Watching US programming in a nation that hasn't embraced product placement quite so enthusiastically can be highly distracting. We have some, but it's relatively recent and comparatively subtle.

The scenes showing "natural" placement are often comically poor or heavy handed, with the logo always turned to camera.

There was one scene in errr, Designated Survival where they made a very overt show to display a BMW remote start function (via smartphone). It didn't even have any practical use for the episode, the dude just stood a few feet outside his car to start it with his smartphone because ???????

There’s an episode of CSI Miami where someone says let’s have a video conference and someone else asks but is it secure and Horatio looks right at the camera and says of course it’s secure, it’s Cisco.

It's definitely interesting reading my sibling comments - their complaint is that there are product logos in the shot of the program that is being watched. I have only anecdotal evidence, and it's not even recorded evidence, but I'd wager that the vast majority of these product placement shots take 30s or less from the entire program (often 30m or more).

Personally, and of course this is just my opinion, but I would absolutely take product placement shots (even of the variety given by my sibling comments) over 2m of commercials every 10 minutes in the show.

I don't watch TV, that said I find product placement a pain, all those Apple and Dell laptops shown for no reason, the Nikon cameras thrust into the view, perhaps I'm to sensitive but some shows I'm annoyed by product placement shots every 10seconds.

It is, however, way more manipulative. Disruptive advertising at least makes it obvious that it is advertising.