ArchivesIf a company climbed into bed with producers of a TV show and dangled their product in front of your eyes sometime during the first three months of this year, you were most likely watching a reality show. That’s because “[e]ight of the 10 TV programs with the most product-placement ads were unscripted reality shows,” according to Bloomberg News.
Leading the pack, surprisingly enough, was The Contender, followed by that bathhouse of consumerism, American Idol. UPN’s The Road to Stardom With Missy Elliott came in third.
The product that led the way was Coca-Cola, which “appeared 1,931 times on U.S. television shows in the first quarter, almost as many times as it did in all of last year,” Bloomberg reports. Overall, “product placements rose 27 percent, six times the growth rate of network-TV ad sales, Nielsen Monitor-Plus said in a report released this week.”
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