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Where the Twain Does MeetNo pitches. No retainers. No awards. No wonder EastWest Creative is still a relative secret. Don’t waste your sympathy. This secret is shaping up to be 
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Bank Shots“Honey could you pick up a quart of milk and a line of credit on your way home tonight?” That’s not as odd as it sounds, ever since PremiereGroup put 
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Dixie SpiritWith little to no advertising budget in place, Southern Comfort was looking for a strategy that would increase on-premise sales to the lucrative 21-and-over 
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Beyond the WeinermobileGeorge Leon (below) is, finally, in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Fox Family Worldwide exec bounced his way in with a 5,000-cubic-foot playground 
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Customer, May I?MOST MARKETING IS SPAM.TV ads are spam (except for infomercials, surprisingly enough).Direct mail to strangers is spam. So are radio ads and the king 
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Fishing in the Promotional ClosetI got a late start with my spring cleaning this year, but I really got into it. So much so that, when I was done, I decided to do a little digging in 
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InternationalNEW ZEALAND Kids’s Movie a Big Hit Dow Under Krispa Potato Chips is targeting kids five to 12 with a program exploiting global Rugrats mania through a 
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Electronic BuzzA year’s worth of free beer and a keg refrigerator for storage is the first prize in a Web contest launched in March by Beer.com, a vertical portal site 
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Shakeup at MillerMilwaukee-based Miller Brewing Co. says it’s “way too early to tell” what will happen to agency assignments following a surprise shakeup last month in 
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Shave and a Cheesecake, Two HitsThe Gillette Co. put itself on the cutting edge in 1998 and earned accolades in the process by walking away with top honors at the American Marketing 
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