Data Driven ROI
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Acquisition
VH1 Rocks With Metal Music Promos
VH1 is paying homage to everything metal—music that is—this month with a month-long marketing campaign to promote a network TV event dedicated to the rock genre.
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Acquisition
Land O’Frost Plots Summer Tie-ins
Lunchmeat marketer Land O’Frost heats up its summer promotion calendar with a slate of tie-ins.
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Acquisition
AT&T to Dump Cingular Name
AT&T Corp. plans to ditch the Cingular Wireless brand name and orange jack logo in favor of the AT&T Wireless name next year, according to news reports.
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Acquisition
Old Navy Scouts for New Spokesdog
Old Navy begins a series of casting calls this week to find a new spokesdog for its holiday 2006 advertising.
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Data Driven ROI
Former Yankelovich Exec Launches Faith-Based Marketing Consultancy
Craig Wood, the former group president and head of the database division at consumer research firm Yankelovich Inc., has launched the Clarity Group. The new company offers marketing consulting and CRM services to both faith-based and consumer marketers, with an emphasis on direct and database marketing. The Clarity Group (http://www.claritygroupinc.com) is based in Chapel Hill, NC.
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Data Driven ROI
How to Find Campaign Management Tools
The campaign management tool market has changed dramatically in five years. And these changes have increased the risk associated with choosing tools for a given need.
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Data Driven ROI
Marketers Suffer from a Metrics Deficiency: Survey
Marketers want to the right thing when it comes to metrics. But their desire far outpaces their ability, judging by a new CMO Council survey.
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Data Driven ROI
Marketers Are Unhappy With their Data Systems
One thing you say for marketers is that they are hardly satisfied with themselves. And that’s especially true when it comes to their customer data capabilities. In a recent survey by the CMO Council, 40% rated their systems as weak or worse.
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Data Driven ROI
Banks Turn to Online Analytics
The notorious criminal Willie Sutton once was asked why he robbed banks. “Because that’s where the money is,” he replied. Welcome to the 21st century, Willie. These days more and more of the money is online, and banks are embracing Web data analysis to secure their share of it.
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Acquisition
L.A. Cops Mistake M:I:III News Rack Promo for Bomb
A Paramount Pictures promotion for the upcoming release of Mission: Impossible: III involving newspaper racks got off to a bang over the weekend, as police mistook a device attached to a rack that played the film’s theme song for a bomb.