Branded Entertainment: Product Placement And Brand Strategy In The Entertainment Business

"Product placement has evolved from a novel marketing tactic to a key marketing strategy on a global scale."

Patrick Quinn, PQ Media

Branded Entertainment explains how product placement, a long-time phenomenon in films, has gone beyond this to now embrace all media.

Citing examples from film, to music video, to computer games, the author explains the: history and development of product placement; advantages of this form of brand advertising; methods employed by different brands

Most importantly, Branded Entertainment discusses the future possibilities for using this form of promotion to recreate an emotional connection with customers and exploiting the opportunities afforded by advances in technology to spread the message across multimedia channels.

"Lehu explores the long history of product placement , and discusses its potential in the future".