Daytime Divas ‘Holy Grail’ of Product Placement

When it comes to product placement, most marketers consider having a company’s creation featured by a daytime TV star such as Oprah Winfrey or Ellen DeGeneres to be the “holy grail.” In an article in The Globe and Mail, Mia Wedgbury, president of High Road Communications, a Fleishman-Hillard company, encourages small business owners to “think beyond borders” and “be bold” when it comes to developing product pitches.

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