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Was the Starbucks cup actually a product placement?
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:08 am
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:08 am
I think it was. It's sitting right in front of her. There's no way they all said "roll em" with that obvious thing hanging out there.
The show has limited revenue streams. HBO gets more subscriptions, but that's nothing compared to movie ticket revenues or network TV ad revenues.
Producers have come up with some interesting ways to weave products into period pieces, something known to be extremely difficult. The ending of the movie State and Main makes fun of this fact. Episode 4 has had people talking about Starbucks for days, and I guess the presumption is that they love Starbucks so much that they forgot it was in the shot. Or whatever. Anyway, I think it was an intentional product placement.
Also, are the Targaryens just a ripoff of the Taarakians from Heavy Metal? Two groups of attractive, silver-haired people with similar sounding names. The Taarakians have way better tits, but still.
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I mean, this is what GRRM looked like back then (is that an astro-sign medallion?). Just sayin'.
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The show has limited revenue streams. HBO gets more subscriptions, but that's nothing compared to movie ticket revenues or network TV ad revenues.
Producers have come up with some interesting ways to weave products into period pieces, something known to be extremely difficult. The ending of the movie State and Main makes fun of this fact. Episode 4 has had people talking about Starbucks for days, and I guess the presumption is that they love Starbucks so much that they forgot it was in the shot. Or whatever. Anyway, I think it was an intentional product placement.
Also, are the Targaryens just a ripoff of the Taarakians from Heavy Metal? Two groups of attractive, silver-haired people with similar sounding names. The Taarakians have way better tits, but still.
> I mean, this is what GRRM looked like back then (is that an astro-sign medallion?). Just sayin'.
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Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:09 am to blueboy
Apparently wasn’t even a Starbucks cup. Some other coffee.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:11 am to blueboy
No. It wasn't a Starbucks cup. But everyone thought it was and apparently Starbucks did benefit from the publicity.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:12 am to blueboy
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Anyway, I think it was an intentional product placement.
then you're an idiot
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:14 am to blueboy
Then they should have raised enough money for Jon to pat Ghost on the head after he tossed him aside
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:18 am to abellsujr
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No. It wasn't a Starbucks cup. But everyone thought it was and apparently Starbucks did benefit from the publicity.
It was some local Irish coffee joint.
Starbucks Supposedly got like $200 mil in free advertising from it. I have no idea how that is figured, but that’s what I heard on the radio.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:19 am to McCaigBro69
Yeah I heard that too. Amazing. 
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:34 am to Salmon
quote:Thanks.
then you should do product placements for TV and movies, because you're a frickin' genius
This post was edited on 5/10/19 at 9:35 am
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:36 am to blueboy
How would it be? Product placement is in your face. That was very very very subtle.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:39 am to blueboy
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Was the Starbucks cup actually a product placement?
Could've been. I think they call that guerrilla advertising.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:47 am to McCaigBro69
quote:All I'm saying.
Starbucks Supposedly got like $200 mil in free advertising from it. I have no idea how that is figured, but that’s what I heard on the radio.
And again, if it's not a product placement, something like that could be in the future. Clearly, it should have been here.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:50 am to blueboy
had to have the money to CGI Ghost getting his heart broken from somewhere
Posted on 5/10/19 at 9:52 am to blueboy
Posted on 5/10/19 at 10:04 am to blueboy
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The show has limited revenue streams.
You're literally out of your mind. The Earth is drowning in licensed GoT products.
It's embarrassing, but it happens. Even in big budget productions.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 10:06 am to blueboy
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Was the Starbucks cup actually a product placement?
Why would they have removed it then?
Posted on 5/10/19 at 10:28 am to Mystery
Starbucks released a new Dragon drink for the summer a week before the episode aired. I googled starbucks that Monday morning after the episode aired and later in the day got a spotify ad for it.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 10:35 am to blueboy
Posted on 5/10/19 at 11:02 am to Mystery
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Why would they have removed it then?
The fact that they could remove it digitally proves to me that it was intentional. Are we really supposed to believe that it went totally unnoticed until the viewing audience immediately saw it, and then they were like “wow, we should fix that!”
Posted on 5/10/19 at 11:04 am to Ace Midnight
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It's embarrassing, but it happens. Even in big budget productions
You can see a power cord/box under Stannis Baratheon’s leg when he’s laying next to a tree after he lost the battle against the Bolton’s in Winterfell. At various times it’s been obvious they use rubber prop swords.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 11:08 am to CaptSpaulding
Yes. shite happens. The primary and secondary focus of that scene is to the left and upper portions of the screen and an actor’s head obstructs the cup at the beginning of the shot. I’m not sure why having the ability to digitally edit it out would mean it’s on purpose. They can edit out or add anything they want in post.
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