Chief Marketer Staff

• More High-Tech, Still High-Touch

  Marketers spent $748 million on in-store services in 1997, including $172 million on loyalty card programs, funded mostly by retailers. Promotion is the

• High Life

  FREDERICK, MD – Frederick Brewing Co. is readying an under-the-cap promotion for Hempen Ale and Hempen Gold, the first U.S. beers brewed with hemp seeds.

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  Columbia House Starts a Positive-Option Club

  Columbia House has introduced “Play,” its first music club to operate on a positive-option basis rather than the negative option most often used by such

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  DEMOGRAPHICS

  Dustin Hoffman gave us our first image of a man raising a child in “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But it was the image of Michael Keaton at home that gave the concept

• Targeting Drives Growth

  Marketers’ purchase of nearly $12 billion in ad specialties last year represented record growth of 25 percent from 1996.While most of the growth in 1996

• Wild Lobbies

  ATLANTA – Holiday Inn is giving kids and families the world this summer – all 360 degrees of it.Building on its kids-eat-free promos, the lodging giant

• Agencies

  Listen to This-Free Long Distance

  A new service allows people to sign up for “free” long distance service if they agree to listen to advertising pitches over the phone. One company, Eagle’s

• Dream Team

  SAN FRANCISCO – Sega of America last month announced agency assignments for the $100 million launch of its Dreamcast video game console, slated for introduction

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  Blue’s Clues Land on Campbell Soup and in Subway

  Those blue paw prints of Nickelodeon’s newest hit character, Blue, are turning up with two additional partners this summer and fall.Blue, the animated

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  Playing Games in Florida

  Several recent Florida decisions interpreting the Florida game promotion statute could prove useful in planning future promotions. The statute (Section