Topic

Engagement

  • Salesmanship, Repetition and Direct Mail

    Sales start with business publication advertising

  • ‘truth’ Brings Warped Tour to TV

    Anti-tobacco campaign “truth” has partnered with music network Fuse for a documentary on Vans Warped Tour 2006, with a starring role for truth’s marketing tour team. One of truth’s bright-orange “truth trucks” travels with the Warped Tour as part of the …

  • Jelly Belly Fills Ant Bully Screen

    Jelly Belly Candy Co. is capitalizing on its role in Warner Bros.’ Ant Bully with a quartet of ant-inspired flavors and a mail-in offer. The animated film casts Jelly Belly as “Sweet Rocks,” the favorite food of ants— Lucas Nickle, the boy who shrinks …

  • Subway Taps Mobile Coupons

    Select Subway restaurants are using a new tool to reach consumers with discount coupons and menu specials— cell phones. This week, Buffalo, NY-area consumers can sign up for the Mobile Alerts Club at any one of the 12 Buffalo restaurants or by sending a …

  • Ford Taps Music Artists for Promos

    Ford Motor Co. is tapping the popularity of first-season American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson and country music star Toby Keith by sponsoring the artists’ concert series and unleashing promotions to drive concertgoers to the brand. Dearborn, MI-based …

  • Rate Shock

    MANY DIRECT MARKETERS ARE still in shock after seeing the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed rates for standard mail parcels weighing less than a pound. If

  • A Direct Mail Hero

    Ralph Ginzburg, who died last month at age 76, was a publisher, a direct marketer, an author and a photographer. But he will be most remembered for the

  • Ford, Kellogg Put Fusion Premiums in Cereal Boxes

    Ford Motor Co. has taken Fusion beyond the dealership lot and into a cereal box.

  • NBA Courts Europe with Basket Jam

    The National Basketball Association (NBA) is taking its hoop action and marketing partners Champion, Nike, FootLocker, EA Sport, Spalding and Sprite to eight cities in four European countries in its first-ever NBA Basket Jam, a basketball festival that features interactive basketball games and entertainment activities.

  • Newcastle Brown Ale Sweeps Offers Prizes for Him and Her

    It’s like the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other. Newcastle Brown Ale’s latest sweepstakes feature one prize “that gets you into trouble and one prize that gets you out of trouble”.