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Are you looking for something funny to show on one of those last days of class this semester?  Check out this example of product placement at its best (worst?).  The soap opera industry is in decline and must be getting desperate for advertising dollars.   Product placement is usually pretty subtle — not here.  You can find a couple more examples at “‘Days of Our Lives’ Gets Called Out for Hilariously Obvious Product Placement” (Yahoo! TV Blog, November 15, 2010).  [UPDATE 9-14-11:  now link here]  File this under promotion, product placement — or funny video.  Thanks to my colleague Kathleen Kelly for bringing this to my attention.

It’s about that time in the semester to go over advertising.  Here are “30 Funny Print Ads that’ll Make You Laugh” (Web Design Ledger blog, March 18, 2010).  For most of these ads, you can click on the ad to link through to a higher quality version.  If you right click over the high quality version, you can copy the image and move it into, and resize it for a PowerPoint presentation if you want to show it in class.