...Market Analysis Product placement is the form of advertisement where a product is placed in a context of ads in movies or TV shows. Since the first instance of formal product placement occurred in 1951, there have been countless placements in thousands of movies and TV shows. Product placement has experienced a surge in the mid-1980s and strong growth ever since. In 2005, estimated total global spending on paid product placements is about US$2.21 billion. Forecasted that by 2010, 75% of scripted shows will include product placement and the revenues will reach US$50 billion. Competitive Analysis MMI The product placement segment of the industry is dominated by small business typically run by their owners who have experience in the entertainment industry. A few larger ad agencies offer the same service with the intention of offering one-stop-shopping for their clients. These are typically the result of acquisitions of smaller specialty firms. The smaller firms tend to have the advantage because they typically have experience and a background with film and TV producers whereas the large firms often do not. In addition, the small firms like MMI offer more personalized service and build ongoing relationships with their clients. Greyhound Greyhound is currently Canada’s largest provider of intercity bus transportation and serves 6.5 million passengers each year, which constitutes about 40% of the market. Its brand logo, the running dog, is highly recognized. In addition...
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...understand how film presents the world of the past. Words aren’t fully up to the task of comprehending the film experience” (2006, p.1). Product placement (also sometimes referred to as“brand integration”) is the inclusion of branded products or identifiers through audio or visual means within mass-media programming (Balasubramanian 1994). This paper is aim to discuss the affect of product placement on film’s content and production company. With the development of society and technology, there is no denying that the film industry has formed its own unique business model in modern world. In order to product high quality films and obtain greater profits, the film production companies have to invested heavily in its films. In other words, it is impossible to product a high level and appealing film without the support of abundant capital in some extent. In this context, a large number of sponsorship of big brand company plays a significant role in film industry. As a typical representative of new advertisement, product placement is deeply affect films in terms of content, structure, production and so on. According to the data of PQ Media (2007), it spent $885.1 million on product placement embed into the film in the world in 2006. In the meantime, the product placement which means the combination of art and commerce. It is the existence of product placement that the film production team obtained sufficient funds to achieve their expected design plan rather than trade-off everything about...
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...Plan 11 Appendix A Exhibit 1 Segmentation Chart 12 Bibliography 12 Executive Summary MMI Product Placement Inc., established in 1985, is the pioneer in the business of product placement in Canada. MMI leveraged its relationship with the Canadian entertainment industry to incorporate its clients’ brands into films and TV shows. Greyhound, the country’s largest provider of intercity bus transportation, recruited MMI services to provide cost-effective ways to communicate its marketing message to consumers. Philip Hart, president of MMI, was preparing to make a final pitch to sign up Greyhound as client. For Greyhound, the major competitors include VIA Rail, owned automobile, and airline transportation companies. The consumer segmentation can be divided into three groups including college and university students, newer professionals and established professionals. The target market will be age 18 to 24 college and university young professionals. Philip Hart needs to decide which promotional vehicle would be best for Greyhound’s product placement. The alternative choices include to stick with traditional advertising, or product placement on TV series shows like “Corner Gas” or “Canadian Idol”. We would recommend that MMI present Greyhound in the TV series called “Making the Cut”. Problem Statement Philip Hart, president of Toronto based MM1 Product Placement (MM1) is close to signing Greyhound Canada as a client. The main issue is to find the best promotional...
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...DOI: 10.2501/IJA-30-3-479-507 Young adults’ responses to product placement in movies and television shows A comparative study of the United States and South Korea Taejun (David) lee Bradley University Yongjun Sung and Sejung Marina Choi University of Texas at Austin This research examines young adults’ attitudes towards product placement in films and television shows from two countries that represent contrasting cultural distinctions: the US and Korea. The results suggest that young adults in both countries perceive film product placement in a similar way but, with respect to television, Korean respondents tend to perceive it as less effective in enhancing content realism and more unethical and misleading. In addition, the findings suggest that, for both film and TV, material- ism, attitude towards advertising, and realism enhancement appeared to be significant predictors of consumer cognitive response to product placement. However, cross-cultural differences were observed for TV product placement. In the US, materialism and real- ism enhancement were found to be most powerful predictors of cognitive response to product placement. In contrast, attitude towards advertising and materialism were found to be the strongest predictors in Korea. Implications for both advertising researchers and practitioners are provided. Introduction Movies have almost always been a popular medium for product placement. Product placement in movies can be an effective international marketing strategy...
