Search Results for: Marketers on Fire

  • 2007 PRO Award Finalists

    This year’s finalists are an elite collection of agencies doing some of the best work in promotional marketing. Campaign descriptions can be viewed at www.promomagazine.com. The winners will be announced at Promo Live, Sept. 17 – 19 at the Navy Pier in Chicago.

  • JMP Creative Brings Inventions to Life on ‘American Inventor’

    JMP Creative is getting a starring role this week on ABC’s hit show “American Inventor.”

  • Conference Roundup: Affiliate Summit East 2007

    Miami has all the characteristics of a good convention town. It has an incredible amount of hotels, multiple convention centers, top notch dining, international accessibility, and generally good weather. It also has plenty…

  • Two-Million-Plus Names Stolen Data from Fidelity National Information Services

    An employee stole 2.3 million consumer records from Certegy Check Services Inc., a unit of Fidelity National Information Services Inc. The information was sold to a data broker, which in turn sold it to several direct marketing companies, according to published reports.

  • Checking in on Yahoo

    The stock market doesn’t ever tell the full story, but it often can tell a great story. Such seems the case for Yahoo. Jerry Yang succeeded Terry Semel on June 18th, and investors rewarded the stock with a modest 3%…

  • Hasbro Under Fire for Marketing ‘Transformers’ Toys

    Hasbro is under fire for creating a line of toys designed for young children tied to a PG-13 film.

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  • Too Much Togetherness?

    If you lived through the dot-com bubble, you could be excused for thinking you’d slipped through a wormhole in time and landed back in 1999. In rapid-fire succession, a slew of the biggest online ad players announced plans to get a lot bigger by acquiring platforms, technologies or expertise they hadn’t had before.

  • Stoking the Fire

    A Senate Committee is voting this month on a bill that would put regulatory authority to restrict tobacco advertising and sales in the hands of the Food

  • Live From DMDNY: An Uncomfortable Conversation

    Direct marketers are facing a dialog that may cause them to squirm in their seats. With the rise of social networks, they are increasingly having to listen to, and cede control of their messaging to, consumers.

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  • Leveraging New Online Media Tools: The Argument for Engagement

    Technology is the servant of your marketing goals, not their master. Instead of jumping on the next social media phenomenon, first ask yourself this: what do all these media channels allow me to do that I couldn’t do before?