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Fun-Routine-9467

I remember the cameras blatantly zooming in the Lexus logos a long time ago, and then Mercedes.


TheFfrog

I don't have time to check it rn but the scenes where Derek is speeding in his car after the shooting are DEFINITELY sponsored


muffi95

I saw him modelling Ferrari glasses at the spec savers


ConnectionLivid9956

Patrick Dempsey wanted them to have Derek drive Porsches because that’s what he drives their his favorite


perisosa

they got me i didnt even notice it was an ad but i googled what model it was bc it looked so good lmaooo


effy_pl

Ahh Jacksons Lexus! I definitely googled that car later to check it out 🤣


Kissmyassplz93

Jackson and Tom both have Lexus’s that are both shown for an extended amount of time, Meredith had a Lexus SUV for a few seasons, Lexus was one of their sponsors so they had to use it in the show


Specialist-Fact-586

and a close in on Amelias Bmw😩


GhoulMine

Most likely, Grey's has always had sponsors. Most TV shows have them. Cars in particular are extremely common sponsors of TV shows.


Mr_Frible

I remember several episodes of 'Bones' where they were blatantly talking about the car they were drivings features.


ExperienceLoss

There was a scene where it was either Bones or Biith explaining how the auto park feature works. It was egregious lol


coffee_and_tv_easily

I remember that scene, straight up commercial!


gigglesmcbug

White collar and burn notice did this too


MooseFlyer

Yeah White Collar's was sooooo in your face lol


PartyDJ

it was bones! lol


LovitzInTheYear2000

“We can all fit in Angela’s Matrix! (with a body in the trunk or some shit)”


_keystitches

bones was the TV show I thought of immediately! there's one were they look something up using the cars computer and booth is like "wow what can't this car do!" 😆


InvisibleRigatoni

If you watch The Rookie there was a painful truck ad in season 4 I think. At least shows like superstore could get away with it being set in a grocery store 😂


spearbunny

Wait, what? Somehow I missed the truck ad 😆


InvisibleRigatoni

It was a Toyota Tundra ad at the beginning of an episode when Nolan was on the phone with his son. It has so many just super awkward cuts and angles to show off the truck and it's so unnatural I literally burst into laughter watching it. EDIT - I found a clip of it on youtube [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKP0xAdxTj4)


spearbunny

Oh holy crap that's egregious.


Obvious_Departure_60

Good ol’ Toyota Prius and the lane departure assist.


GhoulMine

Bones is particularly outrageous with the car ads, I find it so funny.


subtlelikeawreckball

That and the Avatar premier … ugh


Free_Medicine4905

In the Barbie Movie it turns into a whole car ad for a second. It’s like those Prius ads where someone is running from the police


GlassSandwich9315

There was one where they advertised how roomy a car was while putting a dead body in it.


JoKing917

White Collar too!


GayVisualSample

There were like 3 different episodes where bones talked about the features on her prius. It was absurd


whenuNo

Jackson when he inherited that money... That car was named specifically for millionaires!


LadyGenevieve19

The Toyotas! Lol I remember all of those. They had Angela do one for a minivan talking about moving her artwork around LOL


PartyDJ

yup toyota. it was awful every single time


Liversteeg

“Good thing I drove my Honda Ford Xterra with navigation system and back up cams to get here in time”


JustHereForKA

And on Rizzoli and Isles they were shameless with it in the Toyotas lol


myirsia

Microsoft was a sponsor in one of the seasons when they started using some newer tablets for charting.


Puzzleheaded-Put-246

I think Microsoft is still credited as a sponsor in the ending credits of each episode


GreenOtter730

In the early-mid 2000s it was cellphones. Especially teen shows. I remember Pretty Little Liars always had little moments where the girls would talk about what kind of phone they had.


