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January 02, 2006
Product Placement Goes Virtual
CGI now being used to insert products in TV shows and movies post-production:
...digital placement gives advertisers and producers the option of cutting multiple deals with advertisers, placing one brand of soda in a first-run movie, selling placement for another brand in that movie's DVD release and a third in the portable video player version. Such customized uses, however, are not yet common.
But there are limits:
"It has to be contextually logical," said Mr. Brenner. "We wouldn't put a Coke can on the bathroom sink."
Advertisers are said to be interested in placing virtual billboards on Tyra Banks' enormous freakhead.