The buzz around the cup accidentally left in a ‘Game of Thrones’ scene is also worth more than $1 million in free publicity for Starbucks
Starbucks scored the mother of product placements — from none other than the Mother of Dragons.
Eagle-eyed “Game of Thrones” fans noticed a drink that strongly resembled one of the Seattle coffee giant’s familiar coffee cups sitting on a table in front of Queen Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) in Sunday night’s episode. And the incongruous paper cup has launched an Unsullied army’s worth of reactions on social media, as Starbucks is completely out of place in HBO’s Medieval drama where knights and Wildling warriors drink out of goblets and animal horns.