Comments on: Improvised iPod Placement on The Apprentice?

By: John B

John B — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“I watch an unhealthy amount of it”

This sentence doesn’t parse. I didn’t think you could watch too much reality TV…

By: digxworld.com

digxworld.com — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

iPod + Reality TV?

Mike Davidson wrote about this on his blog: Apparently iPod’s have become popular enough to get their own improvised advertisement on Reality TV. On the reality TV series The Apprentice there was a bit of advertising for the HP branded Apple iPod. Suppose

By: Creford

Creford — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve searched HP ipod by Google. It seemed HP offered HP ipods.
Good story, Mike.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I never knew HP made ipods till reading this thread. To me, ipod=Apple.

By: Jeff Greenfield

Jeff Greenfield — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Apple has a standard product placement policy … they will provide the production with computers, iPods.. anything they like .. but they refuse to pay. It’s a standard policy @ Apple.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Josh: I think you’re right about The Apprentice sacrificing business sense for drama, but hey, that’s TV these days. My money is on John… the Vince Vaughn looking guy. He seems to be pretty solid. I know there’s going to be a lot of pressure to NOT pick another white male as the winner, but hey, he’s good.

By: Reverend Dan

Reverend Dan — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maybe they meant HP iPAQs?

By: Alex in Los Angeles

Alex in Los Angeles — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, so who won?

Did the iPods prevail over the $10K? :)

(Editor’s Note: The iPods lost unfortunately. Probably not because of the iPods though.)

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Samuel: Interesting. Yep, never watched The Restaurant, but it sounds like a real dubfest. I’m pretty sure it’s a Mark Burnett production as well.

By: Samuel Sidler

Samuel Sidler — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

…I’ve never seen anything as seemingly improvised as this.

Wow. Did you not watch The Restaurant? That show was full of dubs, changing “credit card” to “Amex”, which is, of course American Express who was the main sponsor of the show. It got so ridiculous that half-way through the season I just quit watching. (There were a few other reasons, albeit, but that was the main one.)

Dubbing and major changes for product placement is a very normal thing now. Most companies/shows are just a little better at it.

By: Josh Bryant

Josh Bryant — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Its funny that you wrote about this. I totally noticed this while watching, not about the different voice, but about how quickly it switched from being just Apple iPods to iPods from HP.

In other news, how do you feel about the apprentice this season? I really feel it lost its quality business aspect and just introduced more drama for the sake of drama. I am not impressed with any of the candidates thus far.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yep, I only heard Ipod. The HP part went right over my head. In this past weeks episode they had a contestant (or whatever they are) listening to some device while laying on his bed. Danny … well he’s history now isn’t he.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Did you see that a marketing exec from HP is leaving to go to Apple? http://www.tuaw.com/entry/1234000483031724/

By: Alex Metzger

Alex Metzger — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It seems weird that Apple would deny them product placement, it’s one of the most aggressively placed products in entertainment today. My guess is that step 2 and 3 didn’t happen.

By: Dimitry B.

Dimitry B. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t undestand why Donald Trump is not a very good person. This is more directed toward NBC and the producer’s of the show. Im sure Trump wasn’t like “Hey! Why don’t we capitalize on that idea and make some money.”

Of course he could have, but from reading a lot about him as well as his book, I doubt it.