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Monday, November 28, 2011

The Real Office

So The hit show the Office is essentially becoming real. The employees won't be awkward and funny (maybe). But there will be a Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company, and soon.

From Hollywood Reporter:
NEW YORK – Fans of NBC hit comedy The Office are already familiar with fictional paper company Dunder Mifflin.

Now, Staples-owned Quill.com will use the Dunder Mifflin brand name for copy paper under a licensing agreement with NBCUniversal, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The Dunder Mifflin paper packages will feature slogans that fans of the series will recognize, including "Our motto is, Quabity First" and "Get Your Scrant on.”

Financial details of this two-year so-called "reverse product placement" deal weren’t disclosed. But the Journal said as part of the deal, Comcast-controlled NBCUniversal would get about 6 percent of the revenue from Dunder Mifflin paper sales. If sales targets are met, the licensing deal can be extended.
The paper brand will be priced largely above private-label copy paper, the Journal said.

Copy-paper sales are down amid the growing use of email and PDFs, and consumers often choose based on the lowest price, the Journal said. The new marketing effort is using a brand from a beloved TV series in an effort to draw attention and combat the "race to the bottom in the paper business." Quill's chief marketing officer Sergio Pereira told the paper.

Reverse product placement? Genius.

Good show, bad business idea


Not. I think this idea is novel at best, a downright disaster waiting to happen at worst. I mean I don't know shit about paper but I do know that we have computers and shit now. So I'm sure there isn't a heated billion dollar chunk of market share that this publicity stunt will eat up. Cool idea, but not practical. Nice try NBC.

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