The economic worth of product placement in prime-time television shows
Genevieve Begy
London School of Economics and Political Science
Vishal Talwar
JRE School of Management
Introduction
With rapid advancements to technology, consumers are finding themselves better able to outsmart, and, therefore, bypass traditional broadcast advertising. Viewers ‘zapping’ to a minimum of 14 channels (Siddarth & Chattopadhyay 1998) during advertisements using Robert Adler’s invention of the remote control, in combination with 43.6 million Americans owning digital video recorders (DVRs) who fast-forward through unwanted material (Nielsen 2011a), and 143.9 million monthly viewers who (il)legally streamed un-commercialised content in 2011 (Nielsen 2011b) indicates that the...