Hollywood Product Placement In The News

Jeff Greenfield interviewed on Product Placement
Hottest Mom In America coverage with Executive Producer Jeff Greenfield
Hollywood parties inside a commercial This was covert celebrity marketing in action. Read more from the AP The Tracker: Beware Big Numbers in Product Placement Can the appearance of all those brands on CBS’s Survivor and Fox’s American Idol really be approaching the value of all advertising bought on network TV in advance of the fall season? Read more from the Brandweek Where Product Meets Program As ad placement gets trickier, execs push for seamless integration. Read more from the Backstage Interstate hopes Ferrell does wonders for bread I’m a little surprised, no actually very surprised that no one, not the company nor their agency has read the script. Read more from the Kansas City Star NATPE Laces Up New Look Boot Camp The Boot Camp, now in its fourth year, will be on July 26-28 at the Bel Age Hotel and other locations in West Hollywood. Read more from the C21 Media Product Placement Dealing: Try To Keep Your Hands In Your Pockets Paying millions for product placement? Massive sucker. Read more from the MediaPost Brands take buzz to bank through free integration Less hip brands that lack the all-powerful "buzz" factor still are succeeding at getting prominent visual and verbal integrations without forking over extra cash for integration fees, promotional support or media buys, albeit to a lesser extent than they were before branded entertainment took off several years ago. Read more from the Hollywood Reporter Advertisers can bid for space on mom\'s belly With the media world evolving every day, companies are forced to think creatively to get their brand in the public's eye. Read more from the Press & Sun Advertisers get piece of local news shows TV stations facing increased competition and pressure on advertising revenue, the barriers that shielded news programming from production integration and placement deals are falling. Read more from the Hollywood Reporter Virtual Product Placement Infiltrates TV, Film, Games What's fueling the virtual product placement fire? In a word, TiVo. Read more from the E-Commerce Times Chrysler shares spotlight with (Harrison) Ford in \'Firewall\' Such deals often specify how a car company will promote the movie along with its vehicles, Greenfield notes. Read more from the AutoWeek Trading product for air time But just because a viewer recognizes product placements over commercials does not necessarily net a positive return on investment. Greenfield said companies must establish strategic goals. Read more from the Fast Casual Paid To Place Jeff Greenfield and Patric Verrone on WNYC. Read more from the WNYC Radio Jeff Greenfield on CNBC Business News Product placement expert Jeff Greenfield featured on CNBC Business News. Read more from the CNBC In-game ads link to the real world "In-game advertising is here to stay, and will increase as more games and platforms hook up to the Internet," says Jeff Greenfield, executive vice president of 1st Approach. Read more from the Christian Science Monitor Coke Forces TV Placement Clutter Debate Into The Open OVER the past couple of years, the branded entertainment business has been in denial about product placement clutter on television. Read more from the Brandweek NATPE Features 1st Approach EVP Jeff Greenfield Jeff Greenfield, Executive Vice President for Branded Entertainment Firm 1st Approach will be a featured speaker at NATPE 2006 in Las Vegas. Read more from the NATPE BBC News Interview on Product Placement The BBC Reports: Product placement may sound dull and not even very relevant ... but it's going to be big in the European Union ... it describes the practice, popular in the US, where television and film makers boost their earnings by charging companies to show their brands on the screen. Read more from the BBC A Slippery Snowy Slope for Marketing You'll have to look a little harder to spot the Mountain Dew. Read more from the Newsweek Product placement in games sizzles Jeff Greenfield, publisher of "Branded Entertainment Monthly" and executive VP at Portsmouth, N.H.