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

'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; and methods employed by different brands. Most importantly, it 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.