Data + Privacy

What are among the first five things that you think of when someone mentions “Turkish culture?” Probably Turkish coffee and belly dancing—though neither are native to the culture. However, unlike many other people, the Turks are not bothered at all in sharing the limelight for what one might consider two of their most visible cultural icons.

The Twitter advertising revolution is in top flight. Fresh off its Promoted Tweets revenue earning initiative, Twitter is appealing to consumers and advertisers once again with its new @earlybird feed. The @earlybird program allows participants to opt in to receiving coupons and marketing messages.

Can marketers serve up relevant offerings on the Web to a never-before-seen site visitor? Quova Inc. offers a geography-based identification service based on surfers’ IP addresses. Direct Newsline spoke with Quova president and CEO Marie Alexander about the opportunities and limitations IP address-based efforts afford marketers.

Intuit’s TurboTax product has had over 20 million customers, and over 50% of those folks are using Facebook and have, on average, 150 friends. They obviously

Identifying Mom is the easy part—who she is, where she is, and what she likes. The hard part is balancing content with brand messaging and finding the right tone and authenticity.

It’s spring, and theme parks around the country are dusting off the hot-dog carousels and testing water rides. Sponsorship firm IEG took a snapshot of

MeritDirect will be gaining more than a file of 5.5 million postal names, 2.1 million e-mail names, 4.1 million telemarketing names, 400,000 international contacts and a database of 135,000 trade show attendees when it assumes management duties of Penton Media

As both media and audience segments become more fragmented, marketers have to work harder than ever to create and keep loyal customers. But the extra

Sears is showing its “softer side” in more than just ad slogans: It’s getting into social marketing in a big way, first with two back-to-school initiatives designed to get high schoolers and incoming freshmen engaged

Every Year at This Point, just at the turning of July to August, I experience a moment of complete calm. It’s a perfectly balanced time when everything