Do you think companies pay magazines for product placement?

[TommyVercetti]

I am not talking about buying space for advertising, I am talking about secretly paying magazines to review their product and give them praise? Say if Time magazine ran a special tehnology section on digital camers, do you think Nikon would pay it under the table to give it's camera better reviews than the competitors?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Maybe pay to get it reviewed, but I think from time to time their is an effect like that. It would be in the form of a bribe, they'll just send the author a few gifts... by mistake and he can do whatever he wants. He can keep his origional ratings or change them, and still keep the gifts.