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* ''Series/MadamSecretary'' has a few prominent shots of the [=McCords=] (even the adults) playing ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'' on the UsefulNotes/XboxOne.

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* ''Series/MadamSecretary'' has a few prominent shots of the [=McCords=] (even the adults) playing ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'' on the UsefulNotes/XboxOne.Platform/XboxOne.
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** The 2019 ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' Teachers Tournament was sponsored by Amazon Alexa, and the show promoted its Alexa "skill" by placing an Alexa device on Creator/AlexTrebek's podium. In two separate episodes, Trebek told the device to read the categories and cue the [[JeopardyThinkingMusic Final Jeopardy! music]].
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** Following [[https://www.independent.ie/business/media/xl-store-to-get-starring-role-in-ros-na-run/36076532.html a sponsorship agreement with convenience store chain XL]], an XL ''siopa''[[note:Irish for shop]] has been added to the town.

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** Following [[https://www.independent.ie/business/media/xl-store-to-get-starring-role-in-ros-na-run/36076532.html a sponsorship agreement with convenience store chain XL]], an XL ''siopa''[[note:Irish ''siopa''[[note]]Irish for shop]] shop[[/note]] has been added to the town.
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* ''Series/{{Intimate}}'':
** Max's clothing line exists in real life, run by the actual Max Mattis (who is starring AsHimself in the show), and its existence predates the show by several years. Comes with a heavy dose of SelfDeprecation though, as it's a flop InUniverse and the fictionalized Max is portrayed as too timid and indecisive to properly run a business.
** Many of the places seen in the show (the gym the characters frequent, the café Leo briefly works at, the club Max and Isabella visit) are real businesses appearing under their actual names. The catering service of the ShowWithinAShow Bruno and Oskar star in is the actual show's catering service. And Die Zeit, the newspaper that organizes the "Proudly Gay" event in the first season finale, is actually one of Germany's foremost newspapers, with its longtime editor-in-chief cameoing as himself. Macbooks, on the other hand, always have their logos obscured by stickers.
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* Sponsored programs are quite common in some countries such as the Philippines, where they essentially serve as thirty-minute commercials for the companies involved. Notable examples of these include ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jollitown Jollitown]]'' and ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropang_Potchi Tropang Potchi]]'', sponsored by Jollibee[[note]]A Philippine fast-food chain in similar vein to [=McDonald's=][[/note]] and Columbia International Food Products[[note]]A confectionery company in the Philippines[[/note]] respectively.

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* Sponsored programs are quite common in some countries such as the Philippines, where they essentially serve as thirty-minute commercials for the companies involved. Notable examples of these include ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jollitown Jollitown]]'' ''Series/{{Jollitown}}'' and ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropang_Potchi Tropang Potchi]]'', sponsored by Jollibee[[note]]A Philippine fast-food chain in similar vein to [=McDonald's=][[/note]] and Columbia International Food Products[[note]]A confectionery company in the Philippines[[/note]] respectively.

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* ''Series/FairCity'': A deal with retail chain Spar transformed Christy Phelan's corner shop [[https://marketing.ie/rte-bags-spar-for-fair-city/ into a Spar franchise]].



* ''Ros na Rún'': [[MyLocal Tigh Tadhg]] is full of ads for Beamish.

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[[MyLocal Tigh Tadhg]] is full of ads for Beamish.Beamish.
** Following [[https://www.independent.ie/business/media/xl-store-to-get-starring-role-in-ros-na-run/36076532.html a sponsorship agreement with convenience store chain XL]], an XL ''siopa''[[note:Irish for shop]] has been added to the town.



* ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'' had an infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-fxY8MwATc badly disguised plug for Clean & Clear]] in one scene. Dialogue about the properties of the product is awkwardly shoehorned into the scene in a way that sticks out like a sore thumb.



* ''Series/TheXFactor'' got in trouble for this. Remember how the main page said product placement was illegal until 2011? During season 3, 5 years before the ban was repealed, the SpinOff show ''The Xtra Factor'' showed a viewer's text on a mobile phone which was held right up to the camera... a phone made by the show's official sponsor Nokia.

