Advertainment

The influential media blog Gawker described it as "advertainment", saying: "Televised entertainment has now completed its long, winding journey into becoming 100% corporate propaganda." ❋ Andrew Clark In New York (2010)

Kessler called Super Bowl commercials "advertainment" and said they are created less "to sell things" than to be "talked about as fun." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Keep an eye out for these "advertainment" blocks to hit your local theater in September. ❋ Unknown (2010)

-- that make the film "advertainment" as well for the techno-coolness of the U.S. military. ❋ Unknown (2009)

'advertainment' block to marketers in a private presentation in New York. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It should be one long commercial for the included films while providing a teeny-tiny modicum of advertainment in the process. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You have a very good eye for corporate shenanigans and defo give this lame bullshit advertainment the contempt it deserves. 159th! ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

We're talking about the toy company that is G.I. Joe and, in a synergistic fury, is just now releasing an endless range of toys (G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra Night Raven with Air-Viper v1), action figures, video games, board games, Burger King give-aways, and who knows what else as synergistic accompaniments to this elaborate "advertainment." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ad also Forrest Gump, Obamas advertainment campaign message, Jurrasic park governors island, get it? ❋ EAGEAGEAG (2009)

As more of us skip over ads with our DVRs, marketers are being forced to create more integrated advertainment experiences. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Get rid of the psychopath corporate profit-profit-profit mentality and just maybe our information sources will be truly public again and we can look to human interaction again instead of glossy, high fat, low value advertainment! ❋ Unknown (2006)

That's the urgent message from a clatch of public interest groups who wrote to the Federal Communications Commission last week demanding an end to "advertainment." ❋ Unknown (2008)

I take out those bound-in eight-page advertainment comic-like things too. ❋ David S. Carter (2007)

The idea is to engage the consumer more fully in a less obviously commercial advertainment: for example, an ad from the British homeless charity Depaul Trust, which aired on VOD during a British drama, allows the viewer to direct the story line of the ad to one of four endings. ❋ Unknown (2007)

* Speaking of the interstitial CW stuff, is every night going to be a festival of advertainment like last night's? ❋ Unknown (2006)

CBS's Undercover Boss, in which a corporate CEO is beatified for doing normal jobs for a few days, is this season's hottest advertainment hit. ❋ Hamilton Nolan (2010)

CBS's corporate advertainment show Undercover Boss was wildly successful at making propaganda palatable and, indeed, superficially desirable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Brian Dnazis, Chief [Revenue] Officer at Virool was quoted saying "This is the year of [advertainment]!" More and more advertisers are [shifting] towards creating entertaining and meaningful advertainment rather than 15 - 30 second infomercials. ❋ Slim10 (2015)

The [Citroen] adverts with [the giant] dancing [robot] which is a car would be described as Advertainment ❋ The Panda (2006)

"[The lion king]" [theatrical] [show]. ❋ Nodelete (2003)

He's trying so hard to [advertain] the entire school to see [Anything Goes] this [april]. We haven't even finished auditions yet. ❋ J-Kenn (2011)