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  • P&G Sues McLane Over Copycat Brands

    Procter & Gamble has filed suit against packaged goods distributor McLane Co. for copying the packaging of P&G brands including Bounty, Charmin, and Vicks’ NyQuil and DayQuil.

  • Anheuser-Busch Debuts ‘Winter’ Draft as Part of Specialty Series

    Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Bud and Bud Light, is out with a new “winter seasonal” draft, just one of a number of seasonal brews it has been offering to spice up its line. Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale is brewed with dark roasted caramel malts and imported …

  • The Knot, American Baby Set Up Shop

    First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage. Wedding pro The Knot, Inc., has teamed up with American Baby Magazine to launch an online baby gift shop, AmericanBabyShop.com. The collaboration leverages The Knot’s …

  • DM Pimping Cartoon V12

    Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.

  • What Do I Do For A Living?

    Reunions of any sort follow the same template. People who have lost touch ask the same questions. Of the top three asked, the one that I have recently had to answer the most was “what do you do?” And with that, I confidently reply “I work for…

  • Telecommute – NY Transit Strike

    On Tuesday, December 20th a key component of New York City’s infrastructure gave out in the way of a massive transit worker strike and left most of ICMediaDirect.com’s staff stranded along with millions of others in Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island and…

  • Extraordinary Is A Good Word

    Extraordinary is a good word. It’s a word that you call great people. I hardly ever call anyone something as special as “extraordinary”. The person must speak in person or through the phone with integrity, honesty, fun and professional enough…

  • News Highlights of 2005

    News concerning products, services, and events that are changing the face of online marketing were riddled all across news headlines in 2005. To the surprise of no one, Google was part of many of them, but not all…

  • Online advertising to grow 10% annually through 2010

    JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corp., forecasts that online display and search advertising spending will grow at an average annual rate of 10% between 2005 and 2010. The automotive and travel industries are projected to show the strongest…

  • Three Important Marketing Technologies in 2005

    As technology continues to be an important tool for online marketing it comes as no surprise that 2005 was an active year for affiliate marketers. Whether there were new challenges, improvements, or opportunities, 2005 brought about many interesting events and…