the other hand, with nearly everything else, their production crew has been pretty good about not just covering up brand names but inventing new in-universe ones, complete with realistic-looking logos. Instead of "[=FedEx=]", for example, they've used "[=SendEx=]" a few times, complete with similar-but-different logo.
* An early episode of ''Main/{{Damages}}'' saw one character give another a gift certificate to Olive Garden, complete with the phrase "When you're here, you're family!" to the laughter of the people ''in'' the show and the groans of the people ''watching'' it.
* ''Main/DaysOfOurLives'':
** Some egregious examples can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGtig5DiTxc here]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uObLcznfjY&feature=related here]]. Because yes, a simple snack needs some 5 or so minutes to explain all the benefits of why you should eat it instead of simply eating it and not having to awkwardly delve in like a normal person. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint And Cheddar Chex Mix are the best kind anyway]]!
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPuz8LpsGMw This one]] is arguably worse given that the 2 actors have been on the show (off and on) since the early 80s. Poor Bo and Hope...
* ''Series/DeadliestCatch'':
** The crab fishing fleet has been at sea for weeks, braving the worst that the Bering Sea can throw at them, and everyone is still drinking their coffee out of paper Dunkin Donuts cups.
** The ''After the Catch'' specials seem to have ''Coors'' beer and their logo everywhere.
* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'':
** They had an unusual one in Pizza Pizza, a {{Toronto}}-based regional chain that's ubiquitous in that city and throughout Ontario but doesn't really exist in the rest of Canada and couldn't even go by that name in the US due to trademark issues. ProductPlacement, meet regional ShoutOut.
** And in the previous series ''Series/DegrassiHigh'', Pepsi and Quaker Oats appeared in almost every episode (including a character who was almost always seen with a box of Dipps granola bars).
** Throughout Season 10 every student shown using a cell phone owns an iPhone, rich and poor students alike. Every. Single. One. Given that the show receives funding from the Canadian government, you'd think they'd favour [=BlackBerry=] products...
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':
** Dexter's [=MacBook=] Pro probably wasn't supplied by Apple, since he runs Windows on it.
** It's a question as to what kind of writing Deb's season 2 boyfriend would need to do that would require an ''Alienware'' laptop.
* ''Series/TheDoctorOzShow'' normally has BrandX items (particularly vitamins and supplements[[note]]in oversized bottles with large print labels that are easy to read on camera[[/note]]), but Dove and Pedigree are often mentioned by name if the segment is about skin care or pet care.
* An early example was the sponsorship of the second ''Series/DoctorWho'' movie in 1966 by Sugar Puffs, leading to out-of-place posters advertising the cereal in a supposed post-apocalyptic world.
* The new ''Series/DoctorWho'' series gave Rose Tyler a Nokia 3200 mobile phone, which was upgraded by the Ninth Doctor into a super mobile that can make phone calls through time and pick up signals where other phones can't, like other planets. Seeing as this is TheBBC, it's more that they used a recognisable prop than it being product placement (ie: it wasn't paid for). It turns into a Samsung phone without explanation in series 2. By series 3, they at least removed the logos from Martha's phone (it's a Benq-Siemens). Product placement is technically ''illegal'' on the BBC; a few years ago, an episode of ''{{Spooks}}'' was temporarily pulled while they airbrushed out the Apple logo on a laptop. In the background. Because of ''complaints''. The BBC takes its public ownership status seriously, as does the British public.
* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' features the Apple iPhone 3GS several times in its second season. The season opener, "Vows," also shows off an iPhone app - the Sling Player, which streams television to cellphones, laptops and the like. While other Dollhouse staff watch Senator Daniel Perrin (in a press conference attacking the Dollhouse) on TV, Paul Ballard watches the same telecast on his phone. On the computer side, they moved away from the Macs-are-cool trope, featuring Dell desktop computers instead.
* One episode of the reality show ''Driving Force'' had two people eating KFC and blatantly plugging it -- to the point where one of them ''read the nutritional facts panel'' to declare "It has zero trans fat".
* In ''Main/EarthFinalConflict'', even [[EnergyBeings advanced aliens]] who laugh at the [[{{AlienNon-InterferenceClause}} prime directive]] aren't immune to product placement whenever they make a call.
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'':
** One late episode of was pretty loud in its proclamation that the new Subaru is a good car. First, Carter is impressed when Jo shows him her new car, and she gets to brag about it; it's then contrasted with Fargo's crappy old car. Fargo then ditches his old car and gets himself a Subaru; Jo asks him how he pulled it off because she was on a waiting list for months for hers but he claims to have pulled some strings (apparently people in Eureka must not buy their own cars). But it's not until much later in the episode that Jo's new car saves the day by being the only thing that can get Fargo to where the others are in time to deliver some crucial information. Finally, near the end Fargo makes a solemn declaration that to make amends with his jilted car AI he'll install her in his new car right away.
** Also, [[TVGenius Fargo]] lists off the cars stats instantly upon seeing it. Safe to say ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' doesn't take their product placement too seriously.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d on the third season premiere. The new chairwoman of GD announces its first corporate sponsor, as several crates bearing Degree [the deodorant sponsoring the season] logos are wheeled in. Degree is actually sponsoring the show, insisting on heavy placement of ads and an entire episode where deodorant saves the day. One extreme example of this particular product placement happens in the episode "Here Comes the Suns". In it, a second artificial sun created by a ten-year-old as a school science project is slowy roasting the town. Anyway, at several points the characters mention staying cool under pressure. This is the tag-line for Degree deodorant. To see one person's thoughts on this episode, go [[http://www.cliqueclack.com/tv/2008/09/17/eureka-stay-cool-under-pressure/ here]].
* The reality dating show ''Main/{{Excused}}'' explicitly promotes a number of products on different episodes, including Dentyne Gum and Black Star Beer.
* ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'''s cup runneth over with Product Placements -- every little thing that goes into every house they rebuild has a brand name that is prominently displayed on-camera. Sears Roebuck in particular has a great deal with this program -- in addition to frequent on-camera visits to Sears by the designers and lingering shots of Kenmore products entering the house, every episode they get a custom commercial tailored to that episode that just happens to count off each appliance, piece of furniture and even every tool used by the construction crew, under the guise of congratulating the latest recipients of ABC's weekly largesse.
* Whenever any character in ''[[Main/FlashForward2009 Flash Forward]]'', particularly Mark Benton, had to make or receive a call on their cell, the show always made sure we saw that it was a Sprint phone.
* Curious about which car company is sponsoring ''Series/FridayNightLights'' this week? Just wait for the scene at Buddy's car dealership and see which brand gets its name mentioned.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' had the infamous episode "The One With Pottery Barn", which features Rachel redecorating Phoebe's apartment in all Pottery Barn products and having to lie to her about where she purchased them, and has been snarkily described as a half hour Pottery Barn commercial.
* Oh, ''Series/{{Fringe}}''. Was it really necessary to have the characters make video calls in the field, complete with long, loving close-ups of the implausibly good quality and provider logo?
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'':
** They had plenty of product placement (as it was created as part of a family-friendly programming initiative backed by major advertisers), but thankfully it was more often than not very subtle (Rory asks for a Coke...that's as bad as it got).
** However in season two Pepsico and the WB commissioned a thirty-second ad that had Lorelai and Rory in-character extolling the pleasures of drinking Aquafina bottled water in their usual rat-a-tat conversation style, via a situation where Lorelai was about to get a bottle of water from an...Aquafina stand (OK), but a woman in front of her got it first and instantly won cash instead of Lorelai, which Rory rubbed into her mother pretty hard. It was odd and out of character since the Gilmores are much more associated with coffee rather than bottled-up filtered tap water from Munster, Indiana.
** A season six episode, titled ''I Get a Sidekick Out of You'', which, among other things, prominently featured the Sidekick, a T-Mobile phone. Logan is also rarely seen without his Razr in the last season.
* Will Schuester of ''Series/{{Glee}}'' buys a Corvette in one episode as a response to his not-quite-girlfriend getting a cool new boyfriend. In case you miss the half-dozen times they mention the Corvette, you'll also get a good long look at the dashboard logo while the dialogue stops to make way for engine-revving noises.
* The reimagined ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' has plenty, see the work page for more examples. But some of the worst offenders:
** The "Pu'olo" episode in the second season basically had a 50-second Subway commercial inserted into the middle of the episode. It was [[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/a-commercial-sandwiched-between-lines-of-dialogue-on-hawaii-five-0/ criticized widely]] as over-the-top even by the standards of in-show product placement.
** It also had the sole unironic use of the phrase "Bing it" (rather than "Google it") in human history.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
** Sprint and Nissan are pretty much the show's two largest sponsors - beyond the ProductPlacement, at least half of the commercials are for either Sprint phones or Nissan cars.
** The series features repeated mentions of the Nissan Versa / Tiida. [[EverybodyOwnsAFord Almost all cars in the series are Nissans.]] Every one of the online comics begins with a Nissan Versa ad that is far bigger than the comic itself. It's become a RunningGag. Funnily enough, even though most computers in the series are Dells, the logos are taped over.
** One episode featured a scene between HRG and one of the baddies, the Hunter, taking place at the latter's apartment. What occupies the center of the screen in shots featuring the two of them? A large stack of Dell computer boxes.
** There's also this exchange from "[[FauxSymbolism The Second Coming]]", in the middle of a remote desert:
--->'''Matt''': I gotta use your cell.
--->'''Usutu''': No service! I should've gone with Sprint.
** The first episode of Season 4 shows a Sprint logo on the Dial-a-Hero ad in ''Tokyo''. Now ''that's'' amazing coverage.
** The show is starting to bleed into the commercials. During Season 4, there was a short commercial which was otherwise indistinguishable from a normal scene where one of the villains must sneak another one... a Sprint phone. It then cuts to a web address where you can presumably follow that side plot which will heavily feature cell phones.
** Every character on the show (and graphic novels) has a Sprint phone.
** NBC has inverted this by not just placing commercials in the show, but placing the show in the commercials. Starting with a multi-part Heroes subplot revolving around a Sprint cellphone, they've also done it for ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', showing Morgan, Ellie and Devon on the way to the Winter Games in a Honda.
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'' made use of this trope in the ShowWithinAShow "Tool Time", where Tim and Al often plugged products by the fictional Binford hardware company. One episode dealt with Tim's reluctance to promote an inferior Binford product on his show.
