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  • Pay to Play

    Successful promotional licensing begins with the right choice of a partner, whether that’s a peppery affair with the Spice Girls or a swinging night on

  • Registering the Draft

    DraftWorldwide took the long road to the PROMO 100 list. But it arrived at No. 1. The Chicago-based agency network has its roots in direct marketing,

  • Belgium’s Karamba Takes Europe

    Belgium-based Karamba took home the Best of Europe prize during the first round of judging for the ninth annual World Pro Awards of Excellence, which

  • Where the Twain Does Meet

    No pitches. No retainers. No awards. No wonder EastWest Creative is still a relative secret. Don’t waste your sympathy. This secret is shaping up to be

  • Shakeup at Miller

    Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Co. says it’s “way too early to tell” what will happen to agency assignments following a surprise shakeup last month in

  • Shave and a Cheesecake, Two Hits

    The Gillette Co. put itself on the cutting edge in 1998 and earned accolades in the process by walking away with top honors at the American Marketing

  • At Retail

    Going Postal No, you can’t actually mail a letter at Wal-Mart. But for one day last month, you could get stamped there.The U.S. Postal Service issued

  • Dixie Spirit

    With little to no advertising budget in place, Southern Comfort was looking for a strategy that would increase on-premise sales to the lucrative 21-and-over

  • Beyond the Weinermobile

    George Leon (below) is, finally, in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Fox Family Worldwide exec bounced his way in with a 5,000-cubic-foot playground

  • 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