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Disney Lures Moviegoers with 45 Million Valpak Mailings, Sweeps

Walt Disney Pictures is pushing its latest Santa Claus franchise with a 45 million-piece mailing from Valpak and a sweepstakes dangling the chance to win a holiday family reunion.

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Cause Marketing

The RED Brigade

U.S. shoppers can expect to see a lot more red this year as Product RED, a celebrity driven charity, adds new partners and products. But it remains to...

2008 Cause Marketing Planner

Pick Your Partners Walk for the kids? Support the local library? PROMO's Annual Planning Guide will help you choose cause marketing partners from worthy organizations....

Employee Enthusiasm Helps Cause Marketing Initiatives

Ben & Jerry's, Nike and Things Remembered are three distinctly different companies, but share a common thread when it comes to cause marketing: They get their employees on board....

Causes and their effects

The news out of southern Asia keeps getting worse. As this issue of PROMO goes to press, the impact of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami has reached...

Coupons/FSI

Clipping Slows

U.S. marketers spent $7.23 billion on couponing in 2005, up a slight 0.4% from 2004, per PROMO estimates based on industry statistics. That includes distribution,...

2007 Coupon Planning chart

Whether its a “snip- snip” from a free-standing insert or the “click-click” of a downloadable offer, coupon distribution...

Americans Keep On Clipping Coupons

The majority of American consumers clip coupons and its not all about the discounts—it's also about the hunt....

No Nickel and Dime

Coupon distribution via free-standing insert was up 7.7% in 2004, according to TNS Media Intelligence, to 251 billion offers the fastest growth rate the...

Sponsorship

Goal Tending

Whoever said rolling stones gather no moss should consider what Sprint pulled off with its Rolling Stones half-time show at Super Bowl XL in Detroit in...

Super Sponsorship

It's been said that as many people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials as they do the Big Game. Annually the most-viewed television show, it gives...

More for Less

Sponsorship spending grew 8.4% in 2004, the highest amount since 2000, and will grow again in 2005, according to Chicago-based sponsorship analysis group...

Sponsorship Spinning

After fouling out with the NFL (May PROMO), Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta, struck a four-year sponsorship agreement with the National Basketball Association....

Direct Marketing

Snail Mail Leaves Its Shell

Direct mail is often looked at as the ol' fuddy duddy, the tri-fold sweeps offer that ends up in the trash without a second glance. And while the tactic...

DMers Plan to Invest in 2006, Direct Survey Shows

A fearless prediction: 2007 is going to be a banner year for direct marketers. ...

Hiring Rises At Direct Marketing Companies

Direct marketing companies are planning to hire more workers this fall than at any time since 2001. ...

Direct Mail, DRTV Most Effective in Reaching Hispanics: Study

Direct mail was the most popular channel used by Hispanics that made direct response purchases, followed by DRTV and online marketing....

Fulfillment

Flipping the Coin

The fulfillment of marketing offers has become a two-sided coin in recent years, as traditional, order completion has been supplemented by virtual delivery...

Growing the Distribution Business

There is a slight shift in the wind: many promotional products distributors no longer want to focus solely on the niche of selling promotional products, but want to expand their businesses by offering additional services to clients....

Beyond the Promise

Technology combined with a drive for customer service pushed fulfillment revenues up 14% in 2004, to $4.7 billion from $4.1 billion in 2003. Not only...

Specialty Printing

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...

Leaving a Mark

Specialty printers' presses ran strong in 2004 as promotional marketers kept the ink flowing. Though more campaigns migrated to the Web, brands continued...

P&G Solicits Ideas for Pringles Prints

Procter & Gamble is soliciting ideas to print on Pringles crisps....

Dealing in Cards

At a New York Target store, one gift card among the many is dye-cut in the shape of a red shopping basket...

Top Story

Kimberly Clark's Huggies and Viva Paper Towels

Kimberly-Clark Launches Breast Cancer Cause-Marketing Promo

Kimberly-Clark Corp. has launched a cause-marketing effort tied to its Huggies Baby Wipes and Viva Paper Towels products to help fight breast cancer during October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The company will donate 20 cents to Susan G. Komen for the Cure for each tub of Huggies Baby Wipes Gentle Care Sensitive featuring Komen graphics purchased through Dec. 31. In addition, Kimberly-Clark will donate $1.00 for each specially marked Gentle Care Sensitive refill box purchased at Sam’s Club to the cause through yearend.

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Across the tactical spectrum

Gold Medals May Not Spark Marketing Deals

Athletes who win Olympic gold in Beijing might not parlay their triumphs into lucrative marketing payoffs after the cheering stops....

NASCAR Show to Help Push Gas Conservation

NASCAR is joining the Alliance to Save Energy, an organization that promotes energy efficiency, to encourage consumers to conserve gas through segments on syndicated TV and radio shows....

Turf War

For u.s. companies, olympics sponsorships strengthen their global profile, while providing a chance to score points with TV viewers on the home front....

Smooth Operators

Starbucks is one of a number of quick service restaurants trying to elbow its way into the lucrative market this summer for healthful smoothie drinks....

Crown Royal Star Cabbie Supports Safe Drinking

When Indianapolis bar patrons call for taxis for safety’s sake tonight, the cabbie could be NASCAR star Jamie McMurray in a replica of his signature stock car....

CMT, Tyson Foods Mount Campaign to Combat Hunger

CMT and Tyson Foods are joining forces to fight hunger in a food donation campaign around the new season of “Country Fried Home Videos.”CMT and Tyson Foods are joining forces to fight hunger in a food donation campaign around the new season of “Country Fried Home Videos.”...

Minute Maid Pushes Brand with Olympic Tie-in

The Coca-Cola Co. is pushing its Olympic ties with its Minute Maid brand via limited edition packaging featuring Olympic hopefuls and in-store signage....

Batman Promo Prompts Calls to Bomb Squad

The new Batman movie “The Dark Knight,” opening today, is expected to be a global blockbuster. But a local guerilla promotion by a San Antonio theater chain threatened to turn that Hollywood cliché into a literal bomb....

AT&T Nets Marketing Deal with USA Basketball

Olympics sponsor AT&T has a new marketing deal with the USA Basketball Men’s National Team that promises to push video content to multiple platforms....

HBO Leads Campaign for Military Care Packages

HBO is mounting a campaign to send care packages to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan tied to its original miniseries “Generation Kill” about the Iraq invasion...

American Airlines Expands International Role with NBA

American Airlines is expanding its sponsorship role with the National Basketball Association’s international grassroots events....

McDonald's Promotes Olympic Sponsorship with New Menu Items, Kids’ Program

McDonald’s is launching its biggest sponsorship to date around the upcoming summer Olympic Games in Beijing, which includes everything from new menu items, a kids’ program and a global online game...

Yahoo Gets Its Olympic Games Face On

A new Web site within the Yahoo Sports portal will give visitors a host of ways to follow the Olympic Games over the Internet—and marketers a number of ways to link their brand names to the online action from Beijing...

VW Runs ‘Magic Bus’ Contest for Cancer Charity

Volkswagen is bringing a classic rock tune to life in a contest with The Who to give away a “Magic Bus” to support the Teenage Cancer Trust....

NBA Scores Deal with Right Guard

The National Basketball Association unveiled a multi-year deal making Right Guard the league’s official deodorant....

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