Chief Marketer Staff

• QWEST PAYS $1MM TO SETTLE DECEPTIVE MARKETING CHARGES

  Qwest Communications International, Denver, last week agreed to a $1 million-plus settlement of charges of alleged deceptive marketing. The telecom will

• Anti-Spam Group Uses Poetry to Catch Spammers

  Anti-Spam group Habeas Inc. is offering a new service to eradicate spam.

• BMG Credit Card Users File Debuts

  BMG Music Service has chosen New York-based List Management Services to manage a new database of buyers who made their purchases with credit cards. The

• DIRECT Listline

  Telebrands Corp. Product Buyers Datamatch The 261,600 names in this 12-month database are buyers of general merchandise marketed through television commercials

• Cross Media Revenue Up, Income Down for the Quarter

  Cross Media Marketing Corp. reported revenue for the second quarter of $37.1 million, a 57% increase over $23.6 million one year ago. For the quarter,

• Short Cuts

  Donna G. Wald has joined Inter/Media Advertising in Encino, CA, as senior vice president/account director. She will manage the agency’s ditech.com business.

• Ben Isaacson Reportedly Departing AIM

  Ben Isaacson is leaving his job as executive director at the Association for Interactive Marketing, sources said.

• Performance Products Chooses NuEdge’s Campaign Management System

  Performance Products, an automotive accessories marketer, has chosen NuEdge System’s suite of campaign management and business intelligence tools to facilitate

• Tim Barlow Named Senior VP at DRM Labs

  DRM Labs has appointed Tim Barlow as senior vice president of direct response marketing. Barlow will oversee the Roswell, GA company’s list brokerage,

• SEC Reviews AOL Transactions

  America Online, a unit of AOL Time Warner, is having a number of its transactions scrutinized separately by the Securities & Exchange Commission and federal