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  • Loyalty Programs Undergo 2010 Facelift

    Next year, loyalty programs will undergo a double facelift

  • P&I Postscripts

    PETCO: is offering its loyalty members a free photo of their pet if they make a purchase on Dec. 5

  • On the Move

    “Mobile is the future — and it always will be.” For the past decade, that has pretty much summed up both the potential value of running campaigns directly to users’ handsets, and the seemingly endless stumbling blocks that kept mobile marketing from being more than an interesting side-project

  • Online Goes Mainstream

    To paraphrase Homer Simpson, interactive marketing is there anything it can’t do? Well, yes, and that’s why spending on U.S. digital marketing will make

  • As Expected, More Shoppers Spend Less Over Black Friday Weekend: NRF

    To the chagrin of retailers, shoppers lived up to projections that while more people would be out at the malls, they would spend less over the Black Friday weekend

  • 80% of Consumers Won’t Pay for Online News Content

    According to a recent report titled “Publishers Need Multichannel Subscription Models”, released by Forrester Research and written by Sarah Rotman Epps, 80 percent of consumers say they wouldn’t bother with newspaper or magazine content online if they had to pay for it.

  • Android Users More Likely to Use Data Features than iPhone Users

    There may be a lot of things iPhone users have that Android users don’t, and vice versa, but according to recent figures released by Nielsen, more Android users are using their phones for data and Web usage purposes than other smartphone users.

  • Bing, Google, Longer Keywords and Top Search Terms in October

    According to recent data released by Experian Hitwise, Bing gained market share in October while Google and Yahoo! lost a bit of the search pie.

  • Social Networks to Play Big Role in Holiday Shopping

    We all know that the Internet is a huge part of online shopping, especially during the holiday season, but according to a recent survey conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation and Yesmail, online shoppers will lean heavily on social networks during this year’s spree of online holiday shopping.

  • Will the Debt Relief Vertical Survive?

    The FTC Hosts Public Forum on Proposed Debt Relief Amendments to the Telemarketing Sales Rule