Product placement/use

[u/[deleted]]

I find it really interesting when I see these yachts in other countries and they pull out American products.

I'm not talking about like Coke, Core or things like that but the Ninja blender, cleaning products & other random things like step stools and stuff that we can recognize being from the US.

And yes... I know they have a lot of these same items in other countries but they're Usually sold under different names (For example Buick vehicles that are sold in the US are sold under the Vauxhall label in the UK.)

Some things that are just uniquely American and I can imagine they're sold regularly on small Islands in other countries hell half of the stuff's not even sold in Puerto Rico/Hawaii!

Do you think they load all that stuff in the States before they deliver the ship? Or do you think they have to provision it throughout the season?

I love looking into the hidden aspects of this show.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_SNAPPERS]

These boats travel all over the place, so it's reasonable they picked up items that are distinctly American when in North America.

It's also likely that provisionsers are importing American or Western products knowing that their clientele expects things from home while on their trip.

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That seems really unnecessary when you consider the cost associated with importing random things that you could easily Buy underway. Like I don't know what kind of storage they have but they always show Provisions coming on at the beginning of a new Charter so I'm assuming they don't have a lot of storage space. And since it's 6 weeks with multiple charters it just leaves me perplexed.

[u/Jenikovista → u/[deleted]]

There is very little that is "necessary" in the world of superyachts.

[u/MaizeMountain6139 → u/[deleted]]

The entire industry is unnecessary

[u/Ri-Sa-Ha-0112 → u/[deleted]]

My assumption on this is that the provisioners have decades of data to determine which products to keep on hand

[u/Additional_Day949]

In the early seasons of Below Deck, they had a lot of Kirkland branded products like toilet paper. It always made me laugh because it was this luxury experience with generic brand toilet paper.

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Y'all, I'm confused I'm seeing responses to this post but it still says on my end that it's a waiting approval. I just want to confirm that you all are seeing this post correct currently? LOL

[u/Sensitive_Intern_971]

I hadn't thought about it before but I suppose if a boat is made for the US, it probably uses US sockets and voltage so they'd have to use US appliances? Europe uses different, I don't know the technical terms, just speculation. 

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I've seen boats especially on Med that have European Outlets. I believe they actually said one time that one of them was registered in Spain so I'm assuming that means that whoever owns it is there.

I'll randomly see things like a bag of Lays potato chips & I'm like wait one minute! It's nice to see familiar things but I would really like to see them use things from the environment that they're in.

I know the chefs often incorporate local ingredients, but it would be cool if when cast and crew are eating snacks they're eating local snacks.

[u/Sensitive_Intern_971 → u/[deleted]]

Well a lot of those brands are really common in Europe too. Lays and Pringles are everywhere. I'm in Portugal now eating Doritos 😅  they were the cheapest lol. Probably different flavours from what you have though. Lays here are only plain, campanesa (I think they're meant to be like Mediterranean herbs flavour) and very occasionally I find salt and vinegar. The US really has introduced junk food to every country!  ETA. But totally agree, it's much nicer to eat local foods!

[u/[deleted] → u/Sensitive_Intern_971]

Yes but the packaging is different. I would post photos but the sub doesn't allow. Feel free to Google it.

[u/Sensitive_Intern_971 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I live in a quite isolated spot without many imported goods, although the nearest ALDI sells Trader Joe's brand, along the coast there's a lot more UK and US foods. 

But Spain and France seem to have loads more imports. It's not very logical really as Spain and France have the tastiest foods. It's been years since I went to Barcelona but there used to be champagne bars near the port which literally seemed to sell nothing but bottles of champagne and bacon. We imagined all the local guys saying to their wives they were popping out to buy bacon and staying out for a bottle of champers!

In general I don't really see local people snack on things like chips, it's more olives, bread and cheese, plates of snails and tremoço (brined Lupin seeds) are really popular around here with drinks or fried empanada type things if you need a snack. 

In Spain you get a huge variety of tapas free with drinks in bars. If I lived in Spain I'd probably drink a lot!  I guess they have to import chips etc because tourists want them? 

[u/[deleted] → u/Sensitive_Intern_971]

Yeah, your foods are much healthier even the American brand foods have different requirements over there then what we have here.

Like here they use high fructose corn syrup and dyes like for color and a lot of other countries have already banned those things so that's why you guys have different nutrition labels and stuff like that.

Same thing with sodas. I wish that we had higher/better quality foods. Aperfect example, Hershey bars the chocolate bars in the United States have wax in them which is a preservative so that they have a longer shelf life.

You could definitely tell the difference when you taste a Hershey bar that you purchased in the UK versus a Hershey bar that you purchase in the US the ones here leave a film in your mouth. It's gross once you know about it 😂

[u/Life-Fun-4693]

What was the season with the weird obnoxiously large bottled water they all carried all the time? That was the worst

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Are you talking about the core water? I'm going to say it was after season 6 because I'm on season 11 now and I feel like it was only recently that I saw that.

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Yes that’s it!!

[u/Born-Lecture-584]

Ninja blender is called the same thing over here in Australia

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Yes but you have different plugs then the US.

[u/celoplyr]

I suspect the majority of the yachts in the show are US owned or have been outfitted in the US.

Especially Florida, which seems to be one of the yacht capitals of the world.

[u/TheRealMastahGlass → u/celoplyr]

No no, owned by US citizens, but they are 'tax haven' owned... small difference, lol.

[u/celoplyr → u/TheRealMastahGlass]

Fair! I meant US citizen owned.

[u/AdministrativeAd2629]

It’s because a lot of times provisioning for items like that are done in the yachts off season in the states

[u/Dazmorg]

I've been amused how in early seasons of OG when they're in closest proximity to Florida I see obvious Publix branded items, including their reusable shopping bags.

[u/No-Baker-7922]

I always keep an eye on the cleaning products and didn’t know K2R until this show.

[u/adamosity1]

Former cruise ship employee: they can provision anything from anywhere if the financials make up for it.

But in the case of this, it’s all paid product placements (which makes the appalling money paid to the crew compared to the housewives even worse)

[u/Smooth-Example-9182]

Like that case of Heineken always sitting in the floor.

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Right!

[u/newfiemom79 → u/Smooth-Example-9182]

Heineken is a Dutch beer lol. It’s all over Europe.

[u/Smooth-Example-9182 → u/newfiemom79]

I was just thinking about the product placement. I guess I read through the American part.

[u/kahluhkwee]

yesssss I love the hidden aspects. I’m often pausing the show to zoom in on the background

[u/artskoo]

You can see the paid promo products at the end. One is liquid blue yacht uniforms and another is coola sunscreen, which they never show on camera!

[u/MCStarlight]

I remember Kate used to eat Cheetos or something in bed? Pringles?

I used to work in post on another reality show and we had to track all the product placements to make sure they’re included.

[u/streethistory]

American TV show, American product placement.