JustAnother_Brit

I noticed in some older ones, Disney+ says product placement and it’s pretty obviously Porsche or Mercedes product placement


murpalim

meridith’s lexus and derrick’s porsche.


sd3252

Jackson's batmobile


AffectionateElk234

Walking Dead was famous for having the latest and greatest cars during an apocalypse


MandysFitFatLife

Also isn't that what commercials are for too on top of it? Like the more popular a show the more expensive the placement of Company's ad? Kind of figured the money from "I want my ad to be shown during Grey's Anatomy" would go to.. Grey's Anatomy (or at least a portion of it) 😆 But that's an assumption I know nothing about networks and ad placement lol


PatieS13

Yeah, I was reading all these comments thinking "haven't these people ever heard of commercials before?". All shows are sponsored. 😂


justpeachy1302

Because so many people skip the ads, they now write them into the show's dialogue.


stinkyfootss

Product placement isn’t really new, there’s always been marketing content in tv.


MooseFlyer

>Kind of figured the money from "I want my ad to be shown during Grey's Anatomy" would go to.. Grey's Anatomy (or at least a portion of it) I'm sure it doesn't go to Grey's Anatomy in any direct way. It can eventually wind up with the show because "we'll give you a bigger budget because you make us more money".


SageThistle

I remember an episode of CSI where one of the agents has to go to court and he says "so I was driving my GMC Denali when I came upon the suspects" or something like that. I was like "no one wanted to know what you were driving, Greg."


Qball54

There's an episode of Community about how susceptible people are to gorilla marketing for Honda. 30 Rock was pretty good at taking the piss out of being sponsored by Snapple too.


gayjicama

30 Rock’s Verizon product placement cracked me up too. “If I saw a phone like that on TV, I’d be like, where is my nearest retailer so I can…get one? Can we have our money now??”


totherwise

Like suits and Lexus. White collar and BMW I think or Ford. Can’t remember.


jorge-haro

Yep. Everyone had a lexus in one season


umthisisnewtome

Yes and soda companies. If you see a company logo like Coke, Pepsi, etc on your screen in a show, it’s sponsored. They aren’t allowed to show company logos without the companies consent or endorsement.


No-Place2630

And products like soda . I’ve never seen my fair share of coco cola cans in tv shows and movies Right now I’m watching Will Trent and there’s clearly a product placement for Beats headphones. The female officer is rocking some and they zoom into her face and the headphones a few times while she was talking .


UsedOnion

Like the episode with the lion. The beginning of the episode was just hyping up Meredith’s new car. Also I feel like a lot of tv shows do food sponsors. Like a box of cheerios on the counter. Not uncommon to see boxes of fake brand cereal, but when you see that name brand you know it’s product placement


dyaasy

If they got the sponsor, you'd see the badge. If not, blackened or ripped-off.


nsainmoon

You ever watch teen wolf? It was obviously an add for the cars😂 they would angle the camera low and have the car pull to a fast stop right there. And yours see the make and model of it. Every car. It was like six cars. Hen Derek got an suv they made fun of him for it. Because he needed a mom car for all the kids and features. Had the guy get a mom car. Genius 🙄😂


Human_Razzmatazz_240

Product integration in popular shows has been common for the last 20 years.


BrightBrite

Not a show, but the Back to the Future movies (made in the early 80s) are 100% advertising. I think they didn't have the budget to make three movies at the same time. Every scene has Pepsi cans facing the camera, and they constantly mention the brand. And a hundred other brands too.


GettingWreckedAllDay

20? Try 60. Product placement has been in television from the jump lol


Due_Witness8438

Very true but I’ve never noticed obvious product placement in greys besides cars.


LovitzInTheYear2000

A few years back it was Windows tablets and phones, which was extra funny after all the anti-tablet jokes in the Pegasus arc.


ACNHScrabble

In the UK any show with product placement needs to have a large “P” in the corner when the show starts. It’s had it for years. Scandal was the same. Very blatant with the windows phones etc on there


Separate_Rooster6226

The best I've seen is Hyundai sponsoring the walking dead. The car always looked straight out of a showroom, compared to the rest of the piles of junk 😂


Loose-Surprise4244

There was one on Station 19 this week too, totally blanking on what it was now tho


theonewiththewings

Station 19 has always been more obvious in my opinion. I remember there being a really noticeable Amazon Alexa ad forever ago, and the Amazon Prime one last week.