* ''Series/{{House}}''.:
** The episode "Gut Check" featured a lingering shot of Wilson's Ford Taurus's logo, and then transitioned to a view of the dash with in-board GPS. Not commented on by the characters, but still quite blatant.
** Name a time when Dr. House isn't sporting a flashy pair of Nike shoes. With a closeup.
* A new trick is to digitally insert ProductPlacement into reruns of TV shows and updating them for new ads with each airing. A rerun for ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' added a television set to a bar scene which showed an ad for ''BadTeacher'' a movie released a few years after the episode originally aired. Future airings of the episode can change this to a more current ad (such as ''Film/{{Zookeeper}}'').
* ''Series/{{Jericho}}'' showed just how good a cell-phone company can really be: Sprint maintained service through 20 or more American cities being nuked ''and'' the resulting remnants dissolving into squabbling factions. (Sprint was a major sponsor of the show.)
* The PilotMovie for the ''Series/KnightRider'' remake has one chase scene which is a painful example of this. KITT is a Ford, and the cars chasing it are Fords. Throughout the chase, we get closeup after closeup of their logos. At the end of a chase, the cars pursuing KITT are tricked into driving into a fully-loaded semi truck... and stop ''inches'' from the bumper; God forbid a Ford be damaged, after all. Later, just to hammer it in, a General Motors car is seen as a burning wreck. In the series, KITT routinely transforms into other Ford models for disguise or utility.
* Who can forget Kyle's {{Narm}}ful love of Sour Patch Kids throughout the first season of ''Series/KyleXY''? Thankfully, they eased up for season 2.
* In ''Main/LagunaBeach'', all of the principal cast members are seen using the T-Mobile Sidekick II, and the product is also displayed prominently whenever it is used.
* Interesting case on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' - During the airing of the Season 3 finale, several forum posters and other live commentators pointed out how glaring the placement of Jack's Motorola RAZR phone was during his off-Island flashback, especially since Oceanic Flight 815 crashed in September 2004, years before the phone was manufactured. [[spoiler:The end of the episode revealed that Jack's story had actually been a flash''forward'' three years into the future, making the product placement a crafty clue.]]
* ''Series/MadMen'' has plenty of product placement for alcoholic beverages, although you have to be looking for it. The most blatant is the Smirnoff bottle in Roger Sterling's office. In fairness to Roger, it definitely goes with the black/white/clear glass decor. Interestingly, Don's favorite tipple (Canadian Club) is from a different company. Which one is paying? Or are they both?
* ''Series/TheMiddle'':
** In the third season, the "Hecking It Up" episode seems to have basically been written as an extended ad for the Volkswagen Passat starring the show's characters. They made sure to use the remote starter as many times as possible and, at one point, Frankie even mentions the "roomy trunk".
** Subway also gets one in (as in, it was mentioned in the credits) early in the third-season episode "The Guidance Counselor" when the camera pans ''just slowly enough'' across some Subway wrappers and sandwiches on the kitchen counter as Frankie announces dinner is ready.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'':
** In the episode "Mr. Monk, Private Eye," Sharon Lawrence's character describes her dented car as such: "This is a Lucerne 275 Northstar V8. I get a new Buick every year. It's my trademark." This was only the beginning: In the following three seasons, Natalie went through six cars, one of which was the aforementioned Buick Lucerne. Among others that were almost certainly product placement were an Audi and a Hyundai Genesis. It makes one wonder how Natalie can afford several different cars, considering how little she is paid. These cars are also heavily advertised on the Monk website. There is a Concentration-type game, where, in addition to characters' faces, you match parts of the Buick Lucerne. That remained, [[TheArtifact even after the sponsor of the website changed to Audi]]. In the original airing, the first commercial was the same car shown in the episode right before it went into commercial break.
** "Mr. Monk and the UFO" was sponsored by Sleep Inn and featured a scene where Monk was returning to the hotel room in which he was staying with only one bag of cleaning supplies. Natalie reassured a hotel employee that having only one bag was like giving the hotel five stars. Other scenes included a uniformed Sleep Inn employee as a minor character.
* MSNBC's ''MorningJoe'' started plugging for Starbucks, [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-3-2009/corporate-synerjoe a fact definitely noticed by the Daily Show]]. They later claimed that it [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-june-8-2009/morning-joe-s-sarcastic-starbucks-sponsorship was sarcastic]].
* ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' is usually fairly subtle about its product placement for Kia, though they did devote a shot in season 2 to the Optima's voice-command system.
* ''Series/TheOC'' has several notable product placements mostly placed into conversations. While most of them can be passed off as glib references to hot new products, some are more blatant, including Sandy Cohen loudly declaring, [[StuckOnBandAidBrand "I'll book our flight on American Airlines right now"]].
* One of the few shows to be realistic about the preponderance of [=PCs=] vs. Macs in real life settings is the US version of ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'', in which the office computers were Dells earlier and Gateways later, as you'd expect to see in many similar real offices. Since Acer bought the latter, its logo has become more common.
* In the early episodes of ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'', Aria is seen repeatedly with a Microsoft Kin phone and it always highlighted the Facebook stream very obviously. It also helps that texting is a major plot point in the series.
* Obviously, any GameShow, such as ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', that utilizes such products as prizes instead of/alongside cash.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has many examples, given Shawn's eccentric tendencies, this is relatively believable for him.
** In a few early episodes, the main characters uses an Alienware laptop.
** They hysterically place an ad for Dunkin' Donuts in an episode, with Spencer going on a really really tangential rant about how refreshing Dunkin Donuts is, while a life hangs in the balance and every other character in the scene looks at him strangely.
** Red Robin has factored into settings and mentions at least twice. It's (obviously) a sponsor and gets a prominent shot at commercial breaks, even when there's not a Red Robin in the area for miles around.
** Snyder's of Hanover Pretzel snacks are consumed and talked about quite prominently in several episodes.
** Shawn frequently eats Doritos and makes some exaggerated quip about how great they are.
** Shawn refers to Axe Body Spray as "like catnip for women." [[FairCop Juliet]] gives an approving nod.
** Apple products are featured throughout the series in notable ways: Shawn's Apple-brand phone is used in virtually every episode to a large extent and often written specifically into the plot. For example, in one episode, the main character talks several time with the speech recognition software "Siri" calling it by name. Another episode goes so far to actually replace Shawn's physical presence by an Apple brand tablet computer through which the character takes part in the action. The brand of video chat software used for this is mentioned several times. The whole episode appears to be written around the product.
* The ''Series/PuppyBowl'' is filled to the brim with ads. The Kitty Halftime Show always ends with a massive shower of confetti, followed by the referee using an explicitly name brand vacuum to clean up before the puppies take the field again. ''Puppy Bowl VII'' also featured the same referee taking a break to enjoy breath mints, [[LargeHam acting like]] they single-handedly restored all his energy, and 'celebrity cheerleaders' on the sidelines hawking a new animal movie.
* The Argentine soap ''Series/RebeldeWay'' doesn't miss a chance to promote some snack food or another. Amusing because it places the characters momentarily way out of character and because it's nearly impossible as a foreigner to determine what's the fuss about.
* The producers of ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' have been strikingly honest about the show's contract with MGD 64 and the ensuing, blatantly straightforward product placements, ranging from background billboards through use of the product and all the way to having the characters "casually" deliver dialogue borrowed from the product's actual commercials ("How is it you're still single?").
* During the mid-'90s the ABC channel was bought by the Walt Disney Corporation. In doing so, they had most, if not all, of their current shows make episodes that involved their characters going on a vacation to Disney World. Most did them without complaint and simply moved on. However, there was one revolt. The cast and crew of ''Roseanne'' didn't like being forced to make an hour-long Disney World commercial (it was a two-parter, but they didn't reach Disney World until part 2.) A little while later, they make an episode that is a thinly-veiled and scathing Take That against them. In it, David gets a job at an amusement park called Edelweiss Gardens, where the brainwashing and conformity jokes come fast and hard (they also give the entire park a German theme with a Hans the Hare mascot, adding in some unsettling Nazi overtones.)
* [[MyLocal Tigh Tadhg]] in ''Ros na Rún'' is full of ads for Beamish.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
** A Mac is always seen in the background of Jerry's apartment.
** They once based an entire episode around the premise that a Kenny Rogers' Roasters restaurant opened across the street from their apartment building. At first, the placement is inverted, as Kramer is being driven mad by the gigantic garish neon sign that gives his entire apartment a red glow and keeps him up all night. But then, as soon as Kramer actually tastes the chicken, he loves it.
* ''SexAndTheCity'' always made sure we saw the Apple logo on Carrie's notebook whenever she was typing her column. It was subverted in "My Motherboard, Myself" when it finally crashed, we saw the bomb on the screen and we learned that most of her hard drive was lost. At the end she learned to back up her data externally.
* Later episodes of ''Shark Tank'' have prominently featured one or more T-Mobile devices.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** "Clark, my Yaris gets great mileage." "Your super-speed's out of gas, so take my Yaris." Yaris, ''Yaris'', YARIS. It was almost as bad as the Stride placement detailed below.
** This only scratches the surface of ''{{Smallville}}'''s frequent car product placement. Clark, whose family struggles with paying the bills are frequent plot points, has been shown driving several brand-spanking-new trucks [[ImprobablyCoolCar well beyond his means]], to include a shiny red Toyota Tundra in "Progeny" and a shiny blue Toyota Tundra in "Hero" (though maybe he just sprung for a new paint job, because ''those'' are cheap). Even worse was Lois Lane using her brand new Ford Fusion to distract a guard in "Solitude" by [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy showing off its amazing features]].
** In one particular episode, Pete [[TheBusCameBack returned to the show in full force after a three-year absence]], in an episode called "Hero", which was pretty much a drawn-out Product Placement scheme for Stride Gum. The gum actually had a point in the episode -- it got contaminated with GreenRocks and gave Pete super stretching powers -- so it was shown much more often than the average Product Placement item. Also, Stride gum was mentioned by name over and over, never "gum" but always "Stride," and even one mention of how long the flavor supposedly lasts. At the end, a cured Pete offers Chloe some, holding it up to show the logo ''exactly'' as a person in a commercial would, and says "It's Kryptonite-free" as if that was its slogan. The entire episode was basically an hour-long Stride commercial with the cast of ''Smallville'' along for the ride.
