Topic

Agencies

  • Study Shows Direct-to-Consumer Ad Growth

    Direct-to-consumer (DTC) promotional spending by pharmaceutical companies, mostly in the form of direct response ads, grew by 16% to $631 million in the

  • B-to-B DM Stocks Eke Out Slight Increase

    Without the impressive stock price gains by computer hardware and peripherals vendors, business-to-business direct marketing companies would not have

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Detroit

    Motor City markets are big on coupons, but short on some of the services that are standard in other cities. Detroit is the No. 1 market for stores offering

  • TRADE & SALESFORCE

    Home Delivery/USA Of course it’s important to know your customer, but for Packard Bell, it became crucial to get to know its retail salespeople – and

  • The Ecstasy and the Agony

    In our business, you have to have a champion at the top, or there will be no database marketing program. In most industries, database marketing is not

  • COMING OF AGE

    J. Walker Smith, of market researchers Yankelovich Partners Inc., Norwalk, CT, says age mixes two things, life-stage and cohort, “a generational group

  • McCann Drives Off With the Diamond

    The big winner at the 69th Direct Marketing Association Echo awards last month was McCann Relationship Marketing, New York. McCann took both a gold (automotive)

  • A New Prescription

    In the midst of recent controversy surrounding health maintenance organizations covering Medicare beneficiaries, HMOs are stepping up their use of direct

  • In the Bag

    We-and we don’t mean just the editorial we-were roaming around the Direct Marketing Association’s annual conference in San Francisco last month when it