A companion of sorts is Nestflix [0]: "Fictional movies within movies... Fake shows within shows... Browse our selection of over 700 stories within stories."
My favorite "movie withing movie" idea is "Wormhole X-Treme", the Stargate TV-show within the Stargate SG1 TV-show.
They use it for self-deprecating humor, by e.g. lampshading the sometime easy scenaristic shortcut they take, with some episodes where the "real" Stargate SG1 cast would (secretly) serves as advisor for Wormhole X-Treme spoof tv-show.
On top of that, the justification for it is absolutely genius: Because that way, the (in-universe) army could quell any rumor of the existence of the Stargate Command by simply saying "No, that from a TV-show, duh!".
Who put Rebel Alliance and House Atreides in there? Terrible lack of focus, turns it from an interesting study into a random list of stuff from fantasy worlds people like to ramble about.
>The term fictional branding refers to the design and use of brands that do not refer to any service, product, company or organization that actually exists. They can come to include any type of brand, as well as political institutions, military organizations, and more.
I don't disagree with the observation that fantasy entities like rebel alliance and the empire they are rebelling against are built using many of the same mechanisms brands are built with, and with similar goals (recognizability). But it's still ruining the focus of that list. Why not include dwarves? Or Robin Hood's merry men?
If it was "fictional logos", those star wars flags might have their place, but Atreides? Yeah, supposedly there's a falcon on their coat of arms, but I couldn't tell if that particular form is from the most recent movie, from a game or some fan art. And it's been only a few weeks since I've seen that movie, there can't be much visual brand going on if I don't recognize.
That was the first one I looked for as well. Also Volcano Coffee Company, AdventureWorks, the always enjoyable Northwind Traders. (I recall working on a Visual InterDev project that had the Northwind e-commerce store). There's a bunch of others as well: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...
Roleplaying games for instance have entire lists of them, and I am sure there is a video game somewhere that generate them procedurally, making the list effectively endless unless you have some kind of notability criteria. There are hundreds listed in here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MegaCorp and it is just the megacorps, there are many more that are not "mega".
It is canon within your game, and it may ascend to being a true world canon if your game becomes notable enough.
But generally, I agree, I was just commenting about how many there are and how easy it is to create new ones, a lot of us probably made a few of them. Making a fictional brand is a common exercise in business or design schools, it can be done in creative writing, as an example for a presentation, in a role-playing campaign, or just for fun. If anything goes, we may be in the billions.
I'm not positive but it looks like the list is limited to brands that have a specific, recognizable logo and name, which appear in visual media. So that should at least narrow it down.
The whole reason the 1971 movie was made was because Quaker Oats had already decided to release “Willy Wonka” branded candy. That’s why Quaker Oats funded the movie, and why the title differs from the book, because Quaker Oats insisted “Willy Wonka” be in the title for the tie-in.
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My favorite "movie withing movie" idea is "Wormhole X-Treme", the Stargate TV-show within the Stargate SG1 TV-show.
They use it for self-deprecating humor, by e.g. lampshading the sometime easy scenaristic shortcut they take, with some episodes where the "real" Stargate SG1 cast would (secretly) serves as advisor for Wormhole X-Treme spoof tv-show.
On top of that, the justification for it is absolutely genius: Because that way, the (in-universe) army could quell any rumor of the existence of the Stargate Command by simply saying "No, that from a TV-show, duh!".
https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/research.html
If it was "fictional logos", those star wars flags might have their place, but Atreides? Yeah, supposedly there's a falcon on their coat of arms, but I couldn't tell if that particular form is from the most recent movie, from a game or some fan art. And it's been only a few weeks since I've seen that movie, there can't be much visual brand going on if I don't recognize.
https://fictionalcompanies.fandom.com/
Eris running shoes. PetsOvernight.com. Pißwasser beer. Gruppe Sechs armoured cars.
https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/info.php
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdt2aXH-AnZkjTaqJKH...
There's also an email address where I suppose you could send correction requests:
hello@fictionalbrandsarchive.com
Roleplaying games for instance have entire lists of them, and I am sure there is a video game somewhere that generate them procedurally, making the list effectively endless unless you have some kind of notability criteria. There are hundreds listed in here https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MegaCorp and it is just the megacorps, there are many more that are not "mega".
But generally, I agree, I was just commenting about how many there are and how easy it is to create new ones, a lot of us probably made a few of them. Making a fictional brand is a common exercise in business or design schools, it can be done in creative writing, as an example for a presentation, in a role-playing campaign, or just for fun. If anything goes, we may be in the billions.
US Robotics was a major modem manufacturer (but not robots).
IOI is a large Malaysian palm oil producer.
"Acme" as a brand name was very common in a number of industries and predates Looney Tunes.
Even the logo is kind of similar.
Either the designer in the movie didnt remember he “copied” it, or didn’t care…
https://wipeout.fandom.com/wiki/Teams
The fictional brand logo animations in wipEout 3's intro still give me futuristic goosebumps a quarter century later: https://youtu.be/DaI_084xDsg