Search Results for: Marketers on Fire

  • Brands Back SI For Kids Snow Search

    Cartoon Network and Kids WB! have signed on as official sponsors of the 2006 Sports Illustrated For Kids Next Snow Search, a season-long quest to find the best kids (ages 9-13) on skis and snowboards. In its third year, the Next Snow Search consists of …

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  • Unspam Fires Another Shot in Utah PR Battle

    Unspam, the company that runs so-called child protection e-mail registries for Michigan and Utah, last week issued another “report” through a public relations firm claiming pornographers are increasingly targeting children with their e-mail marketing.

  • Casting the Net

    In a 22-minute podcast, Diageo is testing the waters of a new technology that has yet to catch fire as a must have tactic in the overall marketing mix.

  • Deja View

    January Wal-Mart gave a thumbs up to its RFID rollout as it began receiving case- and pallet-level tagged merchandise from 137 suppliers, destined for

  • Loose Cannon: Yuletide and Youth

    The cockles of many a direct marketer’s heart were warmed this winter by online shopping’s reported fortunes. Doubtless some of the increase reflects the public’s ever-growing comfort with online commerce, and some of it reflects rank opportunism. For instance, Web-based DMers took advantage of a recent transit strike in New York by offering stranded, panic-stricken present buyers expedited delivery.

    But the rise in online shopping has a dark side.

  • Profoundly Good

    CAR MAKERS REVVED sales online, on-air, On-Star (with GM’s Hot Button) and out in the wild blue yonder (with Jeep’s geo-caching). CNN served shakes to

  • Mailers Ask: What’s the Hurry?

    Merry Christmas, direct mailers. The U.S. Postal Service will introduce its new rates on Jan. 8 a week or two earlier than expected. And mailer groups

  • New Orleans to Get Free Wi-Fi

    On Tuesday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin revealed the city’s plan to offer a free, city-run Wi-Fi system that will be available to the entire city within a year. It has already begun operating in the city’s French Quarter, New Orleans’ central business district.

  • Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail

    Every Day with Rachael Ray Debuts Two promotions from Every Day with Rachael Ray deliver the same bubbly personality as the Food Network chef whose name graces the brand new cooking magazine from Reader’s Digest. A simple but highly functional …

  • Microsoft Calling Out Google or Vice Versa?

    A couple weeks ago, Google and Sun Microsystems announced an alliance to help promote each other’s products. One of the most vital components of this collaboration was said to be the open source office application, OpenOffice productivity suite…