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...it down frame by frame. Surprisingly, it was not the blatant nudity, lesbianism or poison, but the product placement sprinkled throughout the video that garnered viewers’ attention most. The video’s remarkable number of product placements showcases the consumerist culture we are in, where advertisers strive to revitalize and raise public awareness of their brands by incorporating their products into popular music, movies, TV shows and sports besides traditional advertising. The 9-minute video is packed with at least eight different brands, including Virgin Mobile, Monster Heartbeats by Lady Gaga headphones, Hewlett Packard laptop, Polaroid, Diet Coke, Wonder Bread, Miracle Whip, and dating site PlentyOfFish.com. Although the frequency of product placement in this music video has been to a ridiculous level, the way that brands listed above are inserted into each scene is quite coherent. For example, Gaga steals the Virgin cellphone to contact Beyoncé to bail her out of jail. Food brands like Miracle Whip and Wonder Bread feature in the kitchen scene. The production placement in “Telephone” is interesting and worth studying since it shows viewers that the boundaries between entertainment and advertising have been blurred because of pop culture phenomena and that these two industries’ purposes are getting intertwined. “Telephone” represents the anxiety of entertainment industry about costs to make videos and promotions, which hence causes the artists to...
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...Pick Me: negotiation for Product Placement Entertainment Business Negotiation and Deal Making December 19, 2010 One month prior to the release of Apple’s iPad in local stores it was possible for consumers to obtain a demonstration of the functionality of the product itself. This demonstration was available simply by viewing a prime time television sitcom. It became impossible to just watch television without the saturated marketing of the iPad. No one can watch television with seeing a product placed strategically in the show. Both the television and print industries alike seemed to thrive on this campaign. A recent article in Campaigns & Elections, states that these mediums are constantly pretentious and it is evident within the inventory, rates, demographics and geography. Only seasoned professionals can fully understand how to manipulate and maneuver it (Brooks, 2005). Therefore, the question is proposed; has the consumer become overly saturated with ads what are the powers of negotiation associated with these advertisements in various locations? To watch a favored show on television is a pass time, which is, pleasured however the shows are engrossed with product placement and many mini-commercials and advertisements. At one time there was an effort to make for consumers to be able to watch shows lacking placement; case in point the name on a cereal or oatmeal box at the breakfast table was removed of the known label and replaced with a fictitious...
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...ETHIQUE 6) Placement de produit et éthique Many consumers and researchers consider product placements as excessive commercialization of the media and an intrusion into the life of the viewer. The viewer does not go to the movie or television to see the product placement. Rather, viewers often attend movies and television to escape the realities of life. As such, marketers must make the product placement look obvious at the point of emergence. Sometimes, the product or brand placement is weaved into the plot, like ET's Reese's Pieces with a 65% increase in sales due to this placement (Balasubramanian, Karrh, and Patwardhan, 2006). If the plot connection and the reflection of the user or character in the film are missing, the product placement often is futile. Hence, relevance of the product to the situation needs to be created by possibly incorporating the placement planning at the script level. (Panda, 2004; Hackley, Tiwsakul, and Preuss, 2008; Kuhn, Hume, and Love, 2010) Product placement caters to a captive audience even though the brands are shown in their natural environment. But, viewers generally tend to like product placements unless there are too many or they are invasively irritating. Product placements typically are seen as an acceptable practice, frank, amusing, pleasant, and dynamic. In general, viewers consider product placements to enhance realism, aid in character development, create historical subtext, and provide a sense of familiarity. However, if the...
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...Fundamentally, product placement roots in the USA, which is commonly considered to be an American phenomenon, and used primarily as a movie-based tactic. To define, product placement is the deliberate placement of branded products or services within media content. For example the scene where Will Smith drink Coca-Cola in film. As a result of global flow, and access to media content and technology, the practice of product placement has become media-neutral and spread across other cultures. Due to this circumstances, there is a need to develop an expanded understanding of how non-US consumers perceive such placements. Product placement like traditional forms of advertising, transmit and reflect the important symbolic meanings and values within a culture. To add in, consumer attitudes toward product placement may also vary depending on the fundamental cultural orientations and values of a particular society. In general, there are abundant cross-cultural comparisons of advertising and promotion but little is known regarding how consumers from different cultures perceive and process product placement in their mind. Other than that, there has also been very limited knowledge on how and to what extent the medium of placement affects perceptions of the tactic. The main purpose of this research is to examine: i. US and Korean college student consumers’ attitudes towards product placements in three different media (films, TV shows, and songs). ii. product placement...
