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  • American Eagle Outfitters Dangles Movie Tickets for Jean Fittings

    American Eagle Outfitters is with a new incentive that awards free movie tickets to consumers who try on a pair of jeans from its new denim line.

  • Cingular Rocks With Perks for Vans Warped Tour

    Cingular Wireless is using its sponsorship of the Vans Warped Tour 2006, a touring music festival, to provide its customers with cool perks including ring tones, VIP access, phone tattoos and more.

  • Domestic Automakers’ Incentives Plummet

    Domestic automakers spent 12% less on consumer incentives in June over the previous year indicating that the Big Three U.S. automakers (Chrysler, Ford and General Motors) have tightened the purse strings.

  • Garfield Web Site Operator Referred to FTC: CARU

    The Children’s Advertising Review Unit has referred advertising for Web sites operated by Paws, Inc., to the Federal Trade Commission after the company refused to participate in a self-regulatory process.

  • Valassis Buys Advo for $1.3 Billion

    Valassis Communications, Inc. has agreed to buy direct mail marketer Advo for $1.3 billion.

  • Mechanics of

    This week’s Digital Trends explores the phenomenon known as the Long Tail, a phrase and now book by Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, first published as an article for the magazine he heads in October 2004. Part 1 of…

  • Twisting Your Keywords in the Wind

    While studying the creatives of competitors throughout my years in the paid search industry, as any self-respecting SEM should, too often have I witnessed the same thing: It seems as though countless search engine advertisers use the same…

  • 3G: Behold the Next Generation

    Ten years from now you’ll reminisce about the days before wireless high-speed Internet, that dark era when you were tethered to a cabled modem and computer when checking messages. Like life before the cell phone, how did…

  • Microsoft, Poker Top Nielsen//NetRatings List

    After obtaining the results from the sampling activity through its MegaPanel of Web users at work and at home, Nielsen//NetRatings has released its findings for the top parent companies and stickiest brands in the U.S. for the…

  • Google Checkout, Concerns Unveiled

    After more than a year of anticipation, Google finally revealed Google Checkout late last week. Though the new Google product is not the rumored “GBuy” that was feared to directly compete with PayPal, it offers similar features and will…