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* ''Series/TheXFactor'' got in trouble for this. Remember how the main page said product placement was illegal in the UK until 2011? During season 3, 5 years before the ban was repealed, the SpinOff show ''The Xtra Factor'' showed a viewer's text on a mobile phone which was held right up to the camera... a phone made by the show's official sponsor Nokia.



* ''Series/YoungAmericans'' was actually credited on-screen as ''Coca-Cola Presents Young Americans''.

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* ''Series/YoungAmericans'' was actually credited on-screen as ''Coca-Cola Presents Young Americans''. One scene had to be reshot because a Pepsi vending machine appeared within the shot.

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** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]": Daniel Molloy drinks two cans of [[https://www.amazon.ae/STAR-Soft-Drink-refreshing-energizing-carbonated/dp/B07PH3RGFS Star Cola,]] a popular soft drink produced in the United Arab Emirates.
** In 1973, Louis de Pointe du Lac pays for his and Daniel's drinks at Polynesian Mary's with an American Express card.

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**"[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]": The General Electric logo is visible in a close-up of Daniel Molloy's cassette player boom box.
** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]": God]]":
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Daniel Molloy drinks two cans of [[https://www.amazon.ae/STAR-Soft-Drink-refreshing-energizing-carbonated/dp/B07PH3RGFS Star Cola,]] a popular soft drink produced in the United Arab Emirates.
** *** In 1973, Louis de Pointe du Lac pays for his and Daniel's drinks at Polynesian Mary's with an American Express card.
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* One trick is to digitally insert Product Placement into reruns of TV shows [[OrwellianRetcon and update them for new ads with each airing]]. A rerun of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' added a television set to a bar scene which showed an ad for ''Film/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}}'').

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* One trick is to digitally insert Product Placement into reruns of TV shows [[OrwellianRetcon and update them for new ads with each airing]]. A rerun of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' added a television set to a bar scene which showed an ad for ''Film/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}}'').''Film/{{Zookeeper|2011}}'').
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* HBO's ''Series/{{Rome}}'' includes this as a [[TruthInTelevision historically accurate]] touch. The Newsreader's proclamations of current events-- including wars, exiled nobles, and public spectacles such as games and feasts-- are interspersed with advertisements for businesses like slave emporiums and bakeries. (On more than one occasion, he [[WhoWritesThisCrap rolls his eyes]] at having to read another ad for the Capitoline Brotherhood of Millers.)
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* Defied in ''Series/LessonsInChemistry'': Asked to shill some canned beans on her show, Elizabeth instead derides them as full of a deadly amount of chemicals and dumps them into the trash on air.
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* In Series/TheExpanse, the OPA uses cargo pods with the FedEx label on them as boarding craft.

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* In Series/TheExpanse, the OPA uses cargo pods with the FedEx [=FedEx=] label on them as boarding craft.
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* ''[[Film/{{Hairspray}} Hairspray Live!]]'': Tracy passes a Reddi-Wip truck during "Good Morning Baltimore", Wilbur drinks Coca-Cola in a different part, and the Turnblads' refrigerator has a jar of Oreo cookies on top of it.

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* ''[[Film/{{Hairspray}} ''[[Film/{{Hairspray|2007}} Hairspray Live!]]'': Tracy passes a Reddi-Wip truck during "Good Morning Baltimore", Wilbur drinks Coca-Cola in a different part, and the Turnblads' refrigerator has a jar of Oreo cookies on top of it.
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* In the original ''Manga/YoungLadiesDontPlayFightingGames'' manga, the girls are fans of a fictitious fighting game called ''Iron Senpai 4'', and a later arc involves them competing in a tournament based around it. The live-action series instead sees them enter a ''[[Videogame/StreetFighterV Street Fighter V: Champion Edition]]'' tournament due to being sponsored by Creator/{{Capcom}}.