** ''{{Smallville}}'' doesn't just pimp gum; it advertises everything else to the point that (before he was PutOnABus) Pete was nicknamed '[[http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?s=d2be62141d8bd81ac710e41079b593f8&showtopic=3116027&view=findpost&p=1248946 Product Placement Pete]]' by TelevisionWithoutPity for mentioning everything from Lemon Pledge to a shameless push of the ''Smallville'' soundtrack, in character, to boot! After he left, though, the Product Placement remained glaringly obvious, with Chloe saying things like "We'll take my Yaris." rather than "Let's use my car." and the directors seemingly going out of their way to show unnecessary close-ups of the characters' cell phones as they dial, to show off the nifty Verizon logos.
** The most extreme examples of ''{{Smallville}}'''s glut of product placements include a melodramatic locker room scene before the BigGame where the camera lingers on Clark's Old Spice Red Zone deodorant in "Jinx", the Angel of Vengeance's use of Acuvue contact lenses when supersuited up in "Vengeance" (to which Chloe painfully states "Acuvue to the rescue!"), and a ProductPromotionParade in "Noir" where Jimmy Olsen plays Chloe a goodbye playlist by hooking up his Apple iPod to her Toyota Yaris before snapping a farewell photo of them using his Nikon Coolpix camera. It's a testament to the durability of product placements that I was able to recall all of these from memory. Ugh.
* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'':
** In the {{Groundhog Day|Loop}} episode Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c hit golfballs through the stargate with name-brand golf equipment prominently displayed. RuleOfCool win.
** ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' is guilty of this extremely subtly, as Samantha Carter is always seen either using a Dell Inspiron laptop or, in the later seasons, a Dell XPS laptop.
* In the episode "Vegas" of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' during an exchange between Sheppard and [=McKay=], [=McKay=] tells Sheppard that he knows his favourite flavour of gum (spearmint), to which Sheppard believes to be a bluff. In reaction to this, [=McKay=] whips out a slightly beaten-up pack of Stride spearmint gum from his jacket and throws it out on the table in front of him. Nobody says anything about the brand, so it is possible that either this is a typical Stargate subtle product placement, or it was just that a package of Stride gum was what was available to them.
* ''Main/{{Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad}}'''s computer scenes always showed enough of the edge of the monitor for a very large and prominent Compaq logo to be displayed.
* Bow to ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', lesser reality shows, for it is king of this.
** Reward Challenge rewards have included camp-building supplies from Home Depot, Budweiser beer, Charmin-brand toilet paper, family messages on Sprint smartphones, so on, and so forth. A 2011 challenge required using Sears' Craftsman tools at each stage of a relay race. And not only are the products prominently branded, but host Jeff Probst is careful to mention the brand at every opportunity. Advertisers get their money's worth from ''Series/{{Survivor}}''!
** One of ''Series/{{Survivor}}'''s (specifically ''Survivor Outback'') most infamous moments actually revolves around one of the products offered as a contestant prize -- the then-new Pontiac [[XtremeKoolLetterz Aztek]], which was not only paired with an immunity award during the actual show (which the winner also got to ''sleep in'') but was also thrown in as prizes for the ultimate winner and winner-up. The winning contestant of the first prized Aztek wouldn't stop gushing about its "amenities," though perhaps it's understandable giving how he had been stuck in the Australian Outback. Now looked upon as a HilariousInHindsight moment for how the car ultimately fell with a dud louder than the Edsel and for just how ''gawd awful'' the Aztek looked.
** Hilariously enough, its platform was used on the Buick Rendezvous as well, released in the same year. This luxury version, which did not share the same hideous design, was actually credited with saving the Buick brand!
* The second season of ''Terminator: Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles'' features the 2009 Dodge Ram extensively, including showing off its many handy storage compartments and [=GPS=] system.
* Everyone in Beacon Hills from ''Series/TeenWolf'' shops at Macy's. Everyone.
** They also really like Canon cameras, mac computers, Samsung phones, Adidas clothing, and Pandora. They are occasionally subtle, but often fairly obvious.
* TheHistoryChannel's game show ''Main/TopShot'' gives away a Bass Pro Shops $2,000 gift card for the winner of an elimination challenge. This is separate from the $100,000 cash prize for being the last man standing; a contestant could win one or more of the gift cards but not win the grand prize, conversely the grand prize winner might never end up in an elimination challenge and thus never win any gift cards.
* ''Series/TwentyTwelve'' has so many including Bentley, Sony Vaio laptops, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Goodnites]].
* ''Main/TheVampireDiaries'' has some of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xKnvOhulBs most]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=talcGAOj9YQ painfully]] obvious ProductPlacement, (though TheCW as a whole is a major offender.) including using Bing for searching online, AT&T for getting online([=MiFi=]) or texting with their phones, or using Skype/MSN to video chat! It's nigh impossible to find a episode that isn't so shameless.
* ''Series/VeronicaMars'', especially in its final season, featured Apple laptops prominently. However, Apple obviously didn't ''pay'' for the privilege, as every time they're on screen the light-up logo on the back is blocked by something in the scene -- a timestamp, a Post-It note, a box of licorice (really). It's done badly in the background of one scene with an Alienware laptop, where they put a sticker of the fictional college over the small alien head -- despite doing nothing about the also-distinctive moulding on either side, which is much larger than the head and in a different colour. They also love to feature Sunkist.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' has Jade's bag have the ''GearsOfWar'' logo in her bag strap. Later in the series, the placement was gone.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'':
** One of their sponsors is Hyundai, and their Tucson compact SUV is featured in the second season. Hyundai even created a [[http://www.geekologie.com/2012/07/the-real-life-model-of-hyundais-zombie-a.php "zombie survival machine"]] based on their Elantra compact as part of their cross-promotion with the show.
** The Gerber blade company also sponsors the show. Whenever a combat knife, hatchet, machete, or other bladed weapon is used on the show, expect to see the Gerber logo and their distinctive black-and-orange coloring.
* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'':
** During the second season, they have been showing Twizzlers brand licorice in several episodes. One episode had Myka saying she was "a Twizzlers girl", and another episode had a prolonged shot of her taking a Twizzler out of a package.
** Claudia comments on the Toyota Prius in Season 3 Episode 1. It's even taken to the point of parody. Jinks becomes increasingly annoyed during the scene as Claudia ignores his questions in order to list off the features of the car.
** In Season 3 Episode 3, a plot point involves computer chain store Tiger Direct.
* The cast of ''Series/TheWestWing'' drink rather a lot of Schweppes Bitter Lemon.
* ''Series/WhiteCollar'' spent some time shilling for Ford. "This is a Taurus, it can take care of itself. I'm keeping my eyes on you."
* A truly painful example comes from ''Main/WhoWantsToBeASuperhero'', where "Erin [=eSurance=]" (the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' knock-off mascot from online insurance company [=eSurance=]) is digitally inserted into the show itself as a VoiceWithAnInternetConnection guide to one mission. The contestants managed to be nonchalant about it, even though they were essentially getting instructions from a walking advertisement.
* ''{{Workaholics}}'' has an episode where the guys get lost in the woods, with a bag of Jack Link's Beef Jerky as their only source of food. Not only do they show the bag multiple times, but they name check the product constantly, even after the jerky is gone. Guess who one of the show's biggest sponsors is?
* ''Main/{{X-Play}}'' is apparently required to plug Gamefly.com OnceAnEpisode, usually after a review of a mediocre game. They have fun with it, however, by making the segue to the plug as blatantly obvious as possible. In a recent episode, they made further fun of it -- Adam begins shilling for the show's Web site, but Morgan launches into her Gamefly.com plugging by accident.
* Although ''Series/TheUltimateFighter'' is one giant advertisement for the UFC, ''The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil'' features the notable inclusion of very blatant product placement for a variety of brands, in contrast to the American version. Sponsors are listed by the coaches during their speeches to contestants. Whole scenes are dedicated to showing fighters shaving using the featured brand products from a promotional display beside their sink. There's even a scene of a coach holding a team meeting to pass out and praise a nutritional supplement. Apparently not just content to push brands, another fighter shows up to deliver a public service announcement to the fighters about avoiding infection from stagnant water in potted plants.
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Sometimes entire games are product placement, with the corporate {{Mascot}} as the playable character.

* The circle on a can of 7-Up has been the subject of no less than three video games:
** ''Spot: The Video Game'' - which was a reskinned Ataxx for NES.
** ''VideoGame/CoolSpot'' - for Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, which was a surprisingly good platformer.
** ''Spot Goes To Hollywood'' - for Sega Genesis and the original Playstation, was Cool Spot's underwhelming sequel.
* ''VideoGame/AvoidTheNoid'' for the Commodore 64 and ''Yo! Noid'' for the NES (Domino's Pizza). The latt happened to be a localized version of ''[[DolledUpInstallment Masked Ninja Hanamaru]]'' in Japan. This explains why the abilities and mechanics don't fit in with the Domino's character.
* [[http://www.viddler.com/explore/Maxwell_Adams/videos/180/ PEP-PEP-PEPSIMAAAAAAAN!]]
* ''[=McDonaldland=]'', a.k.a. ''MC Kids'', for NES, Amiga, and Commodore 64 (McDonalds) averts this somewhat, in that Ronald [=McDonald=] is only an NPC. Even still, it's a game entirely based around Product Placement: if the title didn't give it away, the fact that the FollowTheMoney items are the trademark golden arches should.
** There was also ''[=McDonald's=] Treasure Land Adventure'' for the SegaGenesis, developed by Creator/{{Treasure}} when they were newly incorporated and needed the money.
* Nearly every sports game, the "product" being the relevant organization.
* The infamous Burger King games, one of which you play as [[UncannyValley the King]] and [[JerkAss hide in porta-potties and trash cans]] to deliver hamburgers to people.
* Every company that could afford it opened a video game division in the days of Atari, prior to TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983. As mentioned on that page, it got to the point where ''Quaker Oats'' had a videogame division.
* Kaneko made two Chester Cheetah games for the {{SNES}} and Genesis: ''Wild Wild Quest'' and ''Too Cool to Fool''.
* ''VideoGame/ChexQuest''. You'd probably not expect somebody to take the extremely violent computer game ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', turn it into a family-friendly advertisement for a cereal, and then package it free with said cereal as a sales incentive, but that's ''exactly'' what happened. That being said, the game still ''plays'' like ''Doom'', with (barring the complete thematic facelift) only some minor changes to gameplay, so it actually plays pretty well.

