Promotion
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Show Me the Money
Over the past year, media agencies have been frantically scrambling to save marketing as they know it. Many fear the demise of the 30-second television
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Retail Stores as Choice-Editors
I went to my local supermarket for cereal and milk and found 128 kinds of cereal. Shopping for khakis at a mall department store, I faced six brands,
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HP Takes Tech On the Road
SMILE! YOU’RE ON HEWLETT-PACKARD’S CAMERA. Thousands of consumers are taking pictures of themselves simulated in a hot-air balloon race or wheeling down
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Remaking the Mall
WHILE BABY BOOMERS still have higher incomes than their younger Gen X counterparts, they are spending less at retail as their disposable cash gets eaten
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Ready for Its Closeup
Whether it’s a determined clownfish, a web-slinging boy wonder or a style-setting rap artist, the right match between an entertainment property and a
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California: What’s in Store
CALIFORNIANS are shopping again and still fighting over Wal-Mart. Supermarket workers ended their 20-week strike in early March, ratifying a three-year
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Samsung remaps The Matrix
How to jaded electronics consumers? This year, Samsung Electronics took the top Reggie award from the Promotion Marketing Association for a campaign that
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PEOPLE POWER PAYS OFF AS FIELD STAFF BOOST RETAIL IMPACT
In-store marketing, including P-O-P and retail merchandising, hit $17.6 billion in 2003, up 1.2% from the year before, based on PROMO estimates. For the
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Beanie Madness
I was on my way to London at the Cincinnati Airport on April 16, 1997, when I first witnessed Beanie Madness. With a long flight ahead, I’d decided to
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Street Smarts
U.S. marketers spent an estimated $152 billion on event marketing in 2003, up about 15% from the year before. Spending will rise another 15% to 20% in