The last few weeks have seen high profile changes in British production finance and NMG’s John R Barnard believes these will have a significant and beneficial impact on the UK product placement market – opening the doors to UK marketers looking for quality brand integration in long shelf-life films and TV dramas that will travel the world.

In February 2011 Ofcom permitted limited liberalisation of UK paid for product placement. This was perhaps the biggest shakeup in the product placement market since 1984 when NMG introduced formalised free prop provision to an unstructured marketplace. So a little over two years since Ofcom’s changes, where can we see market trends going? NMG offers its predictions…

John Barnard, chairman of NMG Product Placement, on all you need to know about buying product placement…

In response to YouGov’s ‘Product Placement underwhelms’ article, John Barnard, chairman NMG Product Placement at Pinewood Studios, says many of the respondent’s comments about noticing product placement all the time are based on seeing brands, not product placements.