To-do list:
- The trope is being renamed to Product Placement Name and the definition is being expanded beyond sports, so the description needs to be updated to include non-sports examples using the Sandbox.Product Placement Name Description sandbox.
- Move correct examples (things being named after products they're otherwise unrelated to) to Product Placement Name.
Trope Co. Trope of the Week is a trope where programs sell sponsorships for a specific portion of the program. A sports broadcast highlight reel is one example. I found this under the "deprecated naming practices" section of the TRS list. Trope Co. is a parody catalogue on the site, and Trope of the Week is a show in Echo Chamber, so it looks like something it isn't.
The examples list is full of natter, complaining, and example sorting issues, to the point where I can't decide where I should get help. Still, it seems like all the examples need is a good scrub to bring it to modern standards. There are 39 wicks, so it's not starving. During my wick check, I discovered that twelve of the off-page examples were not related to sports or broadcasting. The vast majority of examples on the page refer to stadium sponsors. The wick check may be flawed due to the fact that we don't have pages for sports stadiums.
I propose expanding the trope beyond sports.
Wick check:
Wick Check Started on 2022-10-18. 39 wicks.- Monday Night Football: Not to be confused with Sky Sports' Ford Monday Night Football, which broadcasts English Premier League games.
- Soccer Saturday: For sponsorship reasons, the show's full name Gilette Soccer Saturday. Jeff and several pundits and reporters can also be seen in adverts for Gilette as a result of this.
- Backyard Sports: The fictional brand 110% Juice sponsors the Player of the Game segment.
- Dana Carvey: The Dana Carvey Show: The Eponymous Show. The show also had ‘’a different sponsor each week with their name forced in’’ as an homage to the shows of old e.g. The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show.
- The Muppets (2015): At one point Sam refers to Gonzo as ‘’"The Great Gonzo Brought To You By Piggy Water".’’
- Hypocritical Humor/Webcomics: Invoked in a metatextual way in Wicked Powered, when a character decries a certain animation as being shoddily made to sell lasers. In case you don't get it, the full name of the comic is Wicked Lasers presents Wickedpowered.
- American Gladiators: The 2008 revival had Subway Replays and the "Toyota winning moment".
- Colgate Comedy Hour:
- As was the standard practice in the era, the show is named after the sponsor and the commercial breaks advertise the sponsor's products: Ajax cleanser, Colgate toothpaste, Fab laundry detergent, Halo shampoo and Palmolive soap.
- Averted with a few episodes during the 1950-1951 season that were sponsored by Frigidaire; those carried the title of The Comedy Hour instead.
- Deadliest Catch: The Coors Light Crab Count.
- Entertainment Tonight: The birthday segment, sponsored for a long time by American Greetings.
- Last Comic Standing: The series had at least one season where the contestant with the most viewer votes would automatically advance to the next round or, in the host's words, get a "Capital One No Hassle Pass".
- Siskel & Ebert under Promotional Consideration: The sponsors varied, but two companies that often appeared in the "Promotional Consideration" slide were Nestle's Raisinets, sponsor of the Video Pick of the Week segment, and Jelly Belly Jelly Beans.
- The Dana Carvey Show: The first five episodes all had Pepsi subsidiaries within the show's title. (i.e. Taco Bell for Episode 1, Mug Root Beer for Episode 2, Mountain Dew Episode 3, Diet Mug Root Beer Episode 4, Pepsi Stuff Episode 5) Plus a local Chinese restaurant for Episode 6.
- Retraux:
- Starting in 2015; the ‘’Bojangles' Southern 500’’ moved from Mother's Day weekend (where it was moved to in 2005) back to its original slot on Labor Day weekend, and to commemorate the move NASCAR came up with the idea of having the race as a "throwback weekend", with 32 of the 43 cars using retro-themed paint schemes and (for the 2015 race) NBC bringing legendary broadcasters Ken Squier, Ned Jarrettnote and Ned's son Dale while even using 1970's era logos for the broadcast. The concept proved such a hit that NASCAR has made the throwback theme a permanent part of that race.
- Real Life: The California Speedway (AKA the Auto Club Speedway) in Fontana started becoming this due to declining attendance numbers making it more difficult to fill the grand stands and make such a huge venue worth the upkeep as huge swathes of empty grandstands are just empty space largely doing nothing.
