Stephen Colbert Shows Us the Future of Advertising

Last last year I wrote about Mirriad, which is digitizing product placement in TV shows. Now “The Colbert Report” has covered Mirriad too.

Their version is much more entertaining. (Don’t watch the end of this with your parents, unless you and your parents are totally cool.)

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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