Topic

Agencies

  • Fingerhut’s Bad Debt File Up for Sale

    Federated Department Stores Inc. plans to auction off 17 million of Fingerhut’s unpaid customer accounts totaling $2.4 billion in bad debt. The selloff

  • REGULATORY

    Nonprofit mailers are expected to save more than $1 billion in postage next year under a rate relief bill signed into law last month by President Clinton.

  • ONLINE

    BMG Direct, New York, a division of BMG Entertainment, recently suspended its new online music club OnePriceCDs and took the Web site offline in response

  • Privacy Odyssey

    One thing is clear: When we discuss privacy, we’re talking only about the collection and use of data Confused about privacy, even after reading our big

  • Pins & Needles

    A Los Angeles law firm pulled the plug on a mailing because recipients were afraid to pull the pin on its content a paperweight that looked an awful lot

  • Beyond Opt-in vs. Opt-out

    The issue of opt-in vs. opt-out is at the center of the privacy debate. But the options are misunderstood by consumers, they are disruptive to business

  • LOSER’S CIRCLE

    I wish DIRECT had called to suggest I write a report on the worst direct response campaigns of the year. Most of those that came to my door or online

  • Espaa Go Bragh

    Does the luck of the Irish hold in Spain? A loyalty program launched there in 1999 by Irish brewer Guinness boosted consumption of its thick stout in

  • Hal Crandall Calling

    The Direct Marketing Association’s recent fall conference was one sad event. Hal Crandall had died on Oct. 4 at 73. Not that I ever saw Hal much at these

  • WEFA: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE

    Direct marketing spending grew by 7.8% annually between 1995 and 2000, according to the DMA’s latest economic impact study conducted by The WEFA Group.