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3. What is the difference between 'product placement' and 'product endorsement'?

Product placement advertisements are promotional ads placed by marketers using real commercial products and services in media, where the presence of a particular brand is the result of an economic exchange. When featuring a product is not part of an economic exchange, it is called a product plug.

Product placement appears in plays, film, television series, music videos, video games and books.

Product placement is linked with the inclusion of a brand's logo in shot, or just appearance of a product in shot. This is done without any special mention, it is done so that it looks like a natural part of work. Most movies today contain product placements. So the most common form is movie and television placements and more recently computer and video games.

In promotion and of advertising, a recomendation or endorsement consists of a written or spoken

statement, sometimes from a public figure, sometimes from a private citizen. So product endorsement it is when a well-known person says how good a product is in advertisements. And people will buy the product because they like or trust the person.

Today endorsements appear mostly in television advertising. For example, a smiling star may

demonstrate and describe the benefits that she receives from using this or that product. In the case of celebrity endorsements advertisers aim to use the recognition-factor to draw on the halo effect. In theory, this source transfers from the celebrity to the advertised product, brand, and manufacturer. A problem with using celebrity endorsements involves any negative publicity that the celebrity might get: it will also transfer back to the product, thereby reducing brand equity.