95.7 KEZJ - Southern Idaho's Best Country » advertising http://kezj.com Southern Idaho's Best Country Mon, 20 May 2013 17:16:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Supercut Alert — A Short History of Product Placement http://kezj.com/supercut-alert-%e2%80%94-a-short-history-of-product-placement/ http://kezj.com/supercut-alert-%e2%80%94-a-short-history-of-product-placement/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:16:02 +0000 Brad Weiser http://kezj.com/?p=4541 Product placement has been a part of TV and movies since their beginnings, and finally someone's put together a video montage of laughably obvious placement moments  — for historical purposes, of course. Fred and Wilma Flintstone split a pack of Winstons while Bugs Bunny unironically urges the children of America to drink the Kool-Aid.

They're not all really product placements — some are just ads — but it's still a cool and creepy trip through the history of subliminal (and not so subliminal) marketing.Check it out after the jump:

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