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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by chc on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:14PM (#15990969)
Product placement and ads both serve the purpose of promoting something, but they're not really the same thing at all. I mean, both cars and bikes serve the purpose of transportation, but I don't think many people would argue that driving a car is basically riding a bike.
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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by gozur88 on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:31PM (#15991093)
The line gets fuzzy when scenes are added to the show purely for product placement. In my mind that's an ad.
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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by nasredin on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:36PM (#15992388)
I do not recommend watching Transformers (the movies) for you.

The last (and final) one I watched (just to see how bad it was) had a 30 second (I am not shitting you) beer commercial complete with the signature Michael Bay 360 degree shot.

And not to mention the Chinese - "we must call central government" - pandering.

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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by distances on Saturday December 23, 2017 @10:58AM (#15994649)
I saw the Age of Extinction, and it was probably the worst movie I've watched all the way through. It was just astonishingly bad, and the blatant product placement made it even worse.
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