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Beyond the “can Colts quarterback Peyton Manning win the big one” theme, Super Bowl XLI viewers within the advertising community will be following a different storyline: Hot on the heels of Advertising Age’s naming “The Consumer” as its Agency of the Year, several advertisers will submit commercials either voted on, or in a few cases created by, consumers.

Julie Roehm filed a lawsuit last month against Wal-Mart Stores for breach of contract and fraud stemming from her dismissal from Wal-Mart in October, PROMO has learned.

Those in the Web 2.0 world know Michael Arrington. The affiliate world has no direct equivalent, but one of its larger than life personalities, Jon F***** (he doesn’t like his last named shared), founder of Wicked Fire Forums, had site…

The stratospheric rise of the Affiliate Summit series of tradeshows is no secret in the industry. I remember attending my first Affiliate Summit a few years ago and I was struck in particular by two things: (1) I had never seen such a high…

When two editors unaffiliated with Magilla Marketing received Christmas cards from marketing services firm Epsilon, it seemed like a possible snub.

Why are direct marketing firms so often so bad at press relations? No one is saying every DMer must have a PR rep, but if a professional communicator is part of a company’s marketing, is it too much to ask that they be at least competent?

A customer buys a fire-engine-red sweater from your Web site. Then that person exchanges it at your retail store for something more subdued, perhaps in mauve.

Is the experience seamless? It should be.

If the usability of your RSS implementation is poor, you’re losing a growing audience. According to Jupiter Research, consumption of blog and RSS-facilitated content increases at a faster rate than opt-in e-mail promotions did several years ago.

Since losing his job as CEO of e-mail service provider Epsilon Interactive, Al DiGuido has apparently kept himself busy doing charity work through the organization he started in 2004: Al’s Angels.

Your article has to set a fire under the butts of every Libertarian out there in “Fear of Universal ID-land”. I can see the virtue in “Smart Cards” and the benefits to consumers and businesses, at least corporate giant types.