Question: What company had a five-season contract with Gossip Girl?
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"Gossip Girl" is known for its product placement.
The show had a contract with Verizon Wireless for its first five seasons; all the characters were seen with phones chosen by the brand until the deal ended by the sixth season.
During their contract, Verizon Wireless offered exclusive "Gossip Girl" content and created a website where ringtones of the songs featured on the show could be downloaded.
In the summer of 2008, executives of VitaminWater approached The CW for a placement deal.
During the second season, the drinks were mentioned several times in dialogues.
The partnership helped pay the costs of shooting on location in the Hamptons.
An HP TouchPad was prominently displayed in an episode of the sixth season.
According to OneNewsNow.com, other sponsors have included Procter & Gamble, L'Oreal, Target and Johnson & Johnson, which allowed the series to earn $28.2 million in ad dollars in 2007.
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Casting and characterization.
Introduced in the fourth season, DeFer was set to join the cast as Carol's daughter and Serena and Eric's cousin, Charlie Rhodes.
DeFer's contract with the show also included the possibility of her becoming a series regular for the fifth season.
She first auditioned for the role of Raina Thorpe.
However, that role went to Tika Sumpter.
DeFer was called back for the role of Charlie Rhodes, with the show's writers stating that they were writing something new for her character.
DeFer had also previously worked with "Gossip Girl" executive producers, Stephanie Savage and Joe Lazarov as well as Penn Badgley in "The Mountain".
Executive producer Joshua Safran later commented on her introduction and the perception that the character brought to the show.
"We always like it when we have new people who are witnessing this world for the first time... For Charlie, it’s like trial by fire.
From reading Gossip Girl for the first time or going to your first event, all that stuff we get to do over again in a new way.
"Charlie's integration also made her a voice for the audience and critics of "Gossip Girl".
TV Fanatic warmly welcomed her character, stating that she "good-naturedly mocked the show and its often convoluted plot lines."
DeFer would later reveal details behind her character's involvement in the fourth season finale, "As far as I know I’m just in the next five episodes until the season finale, and then I have no idea.
But I really hope we get the opportunity to finish what Charlie started as I think it’s going to be a story-line that people will really want to follow."
DeFer also states that Charlie is more relatable in comparison to other characters that have appeared in the show.
"She is such a real person, not being from that life and what not..." 
Voiced by Kristen Bell, "Gossip Girl" is the narrator of the show, an unseen character whose gossip commentary blog is widely visited by the youths of the Upper East Side social scene, often stirring the lives of the main characters.
Her identity remains a secret but still manages to lure readers with catty wordplay and scandalous news provided via tips through the members of the Upper East Side social network.
Gossip Girl has avoided discovery twice: first, when her blog was the subject of getting shut down during Dan's incident with Miss Carr; and second, when Serena attempted to confront her personally in the second season episode, "The Graduates," by texting her and saying she knows Gossip Girl's identity.
However, this second attempt ultimately failed, as Gossip Girl invited the entire class with her, masking her identity.
Gossip Girl then gave everyone the perfect present: A clean slate and that she will be following them to college.
Gossip Girl showed a personality trait in the fourth season episode, "The Townie", where she responded to a request from Blair for the location of Juliet with the address and "find the bitch," showing that she does not appreciate anyone who may threaten the validity of her blog, leading one to believe she may be personally motivated.
In the fifth season episode, "G.G.
", it shows Georgina Sparks behind the computer posting a message as Gossip Girl, but in the following episode she reveals to her husband/accomplice that the real "Gossip Girl" abandoned her post following Chuck and Blair's accident.
Serena becoms "Gossip Girl 3.0" in the season five episode, "Con Heir", after Georgina ("Gossip Girl 2.0") sends the power laptop and the blog's password to her.
The real Gossip Girl steals back her post with the power laptop in episode 22, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," with the help of Nate and Lola.
In the series finale, Sage advises Nate to find out who Gossip Girl really is after seeing his old research of Gossip Girl.
Nate had to give up his research as a part of the deal for information from Gossip Girl herself.
With everything resolved, Nate is now determined to find out who Gossip Girl is by going through his research again.
Dan had been releasing chapters of his second book to multiple blogs, each containing stories specific to one person, with disastrous aftermaths.
The final chapter of the book was given to Nate from Dan, who uses it to propel "The New York Spectator" forward in the ratings.
Everybody gets a message from "The Spectator", revealing Dan as Gossip Girl all along.
