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  • Phone Card Sweeps are the Cat’s Meow

    IN A SUMMER CAMPAIGN, FOX pulled a 10.6% response to a sweepstakes it ran via a voice-prompt on a prepaid phone card to drive moviegoers to the theatrical

  • News briefs/directmag.com

    10/19 Direct marketers boosted their bottom lines during the third quarter, according to a quarterly business review by the DIRECT MARKETING ASSOCIATION. Companies averaged a revenue index of 62, roughly the same as the third quarter of 2003. (In the …

  • Here’s John A.

    New DMA CEO calls for member input in keynote debut

  • Leading the Pack

    Despite my laptop and cell phone, I try to catch up on my reading in airport terminals and in-flight. Not long ago, on my way to the Motivation Show in

  • Shades of Grey

    WPP Group’s promotion agencies are more likely to collaborate than merge as WPP completes its $1.52 billion purchase of Grey Global Group. The acquisition,

  • Rating the CEO

    DMers comment on John A. Greco

  • Listline e-Newsletter

    Coincide Media LLC has released a list of 12,991 subscribers to the new magazine LowCarb Energy. This publication features recipes and advice from health professionals.

  • Loose Cannon: The First Ballots Are Cast!

    In a special edition of Loose Cannon sent out last Thursday, I asked readers to write in and

  • Plot Line Promotions

    A new entertainment marketing option is emerging where the promotion is the entertainment and the brand is the star. Call these plot-line promotions.

  • For a Limited Time Only

    Meow Mix Co. only meant to have its store open for a week. But traffic was good, and the p.r. coverage so far-flung that a would-be franchisee called