Why Online Branded Entertainment Should Study Soap Operas

With so many companies in the past few years talking about producing online video and other forms of “branded entertainment,” I’m amazed by how people often talk about these trends as if they are new. Radio and early television was full of “product placement” and shows produced directly through the subsidy of major brands, such as The Philco Playhouse and Texaco Star Theater. Nowhere has this trend taken greater hold than the soap  …