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DAVIE-BROWN ENTERTAINMENT: named Lori Rayfield…IPSH!: the global mobile marketing agency, has expanded into…
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Dentyne Brings Movies to Campus
Dentyne gum plays campus matchmaker this fall with its first-ever campus tour and nightlife campaign.
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Students to Create Super Bowl Ad for Chevy
College students across the country could have their idea for a Chevy ad watched by more than 140 million viewers during next year’s Super Bowl thanks to a new Chevrolet promotion.
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Denny’s Drives Sales with 49 Million Scratch-Off Cards
Denny’s is revving up excitement around a new scratch-off promotion with Coca-Cola that dangles a chance for customers and racing fans alike to ride along with some of their favorite NASCAR Nextel Cup Series drivers.
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ABC Hits New York Streets with Dancing ‘Stars’
ABC is bringing dancing stars to the streets of New York as part of a guerilla marketing stunt to hype up the latest season of its popular show Dancing With the Stars.
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Advo Counter Suit Seeks Immediate Merger
Advo has filed a counter suit against Valassis in an effort to force Valassis to complete its $1.3 billion purchase of Advo by the end of this week.
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Networks Tout Fall Shows Via Web
In an effort to promote the new fall line-up, broadcast networks are turning to the Internet to give viewers a taste of what’s to come.
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COLLOQUY Corner: Building Loyalty, Building a Database
Over the previous months, we’ve talked a lot about how to effectively recognize and reward best customers through the targeted application of bonus offers. Before you can recognize and reward customers, however, you must first know who they are.
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GMC Tackles Monday Night Football with 16 Truck Giveaway
GMC, a division of General Motors, is steering its largest marketing campaign straight to Monday Night Football where it dangles 16 trucks in 16 weeks as sweepstakes prizes.
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Loose Cannon: I Want My $2,000 In Pennies
Earlier this summer McMurry, a mid-sized marketing agency based in Phoenix, sent out a postcard announcing its pending reopening. As part of its campaign, it offered a bribe to recipients who wrote about the blessed event.
Now that’s a unique marketing strategy: Use a mailing to insult your recipients’ professionalism (the postcard was addressed to “Richard H. Levey, Industry News Columnist”). And compound it by raising a question among professional question-askers that you probably don’t want asked — namely, why does an agency with faith in its work need to bribe reporters to write about it? These were my first thoughts when I received the postcard.