[2] The single is featured on the soundtrack to the video game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

A remix of the song was featured as downloadable content in the video game DJ Hero 2.

During the finals of the seventh series of British show The X Factor, contestant Cher Lloyd performed a variation of the first verse of the song mashed up into "What a Feeling".

"Sofi Needs a Ladder" is also played in the background during a club scene in the film The Hangover Part II, and was featured in a 2011 Virgin Mobile commercial.

Sofi Needs a Ladder is also featured in the hit series Entourage during the season 8 house party for Vinnie Chase.