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Groupon is flexing its muscles through a number of sponsorships. Up next, a larger deal, now in the planning stages; Groupon’s title sponsorship of the “Taste of DC,” a major event featuring local restaurants.

At Eldorado Resorts, databases talk to each other before talking to guests. These conversations keep members of its loyalty program from being bombarded with too many solicitations—or, even worse, with inappropriate messages.

This quantity control effort is relatively new. Up through the summer of 2010, Eldorado’s various business departments, including its restaurants, casinos, showrooms, concert venues and hotels, maintained unlinked databases. Because of this, individual properties—like the Eldorado and Silver Legacy Casinos in Nevada, and an Eldorado in Shreveport—didn’t have a complete view of the value of their customers.

Tony Pace, the chief marketing officer at Subway, talks about Take Two of the “Commit to Fit” sweepstakes promotion and the health of sweepstakes in general.

Chivas Regal has begun an integrated campaign to attract young men with a relatable theme that dates back to the day in 1801 when James and John Chivas laid down the first casks of the fine Scotch whiskey: brotherhood.

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A new mobile program is boosting brotherhood, scotch consumption and the e-mail database at Chivas Regal.

It’s also serving to rejuvenate the spirits brand by promoting it to a younger audience, according to Laurent Cutier, senior brand manager for Chivas Regal at Pernod Ricard USA.

Welcome to Broker Roundtable, where each week we ask list brokers to give their opinions on issues that matter to the marketing community. This week’s question: In the current climate, what are some ways to keep names fresh?

Challenges at retail continue to mount as shoppers grapple with rising food and gas prices. Today’s shopper looks very different than yesterday’s shopper. To find out how marketers are handling the changes, we checked in with a few top retail experts.

Jeans brand Levi’s wanted to generate some buzz earlier this year around their new Curve ID line of women’s jeans—jeans specially constructed for a woman’s shape, not her size, and based on reducing thousands of body scans of actual jeans customers down to four basic “templates”.

The company was planning to launch trunk shows for the jeans in major metros in March. But they wanted to do something that would build awareness and excitement before those shows came to town.

If you ate a grasshopper, or cow tongue, veal brains or ostrich, you’d want to tell someone about it. Probably a bunch of people, in fact-either as a boast or perhaps to find an antidote