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  • The Perils of Premeditated Demotion

    Our community has been accused of various offenses, from planned obsolesence to subliminal advertising. Here’s one we actually are guilty of: premeditated

  • Targeting Drives Growth

    Marketers’ purchase of nearly $12 billion in ad specialties last year represented record growth of 25 percent from 1996.While most of the growth in 1996

  • Agencies Who’s News

    Catering to Kids A team of seasoned pros in premium-based promotions have opened the doors of a new Dallas agency that will go after the fast-growing

  • Blue’s Clues Land on Campbell Soup and in Subway

    Those blue paw prints of Nickelodeon’s newest hit character, Blue, are turning up with two additional partners this summer and fall.Blue, the animated

  • Everywhere Merchants Want to Be

    Visa USA will give its retail partners magic for Christmas this year, part of an aggressive slate of consumer promotions designed to drive purchases in

  • NEW LISTS

    Ziff-Davis-ZD Net ZD Net is a Web-based source for computing and Internet information. The file supplies the names of 600,000 subscribers to this service.Cost:

  • Promoters Do It with Less

    Never before, it appears, have so many done so much with so much less. That’s the theme that runs through promo’s Annual Report of the Promotion Industry

  • Britannia Cools Its Heels?

    Brits always claim to produce the best advertising in the world. Something about our quirky sense of humor and literate consumer base leads to the often-repeated

  • Promo Agencies Ride the Wave

    Whether it was due to clients’ insatiable desire for measurable results, a new urge to drive brand image with premiums and contests, or simply a thriving

  • Barney and Borrowers Aim For Families

    PolyGram Home Video has lined up two impressive promotion programs for its pair of family home video releases this year, Barney’s Great Adventure: The