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...[pic] MMI Product Placement, Inc. Marketing Plan Marketing Plan Executive Summary MMI Product Placement Inc. (MMI), with over 20 years of experience is a forerunner of product placement in Canada. MMI has tasked themselves with selecting the best placements for their clients, negotiating contracts for the brands and offering value by providing exposure at an extremely attractive cost per thousand viewers. MMI is currently working to attract the business of Greyhound Canada, who requires cost-effective marketing champagnes in order to effectively communicate their message. There are three significant issues that must be addressed: 1. MMI must develop a promotional vehicle to achieve the best exposure for its potential client, Greyhound Canada. 2. MMI must convince Greyhound Canada that there are positive benefits to product placement, so that a contract between the two parties can be signed. 3. MMI must prove the results of how using product placement can increase product exposure and awareness. With the growth of product placement in the film and television industry MMI has a greater chance of succeeding. That is proactive product placement is becoming more popular. In order to satisfy Greyhound Canada the following five alternatives were presented: 1. Promote the Greyhound brand within the reality-based TV Serial “Making the Cut”. 2. Promote the Greyhound brand within an established TV show such as Corner Gas. 3...
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...Research Product placement effectiveness: revisited and renewed Kaylene Williams California State University, Stanislaus Alfred Petrosky California State University, Stanislaus Edward Hernandez California State University, Stanislaus Robert Page, Jr. Southern Connecticut State University ABSTRACT Product placement is the purposeful incorporation of commercial content into noncommercial settings, that is, a product plug generated via the fusion of advertising and entertainment. While product placement is riskier than conventional advertising, it is becoming a common practice to place products and brands into mainstream media including films, broadcast and cable television programs, computer and video games, blogs, music videos/DVDs, magazines, books, comics, Broadway musicals and plays, radio, Internet, and mobile phones. To reach retreating audiences, advertisers use product placements increasingly in clever, effective ways that do not cost too much. The purpose of this paper is to examine product placement in terms of definition, use, purposes of product placement, specific media vehicles, variables that impact the effectiveness of product placement, the downside of using product placement, and the ethics of product placement. Keywords: Product placement, brand placement, branded entertainment, in-program sponsoring Product placement effectiveness, Page 1 Journal of Management and Marketing Research INTRODUCTION In its simplest form, product placement consists of an...
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...study. The definition concept of product placement is also discussed. 2 1.2 Background of the study According to PQ Media (2007) the practice of placing branded products within films for commercial purposes has developed into a distinct marketing tactic and has truly gone global. This situation happens due to product placement is cost-effective compared to other types advertising and it allows marketers to avoid clutter. Placing product in film is not new, it has becoming established in North America in the 1980s, on television program but began to receive serious attention in the UK in the late 1990s.(Chris Fill,2004).One of the example is the increase in sales of Reese’s Pieces chocolate after an on-screen in E.T on 1980s (Karh,1998). Generally product placement is about placing brands in films or TV show. Chris Fill (2004), defined product placement as the inclusion of products and services in films for deliberate promotional exposure, in return for an agreed financial sum. It is a cheap way to obtain some brand exposure in a mainstream without paying for airtime like any other promotion. Placing a product in film can overcome the irritation factor associated with advertisements screened in cinemas. There are varieties of product can be place including drinks, foods, sports equipment and even holiday destinations. Product placement can create a positive image to the firm (Jim Blythe, 2006), by positioning a product in a very good way in the film...
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...1. Title The effect of brand placement on brand recall and buyer behaviour. 2. Introduction Brand placement is an art in itself. Correct placement of a brand may give flying colours to the company and on the other hand wrong placement may ruin the image of the brand and then a considerable investment may be again required to re-build the lost brand image. Huge amounts are spent every year by various organisations worldwide in order to build their brand. Companies have placed their brands in various television programmes, movies, internet, music videos and many other sources according to their need. Apple laptop computers have been used in more than 1500 movies and TV shows. Brand Placement can create both a positive as well as negative impact on the buyer behaviour and brand recall (Karrah 1998). 3. Research Background Brand placement is an attractive option for marketers for some of the advantages such as low cost, substantial reach, low competition and longer shelf life. Placement can provide a competitive edge to the brand as compared to competing brands. The use of Nokia mobile in The Dark Night has given tremendous amount of publicity and reach to the Nokia 5800 before the launch of the handset (Bartlett,1932). There is a unique relation which carries the brand to the consumer which modifies the buyer behaviour as well as the brand recall process. TATA has been selling all its products in the name of one single brand i.e. TATA whereas if any other company...