His true motivation behind Gossip Girl was his love for Serena and the need to get in the elitist world of Manhattan, which Dan couldn't get because he wasn't born into that world.
One moment, years in the past, Dan accidentally got in a birthday party of someone, he met Serena for the first time and fell in love with her.
After that, Serena disappeared and Dan vowed himself that one day he would be a force to reckon with.
So he made the identity of Gossip Girl himself, and posted the first post about Serena in the ninth grade.
Just soon after Gossip Girl was established, he got the tips and e-mails from everyone in New York.
When Serena returned from boarding school, Gossip Girl becomes really famous by sending the news to everyone that Serena was back in town.
Everyone comments that Gossip Girl was not at fault but everyone else for providing Gossip Girl with the information.
With Dan revealing his identity to the world, Dan declares that Gossip Girl is officially dead.
In the flashforward, we are shown a new generation of kids as Gossip Girl narrates: "You may be rid of Dan Humphrey, but you'll never be rid of me.
There's always someone on the outside, wanting to get in.
Who am I now?
That's a secret I'll never tell.
XOXO, Gossip Girl.
", revealing that five years later someone else is Gossip Girl, and that the legacy goes on. 
The episode received generally favorable reviews.
"Zap2it" wrote, "Sure, Blair's (Leighton Meester) been dreaming of her fairytale wedding since she was just a little girl.
But it's also true that producers of "Gossip Girl" have been dreaming of this moment for a long time as well.
And the Upper East Side drama didn't disappoint.
In fact, it was easy the best episode this season."
Steve Marsi from "TV Fanatic" gave the episode a four stars rating out of five writing, "In what has come to be sort of a make-or-break episode, "Gossip Girl" had a golden opportunity to redeem its recent mediocrity and prove itself worthy of all the passion and loyalty we've invested over the years.
While there were some gaping plot holes and disappointments tonight - especially depending on your couple of choice - you can't find fault with the pure number of twists, especially during the last five minutes."
Marsi appreciated the references to "Gossip Girl"s early days, "The promised homages to the old days were there in spades, and incorporated in ways that actually fit the present-day story.
Case in point: A memorable "Gossip Girl" quote ("I love you, always have, always will") which was spoken to a very different character long ago.
Also, the cover of "Young Folks" at the onset was fun."
"The Huffington Post"s Laura Prudom also found the episode had honored "Gossip Girl"s past, "For the first time in recent memory, this week's milestone episode of "Gossip Girl" finally recaptured the confident plotting and razor sharp shocks of its first two seasons."
She also praised the fact Georgina is Gossip Girl which was totally unexpected.
"The Hollywood Reporter" wrote, "In classic "Gossip Girl" fashion, the 100th episode was full of witty one-liners, many of them from the mouth of Georgina Sparks and one in honor of "The Princess Bride"; paid homage to the pilot; and featured several head-turning moments."
Ology gave the episode a 9/10 grade.
"Digital Spy" writer Catriona Wightman found the episode "completely absurd" but "brillantly entertaining."
Morgan Glennon of BuddyTV wrote, "Despite how ridiculous it was seeing character after character after character try to save Blair from her own stupid decisions, "Gossip Girl" really knows how to do big events.
After 100 episodes, the show understood that it needed to go big to top off the royal wedding storyline.
So the wedding, and attendant quest to stop it, was as big, dramatic and heartfelt as "Gossip Girl" at its best."
Glennon also conceded about the Gossip Girl reveal, the show can still pull out those OMG moments.
Glennon found Georgina "amazing" in the episode, "you can't even take your eyes off her because she's so great in every scene."
However, The Atlantic Wire thought the writers "should have waited until the last-ever episode to do the unveiling" of Gossip Girl and questioned, "isn't that indicative of the show's greater failings over these past four and a half years?
That constant need of this once-promising show to tip its hand too soon?"
and concluded "we think the time has finally come to remove "Gossip Girl" from our bookmarks."
"Gossip Girl" aired on The CW on Mondays.
In addition to the television broadcast of the show, episodes of "Gossip Girl" have also been released on the Internet.
In October 2011, The CW signed a deal allowing all "Gossip Girl" episodes to be streamed on Netflix.
The same month, the network signed a deal with Hulu.
Both CWTV.com and Hulu streamed episodes for free, but only the five most recent installments were available for viewing.
All seasons of "Gossip Girl" are also available through the iTunes Store and Amazon Instant Video where each episode can be purchased separately or in complete season sets.
As of 2012, the series was broadcast in 197 countries.