Product Placement… Done right?

So Chuck is one  of those television shows I watch. And on Monday, they had an episode that had an obvious but still semi-fitting product placement as seen below.

Those characters stayed in character. Big Mike is known for loving food. Morgan is known  for being a goofball and cheesy in a lot of his delivery. When Heroes made a product placement drop last season for Verizon, it didn’t blend.

So televised product placement…

In my opinion, if product placement goes unnoticed, then it is unsuccessful. Product placement almost every time receives an eye-roll. But Subway’s placement was successful, it was uninterruptive, yet noticeable and the eye-roll was a slightly smaller eye-roll.

Advertisers take note. Bad product placement gives the company a bad note. Since we are trained to spot an advertising effort from a mile away, product placement will never go unnoticed. The best you can do is make it the least interruptive and somewhat transparent.

All in all, product placement isn’t dead yet.