Thursday, April 10, 2008

Product Placements Are Everywhere

Product placements are such a great way to advertise. It promotes a product without people even realizing it. Product placements are everywhere from half hour television shows to hour half movies.

I think product placements are becoming more popular due to the new thing known as TiVo. Ever since TiVo was introduced, people have been fast forwarding through the commercials, therefore seeing no advertisement what so ever. Having product placements at the least gives the company some kind of advertisement, so they are not losing full business.

I also know that product placements in production tend to lower the cost of producing/broadcasting the actual show and in some cases may even pay for the whole air time. The television show Survivor has been doing it for a while now and it really cheapens the price of broadcasting.

Product placements are everywhere. You constantly see the newest car in television shows. For example, the 300C has been recently in the television show ER a lot. Another example is when I was watching Happy Gilmore, they really promote the subway sub, or in Big Daddy, they promote MacDonald's and Hooters. The simplest things as putting restaurants in movies really help advertise the product, don't you think?

Sometimes product placements are free, but in most cases it is cheaper for the advertiser to do a product placement rather than a commercial. Think about it. People are guaranteed to see your product and its cheaper? Now you can't beat that!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Generation ME

Generation Y, or should I say generation me is an awesome generation to be a part of. We are known as the "Internet Age." Isn't that something to be proud of? The Internet is huge and we are offering more and more everyday when it comes to technology. This is a very fast paced, savvy, generation. I love how it is always going and everyone is so motivated to get things done. We want automatic results, so we will work to make everything come faster.

Advertising generation Y would be basically calling it the Internet, savvy, technology age. I think that everything we do now a days is based on technology, thanks to this generation. In this generation we keep striving for better. We want that, oh wait no, we want the better one. It is always getting better and people are always trying to have the best thing out there. This generation keeps creating bigger and better things and I am proud to be a part of it.

We are advertised as being hard working and wanting more. Yes we want the best, but we will work hard to get the best. It is not like we are expecting to get it with no work at all.

Another thing about our generation is that we work well with others. We have been taught to work well at home when we were little and as we went through elementary school to college, we continue to do so. It only makes us work better in any kind of job enviorment .

I think our generation is excited about work, we are excited to create newer things and we continue to strive to be the best. Who would not want to be a part of this generation? I know I am completely thrilled to be a part of such a hard-working crew.