I wonder how much Nike paid for product placement in the scene where the messenger runs from Marathon to Athens and shouts "Sneakers!" while his hard, chiseled abs glint in the dim grey cloudy sunlight... then collapses in glory.

I can see this being a setup for some reveal sponsored by Shick or Gilette, with product placements of course.

@renatojj-There's a fatal flaw in your argument-You assume that there are equitable rules that govern which corporate entities may enjoy a seat at the big-boy's table and those slated for consumption.
Systemic corruption to the point of excising a cancer in hopes of saving the patient would be more relevant an analogy. These huge entities who have cultivated and maintained their empires through placement of representatives, presidents, and lawmakers, and the propaganda through marketing and mind control have structured a system which consolidates their collective power and further entrenches their sustainability.

This machine appears to have effectively influenced your world view enough to play spokesperson for the criminal elite and ensure another 1000 years of indentured servitude for the bulk of the earth's inhabitants.

In other words my friend, your condition appears to be terminal.

That's not really any different though. It's just a matter of camera placement. In Mario 64, like any 3D game, the camera could have been positioned in Mario's head to make it first-person rather than third-person with the camera above him.

(Tangent: I've always wondered what it would be like to play a second-person game.)

somehow, I think the "skill" here has more to do with cup placement, than anything having to do with "golf"

How is product placement "viral"?

Viral does not mean what you think it means...

Good form... excellent paw placement... might have to take some points off for the re-positioning, but otherwise an excellent routine!

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People started skipping commercials, then bitched about commercials, and then pirated to avoid commercials, then tivo'd pirated material to avoid commercials . . . What did you expect?

But seriously, this isn't new. It's so old it's frightening that people are only realizing they're being sold to through product placement.

Grocery stores . . . the company pays the grocery store to be placed at eye level.

Smokers . . . companies used to pay (and still do) pay hot chicks to go to bars and clubs and smoke their brand. Or vodka. My neighbor does liquor promotions. That's all he does. Hires hot 18 year old to go pass out vodka.

Why? It works. Simple.

Manhunter has the worst foldger's product placement ever

Fringe last couple of seasons were running Ford and Nissan commercials. Product placement is here to stay folks. It's a commercial that can't be overlayed by local stations.