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  • Loose Cannon: In Praise of Wretched Excess

    The rich are not like you and me: They have more loyalty program points.

    The rich are going to need them, if they are participating in Neiman Marcus’s InCircle scheme (http://www.incircle.com): It requires 5,000 points, at a dollar a point, to earn the bottom level of prizes, with the uppermost tier of gifts requiring 5 million of ‘em.

    That’s 5 million points, mostly amassed in a 12-month period. Mercifully, that doesn’t necessarily represent 5 million dollars. Neiman Marcus offers several double-point days, much like one’s local supermarket.

  • DMer Fires Back at NY AG Over Pop-Ups

    A direct marketer accused of secretly installing millions of pop-up ad programs in a lawsuit announced by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday called the suit a

  • Listline e-Newsletter 04/03/06

    Millard Group Inc. has been chosen to oversee the MacWorld list group.
    The appointment includes the 292,700-name active subscribers file, in
    addition to the MacWorld Graphic Design Subscribers (27,400), MacWorld
    Enhanced database (287,700) and the MacWorld E-mail Address database,
    with 61,100 postal and e-mail addresses.

  • Folding or Holding?

    With so much attention being focused these days on digital and face-to-face marketing, has specialty printing lost its relevance? Hardly, but printers

  • Springboard Advertising

    In a recent class I attended on international advertising, the professor questioned why anyone would spend an average of $2.5 million (or $83,333 a second)

  • FR Lewis Taps Dalai Group as Agency of Record

    FR Lewis Financial Services Inc. has named Dalai Group as its agency of record.

  • Partners Flood Ice Age: The Meltdown with $100 MM in Tie-Ins

    Brands are lining up with a host of offers to build excitement around next week’s release of Ice Age: The Meltdown.

  • Pico and the Search-less Search

    Search is big these days, no doubt– big in ad dollars, big in the size of the segment players, and big in its influence as a doorway to the Web. But Blinkx hopes to make its mark on search by thinking small. To prove it, the San Francisco-based company recently rolled out a search engine that weighs only 1 megabyte but does the heavy lifting of bringing Web content to users without an explicit search.

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  • Diet Pepsi Game Awards ‘Movie Bucks’

    Diet Pepsi is out with an under-the-cap promotion that offers players “Movie Bucks”
    good toward admission to a movie.

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  • Google-Gov’t Impasse Resolved: Well, For Now

    The issue of Internet privacy rights in America has been a hot topic of late. The latest flashpoint was a showdown in San Jose, CA pitting the Department of Justice against the giant search engine Google. Essentially, the Department of…