- Fan Nickname/Sports: "The Blue" – Albertsons Stadium (Bronco Stadium behind the ‘’corporate naming rights’’), Boise State University. So named because of its distinctive blue playing surface.
- Real Life 0 To F: Ellis Park — the rugby union stadium in Johannesburg (commercially known as Emirates Airline Park) or the horse racing track most notable for being Kentucky's only significant landmark north of the Ohio River.note
- Real Life: Paris La Défense Arena, a domed stadium that opened in 2017 as the new home of the rugby club Racing 92. It's not located within either of its geographic identifiers—whether Paris, or the La Défense business district. (The stadium is in a part of the suburb of Nanterre that lies just outside the La Défense boundary.) The name actually came from a sponsorship deal with "Paris La Défense", the company that manages the business district.
- Other Media: Many sports fans think ‘’stadium sponsorship deals’’ are a relatively-recent (since about The '90s) development where corporations shell out mega dollars to have their name on a sports venue. The Chicago Cubs' "Wrigley Field" is perhaps the earliest example, with its name (owing to both the Wrigley Company and owner William Wrigley Jr.) changing in 1927.
- British Footy Teams under The New Saints: Originally known as Llansantffraid, this is probably the best-known Cymru Premier club due to a 1990s sponsorship deal with a local computer company which resulted in "The Saints" (as they were nicknamed) becoming the first British football club to rename itself after its sponsor, Total Network Solutions.
- Collegiate American Football Conferences: The Aztecs opened the new Snapdragon Stadium (Aztec Stadium behind the ‘’sponsorship’’) in 2022.
- Euro Footy: Along with Switzerland, was one of the joint hosts of the 2008 European Championship. Main clubs: Rapid Wien (from Vienna, most nationally successful team, with 32 league trophies, and the club that launched Happel's career as a player), Austria Wien (trailing behind their rivals Rapid, with 23 wins), Sturm Graz (a recent national powerhouse, with 3 titles - the most recent in 2011) and ‘’Red Bull’’ Salzburg (fka Austria Salzburg before a controversial takeover and rebrand in 2005, winners of 13 of the last 16 titles, with a current streak of nine).
- Jurassic Park – Hybrids under Indominus Rex:
- Trope Co. Trope of the Week: Claire gets investors to back the I. rex reveal, leading to "Verizon Wireless Presents the Indominus rex". Lowery is not amused.
- Jurassic Park – Masrani Global and Jurassic World Staff under Lowrey:
- After hearing the new sponsorship, "Verizon Wireless Presents the Indominus rex", from Claire, Lowery snarks they should just let the corporations name these hybrids outright to promote their products. He then mutters alternative names for the I. rex such as Pepsisaurus and Tostitodon.
- Jurassic Park – Park Guests under The Investors:
- Trope Co. Trope of the Week: Claire sells them on the new attraction: "Verizon Wireless presents the Indominus rex."
- Jurassic World 2020 under Global Broadcasting Corporation Envoys:
- Trope Co. Trope of the Week: After a successful meeting with them, Dearing tell the control room staff that GBC will present the I.rex Coliseum.
- Jurassic World has two mentions under Product Placement:
- In-Universe example. The park is a massive, corporate-sponsored resort and effectively its own city. You can see real stores, brands, and restaurants everywhere. Companies also sponsor specific exhibits and the I. rex was a test run for customized dinosaurs. Claire and Dr. Wu are introduced pitching "Verizon Wireless Presents the Indominus rex" to Verizon executives. Lowery at one point even snarks that they should just name the dinosaurs after corporations and be done with it. However, most of the various corporate tie-ins in the film were done without monetary sponsorships, in order to show that the park was slowly "selling out" to corporations.
Lowery: Pepsisaurus... Tostitodon.
- The park main street has locations like Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, Ben & Jerry's, Pandora Jewelry and a Hilton Hotel. And Starbucks too, which is pretty much inevitable.
- Samsung products are also prominently featured. In one of the park's museums, (‘’the Samsung Innovation Center’’), guests are shown an informational video on an array of Samsung televisions, and most of the major characters use Samsung smartphones.
