Consumer Marketing

Play it again, Sam

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Direct marketers know a good thing when they see it. V-Lite Video Corp. has won fans with its lightweight disposable videocassette, durable and cheap

Sync or Swim

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Long ago, in a marketing world that now seems very far away, everything was run from headquarters. The corporate brandmeisters, always dressed in business

Drug marketing efficacy

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Prescription drug marketers have spent $1.4 billion on ads annually since a 1997 FDA law change that opened the airwaves. Now, drug companies can gauge

Dealmakers

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

New Line Cinema continued restaffing by hiring former Artisan Entertainment advertising vp Kevin Shelby as vp-marketing.Lori Sale, who had a cup of coffee

NEWS WORTHY

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

News America Marketing, New York City, extended its electronic capabilities by agreeing to acquire a 30-percent interest in planet U and a 22-percent

Spalding’s new

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Spalding is playing stickball again. This time, the game is serious. New York City's stickball renaissance prompted the second coming of the Spaldeen,

The Kool-Aid Connection

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

The same promotion skills that sell macaroni & cheese can sell basketballs and golf gloves. That's why Spalding Sports Worldwide has hired packaged goods