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* In the original ''Manga/YoungLadiesDontPlayFightingGames'' manga, the girls are fans of a fictitious fighting game FictionalVideoGame called ''Iron Senpai 4'', and a later arc involves them competing in a tournament based around it. The live-action series instead sees them enter a ''[[Videogame/StreetFighterV Street Fighter V: Champion Edition]]'' tournament due to being sponsored by Creator/{{Capcom}}.
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* In the original ''Manga/YoungLadiesDontPlayFightingGames'' manga, the girls are fans of a fictitious fighting game called ''Iron Senpai 4'', and a later arc involves them competing in a tournament based around it. The live-action series instead sees them entering a ''[[Videogame/StreetFighterV Street Fighter V: Champion Edition]]'' tournament due to being sponsored by Creator/{{Capcom}}.

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* In the original ''Manga/YoungLadiesDontPlayFightingGames'' manga, the girls are fans of a fictitious fighting game called ''Iron Senpai 4'', and a later arc involves them competing in a tournament based around it. The live-action series instead sees them entering enter a ''[[Videogame/StreetFighterV Street Fighter V: Champion Edition]]'' tournament due to being sponsored by Creator/{{Capcom}}.
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* In the original ''Manga/YoungLadiesDontPlayFightingGames'' manga, the girls play a fictitious fighting game called ''Iron Senpai 4'', but the live-action series instead sees them competing in ''[[Videogame/StreetFighterV Street Fighter V: Champion Edition]]''.

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* In the original ''Manga/YoungLadiesDontPlayFightingGames'' manga, the girls play are fans of a fictitious fighting game called ''Iron Senpai 4'', but the and a later arc involves them competing in a tournament based around it. The live-action series instead sees them competing in entering a ''[[Videogame/StreetFighterV Street Fighter V: Champion Edition]]''.Edition]]'' tournament due to being sponsored by Creator/{{Capcom}}.

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* In the original ''Manga/YoungLadiesDontPlayFightingGames'' manga, the girls play a fictitious fighting game called ''Iron Senpai 4'', but the live-action series instead sees them competing in ''[[Videogame/StreetFighterV Street Fighter V: Champion Edition]]''.



* In the original ''Manga/YoungLadiesDontPlayFightingGames'' manga, the girls play a fictitious fighting game called ''Iron Senpai 4'', but the live-action series instead sees them competing in ''[[Videogame/StreetFighterV Street Fighter V: Champion Edition]]''.
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* In the original ''Manga/YoungLadiesDontPlayFightingGames'' manga, the girls play a fictitious fighting game called ''Iron Senpai 4'', but the live-action series instead sees them competing in ''[[Videogame/StreetFighterV Street Fighter V: Champion Edition]]''.
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** In the sixth episode, Daniel Molloy drinks two cans of [[https://www.amazon.ae/STAR-Soft-Drink-refreshing-energizing-carbonated/dp/B07PH3RGFS Star Cola,]] a popular soft drink produced in the United Arab Emirates.

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** In the sixth episode, "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]": Daniel Molloy drinks two cans of [[https://www.amazon.ae/STAR-Soft-Drink-refreshing-energizing-carbonated/dp/B07PH3RGFS Star Cola,]] a popular soft drink produced in the United Arab Emirates.
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* ''Series/BarRescue'':
** Nearly once every 10 minutes. The mixed drinks always have some major brand's drink in them, if not featuring at least part of the brand's name in the drink's name itself. For example, if the drink is made using a Captain Morgan's product, it'll often feature "Captain" in the drink's name. Granted, part of this is justified as ThemeNaming, and often being popular brands in the U.S.
** Any time Taffer begins a sentence with "My friends from/at...", this is in full force.
** The O'Kelley's/Pastimes from the 4th season is basically a 60-minute Budweiser advertisement.
*** As is the City Bistro episode. Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in both cases, as both are located in St. Louis, where Budweiser is based.
** Swiffer is often seen when a major cleanup is shown... one employee even uses one to mop up a flooded kitchen.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] when various brands are covered up in the bar's décor during taping, when the tap handles for those beers are not installed before the relaunch, or when patrons are shown simply saying "I'll have a beer" when ordering during a stress test.
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* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' was well-known for its product placement deal with Chrysler, specifically in its Dodge division when they used its then-redesigned Dodge Ram 1500 as the title policeman's main vehicle. In addition, promotions for the truck would always be shown during commercial breaks, and one time, a contest was held where the winner could not only win a Dodge Ram, but also a walk-on role on the show.