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...1.1 Background Product placement is increasing into movies, TV programs, and computer games. The marketers and movie producers now frequently use placement as the promotion medium for products or brands. They communicate the product properties to targeted customers by the way of involving the actors or actress with marketing use of the product or with mention of the brand to eliminate the audiences’ resistance and also enhance consumer preference for the product or brand. 1.2 Conceptual Underpinnings of the Study Our study is focus on what product placement strategies should be employed by marketers and used in different media. A general definition of product placement for different media such as movie, television program, magazines, radio, and etc... , that product placement is a paid product message aimed at influencing audience by the planned into different media. In the literature most of the research focused on categorization or characteristics of different placement or their impact in consumers’ brand memory. Gupta and Lord (1998) propose that any of those modes can be distinguished. In the scene or where the product is made highly visible by size or power and the position on screen. Babin and Cater (1996) found evidence of product recognition in film whereas the research of Gupta and Lord (1998) is more fine-tuned; they found a higher recall of the product after distinguished product placement than after subtle product placement. Chartier (2000) brand recognition...
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...植入式广告对消费者行为影响研究评介 陈翠,宋思根 (安徽财经大学工商管理学院,安徽蚌埠 233030) 摘要:作为一种隐性广告,植入式广告策略性地融入各类载体中,以一种“润物细无声”的方式影响着受众对植入产品或服务的态度,继而通过“移情效应”或内隐启动影响消费者购买决策。通过梳理国外学者关于消费者对植入式广告的记忆认知、态度及购买行为的启动研究和植入式广告效果的评价标准研究,旨在为本土化研究提供理论基础和方法借鉴。植入式广告信息处理模式及其效果发生机制的探讨有助于理解我国消费者行为特征。 关键字:植入式广告;消费者行为;内隐记忆 A Critical Review on the Influence of Product Placement on Consumer Behavior Chen Cui, SONG Si-gen (School of Business Administration, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, Bengbu, Anhui 233030) Abstract:As a kind of recessive advertisement, product placement influences not only consumers' attitude to the branded products or services in a subtle way but also consumers' purchase decisions by means of empathy or implicit priming.This article critically reviews and summarizes the effects of product placement,including cosumers' awareness,recall,attitude and purchase behavior priming as well as evaluation standards offering the fundamental references for the empirical and localization research.Discussions on information processing of product placement and mechanisms of advertising effect are benefit to understand consumer behavior in our country. Key Words: product placement; consumer behavior; implicit memory 基金项目:安徽省自然科学基金“产品信号内隐认知对消费者决策的影响研究”(11040606M21);安徽财经大学研究生科研创新基金项目“植入式广告对儿童购买决策的影响研究”(ACYC2010AL008)。 作者简介:陈翠(1987-),女,湖南岳阳人,安徽财经大学硕士研究生;宋思根(1972-),男,教授,管理学博士。研究方向为消费者行为。 通讯作者:陈翠 通信地址:安徽省蚌埠市安徽财经大学西校区224号信箱 邮政编码:233041 电子信箱:helencc001@126.com 植入式广告对消费者行为影响研究评介 ...
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...Challenges and Opportunities on Kava Dan Russell University of Phoenix MGT 350 February 20, 2011 Dan Konzen Challenges and Opportunities on Kava Aqua Harvest, Inc. has identified an opportunity for expansion of its water treatment and rain harvesting operations on the South Pacific Island of Kava. The island is an ideal situation in desperate need of both the products offered by Aqua Harvest, Inc. and the employment opportunities the expansion will bring. There are numerous challenges such a remote and exposed Island presents to a start up operation and each threat must be addressed to accomplish the directive of the company. Aqua Harvest is financially able to achieve its goals in Kava, but the natural forces are of such an unpredictable nature that the physical establishment of the companies operations on the Island of Kava may be the most difficult. The Island of Kava Kava rests in the South Pacific stronghold of islands near Fiji, Samoa, and Bora Bora. Kava rests ideally in the Hawaii to Australia shipping routes with major ports on and near the island. Kava appears to be a well placed starting point for continued growth throughout the surrounding islands being serviced by both United States and Australian corporate offices. History Until 1970, Kava was a British Colony as it had been for nearly a century. Banking on its economical base of petroleum production, tourism banana and spice exportation, Kava requested and was granted...
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