- In-Universe example. The park is a massive, corporate-sponsored resort and effectively its own city. You can see real stores, brands, and restaurants everywhere. Companies also sponsor specific exhibits and the I. rex was a test run for customized dinosaurs. Claire and Dr. Wu are introduced pitching "Verizon Wireless Presents the Indominus rex" to Verizon executives. Lowery at one point even snarks that they should just name the dinosaurs after corporations and be done with it. However, most of the various corporate tie-ins in the film were done without monetary sponsorships, in order to show that the park was slowly "selling out" to corporations.
- Jurassic World: Claire reveals a new sponsor: "Verizon Wireless presents the Indominus rex". Lowery even sarcastically asks why they don't sell the dino names outright ("Pepsisaurus!").
- Live-Action Films under ''Jurassic World':'
- In-Universe example. The park is a massive, corporate-sponsored resort and effectively its own city. You can see real stores, brands, and restaurants everywhere. Companies also sponsor specific exhibits and the I. rex was a test run for customized dinosaurs. Claire and Dr. Wu are introduced pitching ‘’"Verizon Wireless Presents’’ the Indominus rex" to Verizon executives. Lowery at one point even snarks that they should just name the dinosaurs after corporations and be done with it. However, most of the various corporate tie-ins in the film were done without monetary sponsorships, in order to show that the park was slowly "selling out" to corporations.
- Samsung products are also prominently featured. In one of the park's museums, (‘’the Samsung Innovation Center’’), guests are shown an informational video on an array of Samsung televisions, and most of the major characters use Samsung smartphones.
- The Simpsons S14 E6 "The Great Louse Detective": Trope Co. Trope of the Week: Bob is housed at "Campbell's Chunky Soup Maximum Security Prison".
- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: What's also worth noting is that while it has featured particularly egregious Enforced Plugging and Product Placement, especially from The '80s onwards, the parade (along with Philadelphia's older Gimbels/Ikea/Dunkin' Donuts parade, affectionately referred to as simply "The Philly Parade") could be the Ur-Example/Trope Maker/Trope Codifier for Trope Co. Trope of the Week.
- Tour de France: Most teams in the competition are named after their main sponsor(s). The only one exceptions in recent years are Astana and Katusha. Astana is sponsored by the Kazakhstan government and some big Kazakh companies (Astana was the name of the capital city before it got changed to Nur-Sultan), while Katusha it sponsored by several big Russian companies.
- Advert-Overloaded Future: The adverts can take the form of Blipverts, Sex Sells, Enforced Plugs, The Man Is Sticking It to the Man, Subliminal Advertising, Neon City, Trope Co. Trope of the Week, May Contain Evil and the Ridiculously Loud Commercial.
- Stuck on Band-Aid Brand: For similar brand-name awkwardness, see Disney Owns This Trope and Trope Co. Trope of the Week.
- Stargate SG 1 S 7 E 8 Space Race: Trope Co. Trope of the Week: The men providing the commentary for the race mercilessly plug their sponsor throughout the race.
- Series/Amazing under Bonus Round: If the players in the Key Run found the day's designated Bonus Key, they each won a Nintendo Game Boy.
- Wrestling/WWERAW: A lot of the Product Placement comes in this form.
Notes:
- We don't have many work pages for sports broadcast shows, meaning that number may be artificially low.
- Four of the instances are from incorrect Jurassic World character pages. Seven instances are from the Jurassic World movie.
- Two entries are on subpages, but not the related work pages
- Most of the sports non-broadcast entries are the names of staduims.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 2nd 2022 at 4:52:31 AM
For the new description, here's a sandbox —> Sandbox.Product Placement Name Description
TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallI gave cleaning up the description a shot.
Can I make a short term project to clean up the on page examples or do I do that here?
Edited by VerySunshine on Dec 3rd 2022 at 7:08:26 AM
Do it here. TRS threads with the orange star next to them are for cleaning up the page(s) they were made for.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 3rd 2022 at 12:11:53 PM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.Sorry for the double post, but I think I'll move the revised description into place in three days (the 7th) if nobody objects, since wick cleanup won't take long after the page is renamed.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.I did what I said I would do and dewicking didn't take long after that, so locking up.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Crown Description:
The previous crowner has ruled in favor of expanding Trope Co Of The Week to cover non-sports examples and renaming the trope. This crowner's purpose is to decide on a name for the trope.
Calling in favor of Product Placement Name, with Naming Rights Sponsorship being a redirect. We'll need to update the description, so for now I'll turn those two names into redirects so mod intervention isn't needed to move a sandbox into place.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.