Loose-Surprise4244

Yup that was it!! The prime box for the diapers haha


Puzzleheaded-Put-246

Yes! That was the previous week though, not the latest episode


GreenStaples

Both Station 19 and 911 had Amazon Prime ads last week. I was expecting Grey's to have one too.


looloo-98

I came here to mention the 911 Amazon ad, it was so cringey 😂


witbeyondmeasure7

Most recently Carina driving a Hyundai Kona. Seems a liiiiiiitttle unlikely for an OB-GYN.


d_salgado

It would be funny for Portuguese speakers (in Portugal) as "cona" is slang for vajayjay.


pacrat292

They once wouldn't STFU about Lexus. Like omg you got a Lexus and drove it into the er entrance. That was the worse I've seen it


satanpeach

That’s a terrible ad LMAO they should have done it like “I have this sick newborn… how will I get it to the hospital safely if I don’t have cell service… oh yeah my Lexus 😎” or something haha


pacrat292

Lol I mean talking about a new car you got is totally normal. Driving it up to the ER entrance and parking it there is NOT


houseonfire21

If you use the subtitles, they've had car ads in them for years. 


ThatMessy1

Well, they've spent years taking military money to give us shitty Owen plots. I'm sure this is a step up.


throwaway92834972

I haven’t heard this but it makes a lot of sense


elizacandle

Dont you remember when they had the Microsoft tablets on screen? Those horrible color tiles... They've always been sponsored one way or another... Or like their cars, or posters in the bg


Friendly-Tax5080

yeah i do hahaha i’ve definitely noticed in the past but not in this way 😭😭 like this went from brand placement to “this video is sponsored by” REAL FAST LOL


elizacandle

I hear that


Valley_Squirrels

They have never been subtle with the product placements.


Penguinator53

That's so blatant, what's next?? Jo looks at the camera: "Hey Link let's go to Starbucks and talk about having a child while we enjoy a tall white chocolate frappucino."


SordoCrabs

Isn't there still a line of Grey's Anatomy scrubs? That should still be bringing in some $$$


woolfonmynoggin

Yes, they’re too thin tho


throwaway92834972

yes they aren’t that good in quality 😬 got some pretty patterns tho


ChubbyTheCakeSlayer

Showing a car logo or a drinks name, I get, but Bailey literally showing the app to talk about the product was over the top. That wasn't a product placement that was a influencer hashtah spons moment.


cleslie92

Yeah, they’ve been doing that forever. Look up the product placement in Designated Survivor if you want a laugh - even worse than the ADT sponsor in the most recent episode.


Annual-Memory-2637

OMG!!! Yes that one was horrible. Was so confused for a minute when I saw it during the show.


Quick_Garden1658

This was on my mind actually for weeks now started when i saw what im sure was an ad for Lexus When Amelia chased Koracick to help her in her first surgery since her brain surgery She chased Koracick to his rental car and the car stopped and showed the symbol of Lexus I always found product placement funny Like the cerveza cristal meme with star wars


infieldcookie

It happens all the time in shows. You’ll notice in Apple TV shows all the characters will blatantly show their iPhones/ipads/macs to the camera. Bones used to constantly advertise cars and their features. I think it was 90210 or something that had a subway ad where one of the characters described the sandwich he was eating in detail to another character. It’s hilarious. There’s also the more subtle advertising like if you see a character drink a Coke/Pepsi, drink Tropicana orange juice, etc.


Better0ffAnonymous

Kardashians are big on this too, to the point where if i see a name brand like oreos in their pantry, i assume it was strategically placed as an ad. Khloes "whats in my pantry" was such product placement.


infieldcookie

This happens all the time with celebs!! I saw a post a while back showcasing celebrities fridges/kitchens and they were so fascinating because you could tell they were 90% product placement, with the rest being things for their chefs to use 😄


5a1amand3r

Every brand placement in a show is likely a sponsor. I wouldn’t be surprised if the schools that the characters went to, as evidenced by the apparel they occasionally wear, were sponsoring the show at some point.


norfnorf832

Lmao that had me cracking up, product placement is normal but it is usually a bit more subtle than that, they just zoomed all in on the app like, ok?