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* Nintendo's ''1080° Snowboarding'' had characters wearing brand-name clothes while riding brand-name snowboards, the sequel even had brand-name music and a music video.
* ''VideoGame/AlanWake'':
** He only trusts Energizer batteries to fight the forces of darkness--when he isn't answering his Verizon phone, that is.
** The game actually has two real commercials that can be watched right in the middle of it by turning on a TV while fleeing the Dark Presence. ''You apparently get an achievement for watching it.''
** Even more extreme, the DLC "The Signal" is basically an interactive commercial that players pay for. The titular signal is a cellphone signal, and there's one cutscene in which a Verizon spins and falls to the ground in slow motion, with the screen pointing towards the camera. When Alan answers it, the voice on the other end actually says "Can you hear me now"?
** Much of the DLC involves following a GPS signal. If you watch the objective compass, you'll notice that it goes haywire every few minutes. Admittedly, this is because [[spoiler:the Dark Presence is rearranging the dreamscape]], but it doesn't exactly reassure players about the reliability of Verizon's GPS capabilities.
* ''Battlefield 2142'' has billboards on many of its maps, served with real ads like a 3D-rendered page banner. The ads were targeted, so each player would see something different in the same space. [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/20/ Penny Arcade makes light of it here.]]
* The PAL version of the ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' SNES game featured [[http://www.encyclopedia-obscura.com/gamesprodplacement.html a ridiculous amount of advertising for Snickers]]. Sure, it's made by M&M/Mars, but why the candy company in question didn't advertise their ''Mars'' bars instead is anyone's guess...
* Lots in ''Brigade E5'': Faber Castell pencils in the cinematics, American Express credit cards, and those ammo boxes (Federal Classic, Brown Bear, Wolf Performance Ammunition, etc) are the real thing.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' recently introduced "optional in-game advertising" which replaces some of the fictional advertisements found throughout the city with those of real products. At the time of this writing, only one real advertisement is available: a giant picture of a shoe with the words "Jeter Clutch" above and to the left of it. Unlike in most cases, most fans are all for this. Ads = Money = Game will continue to be developed. Unfortunately, most companies seem reluctant to jump on this.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g7fZFSMQDs music video]] to the Clazziquai song "Flea" has several shots of a PSP running ''VideoGame/{{DJMAX}} Portable Clazziquai Edition'' (or rather, a prototype as the game wasn't released yet when the video was shot). Not surprisingly, an edited version of the video was used as the intro movie for ''DJMPCE''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}'' had prominent billboards which changed depending on which sponsor was supporting them. At the moment, since there are no sponsors, they instead display some leaderboard statistics which scroll when you look directly at them. [[GoodBadBugs They take a moment to load]], so the placeholder image is used until the leaderboard results are ready - a billboard for the ''2007'' Dodge Caliber.
* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/CrazyTaxi'': Sega had to pay to use the logos of Pizza Hut, KFC, Levi Strauss, The GAP, etc.
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 2'' has [[AndYourRewardIsClothes alternate costumes]] that were based on actual brand clothing designed by a company called Diesel, which helped promote the game in Japan.
* ''Die Hard Trilogy 2'' has Whoop Ass! energy drinks.
* ''Disneys Extreme Skate Adventure'' has a few. The Olliewood level has a few posters for Radio Disney. Plus there's a Nokia store and a McDonalds in it too (the latter is part of a goal where you deliver food as well)
* The ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' [[StealthPun spinoff]], ''VideoGame/DJHero 2'' has The Altitude stage, which is ALWAYS used when you enable Party Play, and is littered with Coca-Cola logos!
* ''Drac's Night Out'', a never-released game dug out from its grave by WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, used Reebok shoes as a powerup. The Nerd took this to its natural conclusion with a mock ad for said shoes, because [[ThisLoserIsYou you're shit without them]].
* The futuristic racer ''Extreme-G 2'' featured billboards for Diesel clothing in the city track.
* Along with crappy non-branded cars and trucks, ''FarCry 2'' had the Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Liberty(?) as drivable cars. Which creates a weird scenario where soldiers in a war-torn (and UN Arms Embargoed) African nation are driving brand new Jeeps. You even get a nice good look at the 3.7L engine when they break down.
* The Xbox 360 version of ''FIFA 2008'' contains PlayStation3 ads. Apparently, Sony is a FIFA sponsor, and you have to have ads of sponsors in a FIFA game. [[ConsoleWars Oh, the irony.]]
* ''VideoGame/FightNightRound3'' from EA Games has quite a bit; while usually themed with the sport (boxing), it seems a bit out of place where one cutscene is an actual ad for a Dodge of some sort. And for some reason Dodge has branched out from making things like cars to things like... um, boxing gloves?. In addition to Dodge, The Burger King is an unlockable character. Yes, ''[[NightmareFuel that]]'' [[NightmareFuel Burger King]]. Also unlockable is "Big E", the [[ScaryBlackMan gigantic mascot]] for Under Armor. And his main rival, Goliath, a fat white guy who's a brazenly obvious TakeThat at Nike.
* The website of ''Main/GaiaOnline'' frequently accepts sponsorships from bigger corporations to help keep their servers running, which in return get to advertise to Gaia users, usually by offering promotion items to users who watch an advertisement. A lot of Gaia, particularly the GCD, complains about this. Biggest "offenders" are:
** Skittles, who did a flood of games with Skittles-based prizes (including prized [[MismatchedEyes heterochromia eyes]]), sponsored an entire dance venue at the 2009 prom event, and occasionally take over Daily Chance.
** MTV, who sponsor a gold store run by an NPC who is supposedly an extra from their show ''The Hills'', in addition to the "watch an ad for this show/movie, get an item" route. And three of the items in that store are Gaia Cash only. That's right, you have to pay ''real money'' to GaiaOnline to ''buy their advertisements for MTV''.
** [=OmniDrink=], full stop. Oh, wait, AprilFools'...
** Verizon, who stuck a "message in a bottle" minigame into everybody's Aquariums. They're also chief sponsors of the Cinema feature.
** In fact, Gaia is known for it's utterly bizarre product placement at times. A female only environment dedicated to leg razors (saved primarily due to massive amounts of EstrogenBrigadeBait), a flash environment with a stealth deodorant ad you wouldn't even notice if you weren't paying attention, a temporary shop containing only three pieces of formalwear that vanished about a month before the actual prom event began, and those ads for Monster Learning that keep popping up and bugging everyone every so often. The reasoning for the occasional oddities in sponsorships lies in the fact that Advertising Agencies decide what Gaia will advertise at any given time. When a new company starts doing business with Gaia, they typically give them a throwaway brand to advertise. As a result, users see announcements for the crappy products before they can see the good stuff. The upside to all of this sponsorship frenzy is that Gaia doesn't have to rely on parody to give users long requested cosplay items, like Hogwarts Robes, or [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Sparkly Vampire Skin]].
* Meta? One of the goals in ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'' is a security tape. In a box. Looking at the tape in your inventory will reveal it spinning, like many objects. The front is a promo for the ''Film/GoldenEye'' movie. True, they did have the rights to the image... but...
* The ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'' series is chock-full of in-game advertising, justified because they're the racing teams' sponsors. Example include the Audi R8 (Infineon), the JGTC Loctite Skyline, the Mercedes-Benz 190E (Hugo Boss), the Audi TT-R Touring Car (Red Bull and Walkman), the [=McLaren=] F1 GTR Race Car (Petrofina), and the BMW V12 LMR (Dell). And on top of that, there's ''a Gran Turismo 4 ad within Gran Turismo 4:'' the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Pescarolo_C60_2006.JPG Playstation Pescarolo C60]].
* The ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' series:
** In the original ''GuitarHero'', the only notable licenses in the game were the music and Gibson brand guitars. Other instruments were BrandX models (such as Synth-o-tron keyboards), and one concert advertised "Fake Skateboards".
** ''VideoGame/GuitarHero 2'' expanded the instrument and music equipment licensing (which included Ernie Ball strings, Roland keyboards, and more) and even worked it into the storyline - as your band got more famous, you could "milk your sponsors" for more and more money.
** ''VideoGame/GuitarHero 3'' marks the switch to {{Activision}}, where the product placements started to balloon out of control. A prominent advertisment for 5 Gum was on the song selection screen, the music video took place on the "Pontiac Stage", there were special "Axe Effect" guitars...
** Likewise, ''VideoGame/GuitarHero World Tour'' had a massive billboard for Subway $5 footlongs on one particular venue, not to mention the venue dedicated to AT&T. It wouldn't be so bad if 5 Gum, Subway and AT&T had ANYTHING to do with music.
** Additionally, starting with World Tour, you can build your own in-game guitar, including real guitar string brands, which have NO effect at all and exist solely for ProductPlacement.
* ''Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip'' is sponsored by Adidas (the PS2 ''HST'' didn't have any sort of sponsorship deal), so there are Adidas logos [[SigilSpam all over the place]] - on flags, on the courts, in the locker rooms, and on some of the clothing options in the Pro Shop.
* Justified ''and'' exaggerated in ''Main/JetMoto'', as it's meant to appear like a sanctioned racing tournament. All riders are sponsored, all bikes are covered in livery for companies such as Butterfinger or Mountain Dew, and every course is plastered with billboards. The Mountain Dew logo even appears ''on the cover'' of the third game (as part of a bike's paint job).
* ''VideoGame/EnterTheMatrix'' had a deal with Powerade. As such, there are Powerade vending machines all over the game.
* The advertising continued in ''The Matrix Revolutions'', leading to a visually bizarre chase scene through a grimy, run-down subway station peppered with bright-neon-green Powerade billboards.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'', which was set in 1999, had the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX MSX]]. Snake even lampshades it by complaining about the computers being everywhere, saying that the only people who still use them are 'freaks'. This line was removed from the slightly modernized version available on the ''Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence'' disc, since it was no longer funny.
** The "Book" in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}'' was actually an issue of FHM, and the pinups were often of FHM centrefolds and in one case, an FHM cover (showing ''CharliesAngels'', appropriately). In ''Substance'' the license expired and the posters were replaced, but the FHM cover remained on the Book's texture itself.
** A chocolate-flavored [=CalorieMate=] Block shows up as a usable item in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 3|SnakeEater}}'', fully restoring Naked Snake's stamina when consumed. This is amazing, considering that the game takes place in 1964, meaning [=CalorieMate=] wouldn't even be released for almost another two decades. And why would the CIA supply their agent with a Japanese food instead of [=MREs=]?
** ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'':
*** All of Otacon's computers are Macs. In the first cutscene in his "office", Otacon clearly has at least one Mac Pro, an iMac (the recent version that looks like a monitor with a little base), several [=MacBook=] Pros, and an iPod. Considering that this installment is set circa 2014, it seems like a minor anachronism, but anything in service to marketing!
*** Also, don't you think there's something just a little bit [[FauxSymbolism interesting]] about having ''Snake'' whore out ''Apple'' products?
*** There's also a PlayStation3 sitting on one of the tables in the Nomad; it's on the floor above the cargo hold where Otacon's workstation is set up. Sunny pulls a PSP out of a box, too.
*** Snake has an iPod, the unbranded "book" of previous games is now a {{Playboy}}, and at one point Otacon breaks the fourth wall to talk up the PS3's Blu-ray drive.
*** Vamp's cell phone is a Sony model.
*** Several other products are prominently displayed, including Sony Ericsson phones, [=ReGain=] energy drinks, and as a friendly ShoutOut to their competitor {{Ubisoft}}, you can unlock [[spoiler:Altair's costume from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' for camouflage]].
** Somewhat subverted as in one of the ''[=MGS4=] INTEGRAL'' podcasts in-game, they admitted that the developers didn't want a generic MP3 player. At least, according to the yanks.
** There was a depressingly large fanboy wankstorm over the announcement of product placement in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', which involved Axe, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Bon Curry, Doritos, several Japanese magazines including Famitsu, WALKMAN, Uniqlo, ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' and {{VOCALOID}}. The last four references remained in the International versions (WALKMAN is owned by Sony, [=KojiPro's=] parent company; Uniqlo is trying to peddle tie-in t-shirts in the States, too; ''Assassin's Creed 2'' spawned an in-game "Straw Box" item too specific to bother changing, not to mention that ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' poked back at ''MGS'' the same year with a cardboard box gag and an unlockable Raiden costume; and VOCALOID was actually important to the plot) but the rest were removed and swapped with amusing BlandNameProduct versions. In particular, the replacements for the magazines (now Solid Mag, Liquid Mag, and Solidus Mag) are {{Take That}}s at the original magazines they're based on ("Most of the stories are about men fighting Martians and were written by talentless amateurs"), and the description for the "Cologne" makes snide comments about the Axe advertising campaigns.
* DummiedOut example: one of the many things from ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Resident Evil]] [[WhatCouldHaveBeen 1.5]]'' that didn't make it into the final version was a for-reals Pepsi machine in one hallway of the precinct. It got changed into a BlandNameProduct for the finished game, and then ''that'' got removed from later editions for coming too close to infringing on Coca-Cola's likeness.
* mind.in.a.box's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoGpLl-SUfk "8 Bits"]] video features ''TheGreatGianaSisters''.
* ''NCAA Football'' video game series:
** They have the Cadillac Game Changing Performance at the end of every game. Notably, the one replay you can't skip is the one that has the Cadillac logo plastered at the top-left of the screen, which is authentic to the actual broadcasts.
** They also have the red-zone efficiency report brought to you by Old Spice Red Zone deodorant-- "When performance matters the most!"
** They want you to know it's sponsored by Coke Zero.
** ''VideoGame/MaddenNFL'' includes a ton of Snickers product placement, right down to an awesome draftable rookie who ''just happens'' to have the same name as Patrick Ewing's character in their commercials. [[MemeticMutation Are you ready for the CHOMPETITION?]]
* EA's ''NeedForSpeed'' franchise is one big exercise in car and music product placement:
** ''Underground 2'', just to name a few, had Snoop Dogg, Music/{{Mudvayne}} and Xzibit (while still on his ''PimpMyRide'' fame) in the soundtrack, had some Burger Kings and Best Buys scattered around the map, the Cingular logo at the corner of the HUD and billboards from tens of advertisers all over the place. It was so excessive that it won Gamespot's "Most Despicable Use of In Game Advertising" "[[MedalOfDishonor award]]" in 2004.
** Every single aftermarket component you can put on your vehicles, from turbochargers to car seats, is an actual product made by an actual company.
** The T-Mobile adverts in [=HP2010=].
** And to note, musical placement didn't start until atleast Hot Pursuit 2 with songs like ''The People That We Love'' by ''Bush'', and The ''Hot Action Cop'' songs. (Although, the original, dirty lyrics were changed to car-themed ones)
* Probably the earliest example is ''280 Zzzap'', a ''VideoGame/NightDriver'' clone created by {{Midway|Games}} to [[http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/flyers_video/midway/62002801.jpg promote the Datsun 280-Z]].
* In ''[[{{Oddworld}} Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee]]'', there are [=SoBe=] machines where you can restore your health.
* In ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2'' Coca-Cola was a usable item that restored 20HP and 80MP.
* The Laptop Gun in ''PerfectDark Zero'' is said to run Windows 20. The franchise, obviously, is owned by Microsoft.
* ''{{Pikmin}} 2'' was full of brand-name products (from Durcell batteries to containers for various Japanese food brands), though in this case, it helped add realism. On the other hand, Olimar and the ship were somewhat more likely to say something positive about a treasure that had a logo on it... The sheer number of trademarks present in the game probably contributed to its delayed Wii rerelease in North America, as Nintendo did not renew its deals with the various companies that owned said trademarks.
* One of the earliest video game examples, the original version of ''VideoGame/PolePosition'' had ads for Canon, Pepsi, and a number of other companies. The XBOX360 Namco Museum is one of the only ports that keeps the product placement in.
* The protagonist of the ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' games has Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s current home console in his/her room, including the Super NES (Gen. I), the N64 (Gen. II), the GameCube (Gen. III), and the {{Wii}} (Gens. IV and V).
** Taken to impressive levels in Black and White; the main character has his/her first Pokémon battle in his/her room and everything is decimated afterwards. However, upon examination, the Wii is in the same spot and, when 'talked to', is [[MadeOfIndestructium apparently undamaged!]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', as the game progresses billboards and signs advertising all fictional in-game corporations in Manhattan are eventually covered up by propaganda, graffiti or both. However, all the advertisements for Hollywood Video, Gold's Gym, and GameStop remain perfect and pristine, even when a total zombie apocalypse scenario is occurring in the heart of Times Square, and literally all the other signs are in some way covered up.
* ''VideoGame/RockBand'' basically expands where Harmonix left off in Guitar Hero 2; each game has more and more companies represented, all music-related. The guitar controllers have the Fender brand on them since Gibson was taken (up to and including the actual Fender Squier available for Rock Band 3).
* ''VideoGame/RockBand 2'' did have a non-music-related sponsor in Hot Topic, though the player would lose fans if they took the sponsorship. A patch removed this effect; the claimed reason for the patch is that it was offered too often if the player rejected it each time.
* ''[[VideoGame/SanFranciscoRush Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA]]'' was '''loaded''' with ads for Mountain Dew. Every [[spoiler:can]] that you can collect was a Mt.Dew as well as a few in-game billboards along with the fictional ones. There was even a [[spoiler:Mt.Dew ''car'']] that you could unlock! There were also billboards for some of Midway's other games such as ''{{Area 51}}: Site 4'', ''Mace: The Dark Age'', and ''Gauntlet Legends''.
* In ''Main/ShaunWhiteSkateboarding'', you strike out against an oppressive Literature/NineteenEightyFour - esque dystopian regime via the power of skateboarding, which brings color to a monochrome world... as well as Stride gum billboards and Wendy's restaurants, among others. Needless to say, the "fight government oppression via corporate advertising" aspect wasn't well received.
* The [=5to2=] Cafe from ''NaturalBornKillers'' appears in the first ''SilentHill''.
* ''[[VideoGame/TheSims The Sims 2]]'':
** IKEA Home Stuff, full stop.
** Earlier than that, H&M Fashion Stuff.
** One UK games magazine reviewed the former by simply listing all the products featured in it, with a few snarky comments in between.
** In fact, TheSims is a proud sponsor of European brands. Aside from the [[[TheProblemWithLicensedGames horrifyingly Saccharine Katy Perry Sweet Treats]], there is the Diesel Pack which features the Italian clothing brand ''Diesel'' which is better received.
* In ''SoldierOfFortune II'', a computer on the Seaward Star displays the title screen of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.
* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' replaces Sonic's trademark shoes with a pair from the brand Soap. And yes, there are Soap Shoes ads in quite a few of the levels. It should be noted that Soap shoes aren't really normal shoes, they've got a sideways bite out of the sole so that you can [[GrindBoots grind on railings]], which was exploited as a gameplay mechanic. Later games gave Sonic his old shoes back but kept the grinding move.
** Sega's deal with the company covered the ''Battle'' rerelease but not the HD version of the game, resulting in ads previously for Soap being replaced for ads for the fictional "Speed" brand... using the same font and design.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest V: The Next Mutation'' has Sprint logos on any communications transmissions as it's the game's sponsor.
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell''
** You can see Sobe Adrenaline Rush vending machines in the third mission. And in the CIA, no less.
** They also use Sam Fisher's electronic organizers to place products. The first game, for example, gave him a Palm OPSAT, while the second game gave him a Sony Ericsson phone.
** In addition, in ''Chaos Theory'', he chews Airwaves gum in cutscenes.
* In [[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R.]] The game's logo is on the energy drinks. Also, the "Cossacks" Vodka produced by "GSC Company" is a plug for the developers' (GSC Game World) earlier series, ''Cossacks''.
* ''Film/StarWars: Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' on the {{Nintendo 64}} contains a bit of product placement to itself, of all things: during the mission inside the freighter the ''Suprosa'', when Dash locates the supercomputer containing the new Death Star plans, it will greatly resemble an N64 with a ''Shadows'' cartridge plugged in if viewed from a sufficient distance.
* Also a common sight in {{Steam}} games.
** Such as the billboards in ''Left4Dead'' and posters in ''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}''. However, the ads are general and not targeted and everyone will see the same thing though of course they do change from time to time depending on the Steam server, usually advertising other games on Steam.
** Similarly, the pre-game lobby in ''VideoGame/KillingFloor'' has room for a video ad under the player list. Typically it will just show ads for other Tripwire content (specifically ''RedOrchestra'' or KF's latest character pack) but on occasion they will advertise upcoming movies, such as ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'' and ''Film/{{Devil}}''.
** Also, there's the whole deal with ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Promotional_items promotional items]].
* ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall 2'' doesn't just have plain bananas like in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' -- they're all Dole bananas, complete with sticker.
* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' (any number of MerchandiseDriven HumongousMecha shows)
* ''VideoGame/{{Tapper}}'' had a prominent Budweiser sign in the background.
* Pizza Hut signs are all over ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame''. The instruction manual also included coupons for Pizza Hut pizza.
* The UK version of ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital'' for the PC featured vending machines with a glaring Kit Kat logo plastered clearly on them. Seeing how they actually got a bank to sponsor the UK release of the original PC version of ''VideoGame/ThemePark'', it wouldn't be surprising if Nestle sponsored the game.
* In ''VideoGame/TonicTrouble'', you can turn into [=SuperEd=] by eating popcorn... ''from'' ''Nestle Crunch vending machines.'' (Nestle Crunch is a chocolately candy.)
* ''TombRaider: Legend'' had name brand [=SUV=]s driven by the bad guys, and Lara riding Ducati motorcycles.
* ''TonyHawksUnderground 2'' featured Butterfinger, McDonalds, and quite a few others.
* In ''TheUrbz'' for console, the eagle-eyed player could easily spot branded Red Bull machines in certain locales. Admittedly, a coffee cart would be tough to find in a dirty subway or the equally-dirty alleyway outside a biker bar, but this is too much. Perhaps presence of The Black Eyed Peas music would also count, exacerbated/mitigated by them being CHARACTERS IN THE GAME!
* In ''ViewtifulJoe 2'', when Alastor appears, he refuses to introduce himself, declaring that if you (the player) wants to know who he is, you should go pick up a copy of ''Viewtiful Joe'' (complete with a pop-in image of the game box) from your nearest game store's bargain bin. This is also a case of LampshadeHanging and NoFourthWall.
* ''[[VideoGame/WaveRace Wave Race 64]]'' was sponsored by Kawasaki Motors with their brand name plastered everywhere in the game. Their brand name was removed in the Virtual Console version, replaced with ads for the Wii.
* {{Xbox 360}} avatars can be dressed up or given props that advertise particular games, events, or designer brands of clothing or headphones. Very few of these are free, which can lead to the [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of you paying Microsoft points to advertise someone else's product.
* The ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X-Universe]]'' games have [[{{Unobtainium}} nividium]], a plot point in ''X2'' and ''X3'' that is clearly a ShoutOut to [=nVidia=]. Egosoft insists it isn't, probably to avoid pissing off ATI users.
* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' has quite the number of food and drink product placements, from more obvious ones like Suntory drinks. To actual restaurants such as [[http://www.sams-okinawa.jp Sam's]] being advertised.
* ''VideoGame/{{Zool}}: Ninja of the Nth Dimension'' was sponsored by Chupa Chups lollipops. The first level has a "candy land" theme. One guess as to what's advertised all over the level...
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjXSI6O9lUo This gaming interview]] has the speaker surrounded by products, completely unrelated to the actual interview.
* For some reason, three noodle companies decided to sponsor rereleases of Famicom games, thus the existence of ''Kaettekita VideoGame/MarioBros'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Charumera'', and ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}} Archimedes Hen''. This is parodied in ''RetroGameChallenge'' with ''Rally King SP'', sponsored by the fictional Cup o' Chicken Noodle company.
* Some racing games are actually marketed with this in mind, like ''VideoGame/NFSPorscheUnleashed'' and ''VideoGame/AutomobiliLamborghini''. There's also ''VideoGame/BeetleAdventureRacing'' for the {{Nintendo 64}}.
* More technical racing games don't just have product placement for vehicles, but even for ''parts''. Two excellent examples are the ''4x4 Evolution'' and the ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' franchise after ''Underground'' (see its own listing).

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* The main characters of the web comic ''WebComic/TheFuzzyFive'' are [[LivingToys Living Toy]] versions of ''[[http://www.squishables.com squishable]]'' soft toys, but the result is not a lame series of advertisements, but a nicely nutty off-the-[[FourthWall Fourth-Wall]] strip.
* In ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'', one of the walkaround flashes allowed Horuss to unlock a treasure chest containing a Bad Dragon Chance the Stallion Flared dildo. This was at the same time as Bad Dragon were running an ad on the ''Homestuck'' front page featuring a screenshot of that exact moment and describing themselves as 'purveyors of classical art sculptures' (in ''Homestuck'', {{Furry}} pornography is considered high art). (Bad Dragon had become briefly notorious in the ''Homestuck'' {{tumblr}} fanbase, as one of their dildo colouring options resembles the colours of troll horns, which may have inspired the sponsorship.)

[[folder:Web Video]]
* A blatant example from ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'' is the Ice Breakers Sours Gum, which is shown in "Truckstop Reunion". When Daniel asks what Bree is holding, she gives the full name of the product (rather than just saying "gum"), holding the packet up so the viewers get a good look at the logo. Daniel and Jonas then beg Bree for some gum, but she puts all four remaining pieces in her mouth instead, to the boys' dismay.
* ''WebVideo/KateModern'' contains frequent product placement. In most cases it serves to make the show more realistic, although in the case of Tampax, it became a little odd (who makes a video about the brand of tampon they use?). Then there's "Skittle Yourself", which actually asks viewers to create their own Skittles adverts and put them online. Go on, it'll be fun!
* WebVideo/{{Fred}} maintains a modest six figure income through blatant product placements of zipits, t-shirts, and his merchandise.
* Due to ''Main/LoadingReadyRun's'' recent deal with game company WizardsOfTheCoast, several of their recent videos have contained prominent product placement, including "The Secret Life of Board Games", the ''FeedDump'' episode "Soldiers of Fortune", and the ''CommodoreHustle'' episode "Roll For Treats". It should be noted, though, that they were giving total freedom as to the method by which they placed the products, and the resulting sketches are no less funny for it.
* The SassyGayFriend began shilling for MiO, a drink flavoring. Done as obviously as an EnforcedPlug.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The live action pilot of the cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/{{Popples}}'' had a major plot point about the Popples being donated to Goodwill.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** From about Season 6 onward, they have had an uncanny obsession with Dr. Pepper. It's almost guaranteed to be the beverage of choice unless the plot calls for otherwise. Two particular examples that stand out are "Last of the Meheecans" where the boys are all sitting at the dinner table with rows of Dr. Pepper cans lain neatly down the screen, and "The Poor Kid" where [[spoiler:a foster home has a refrigerator consisting exclusively of it, and bans all other beverages]]. One has to wonder if Trey Parker has a thing for the drink.
** Another soft drink was used (this time [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]]) in the Season 16 episode "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" where Cartman drinks Mountain Dew—known for being the most caffeinated of sodas—to counter the sheer boredom of the gang's ill-chosen field trip. This [[SerialEscalation escalates]] into him drinking a (as of writing) fictional variant called Double Dew with twice the caffeine and sugar.
* ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'' had some fun with this, as an entire episode simultaneously hawked and mocked the Scion TC: Killface plans to spread his plans for world domination on ''Live with Mitzi & Verl'', but his first segment got bumped because the hosts were so caught up in discussing the car, then it takes up a good chunk of his second segment as well, before he sarcastically screams that once he takes over the world, "you won't have much use for 17-inch alloy wheels". The studio crew takes this impetus to show ad footage of the Scion behind him as he rants about everyone falling victim to "Scion fever", which the hosts and crowd also take and run with. He then storms out of the studio, and gets splashed with mud by a passing Scion TC.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga (''Kodansha's™ Akira'')]]
* Love Aikawa from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' was once reading a ShonenJump issue. The funny thing is that ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' is published by ShonenJump.
* Similarly ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has had ''entire plots'' revolving around Jump. The series is so weird this gets a pass though.
* [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro's]] life was saved by copies of ''Jump'', before either of those comics existed.
* The most recent translation, by Viz comics, of ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' had Yomiko using ''Jump'' [[PaperMaster in battle]] ([[DistractedByTheShiny and pausing to read them]]). It was hard to read the katakana, though, so it might have been ''Jump'', or possibly ''Corocoro Comics'', a rival.
* Superheroes have become a major entertainment industry in ''TigerAndBunny'', and the heroes themselves are covered in advertisements for real-life products. There's even a commercial spot for Pepsi NEX featuring Blue Rose which blurs the line between {{Ad Bumper|s}} and ad. On the other hand, several characters are represented by fictional companies. The characters get yelled at fairly frequently by their sponsors for causing collateral damage (which the sponsors pay for) and get criticized for heroics off the air as it means they don't get any advertisement time.
* Steins;Gate. ''I AM THE GREAT MAD SCIENTIST. DR. PEPPER!''
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[[folder:Film (''Friedberg & Seltzer's™ Meet The Spartans'')]]
* ''Film/TheTrumanShow''
** The protagonist's wife was constantly hocking merchandise, not to mention every single inanimate object in the world being product placement. (This was how the show pays for itself, since it runs without commercial interruptions.) It takes a dark turn near the end, as she does it at the wrong moment -- Truman, who's beginning to work out the truth, asks, "Who are you ''talking'' to?" while looking around incredulously.
** There were also two guys whose entire job on the Truman Show was to stop Truman at a place, frame him properly for a camera to include a shot of a certain poster for a few seconds, then let him go. Other product-based oddities abounded in the world as well.
* Spoofed brilliantly in the movie ''WaynesWorld'', as Wayne and Garth rant about not selling out and staying true to themselves, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjB6r-HDDI0 while showing off various products]].
* In ''ReturnOfTheKillerTomatoes'', breaking the FourthWall, the director appears to informs the characters that there isn't enough money to finish the film. He blames the (relentlessly) generic products that have been shown throughout the movie to that point. After that, logos appear on various objects and all dialog is loaded with ever-more-blatant product pitches, only ending when a character breaks down mid-spiel and asks "do we have enough money to finish this turkey yet?" The director stops partying with hookers long enough to give the go-ahead.
* ''KungPow'':
** "Taco Bell, Taco Bell, ProductPlacement for Taco Bell..."
** More subtly (which is an odd word to apply to this movie) in that scene a nearby roof has the bottom half of a Hooters logo visible.
** Na-na-na, na, na...Neo...Na-na-na, na, na...sporin!
* A series of "Turn off your damn mobile phone" trailers in the United Kingdom from the Orange Film Funding Board showed various celebrities pitching ideas to the board. It then showed a panel of [[ExecutiveMeddling execs, mangling]] whatever idea they are given to include mobile phone product placement, ending with the line "Don't let a mobile ruin your movie". Ironically, Orange actually went on to fund one of the joke stories because they liked the idea, hence all the mobile usage in ''Film/ACinderellaStory''.
