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  • Testing for the Masses

    Yesterday, Google quietly unveiled its newest product. It doesn’t have the glamour of last week’s billion dollar purchase of YouTube. In fact it has nothing do with video, recent acquisitions, or Web 2.0. Google’s new product, dubbed…

  • Coca-Cola’s New Enviga to Get Major Consumer Sampling

    Coca-Cola’s new green-tea product, Enviga, marketed as a great tasting beverage that will burn calories, is set to begin a very active consumer sampling program in the New York metro and Philadelphia areas.

  • New York Incentive Show Dies a Slow Death

    After 71 years as a staple in the New York market, the Incentive Show is closing its doors. The closure is being attributed to a gradual decline in the quantity and quality of attendees, which over the years eroded exhibitor enthusiasm for the show. The costs to operate the event also played a role in the demise of a show that brought major brands like Blockbuster, Harry & David, Coach and Bath & Body Works to work the floors at Jacob Javits Center, handing out everything from two-ounce bottles of cucumber melon body lotion to Moose Munch chocolate bars.

  • Denny’s Adds Free Kids Meal on Halloween

    Denny’s is tapping a Halloween theme to give kids an extra treat.

  • Live from PROMO Live: Using Entertainment Ties to Break Through

    Marketers will spend some $236 billion in the U.S. on print, radio, online and broadcast advertising this year, fueling consumers’ sensory overload when it comes to marketing messages.

  • Keyword Advertising – to police or not?

    On September 28th a judicial decision was handed down in Google’s favor, a decision impacting the multitudes of businesses that engage in paid search advertising. This decision, believed to be the first United States court ruling of…

  • Just Don’t Call It GooTube

    How would you spend one-point-six-five billion dollars? That’s the question the owners of YouTube now face after their most impressive sale to the mighty Google. It was less than one week ago, in the wee hours of the 6th, that…

  • Pixel Bling – The Embedded Culture

    The purchase of YouTube is one of those Internet deals that will be remembered for years to come. It ranks up there with other landmark acquisitions such as Yahoo’s buying Overture, eBay buying PayPal, IAC buying…

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  • Join the Philadelphia Interactive Marketing Association (PhIMA) at Lucky Strike Lanes

    (Philadelphia, PA) PhIMA (http://www.phillyinteractive.org), a newly formed professional association for Philadelphia’s growing interactive marketing community, will host an evening of bowling and networking at Lucky Strike…