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A companion of sorts is Nestflix [0]: "Fictional movies within movies... Fake shows within shows... Browse our selection of over 700 stories within stories."

[0] https://nestflix.fun/

Awesome !

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!".

My brother asked once if Angels with Filthy Souls was a real movie.
It's missing some Microsoft ones like Contoso: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120803-01/?p=69...
I've seen Duff beer in stores. I wonder what other fictional products have made it into real life.
Acme is a large East coast supermarket chain.

"Acme" as a brand name was very common in a number of industries and predates Looney Tunes.

Wonka Candy was a Nestle brand of candy.

US Robotics was a major modem manufacturer (but not robots).

IOI is a large Malaysian palm oil producer.

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.
If you think they're missing a brand they have a form here to ask them to add new brands:

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

I looked immediately for the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. A definite oversight.
You should "Share and Enjoy" with them this oversight :)
After looking at that form, nah.
It is going to be a long list.

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".

I think whatever is generated locally cannot be canon, since the world cannot know about it.
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.

>It is canon within your game

It is canon to my game, but I don't expect the Fictional Brands Archive to be canon to my game. Just the same as I'm not going to edit the Skyrim wiki and put down that the Dragonborn is wanted by all the guards in Winterhold and posseses a world's best collection of cheese wheels, just because it happened in my game.

If the playthrough becomes notable enough then it's not a problem since there won't be billions of those.

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.
Arasaka appeared in Cyberpunk 2020 RPG long before the video game Cyberpunk 2077 used it.
If anyone has screenshots of KrebStar Industries products from the Adventures of Pete and Pete, please feel encouraged to submit it to the database (and post here that you’ve submitted it) or share a link to the screenshots, so I don’t spend the whole day getting lost down that rabbit hole of nostalgia.

Here’s a list of KrebStar products: http://pnp.norecess.org/kreb.html

I came here to mention Krebstar as well.
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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.

https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/research.html

Yes, it's a part of the plan, but the point still stands: it dilutes what could have been a focused, interesting collection.
You can set the filter to "private" and get your focused collection. Or somebody interested in fictional political brands can filter by political and get their focused collection.
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.

It's missing Buttfucker's and Tarrington from Idiocracy, amongst others. "If you don't smoke Tarrington, Fuck You!"
Where is "Blammo" the maker of Log?
No Yoyodyne? John BigBoote is gonna be sad
Are we going to attribute it to Gravity's Rainbow or to Buckaroo Banzai?
The America First Party was most definitely NOT a fictional brand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Party_(1943)
Seems there is nuance involved.

>The fictional movement resemble some real associations that in the same period had similar intents.

https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/item.php?id=98

The Plot Against America is alternative history and build on real people, organizations, and events. They are the same organization. But I guess that means that I can add the Catholic Church from Hyperion as a fictional brand too.
The Wipeout game series has a broad set of racing companies complete with in-universe histories and branding that evolves with each release.

https://wipeout.fandom.com/wiki/Teams

The Designers Republic did an incredible work by providing wipEout with its signature Y2K aesthetics.

The fictional brand logo animations in wipEout 3's intro still give me futuristic goosebumps a quarter century later: https://youtu.be/DaI_084xDsg

No Binford Tools? No Setec Astronomy? No Strickland Propane?
Setec Astronomy was never the name of a fictional company, even in-universe they didn't pretend it was a front operation or anything. Merely a phrase, more of a password.
Boy, E Corp sure does look familiar…

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron

The show goes a bit deeper in the references to it. Second season shows some widespread blackouts/burnouts due to events from the first one.

This entire show is a jewel of good storytelling (and technical accuracy that should already have captured the attention of HN folks)

Kruger Industrial Smoothing, Seinfeld, season 9.