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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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Spatial RelationsCULVER CITY, CA Muppets From Space will not want for creature comforts when it hits theaters July 23. The sixth live-action Muppet caper, produced by 
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Leveraging FurbyLooking to capitalize on the national craze for the interactive Furby doll, Oakbrook, IL-based McDonald’s is giving away scaled-down versions of the toy 
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Yahoo! We’ve Got Toilet PaperNew York City-based mybasics.com, an online health and beauty care shopping service, reached a marketing agreement with Palo Alto, CA-based Web portal 
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Not Promotion, OptimizationSpeaking of Impact Communications Group’s “holistic” integration with Foote, Cone & Belding’s advertising operation in our story on page 42, FCB Chicago 
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Brief EncounterUNIVERSAL CITY, CA Dissatisfied with what she called a lack of support from above, Lori Sale left Universal Motion Picture Group in February after serving 
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AgenciesGeneral Mills Plays GamesGeneral Mills of Minneapolis and Sony Computer Entertainment of Foster City, CA, joined on a three-month promotion offering $5 coupons good for PlayStation 
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Dream MerchantDupont division asks food leaders to rethink their resumes.To capture attention for Supro, a new soy-based food ingredient, Protein Technologies invited 
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Squeeze PlayUsing free downloads as a promotion device is becoming as popular as an Aerosmith movie theme. Among the more recent acts to offer online samples of upcoming 
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Stormy Days for Sports SponsorsCorruption is hardly new to the sporting world. Ever heard of the Black Sox Scandal? Money-centered players and team owners ruining seasons have become 
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