Chief Marketer Staff
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Loose Cannon: Super Bowl Predictions
Beyond the “can Colts quarterback Peyton Manning win the big one” theme, Super Bowl XLI viewers within the advertising community will be following a different storyline: Hot on the heels of Advertising Age’s naming “The Consumer” as its Agency of the Year, several advertisers will submit commercials either voted on, or in a few cases created by, consumers.
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Loyalty Library: The 10-Year Customer
Lifetime value-based decision making has captured the spotlight recently with the launch of uTango, which promises up to $1 million to couples who meet spending targets over the long term.
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BrandAnimation: The Experience Strategy
It seems like everyone’s thoughts on marketing are being copyrighted these days (is that because of the advent of customer-generated content and wanting to separate the pros from the nonpros?),
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Actionable Analytics: Some Advanced Applications
Building and maintaining a world-class actionable analytics program requires ongoing commitment of financial and other resources.
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How to Win (More) Marketing Awards: Practical Help from a Real-Life Judge
If you are thinking of entering yourself for an award anytime soon, it’s very, very possible to win. Even despite the hordes of competition, and tired judges, and if you are not the best marketer on the planet.
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Listline e-Newsletter 01/26/07
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E-Mail List Prices Drop: Worldata
The price-per-thousand of the most expensive categories of lists fell in January 2007 from January 2006’s levels, with consumer and business-to-business e-mail lists, and newsletter subscriber files experiencing the steepest declines, according to Worldata’s Winter 2007 List Price Index.
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Publicis Group to Acquire Digitas
Publicis Groupe S.A. has acquired 94.4% of the outstanding common stock of Digitas Inc. The acquisition, valued at approximately $1.3 billion, will leave Digitas as a wholly owned subsidiary of Paris-based Publicis.
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Microsoft Q2 Ad Revenue Up, but Search Growth “Modest”
Second-quarter revenue in Microsoft’s online services business was up 5% year over year, but revenue from search advertising made up only a “modest” part of that growth, the company said yesterday.
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Court Halts Bogus Free Software CD Marketer: FTC
A U.S. magistrate judge has temporarily halted a company that the Federal Trade Commission alleges deceptively advertised free software CDs and billed consumers’ credit cards without their permission, the FTC announced yesterday.