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The BBC does not run intrusive ads. Product placement is not intrusive at all.

deadbunny 8y ago
The BBC is funded via the TV License, they're not a commercial broadcaster.
lotsofpulp 8y ago
Some examples of intrusive product placement: https://youtu.be/oQYwFND7rHE https://youtu.be/oQYwFND7rHE https://youtu.be/ca6W7peL6s4 https://youtu.be/ca6W7peL6s4 https://youtu.be/J8T2kZ8f6BA https://youtu.be/J8T2kZ8f6BA Especially bad when they make a character say or do something that doesn’t fit with their persona to shoehorn mention of a brand. Maybe it’s me getting older, but I can’t help but notice product placement, speeding up of shows, Netflix doing the opposite by stretching out shows with useless filler scenes, story arcs introducing unnecessary and tacked on side plots to increase # of seasons, extra sexual and gore content to shock. It really ruins watching media for me. The last one I really liked was Breaking Bad I think.
- thinkloop 8y ago
  > https://youtu.be/oQYwFND7rHE https://youtu.be/oQYwFND7rHE Wow, that's really pushing the definition of product "placement". That needs another term like "in-show commercial".
  - icebraining 8y ago
    It's not the only one on that show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4
- NeedMoreTea 8y ago
  Those examples should credit Ford and Subway as director. :) I'm the same. The Netflix version of Black Mirror loses so much impact from the addition of 20 mins of dead filler. Don't forget overly long and overblown fight and chase scenes that all movies must now have. They just bore me senseless. The first one I saw was fun, probably Blues Brothers, but even back then they were taking the mickey. Never the choreography and humour of Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan. Nowadays at home when a movie starts a fight against the hero, or the car (spaceship) chase I tend to do something else for 5. Breaking Bad was the best series to come out the US in ages. Even they lost the plot with the insanely long shootout with infinite ammo and insanely bad marksmanship. Thankfully that was a one off so very easy to forgive. :) Brit series go too far the other way and cram far too much into too few episodes. I've been enjoying Last Kingdom but boy are they spoiling it by cramming two books into every season, with fewer episodes per series compared to the US average.

The BBC is funded via the TV License, they're not a commercial broadcaster.

Some examples of intrusive product placement: https://youtu.be/oQYwFND7rHE https://youtu.be/oQYwFND7rHE https://youtu.be/ca6W7peL6s4 https://youtu.be/ca6W7peL6s4 https://youtu.be/J8T2kZ8f6BA https://youtu.be/J8T2kZ8f6BA Especially bad when they make a character say or do something that doesn’t fit with their persona to shoehorn mention of a brand. Maybe it’s me getting older, but I can’t help but notice product placement, speeding up of shows, Netflix doing the opposite by stretching out shows with useless filler scenes, story arcs introducing unnecessary and tacked on side plots to increase # of seasons, extra sexual and gore content to shock. It really ruins watching media for me. The last one I really liked was Breaking Bad I think.

thinkloop 8y ago
> https://youtu.be/oQYwFND7rHE https://youtu.be/oQYwFND7rHE Wow, that's really pushing the definition of product "placement". That needs another term like "in-show commercial".
- icebraining 8y ago
  It's not the only one on that show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4
NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Those examples should credit Ford and Subway as director. :) I'm the same. The Netflix version of Black Mirror loses so much impact from the addition of 20 mins of dead filler. Don't forget overly long and overblown fight and chase scenes that all movies must now have. They just bore me senseless. The first one I saw was fun, probably Blues Brothers, but even back then they were taking the mickey. Never the choreography and humour of Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan. Nowadays at home when a movie starts a fight against the hero, or the car (spaceship) chase I tend to do something else for 5. Breaking Bad was the best series to come out the US in ages. Even they lost the plot with the insanely long shootout with infinite ammo and insanely bad marksmanship. Thankfully that was a one off so very easy to forgive. :) Brit series go too far the other way and cram far too much into too few episodes. I've been enjoying Last Kingdom but boy are they spoiling it by cramming two books into every season, with fewer episodes per series compared to the US average.