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  • Speaking to the Sisterhood

    Best Buy needed only one take to nail the TV spot for its School Gear back-to-school sweepstakes. The premise was familiar: Kids clamor so hard for clothes,

  • No Subpoena Needed: Here’s the Whole Story

    To everyone who has paused from watching Court TV to call me at the office, and found me missing, I’ve neither been indicted nor have I been subpoenaed

  • Do clients think promotion marketing strategy is more important than brand advertising?

    Rather than debating marketing tactics, imagine the brand or promotion manager as the “author” of the marketing “sentence.” The “noun” is the brand. Attached

  • Promotion, America-Style

    When I moved to Minnesota this summer, it wasn’t to live in the shadow of the Mall of America – but I’m not complaining that that’s how it turned out.

  • It Takes a Villager to Raise a Rugrat

    Nickelodeon’s Emmy Award-winning Rugrats animated series hits the big screen this Thanksgiving and the 1999 Mercury Villager is set to help it get around

  • Crazy Like a Fox?

    Last year News Corp., owner of the Fox Network, and Saban joined to pay $1.9 billion to buy the Family Channel cable station from Pat Robertson’s International

  • I Scream You Scream

    It’s not often you get your best idea for a campaign before you’ve even pitched the account, but that’s what happened when HB Ice Cream asked Creative

  • Feeding the Ego

    Faced with fierce competition and fading sales, Nabisco will try to revive its SnackWell’s brand cookies and crackers with a new look, new theme, and

  • TECHNOLOGY

    This CD-ROM Is a Cherry . . . Coke Some technology-infused promotional options deliver high-perceived-value to consumers at low-ball costs to marketers.

  • Promoting Responsibly Within the Law

    Promotion marketing is under siege. Government officials and consumers alike have begun to take a hard look at the way that businesses employ sweepstakes,