• Profile logout login

#valleywag#productplacement

Valleywag is Gawker's column from Silicon Valley. Edited by Ryan Tate, it carries technology and internet gossip — the news too scurrilous and juicy for the industry's trade rags.
edit false 5382323 "tagmeta=valleywag","tagmeta=valleywag", tags, front=false

Gawker

Share Cancel
   
Upload an image | Add an image URL
×

logging in
  • FAQ. Include # before tag:
  • #tips,
  • #stalker,
  • #opencaption,
  • #internalmemos,
  • etc.

San Francisco, 8:51 PM
Sun Dec 27
10 posts in the last 24 hours

Tip Your Editors:
tips@valleywag.com | AIM

Valleywag:
Ryan Tate | Email

Valleywag elsewhere on the Web:
Twitter | Facebook

Valleywags Emeriti:
Nick Denton
Nick Douglas
Owen Thomas

SUBSCRIBE TO Gawker RSS

New: Breaking news and daily top stories via email
4260 Subscribers
Gawker
  • more about #valleywag
    TheSometimesWhy: I long for the good old days when a tweet was merely a bird's song.... more »
    TheKenoshaKid: There was an entire Simpsons episode that only existed to plug the Canyonero. That was shameless. more »
    Pope John Peeps II: God forbid he would even take a sip of that beer, maybe adding one single, microscopic edge to that giant fat fucking spherical sponge of human idiocy... more »
    Lysergic Asset: I never really paid much attention to product placement until I was watching a rerun of "The Closer" the other day, and Kyra Sedgwick's sitting at her... more »
    jasonelias: Sell that beer moonface! Really it's not as bad as that old-time shilling on TV shows but it still sad for this day and age. more »
    Sonar Jose: He does shill a lot, but I don't think this one was a forgotten plug, I think it was an impulsive corny joke: "Have a beer, ... or have a 'Buttweiser!'" more »
    CrayonSmoothie: He makes Jimmy Barrett look subtle. more »
    seyswho: It is kind of sad. We are massively inundated with subliminal advertisements on such a regular basis that we don't always recognize them anymore. If h... more »
    Airvault: Because when I think of Budweiser I think of ass. more »
    Matt Cherette: I love that Leno couldn't even pretend to like it, either, as he doesn't drink. more »
    Shadowlayer: I dont see why google has to buy this half-assed company thats only relevant to a few parts of the US and not that popular at all. A google version, ... more »
    youngmarblegiant: I'm a Yelp elite, and let me tell you it is really all about the free booze at the parties. You review a certain number of establishments and you get... more »
    contradicto: What's with the tiny Business Insider link at the bottom of this post? more »
    sfBirdie: Yelp is useful, but you have to read reviews with an open mind - especially in the Bay Area. Many of the 'Yelp Elite' reviewers take the title way to... more »
    DennyCrane: Boutros, Boutros, golly! more »
    raincoaster: The older Yelp gets, the more closely it resembles a cheesy freebie newspaper, the kind with 50-year-old jokes to keep the ad columns apart. The longe... more »
    resipsaloquacious: Henry Blodget? Really? more »
    Shadowlayer: 500M for a "company" nobody outside SF uses or even knows about... Thats it, google just went fucking retarded. more »
    Pope John Peeps II: Tech people seem to believe that the entire digital world is a brand new realm, whose laws and fiats they can cavalierly disregard, or invent to their... more »
    BowlingForDollars: This may sound lame, but I have Creative Commons on all of my material on Facebook. If they make it available in search, isn't that exploiting my "wor... more »
  • #advertising

    Bing Will Annoy You Into Submission

    Microsoft's new search-dealie "Bing" is going up against The Google, which is hard! Fortunately, Bing's marketing wizards have devised the world's most annoying ways to promote it. (*Bing* sound)! More »
  • #advertising

    In the old days, we had to place our products by hand

  • #onlineadvertising

    Julia Allison thinks she's the future of online advertising

  • #acquisitions

    Sugar Publishing ventures into "as seen on TV" product-pushing market

  • #productplacement

    Brawndo, the irony mutilator

  • #dailyshow

    Gates to meet his TV tormentor

    • 1

Login

Enter your username and password.

Please enter a username.
Please enter your password.
logging in
Login via Facebook | Sign Up | Forgot Password?

Reset Password

Please enter your email address to have your password reset.

Please enter your email address.
Please enter a valid email address.
requesting password reset

Register

Registering will give you a user profile and the ability to add other users as friends. To become a commenter, however, you need to audition.

Want to know more? Consult the Comment FAQ and legal terms.

Please enter a username.
Please enter a password.
Please confirm your password.
Passwords are not identical.
Please enter a valid email address.
registration sent, waiting for reply

Submit Your Comment

You don't need to login to comment. Just enter your email address below.

See how your address will be displayed in the Comment FAQ.

Please enter a valid email address.
Please enter a valid email address.
logging in

Login with your Facebook or Gawker account.

Sign up here.



Edit tagpage description

Please make the text shorter.
sending changes
  • Archives
  • About
  • Advertising
  • Legal
  • Help
  • Report a Bug
  • FAQ
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.