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  • Cingular Dangles Mobile Coupons for Customers

    Cingular Wireless is offering customers a new service: electronic coupons and discounts.

  • Maxell Stars ‘Blow-Away Guy’ in Online Game

    Electronics maker Maxell Corp. of America is showcasing its “blow-away guy” in an online game that stars the iconic advertising character. The debut of the game coincides with Maxell’s first-time sponsorship of ESPN’s X Game 12 in August; both efforts are a bid to jump start sales with a younger demographic.

  • 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…