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* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' was well-known for its product placement deal with Chrysler, specifically in its Dodge division when they used its then-redesigned Dodge Ram 1500 as the title eponymous policeman's main vehicle. In addition, promotions for the truck would always be shown during commercial breaks, and one time, a contest was held where the winner could not only win a Dodge Ram, but also a walk-on role on the show.

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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In 1973, Louis de Pointe du Lac pays for his and Daniel Molloy's drinks at Polynesian Mary's with an American Express card.

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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** In the sixth episode, Daniel Molloy drinks two cans of [[https://www.amazon.ae/STAR-Soft-Drink-refreshing-energizing-carbonated/dp/B07PH3RGFS Star Cola,]] a popular soft drink produced in the United Arab Emirates.
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In 1973, Louis de Pointe du Lac pays for his and Daniel Molloy's Daniel's drinks at Polynesian Mary's with an American Express card.
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* Series/[[VIP]]: [[Recap/VIP2x16HardValsNight Hard Val's Night]] guest starred the band Music/{{Lit}}, and as to be expected the whole episode was loaded down with Lit music. From Lit songs playing in the background of scenes, to one of the girls listening to a Lit CD and singing along, to the band straight up performing a full song in the middle of VIP headquarters, it's no wonder the band later (positively) called the episode "an hour long Lit-fomercial." The episode even ended with the characters watching the debut of Lit's [[Music/{{Miserable}} latest music video.]] Although, [[spoiler: considering how that video ends]] it may overlap with DestroyTheProductPlacement.

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* Series/[[VIP]]: Series/{{VIP}} [[Recap/VIP2x16HardValsNight Hard Val's Night]] guest starred the band Music/{{Lit}}, and as to be expected the whole episode was loaded down with Lit music. From Lit songs playing in the background of scenes, to one of the girls listening to a Lit CD and singing along, to the band straight up performing a full song in the middle of VIP headquarters, it's no wonder the band later (positively) called the episode "an hour long Lit-fomercial." The episode even ended with the characters watching the debut of Lit's [[Music/{{Miserable}} latest music video.]] Although, [[spoiler: considering how that video ends]] it may overlap with DestroyTheProductPlacement.
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* Series/[[VIP]]: [[Recap/VIP2x16HardValsNight Hard Val's Night]] guest starred the band Music/{{Lit}}, and as to be expected the whole episode was loaded down with Lit music. From Lit songs playing in the background of scenes, to one of the girls listening to a Lit CD and singing along, to the band straight up performing a full song in the middle of VIP headquarters, it's no wonder the band later (positively) called the episode "an hour long Lit-fomercial." The episode even ended with the characters watching the debut of Lit's [[Music/{{Miserable}} latest music video.]] Although, [[spoiler: considering how that video ends]] it may overlap with DestroyTheProductPlacement.
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* ''Series/{{Community}}'' features a KFC-sponsored spaceship simulator in one episode. Naturally, this is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, not to mention a sub-plot in season three involving a character literally named Subway.

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* An episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'' features a man who sheds his entire personality to be the human representation of Subway. Another episode features a KFC-sponsored spaceship simulator in one episode. simulator. Naturally, this is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d, not to mention a sub-plot in season three involving a character literally named Subway.these are {{lampshade|Hanging}}d.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In 1973, Louis de Pointe du Lac pays for his and Daniel Molloy's drinks at Polynesian Mary's with an American Express card.

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