History Main / ProductPLacement

* ''Fanfic/RhythmicPrettyCure'' is full of Chrysler automobiles, including the Ichinose family minivan, a Chrysler Voyager. Even the Godai family's valet drives a vintage Chrysler limousine!

-->-- Opening screen for '''Creator/KenBlock''''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7R_buZPSo GYMKHANA TWO: THE INFOMERCIAL]], openly {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing the phenomenon[[note]]This was his first Gymkhana video produced in association with DC Shoes, an apparel brand that Block cofounded.[[/note]]

->''"Nice of [[UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} Wal-Mart]] to provide these Wal-Mart beverages in return for us saying 'Wal-Mart' so many times."''
-->-- '''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny''', ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction''

* Back in the 90s, the German publisher for ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' inserted [[https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/ unauthorized soup advertisements]] in the middle of several books. Needless to say, Creator/TerryPratchett changed publishers once he found out.

For parodies of this trope, see ParodyProductPlacement.

This trope is often parodied; for that, see ParodyProductPlacement.

* At one point, Wrestling/{{WWE}} wrestlers Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{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!"

Compare MerchandiseDriven, ProductPromotionParade, and AdvertisementGame. Contrast BrandX and ProductDisplacement. See also CelebrityEndorsement (when a character from a show is endorsing the product), ParodyProductPlacement (when it is done in an extremely over-the-top, self-aware way), DestroyTheProductPlacement (when the product is damaged, broken or destroyed) and ConsoleCameo (when the product is required to see the placement in the first place).

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'':

** Toyota's 2011 Lexus icIS is advertised using Yamaha drum equipment. According to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Motor_Company Toyota and Yamaha made a capital alliance in 2000.]], though Yamaha had been developing engines for Toyota since 1967.

* While the site doesn't get paid for it, [[Wiki/TVTropes this very wiki]] is not immune to it, with product names creeping into trope titles -- sometimes justified when talking about tropes that have to do with brand names (StuckOnBandaidBrand, EverybodyOwnsAFord), but often just because (EveryCarIsAPinto, AndADietCoke -- that last one, in particular, could've easily been made generic). One company even got ''two'' tropes (IKEAErotica, IKEAWeaponry) named after it for no apparent reason besides RuleOfFunny.

* A rare example in this category came from the obscure line ''Computer Warriors'', about little soldiers who had the ability to turn ordinary objects into weapons and vehicles. One such example was a Pepsi can that opens to reveal a hovercraft. The standalone pilot also showed a ''[[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]]'' action figure in the boy's room where the battle took place.

* The makers of Creator/RedBull takes their practice of marketing their energy drink UpToEleven -- sure, they're far from the first to sponsor sports teams and athletes, but it got to the point that they amassed what amounts to a ''media empire'' where they established magazines, put up their own UsefulNotes/FormulaOne racing team (or two even), owned magazines, record labels and even a clothing line of all things. [=YouTuber=] Company Man [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v48tIsMuZE8 remarked]] that the company got so big and became so well-known for its pervasive brand marketing that they are more of a media house than a beverage firm.

Compare MerchandiseDriven, ProductPromotionParade, and AdvertisementGame. Contrast with BrandX or ProductDisplacement. See also CelebrityEndorsement (when a character from a show is endorsing the product), ParodyProductPlacement (when it is done in an extremely over-the-top, self-aware way), DestroyTheProductPlacement (when the product is damaged, broken or destroyed) and ConsoleCameo (when the product is required to see the placement in the first place).

Compare MerchandiseDriven, ProductPromotionParade, and AdvertisementGame. Contrast with BrandX or ProductDisplacement. When a character from a show is endorsing the product, it's CelebrityEndorsement. See ParodyProductPlacement when it is done in an extremely over-the-top, self-aware way, and DestroyTheProductPlacement when the product is damaged, broken or destroyed. See ConsoleCameo for when the product is required to see the placement in the first place.

* The 2006 film adaptation of ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' has crates of Dole Bananas.

* ''Literature/TheClique'' features so much product placement, it caused it to [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece age very badly]].

---> I am the only person in the world not to have a Sony walkman.
---> In my haste, I knocked a pile of Outspan oranges on to the floor. When I left the shop, it was with horror that I realised I had an Outspan orange in each hand.
---> She took off her Sony headset and invited me to listen.
---> His Montego had been wheel-clamped.
---> Her breasts were, as I recall, slightly larger than Jaffa oranges, but not quite as large as Marks and Spencer's grapefruits.
---> His bald patch was now the size of a digestive biscuit (Mcvities).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'', Bomba has a library of animal and nature sounds kept on a 4th gen iPod Touch.

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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Parodied. In the Season 4 finale, as the race is about to begin, Mr. Lightbulb tells the competitors to prepare... to advertise, and then interrupts with an advertisement for a drink. He is then informed that the drink was made by [[LethalChef Sweet S.]] and faints, and the race begins.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's parents is showing having some Timbits doughnut holes from Canadian fast food staple Tim Hortons.

->''"Nice of [[UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} Wal-Mart]] to provide these Wal-Mart beverages in return for us saying "Wal-Mart" so many times."''

->''"Nice of [[UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} Wal-Mart]] to provide these Wal-Mart beverages in return for us saying Wal-Mart so many times."''

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' Bomba has a library of animal and nature sounds kept on a 4th gen iPod Touch.