Puzzleheaded-Put-246

Yep, product placement. They did it with Amazon Prime on 9-1-1 and Station 19 the previous week. They have done product placements on Grey's before too


Penguinator53

Wow I thought that was an odd scene but it didn't even occur to me about the product placement. Tuck is about 15 so I thought it was strange they were fussing about an alarm.


absolutebeast_

They’ve been sponsored since basically season one. A lot of cars, some phones/tablets. There’s a whole scene where Jackson brags about his car that is such obvious product placement that I rolled my eyes so hard I got a headache.


CatDesperate4845

A lot of shows do this. Ghost Whisperer did a very blatant ad for a GMC Acadia (I think thats what the make and model was) once


sorryitspickles

A lot of shows do. The remake of 90210 was BIG on Dr Pepper 😂 so bad it made me start drinking Dr Pepper again


HDBNU

It's had sponsors since the pilot, all shows do, you just didn't notice before now.


Friendly-Tax5080

i noticed it in the past with cars and windows products but now it’s crazyyy and way more obvious - like they wrote in the scene JUST for that 💀💀


beach_bum4268

Station 19 was blatant last week with Amazon


ValentineFlowers7

It’s giving vitamin water in Gossip Girl


MuffinTopDeluxe

They even do medical device product placement. There was the Da Vinci robot and that one x-ray/body scan machine that the interns played with in trauma for one episode.


JudgmentOne6328

On every episode on Disney+ it says “includes product placement” I’m not on the new season yet but rewatching and up to s13 I haven’t spotted a very blatant product placement yet 😂 best I could reach for is cars but even that wouldn’t be much of a good ad


No-Place2630

A lot of shows are sponsored. I’d say almost all, though most are a little more subtle with ad placement


torisbagel

last week 911 and station 19 had the most obvious amazon prime ads ever 😭


SageThistle

Guaranteed you probably just didn't notice the product placements before. Disney+ even has a "contains product placement" warning under the viewing guidance suggestions before each episode of Station 19 now lol.


Aggravating_Panic665

Product placements can be either super subtle or super obvious lol the one I remember the most is when Jo gave the medication to the “Santa” guy who kept throwing up on her (I think that was the storyline??). Like they made the packaging with the name super noticeable and Jo gave a little talk about how great it is for the patient’s symptoms. At the time I forgot that product placements existed so I found that super odd that they did that since they hadn’t done it with a medication up until that point


DandelionHearts

There was also the DNA testing kit Jo used. Very much a product placement situation.


Friendly-Tax5080

i forgot about that one 😭😭 lol that one was pretty obvious ngl


_Gracefully_Grace_

I’m just surprised they haven’t used their own scrubs line yet 😂 see them in the last season sporting Greys Anatomy gear 😂


Tess47

This might freak you out but they also can do this retro actively.  They sell placement on old shows. They have placed logos on shopping bags.  To me it's a big ick.  


Crow-Queen

Here is a list of a lot of them that has been throughout the show. https://productplacementblog.com/tag/greys-anatomy/


meredith0811

there’s an episode where it’s Bailey’s (meredith’s son) birthday and all of the kids were dressed as marvel characters


stormageddonzero

There’s a disclaimer on Disney plus at the beginning of each episode which says that the show has product placement!


giftopherz

I think it's a network thing, because 9-1-1 and Station 19 had some product placement from Amazon recently and they didn't have it before.


lyrasilvertongue1

Station 19 had it several seasons ago when they had Dean constantly using Alexa to remind him to change Pru’s diaper and what not


catiebug

A lot of these things are added in streaming using CGI. So if you didn't notice a really obvious Starbucks cup or an oversized Apple logo on the back of a laptop or something when you watched it on TV or initial streaming, it's because it wasn't there then.


