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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by eurasiantiger on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:29AM (#27807342)
If the ads appeared in-world instead of replacing the program material, I would have no problem with this.
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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday July 12, 2021 @06:52AM (#27809004)
Advertising in movies and tv series is huge. I hadn't really noticed smoking on screen much at all in a decade or so until I got Netflix.

Netflix has a massive cigarette addiction.

The other two things I notice a lot are cars and phones / computers.

It has been projected that 11.44 billion U.S. dollars would be spent on product placement in the United States in 2019, up from 4.75 billion in 2012 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/261454/global-product-pl...

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