-based 1st Approach, a product placement marketing firm. "if the brand becomes a critical part of the game's mission objective, then you've got a product placement home run." Read more from the Hollywood Reporter Has hidden advertising gone too far? Hollywood unions for actors and writers want a code of conduct for placing products in movies and TV. Read more from the Christian Science Monitor Product placement - the plot sickens Last summer, Greenfield sent nearly 1,000 Black & Decker Autotapes, a tape measure that extends automatically, to Hollywood script writers. Read more from the San Diego Tribune Next Big Idea New York Jeff Greenfield presents at The Next Big Idea in New York on October 19, 2005. Read more from the The Next Big Idea NASCAR Goes Hollywood NASCAR is seen as a can’t-miss product to many advertisers, and lately — within the last year, according to many experts — that means the previously network-television obsessed world of Hollywood. Read more from the Kansas City Star Desperate advertisers Product placement - someone had to place the brand name product on the set. It was no accident, and it probably wasn't free. Read more from the Star Telegram A tale of two Marthas for blue-chip advertisers More than 20 advertisers, including General Motors, General Electric and Procter & Gamble, are spending anywhere from $300,000 to $3 million for a role on "Martha." Read more from the Washington Post Branded Entertainment Radio Interview Radio interview with Jeff Greenfield on CKNW News Radio. Read more from the CKNW Radio Attention-grabbing film promotions were the exception and not the rule Film promotions were so tepid that only a few even managed to get noticed. Read more from the Hollywood Reporter VNU unit site launches guide to branded entertainment Entertainment marketing firm 1st Approach and VNU's InsideBrandedEntertainment Web site have partnered to launch the Branded Entertainment Monthly and Annual Guide. Read more from the Hollywood Reporter ‘Buzzmarketing is solid guide to word-of-mouth ads Greenfield’s story is one of several Hughes uses to underscore his theme of ‘’give them something to talk about,'’ which he says trumps the conventional marketing model in a world that has grown increasingly skeptical of traditional advertising. Read more from the Miami Herald The Magic Behind Great Marketing Greenfield got his business off the ground by taking patients no one else wanted - those without health insurance and those in bad condition. Adopting a philosophy of treatment first, he turned no one away, regardless of ability to pay. From some he got nothing. From others he took whatever they could afford. But he insisted on another form of payment, word of mouth. Read more from the Philadelphia Inquirer No Escape as Live 8 Saturates Live 8 is an effort to raise awareness about poverty and to encourage leaders of the G8 nations to forgive the debts of poorer nations, increase aid to Africa and embrace fair trade. Read more from the Wired No Place Like Home A recent AP-AOL poll found three-fourths of Americans would prefer to watch a movie at home, helping send the industry into its deepest slump in decades. Read more from the Gwinnett Daily Post Goodyear has ride-on role in film Goodyear has ride-on role in film Coming soon to a Goodyear retailer near you will be the “Herbie Derby'’ promotion, where customers who buy four selected Goodyear tires will also get a cap identical to the one worn by Lindsay Lohan. The cross-promotion will involve Herbie Derby window banners, counter cards, direct mail and advertising. Read more from the Akron Beacon Journal Actors spar over video-game voices Video games generate large profits, and Hollywood movie actors are pushing to reap a bigger share of those rewards. Read more from the UPI Revenge of the Advertiser Brand entertainment’s biggest success story, “The Apprentice,” was crawling with not-so-subtle plugs this season - for Sony’s PlayStation 2, Everlast sporting equipment, Best Buy and Pepsi, among others. Read more from the Herald News Gadget Promos Creep Into TV Shows Jeff Greenfield, executive vice president at 1st Approach, a Dover, New Hampshire-based marketing firm, has been shopping Black & Decker’s new AutoTape product to TV writers. At the push of a button, the battery-driven AutoTape automatically extends and retracts a measuring tape. Read more from the Wired Ads creeping into TV programs “It’s a whole new ballgame — shows like `The Apprentice’ have taken the practice to a new level,'’ said Jeff Greenfield, executive vice president of 1st Approach, a product-placement firm based in Boston. “The ad has become part of the show; it’s the ultimate in product integration.'’ Read more from the San Jose Mercury News Small Screen Gets Crowded As Brand Placements Double If the rapid increase in brand appearances continues, the industry will soon have to face the same issue that the advertising business has been dealing with for decades: clutter. Read more from the Brandweek