Nokia counts the product placement views in Britney’s Womanizer

Tuesday October 14, 2008 / Categories: Advertising

Product placement is a wonderful thing. We get little of it in the UK due to regulatory laws, unless of course we’re watching an American production when suddenly it seems to matter not.

Big brands can usually gauge how many people have seen their products in films by box office viewings, and likewise for TV. Neither was a true measure of consumer penetrability, but a good indicator anyhow.

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Even better is today’s version.

Britney Spears’s Womanizer video has had around two million views within the first two days of being available on YouTube.

Real figures that Nokia, which features in the video, can count.



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- Works as an online marketing and content consultant, and has been in digital media for over five years.
- Focuses on fashion brands, although he undertakes projects in other sectors.
- Is on the judging panel for the first Drapers Etail Awards in 2009.
- Was one of fifteen digital media experts to contribute to the 2008 Social Media Handbook by the IAB, the trade association for online advertising.
- Interviews fashion e-commerce professionals for Drapers Online blog The Online Fashion Position.
- Has written for Econsultancy.
- Offers advice to small businesses on the Enterprise Nation website.


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