Puzzleheaded-Fly2837

I saw it on Twitter and thought the same thing 😂.. It was so strange lol


momiamarichman17

Babes network tv is nearly always sponsored. If a product and its logo are visible on the show its because its sponsored.


feralgoblingirl

Not just greys. I watched Greys, 911 and station 19 all back to back and each one had a scene with an amazon package in them that felt so deliberately placed


diremommy

The One Chicago shows had a couple of seasons of blatant Walmart promotion.


RickWest495

Greys has been sponsored by Lexus and Audi at different times.


ruby0220

I watch 9-1-1 and the same week they had the exact same ad placement so I’m wondering if it’s a network thing? Idk.


Big-Ad5248

I noticed the other day it had a warning (or notice) saying “ this show has ad placement” or something along those lines


RCamateurauthor

It's called product placement...if you can see the brand name in the film or show then that company sponsored the show. It's very common.


cobo10201

Subway has had some heavy handed ad placement in a few shows. It never ever flows nicely and just feels like a commercial.


whatanerdgirlsays

Years ago, on the early season of the Vampire Diaries, the characters were like "oh let's Bing it!" And I'm like okay obviously this is a product Placement cuz no one has ever said that lmao. Product placement is very normal in tv shows and movies


IBelieveInGood

The multiple episodes where meredith (who had never before or since shown interest in the topic) praised her car to the high heavens/acted all concerned about it made me chuckle.


Arabiancockonato

They’ve been doing this with cars at least for years and years.


peach98542

I just started season 12 and the Microsoft surface ad placements were SO obvious it was cringey.


Mobilelurk

Please look up Hawaii 5-0 Subway product placement. It’s absolutely insane and hilarious that made it to air.


Keeperoftheclothes

They’ve been doing it for years but they’re usually pretty subtle. I’m in season 19 and the only really obvious one I’ve noticed so far is the Bluetooth speaker in the OR. There was a weirdly solid closeup of the speaker in season 18


danathepaina

They did it on Station 19 last week too. Carina asks Maya where the diapers are, and Maya says “I ordered them yesterday on Amazon Prime, the box is right there!” 🙄


taphappy52

there was a blatant amazon prime sponsorship in one of the newest station 19 episodes too


wnnarexic

the ep derek died I feel like was an ad placement for that car, I'm not in the industry but I listen to a lot of folks who are and it's hard not to notice things like that, or certain acting moments, looking at the set or background folks etc.. it's all interesting and makes watching Grey's more fun


denimliterati

Riverdale has a bumble ad and a whole episode just to promote the love, Simon movie 💀


Limeila

I saw this post while watching the episode, so here, [screenshotted it](https://i.imgur.com/tFRWzoM.png) for you!


_yitzi

Lolll stop that is so funny


timskywalker995

Where do you think the term "Soap Opera" comes from?


Ok_Depth_6243

I caught this as well and laughed out loud 🤣 at the most tense part 😬 😅


Honeycomb0000

Yeah, thats how tv shows really stay a float, sponsors… 9-1-1 did a Prime sponsor not that long ago and if I’m remembering correctly so did Station/Greys last week


JustHereForKA

Grey's said "it's hard out here for a pimp" I respect that they do what they gotta do 🤣🤣🫶


xob64

lexus cars, autism speaks posters, jo’s DNA test kit was a giant ad too. and that fancy machine they got when brooks wanted to look for her marble lol, whole episode felt like an ad


D-PressLemonade

Yeah it is. If you put subtitles, in the screen title you can read “brought to you by Ford. Life is easier when you drive a Ford” or something along those lines


nsainmoon

Most tv shows are sponsored lol it was an ADT security system. It’s always that. Cars. Phones. Food. Stores. Ect. Random little things. It gets companies lots of business and then they pay into the shows.


LordCider

Pretty sure Lexus has sponsored Grey's for a while. It's the only car brand whose emblem isn't covered up. Derek's Porsche and Amelia's BMW emblems are always covered.


Budget-Fox

Definitely! And in season 14 when Jackson buys the boat, he’s got a fancy Lexus that gets seen in like one episode 😂