Hawaii 5-0 Subway Product Placement
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as an example of intrusive product placement in TV shows, in threads complaining about advertising.
What it is
A one-minute clip of an episode of Hawaii Five-0 featuring a blatant Subway product placement.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2013 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Critical deaconblues · 2013-11 · on “TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It”
Fair enough. I'd much rather have 3-4 breaks in an episode to surf around online/make popcorn/whatever instead of stuff like this in every show I watch: [this video]
Critical cheald · 2014-01 · on “Microsoft paying YouTubers for Xbox One mentions”
That doesn't bother me so much, because if Sherlock were a modern figure, he'd carry some kind of mobile device and use it the way he does in the show. There isn't a lot of pomp and cirucmstance made about him unlocking his phone and carefully navigating the nanometer-engineered laser-etched icon menus, isn't this device amazing, you should buy one. You near a text message notification (which many of us hear, from our own devices, or our neighbors', on a daily basis), he looks at the phone, the shot shows the phone, and highlights the contents of the message as a storytelling device, rather than as an advertisement for how pretty Apple's software is. I'd like to clarify that I'm not an Apple
Critical lotsofpulp · 2018-08 · on “Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads”
Some examples of intrusive product placement: [this video] [LINK] [LINK] 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.
Critical thinkloop · 2018-08 · on “Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads”
> [this video] Wow, that's really pushing the definition of product "placement". That needs another term like "in-show commercial".
Critical lotsofpulp · 2023-10 · on “The Pirates Are Back”
>not yet within shows but give it time! It has long been within US shows, even before streaming, but it has gotten more and more egregious. [this video]