Chief Marketer Staff

• Short Cuts

  DMW Worldwide/Philadelphia, Wayne, PA, appointed Wendy Z. Vagnoni creative director. Her background includes positions at National Liberty and GE Financial

• Brad Epstein Joins I-Traffic as Creative Director

  I-traffic, a New York-based interactive direct marketing agency, has hired Brad Epstein as creative director. Most recently, Epstein held the position

• DoubleClick Reports 167% Revenue Gain, Widening Losses

  DoubleClick Inc., the New York-based online agency, reported a net loss of $4.4 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31. up from a net loss of $3.7 million

• Peapod Chooses Times Direct To Create DM Efforts

  Peapod, Skokie, IL, a provider of interactive grocery shopping services, has selected Times Direct Marketing Inc., San Francisco, as its agency of record.The

• New House Bill Would Bar Commercial USPS Ventures

  In an apparent move to undermine a colleague’s legislative plan to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service, Rep. Duncan Hunter has introduced a bill that would

• NFL Signs Deal To Create Copyrighted Content for Net

  National Football League has signed an arrangement with ThingWorld.com, a Newton, MA-based Internet multimedia company, to create protected, copyrighted

• Short Cuts

  1-800-Batteries, Reno, NV, named Robert W. Bauer vice president of sales and marketing. Bauer’s background includes positions at IBM, Compaq and 3Com.Transmedia

• Knowledge Strategies and Marke Communications in Partnership

  Knowledge Strategies, Inc. a New York-based strategic Internet consulting firm has formed a strategic partnership with Marke Communications, an agency

• Dialing For Dictators

  Supporters of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet are using telemarketing to raise money to pay for his over $1 million legal fees he has accrued

• J-Bird Records, a2b Music Combine on Music Downloading Venture

  J-Bird Records and a2b music, a unit of AT&T’s, have launched a co-branded Web site that will allow users to purchase full-length song downloads from