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How Product Placement Works

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The First Product Placement That Ever Happened

In the 1950s, Kate Hepburn threw a case of Gordon's gin over the side of a boat. Alex Cox famously in Repo Man used all generic products. And soap operas are named soap operas because they use product placement.

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