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  • Chili’s Spices Up Gifts Cards with Customizable Option

    Chili’s Grill & Bar is heating things up in the gift-card department, rolling out a new option that lets consumers show their own style with customizable gift cards.

  • Sony Sponsors Video Podcasts for CNN

    In a rare move, Sony Pictures is sponsoring CNN video podcasts, becoming one of the first studios to sponsor the content.

  • Cream of the 2006 Crop

    Multidiscipline (National) Burger King and the NFL Client: Burger King Corp. Agency: Equity MarketingSales of chicken strips and burgers spiked when the

  • Brands are Built Brick by Brick

    It’s 1983. I’m cheap, so I’m buying my daughter clothes at Sears. She turns to me. Daddy, it’s OK that you’re so cheap, but can we at least get a Gap

  • Part 2 – Domain Name Landscape

    Whenever an operation reaches a certain size, it is impossible to avoid some friction. Think of McDonalds and Wal-Mart in the offline world or Datran in the online world. The percentage of complaints each receives is low in…

  • Music Downloads: Do Frogs Eat Apples?

    Thank goodness Hurricane Ernesto was a dud; Floridians deserve a break from hurricanes and the rest of us are certainly not starved for hurricane coverage. As this storm’s demise became obvious the cable news teams…

  • SPOTLIGHT ON… Patrick McKenna from DMi Partners

    – Learn about an agency managing an ad campaign at $100/click
    – Learn about DMi Partners and the services they provide
    – See how Patrick envisions his company in the future

  • VoIP Grew 83% in 2005

    There were 10.3 million VoIP subscribers around the world at the beginning of 2005, and 18.7 million by the year’s end. This marks 83% growth for the year, according to Point-Topic, a UK-based company specializing in broadband…

  • AOL Video Now Offers Movies for Download

    Last week, AOL began selling movies for download on its video portal, AOL Video. The full-length films from 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment…

  • Zune to Add to Apple’s Growing Headache

    Apple’s dominating iPod devices have quickly grown into the face of portable music, but with recent news about Microsoft’s impending line of Zune gadgets and with the recent unveiling of SanDisk’s 8GB Sansa e280 music player, it…