Topic

Agencies

  • Is the DM Business Model Changing?

    PRICELINE.COM FOUNDER Jay Walker stunned an audience at Direct Marketing Days in New York this spring by describing a new DM business model-one with close

  • ASL Sues Former Executive

    AMERICAN STUDENT LIST Inc., Mineola, NY, has filed a lawsuit alleging a former employee and his new companies are marketing names compiled by ASL.In a

  • Consumer DMers Retain Market Strength

    THE LOFTY RETURNS of a select group of e-commerce firms and turnarounds by a few other marketers are masking otherwise lackluster performance among consumer

  • This Is a Test

    ASTROLOGY.NET wanted to entice people to sign up for its daily horoscopes via e-mail. Between Astrology.net and its online agency Acxiom/Direct Media,

  • Flight Makes Right

    TO PARAPHRASE the Spice Girls: What do frequent flyers want, really really want, from their loyalty programs? How do they feel, really really feel, about

  • Smells Like… A Good Cause

    HOW A PARTNERSHIP between a marketer and social cause can benefit both parties is the thesis behind “Brand Spirit-How Cause Related Marketing Can Help

  • Let’s Be More Niggardly With Our Euphemisms

    EVEN BEFORE THE one literate guy in the unsurprisingly illiterate District of Columbia government was castigated for using the word “niggardly,” we should

  • Custom Built for Marketing

    THE INTERPUBLIC Group of Companies Inc., New York, has created The Publishing Agency, a global custom magazine publishing division, out of the talent

  • Striking a DM Chord

    STANDING AT a star-spangled grand piano, political satirist Mark Russell entertained an appreciative-and, judging by response, bipartisan-luncheon crowd

  • It’s a Wrap

    FISHWRAP, a 5-year-old ‘zine with an editorial mission to poke fun at editorial hype and hysteria in the print media-think an edgy, evil twin of Brill’s