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Customer, May I?
MOST MARKETING IS SPAM.TV ads are spam (except for infomercials, surprisingly enough).Direct mail to strangers is spam. So are radio ads and the king
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Fishing in the Promotional Closet
I got a late start with my spring cleaning this year, but I really got into it. So much so that, when I was done, I decided to do a little digging in
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International
NEW ZEALAND Kids’s Movie a Big Hit Dow Under Krispa Potato Chips is targeting kids five to 12 with a program exploiting global Rugrats mania through a
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Electronic Buzz
A year’s worth of free beer and a keg refrigerator for storage is the first prize in a Web contest launched in March by Beer.com, a vertical portal site
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Leveraging Furby
Looking to capitalize on the national craze for the interactive Furby doll, Oakbrook, IL-based McDonald’s is giving away scaled-down versions of the toy
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Yahoo! We’ve Got Toilet Paper
New York City-based mybasics.com, an online health and beauty care shopping service, reached a marketing agreement with Palo Alto, CA-based Web portal
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Not Promotion, Optimization
Speaking of Impact Communications Group’s “holistic” integration with Foote, Cone & Belding’s advertising operation in our story on page 42, FCB Chicago
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Brief Encounter
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA Dissatisfied with what she called a lack of support from above, Lori Sale left Universal Motion Picture Group in February after serving
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Agencies
General Mills Plays Games
General Mills of Minneapolis and Sony Computer Entertainment of Foster City, CA, joined on a three-month promotion offering $5 coupons good for PlayStation
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Dream Merchant
Dupont division asks food leaders to rethink their resumes.To capture attention for Supro, a new soy-based food ingredient, Protein Technologies invited
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