Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  MSNBC.com, Nissan Collaborate on Trivia Game

  MSNBC.om and Nissan have created an interactive news quiz with a companion sweepstakes contest.

• Marketing Store Confirms Executive Departures

  The Marketing Store has confirmed that two top executives have left the agency.

• Agencies

  Sunny Delight Dips into Bottled Water

  Sunny Delight beverages will enter the bottled water business by purchasing Fruit20 Water from Kraft Foods Inc., the companies said.

• News Brief

  JAKKS PACIFIC INC.: has signed a deal with Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products to create toys and products based on the hit animated series “SpongeBob SquarePants.”

• Agencies

  Meet the Broker: Lisa Pollack

  Today we meet Lisa Pollack, part of the list brokerage team at Adrea Rubin Marketing Inc. Pollack joined her family’s firm in 1991.

• Listline e-Newsletter 10/11/07

  The National Center for Education Statistics has chosen Kroll Direct Marketing Inc. to manage lists of private schools, public libraries and academic libraries. With 27,921 records the school file is the largest.

• Agencies

  USPS Proposes Revising Addressing Standards for Letters

  The U.S. Postal service is proposing revisions to its addressing standards for letter-size pieces mailed at automation, presorted and carrier route rates.

• Agencies

  Judge Halts Online Pill Sellers: FTC

  A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction and frozen the assets of a group of online marketers the Federal Trade Commission claims used spam to sell weight-loss and human-growth-hormone anti-aging products that don’t work, the FTC announced Wednesday.

• Publicis Tightens Japan Operations

  Publicis Groupe, the French advertising giant, has restructured its Japanese operations.

• Digital

  Sixty-Four Percent of Small Firms Shop, Buy Online: Survey

  A full 64% of small businesses bank and shop online, according to a new survey from EBillme.