• Hugin@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Because they don’t want to do anything to make brands not buy the spots during the episode.

    So if an episode has product placement for pasta sauce A then pasta sauce B, C, and D don’t want to buy commercial spots for usually the entire run of the show.

    It’s not set in stone but having it be that way for all your shows makes it easy to sell big blocks of commercial spots spread across the network.

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    3 days ago

    My wife and I point it out like a drinking game when they show random close-ups of the brand badge on ovens. It’s kind of like they’re cutting to the oven for a reaction shot. They do it at least once a segment on every competition show I’ve watched.

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    3 days ago

    Is possible that they do, but it’s so subtle that you don’t notice.

    We’ve learned to identify and resist ads, so at this point, the most effective ads are the ones we don’t recognize.