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Agencies

  • Universal, Kmart To Go Steady Next Fall

    Universal Studios Consumer Products Group signed a deal with one retailer – Kmart Stores – to launch two product lines. Some licensed apparel for both

  • Low Comedy, High Finance

    It was inevitable. The ubiquitous J. Crew catalog spawned a parody. Its title, J. Crewd, sums up the level of humor. The cover, for example, shows a preppy

  • Promises to Keep

    Ten months ago, privacy advocate Evan Hendricks predicted that consumer outrage over the privacy issue would approach the fervor of the Civil Rights movement

  • Web Advertising Costs Drop

    With a few exceptions, Web advertising became cheaper in 1998 than in 1997, according to a survey by Boca Raton, FL-based WebConnect, a sister company

  • Rugrats to the Rescue

    Burger King has completed a cause-marketing overlay to its holiday tie-in with The Rugrats Movie. A portion of sales from Rugrats watches in BK restaurants

  • The Literary Latest

    Direct Marketing Techniques Direct Marketing Techniques: Building Your Business Using Direct Mail and Direct Response Advertising” is the latest in Menlo

  • Has Compaq Given Birth to a Stepchild?

    We’re no longer surprised when a direct marketer opens retail stores. In many cases, serendipity springs into action: The stores add cachet, plus the

  • Time to Stop the Dance

    Those familiar with the paths a legislative proposal takes on its way to congressional enactment often refer to the process as the dance of legislation.

  • Stationer Distinguishes Itself by Offering Services

    It’s one thing to offer techno-savvy small offices the means to buy note pads, paper clips and the like over the Web. But one cyber-stationer is going

  • YOU’VE GOT SALES!

    There are no big surprises in DIRECT’s annual Web use survey. Across the board, direct marketers are creating Web sites. Across the board, DMers see these