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  • The Role of Loyalty in Communication Plans

    Sure, loyalty programs can help merchants build their house files. But they can do much more than that. Click here and find out why they can be used to deliver triggered messages to drive better response rates.

  • A Walk Down Lois Lane: An Exclusive Interview With a Creative Legend

    Few art directors have had a career like George Lois. Beginning in the late 1950s, his ground-breaking creative work at various New York advertising agencies broke all the rules while establishing brands and getting results for clients. In a chat with Larry Jaffee, the creative legend commented on past and present campaigns. His conclusion? ‘If you play it safe, you’re dead.’ For the exclusive interview, click here.

  • Sticky Situations

    Think viral marketing is hard? Try antidote marketing, applying a tourniquet-or a full-body cast to a brand injured by toxic public relations hits. Plenty

  • Beauty Pageant

    Fred Segal Beauty’s latest online promotion urged consumers to go beyond skin deep.

    In conjunction with marketing platform Brickfish, the spa and cosmetics marketer held a

  • Responsibility Counts

    This is one of the most disturbing movies I have heard about, let alone the advertising campaign that they want to do promote this. I am in complete disgust.

  • LEASHING SOCIAL MEDIA

    Nonprofits that want to mark their territory online next year need to learn to let go of the leash, says Jo Sullivan, senior vice president for development

  • WHAT’S THE BIGGEST CREATIVE TREND FOR 2008?

    The marketing and creative tactics we were using five years ago won’t work with today’s shifting demographics and preferences.

  • Rolling Strikes

    Brunswick Bowling and Billiards has turned an offer of an hour of free bowling in return for e-mail contact information into a database of almost half a million e-mail addresses.