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  • View From the Top Is Cloudy

    Say one thing about the dismal DM outlook: The misery has hit almost all of sectors, according to panelists at Direct Media’s annual Co-op. The title

  • Photographer Sues Spiegel Parent Otto GmbH

    A Chicago photographer has filed a lawsuit against Spiegel’s parent company Otto GmbH, claiming the cataloger violated a contract by using their images

  • Strange Tales of Disparate Data

    Data integrators face many problems, but none is tougher to deal with than disparate data sources. Companies often support between five and eight different

  • Retail Stores as Choice-Editors

    I went to my local supermarket for cereal and milk and found 128 kinds of cereal. Shopping for khakis at a mall department store, I faced six brands,

  • The New Media? Bags and Boxes

    Not only does Crutchfield’s Michelle Rick encourage DMers to think outside the box, she encourages them to think on the box. The pizza box, that is. Rick,

  • Striking Gold

    The fizzy soft drink has been around since 1904, when a Toronto pharmacist struck gold after perfecting his formula for Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale. Now,

  • CORRECTION

    A story on Rodale’s Spanish-language freestanding insert program (Insert Media, March 1) misstated the size of the magalogs to be sent out in an April

  • Stage of development

    There’s been a lot of hoopla surrounding the response Madison Avenue is mounting to TiVo and other digital video technologies. If consumers won’t watch

  • Marrying Ops and Marketing

    Your operations workers aren’t just fulfilling customer orders; they’re fulfilling your company’s marketing plans and communicating directly with the

  • HOMING IN

    It doesn’t take a genius to figure out who a merchant’s best customers are: They’re the ones who shop most frequently and spend the most, of course.