* Probably the best of these so far was a high-budget example, where StevenSeagal approaches the golfing execs with an idea for a romcom, and the execs retort that he only knows how to do action. Seagal chases after the chief exec insisting it can be done, but the irony is that he's chasing him in a very action-movie fashion, only transposed to a golf course (beating up minions, a car chase in golf carts). There's the obligatory phone bit, but it ends with Seagal blowing up the exec's helicopter just after he dismisses the idea for the last time.
* Creator/MelBrooks' ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'':
** ProductPlacement is merged with the Hollywood Merchandising Machine to create a brilliant parody: ''All'' the products featured bear the movie's logo. ''Spaceballs'' The Doll. ''Spaceballs'' The Bedsheet. ''Spaceballs'' The Breakfast Cereal. ''Spaceballs'' The Flame Thrower... and so forth. Perhaps ironically, ''Spaceballs'' The Lunchbox is just a ''{{Transformers}}'' lunchbox with a ''Spaceballs'' logo taped on it.
** The tie-ins are clearly intended as a jab at the extensive merchandising around the ''StarWars'' license. It was revealed in a 20th anniversary magazine that Creator/MelBrooks actually had GeorgeLucas' blessing to parody ''StarWars'' (which explains why Brooks was never sued by Lucasfilm) -- on the one condition that there be absolutely ''zero'' merchandising of the film. Therefore, the ridiculous product placement of (non-available) ''Spaceballs'' merchandise was intended to tweak Lucas' nose over this.
** "What's the matter with this thing? What's all that churning and bubbling? You call that a radar screen?" "No, sir. We call it, 'Mr. Coffee'."
* Captain Amazing, from ''Film/MysteryMen'', is a commercially-sponsored hero, his entire costume covered in advertising logos. (This was in 1999, eight years before the Fantastic Four gag above.)
* It was noted that there was a tremendous amount of product placement in the Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger film ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', especially in the middle of the city square. It makes fun of this a bit when the main character is on Mars, and a "USA Today" newspaper vending machine appears, only the label says "Mars Today" and is in red instead of USA Today's blue.
* In another Ahnold movie, ''Film/LastActionHero'', at one point the car crashes through a semi-truck clearly labeled "Coca-Cola", which is driving out of what appears to be the bottling plant.
* ''The Adventures of RockyAndBullwinkle'' (TheFilmOfTheSeries) mocks this trope, except when making sure the audience knows that the characters use Hewlett-Packard computers.
* In ''Desperately Seeking Susan'' Rosanna Arquette takes a drag from a cigarette, and then starts coughing. The cigarette company that paid for the placement demanded their money back.
* In all of QuentinTarantino's movies where a character smokes, they'll smoke Red Apple brand cigarettes. Being a fictional brand, it sure pops up a lot. Same is true with the [[http://www.bigkahunaburger.com/ Big Kahuna Burger]] Chain (though the latter is tempered by how one of the most famous scenes in his oeuvre is a discussion of McDonalds). He does feature real cereal brands, like "Fruit Brute" and "Kaboom". Both haven't been produced since the 70s.
* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'':
** The protagonists discover that the alien menace can be killed by selenium. When they wonder where they are going to get several hundred gallons of it, a couple of slacker students reveal that Head & Shoulders contains selenium sulfide as the active ingredient. Thus, they fill a fire truck with the stuff and use it to save the day. It's done so tongue in cheek (the movie is a comedy) that it's obviously a parody and it culminates with the characters making a faux ad for Head & Shoulders at the very end of the film (supposedly this was suggested by the director's son, JasonReitman).
** Also, chemistry enthusiasts may know that selenium sulfide is used in virtually all dandruff shampoos, not just head & Shoulders.
-->'''Ira Kane''': Wow, fighting the alien menace can be tough work.
-->'''Harry Block:''' And so is keeping your hair clean, shiny and dandruff free.
-->'''Wayne Grey:''' So it's a good thing we always keep a healthy supply of [all join in], Head and Shoulders, around the house. (Played right before end credits, the three holding the product - one of them backwards).
* Hilariously averted, to the point of parody, in ''RepoMan''. Not only are no products placed, but every commercial product seen has an ultra-generic label, from the can of "Food" Otto eats from in his parents' house to the "Beer" he pours on the floor of the repossession office, to every labeled item on the shelves of the grocery and liquor stores. The only brand names explicitly used in the entire movie are (unavoidably) those of cars slated for repossession, and the vehicles in question look like such crap, it's more a TakeThat than a product promotion. Lampshaded when another character offers to buy Otto a drink, and the very next shot shows them purchasing a six-pack of "Drink". There are also the Christmas tree air fresheners, but those are used less as product placement and more as part of the surreal reality of the film - they're in ''every'' car in the movie, and the characters notice this.
* One of [[{{Seinfeld}} Wayne Knight's]] lines in the movie ''Film/SpaceJam'' contains SIX product placements, all for items that lead character MichaelJordan has appeared in commercials for:
-->"Get your '''Hanes''' on, lace up your '''Nikes''', grab your '''Wheaties''' and your '''Gatorade''', and we'll pick up a '''Big Mac''' on the way to the '''Ball park'''!"
* One of the many subplots in ''StateAndMain'' involves a director initially rejecting, then trying to figure out how to work in product placement for a website... in an 1800s period piece.
* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'':
** It's is unique in that it absolutely savages the brands that get placed. For example, Carl's Jr. will take your kids away if you can't pay for your meal (and pays one of the department secretaries every time he mentions them; seriously, he ends most of his sentences with "brought to you by Carl's Jr."), Fuddrucker's restaurant steadily devolves into Buttfucker's, Costco has bloated into a city-sized blight on the landscape with its own transit system, and Starbucks (and others) now offers hookers -- family style. Supposedly, Gatorade was going to be the sports drink that had completely replaced water, causing all the crops to die, but they pulled out after they saw how their product was going to be treated, so BrandX product Brawndo was used in its place.
** And their BrandX product became [[http://www.brawndo.com/ a real one]] some time ago, complete with ads with ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome awesome]]'' voiceovers.
** The hero still managed to describe the Brawndo in the fountains as "some kind of Gatorade" at least once.
** It seems crazy that [[spoiler:The court has advertising banners everywhere, and so do the government offices. The House of Representin' prefers Uhmerican Xxxpress.]], given the infamous appearance of blatant advertising in some privatized schools and prisons in RealLife, it's not so unrealistic after all.
* In ''DespicableMe'', TheRival Vector is shown using a NintendoWii in one scene. Makes sense, considering the [[EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture design of his house]].
* ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' gleefully used hyperbole to show how absurd product placement can become. Examples include an advert for Evian mineral water on an underwater wall in an aquarium, and a giant McDonalds 'M' on the World Trade Center. Plus ads on the wall of a hotel SHOWER. (Creepy). The plot itself featured the titular girlband (unwittingly) playing [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal adverts]] in their music as part of the villains scheme to brainwash teenagers into buying more stuff.
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[[folder:Live Action TV (''FOX'® MADtv'')]]
* ''Series/PawnStars'': has some SHAMELESS plugs in some episodes for Subway sandwiches. Chumlee one episode brings Corey some sandwiches when Corey is working late. Rick treats Chumlee after he pulls off a big shift and Rick even comments to the Oldman that the breakfast sandwiches are "delicious", and when Rick notes how fat and out of shape Corey and Chum both are, he gets them some healthy and nutritious Subway sandwiches.
* ''10 O'Clock Live'': Around the time the UK started to allow product placement, Jimmy Carr did a report on the crisis in Libya, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV3-0qZUSU8 but using as many puns on brand names as possible]], complete with the corresponding products rolling right by him.
* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': Two characters meet at Burger King and discuss how a show within a show is getting a big endorsement from the restaurant for mentioning its name. Naturally, the conversation itself features the characters repeatedly saying the name "Burger King" (while cutting away at the restaurant exterior to do a close up on the logo) and hawking the restaurant's services like free drink refills, until even the narrator joins in. Indeed, the writers originally were going to call this episode "Tendercrisp Chicken Comedy Half-Hour," after the sandwich heavily advertised in background signage.
* ''Series/ThirtyRock'':
** The episode "Jack-Tor", in which the characters' dealt with product placement on the [[ShowWithinAShow Show Within The Show]], cleverly {{lampshade|Hanging}}d the use of product placement on the actual show.
-->'''Jack''': These Verizon Wireless phones are just so popular, I accidentally grabbed one belonging to an acquaintance.\\
'''Liz''': Well, sure, 'cause that Verizon Wireless service is just unbeatable. I mean, if I saw a phone like that on TV, I'd be, like, "Where is my nearest retailer so I can get one?" ''[[[NoFourthWall looks straight into the camera]]]'' Can we have our money now?
** Other products that are "Product Placed" on 30 Rock include Snapple and the Suggie.
-->'''Liz:''' It's not product placement, I just like how it feels!
** Jack got in on the act himself in the LiveEpisode, shilling for Capitol One:
-->'''Jack:''' (on a suggestion to drop TGS' product placement for Capitol One to do something for Liz on her 40th) Oh, you can't do that, the Capitol One Venture Card is amazing. (looking into camera) They give double miles every day for every purchase.
-->''(cut to guy wearing cap and shirt saying "Promotional consideration furnished by Capitol One")''
* ''SonsOfGuns'' has the Red Jacket crew using Magpul-brand parts accessories for the majority of their custom-built guns.
* ''KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge'' spoofs the levels that some television personalities will stoop too to shill products; every episode featured the host, Alan Partridge, hawking cheap tat with a complete lack of subtlety. However, as Alan worked for TheBBC -- which takes quite a dim view of these kind of practices, being a public broadcaster with strict rules about this sort of thing -- this gradually became a plot point; the ChristmasSpecial focused heavily on Alan's increasingly feeble attempts to discretely sell Rover cars under the nose of his savvy boss, who was a guest on the same show.
* ''TopGear'' parodied the concept a couple of times, always starting off with a LampshadeHanging citing [[TheBBC BBC]] policy which prohibits advertising:
** In one episode, ''Top Gear'' managed to borrow a Ferrari Enzo from Music/PinkFloyd drummer Nick Mason, but only under the condition that they [[EnforcedPlug plug his book]]. Jeremy Clarkson then mentions that he told Mason they couldn't do that, but he'll "slide in a couple of references no one will notice". The review segment had Jeremy Clarkson interviewing Nick Mason while both of them are holding the book, in a slightly forced, exaggerated and stereotypical manner not unlike the most blatant plugs on a TV program. Clarkson also used references to Pink Floyd albums in his review of the Enzo, and the Stig had the car's stereo playing ''Another Brick in The Wall, Part II'' while he did the hot lap. At the end of the day, ''TopGear'' managed to review the Enzo, Mason got his book plugged, and the audience gets a good laugh out of the blatant product placement on television, everybody wins! Yay ''TopGear''!
** When they did the 24-hour Britcar race, they weren't allowed to have sponsor decals on their car. Instead, they added logos of made-up sponsors Larsen's Biscuits and Penistone Oils, with Clarkson saying they wanted to "[[LampshadeHanging look more authentic]]." ''TopGear'' being ''TopGear'', they "accidentally" placed the decals in such a way that if the car's doors were swung open, the letters would read "Arse Biscuits" and "[[ThisTropeIsBleep Penis]]". Throughout the segment the team was shown talking while resting their elbows on the car's open doors for the purposes of "sponsor airtime".
** In true ''Top Gear'' fashion, during the wide shot where we can see the "offending" words, Richard Hammond says "I want people to take us seriously."
* One episode of ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' was filled with references to something called "Tidyman's Carpets", in the most ham-fisted way possible.
--> '''Fry:''' Hello, and welcome to "A Bit of Fry and Tidyman's".
* Parodied by Creator/StephenColbert on ''Series/TheColbertReport'':
** His coverage of his own 2008 presidential run was "sponsored by Nacho Cheese Doritos" until it was pointed out that Federal election laws prohibit direct sponsorship of campaigns, so he changed it to sponsorship of the ''coverage'' of his campaign. Frito-Lay never actually paid him anything.
** He spent several months mentioning the iPhone at every possible opportunity in the hope that Apple would send him one for free. Apple did.
** Ax Body Spray, the character having sold his soul to various corporations in order to get sponsorship that will keep the show going in light of the financial meltdown.
** His habit of drinking Sierra Mist, however, is not product placement. It is just the best way to quench your thirst. Ahhh.... refreshing Sierra Mist.
** While interviewing the anti-establishment and anti-corporation band ''Music/{{Radiohead}}'', Colbert sat in a "Dr. Pepper Flavor Corner" chair and invited the band to help endorse the sponsor, which they declined.
** Colbert launches a TakeThat against his own sponsor Wheat Thins by airing their list of demands for how to endorse the products. Colbert begins to pointedly break the rules before the broadcast is cut.
* In an episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' they featured toys and movies posters heavily for ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. The posters were not commented on, however they made great use of the toy Wolverine claws in several scenes. Additionally, "toy guy" also used Nerf weapons, which is made by the same company who made toys for the Wolverine movie.
* In ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'', John Henry loved to play with his {{Bionicle}}s toys. He would also frequently tell other characters about the mythology of the Bionicle world. It also becomes important to the story: You see, Bionicles have almost exclusively ball-and-socket joints, which are extremely useful. John Henry can't understand why God would design humans with hinge joints instead.
* HBO occasionally has a character in their series watching a scene from an another HBO series. For example, in ''TheWire'', Omar watched ''Series/{{Oz}}'' and Cutty's roommate watched ''{{Deadwood}}''. There's also a scene where Dukie is about to plug ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' but is interrupted by Michael Lee. These are probably more in line with a ShoutOut or TakeThat than product endorsements.
* ''MythBusters'' genericies any products it uses (except for a few cases, such as Mentos and Diet Coke for the Mentos and Diet Coke myth) by using blurring or sleeves with the Mythbusters logo, and occasionally has short segments endorsing "blur" or "Mythbusters" brand products.
* Given the predominance of ProductPlacement in the current media landscape, most assume that ''{{Seinfeld}}'' just did it to get money. Actually, the ProductPlacement in ''{{Seinfeld}}'' broke a lot of sitcom etiquette by actually mentioning specific products, and the writers had to lobby for ''permission'' to use the names of real products. Why? The [[ContemplateOurNavels Contemplating Our Navels]] conversations that ''{{Seinfeld}}'' is famous for are based on RealLife diction, and such diction is extremely clunky to recreate with an abstract BrandX. As an example, one episode involves George Costanza attempting to prove that someone took his candy bar impugning a suspect's description of [[ConvictionByContradiction candy bars]]. By using actual candy bars, the viewer can base her own experiences with that candy bar in interpreting how the characters on screen react to it. The incidental ProductPlacement in ''{{Seinfeld}}'' is actually a large reason why ProductPlacement in general has become so popular in the modern age. Prior to ''{{Seinfeld}}'', ad executives were far more worried about negative association than, in retrospect, they should have been. One of the clip shows features a two minute montage of the cast mentioning brand names such as Drake's Cakes, Chunky bars, Snapple, Yoohoo, and of course - Junior Mints.
* Parodied in ''OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' with Rodney's film having about two hundred extras and two more pages of businesses to advertise in film thanks to Del Boy seeing a money making opportunity. Including a sauna business and an undertakers...
* The network tried to play it straight by having a minion from the then-upcoming ''Despicable Me'' show up as an auditionee in ''LastComicStanding''. It might not have been a good idea to do that with a judging panel of {{Deadpan Snarker}}s.
--> '''Natasha''': ''I can't wait to see Steve Carrell in Despicable Me starring Steve Carell...Steve Carell.''
* Back when it existed, the ITC (the UK's Independent Television Commission) once ran [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_5qiwnUMdQ a commercial]] lambasting ProductPlacement, showing a mock Aussie soap scene that focuses more on the beer than the plot. Flash forward to 2010, and the UK is just now drawing up rules for product placement.
* The second segment on ''[[ConanOBrien Conan]]'' occasionally involves Conan and Andy plugging a real life sponsor, usually with awkward grins and ''always'' with some sort of ridiculous skit about it.
* Most likely played for laughs in SonsofAnarchy when you see Chibs drinking Jameson Irish Whiskey, packaged in a juice box, leading the viewers to ask "Where can I get those?"
* One episode of ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' had Malcolm and Reese buying a huge pile of fireworks from a Phantom Fireworks stand, topped off with the massive "Komodo 3000"; The company and the product both actually exist, although the latter is ''probably'' not quite as powerful in real life as it is [[TheDeadliestMushroom memorably depicted]] in the show.
* While ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' has it in the background when they get to set a challenge in Ikea, White Castle, and so forth, one extremely obvious example centered around a Kellogg cereal taste test and questions.

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* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'': The description for the soda is "The can is blank except for the phrase 'PRODUCT PLACEMENT HERE.' It is unclear whether this is a name or an invitation."
* ''VideoGame/MarioKart'':
** They seem to enjoy mocking this trope, as most courses are covered with ads...for nonexistent businesses, some more blatant parodies of real-world companies than others.
** The Japanese release of ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'' even had BlandNameProduct ads for Mariobro (Marlboro), Luigip (Agip), Yoshil (Mobil), and Shell (with a Koopa shell).
* ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2'' has Coca-Cola machines in the backgrounds of more populated areas; hell, one of the items that Aya can use to regain a lot of Mist Points is a Can of Soda, which upon closer inspection, is indeed a can of Coke.
* In the CrapsackWorld RPG ''Underground'', product placement has become so blatantly ubiquitous that embedded ads can be found in ''constitutional amendments''.
* In ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Basketball]]'', Barry [=DeJay=] endorses 110% Juice (a fictional comnpany), and the MVP is the 110% Juice Player of the Game. 110% Juice is even a ''powerup'' in the game.
* In the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' episode "Night of the Raving Dead", the eponymous duo star in several {{Very Special Episode}}s of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Midtown Cowboy]]''. These turn out to be egregious product placements for alcohol and clove cigarettes.
* ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}} 3D'' has its [[LevelAte candy-themed]] levels plastered with ads for Jelly Belly, at least in the PSX version.
* ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'''s strongest healing item is a Burger King chicken fry. Not even a whole order, but ''a single fry''. The second strongest healing item is the greasy "dew" left behind by a chicken fry. And then there's [[NostalgiaFilter the Hi-C Ecto Cooler]], which comes in two versions: "Ecto Cooler" (heals HP) and "Ecto Cooler?" (heals some HP and some MP).
* Several late 90s/early00s ElectronicArts games have absurdly fake brands where advertisements would be in real life (such as billboards in sports arenas). Examples include signs for "Chicken Pork" in Triple Play Baseball and BobbyHeenan pandering "Salsadent: The Spicy Toothpaste" in {{WCW}} Mayhem.
* ''RollerCoasterTycoon 2'' had a sponsorship from Six Flags, which meant playable Six Flags parks and useable (but not editable) Six Flags rides.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' plastered this on a ''quest''. A group of hip, partying goblins begged you to retrieve their thirst-quenching, delicious drink from the crabs that had made off with them. After tracking down the crabs and untying the bottles that had oddly been tied to their claws, the goblins cheered and exclaimed how delicious it was.
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* For a brief while, John Campbell claimed that ''PicturesForSadChildren'' was being sponsored by the Long John Silver's restaurant chain. He made [[http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=248 these]] [[http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=249 two]] pages during that time, and for the duration of the joke, the pages in question were colored blue and yellow and the plain white background of the website was replaced with a splash ad for LJS.
* ''NuzlockeComics'' [[http://www.nuzlocke.com/?p=259 poked a bit of fun at the concept]] after his site introduced ads.
** [[http://hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-11-23 As]] [[http://hlcomic.com/images/concerned080advert.jpg did]] ''{{Concerned}}''.
* [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/03/02/0038-product-placement/ Oreos]], saving squirrels from being eaten since 1912. At least according to the squirrel Sid from ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo''.
* ''NeglectedMarioCharacters'' is absolutely plastered with ads for a poker playing website, so they mocked this with both a poker machine being the 'comic president' and the entertaining quote at the bottom of the page:
--> Just as a note, Jay wrote these articles as a Mario fan. Unfortunately, he did not play poker. That is why we had to get rid of him. Some of parts of his writing come from factual Nintendo information. Which gets in the way of the gambling. The rest was his own imagination. After Jay left, others continued in his stead, until becoming addicted to poker.
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