May 15, 2013
It seems like there might be a bit of a mismatch between what companies want to do with mobile and what they're actually doing.
February 07, 2013
Three areas marketers should consider when determining whether to purchase or create the content needed for their content marketing efforts.
January 02, 2013
And it's Atmosphere Proximity for the win. The agency takes on The Economist's digital promo in 2013.
November 30, 2012
It doesn't take an advanced degree in economics to crunch the numbers currently plaguing the magazine industry—but partnership marketing can save the day.
July 02, 2012
Search and Q&A website Ask.com has finalized its acquisition of nRelate, a company that suggests related stories to readers on publisher websites, says Doug Leeds, CEO of Ask.com.
May 31, 2012
Nordstrom, Inc., and men's lifestlye magazine GQ are partnering to integrate GQ editorial content into Nordstrom's e-commerce site over a six-month period.
March 28, 2012
Are harried commuters in Grand Central really the best target audience for impromptu and unsolicited lessons on global economics? The Financial Times thinks so.
March 09, 2012
Time Inc., CMO Stephanie George and Steve Sachs, EVP of consumer marketing and sales, will be leaving the company, the company confirmed March 9. Time Inc. CEO Laura Lang has named a four-person team that will comprise the new Office of the Chief Executive Officer, according to an internal memo.
The U.S. Justice Department has warned Apple, as well as five major U.S. publishers, that an antitrust lawsuit may be brought against them for colluding to increase the prices of e-books, The Wall Street Journal reported on March 8.
Hearst Digital Media, a unit of Hearst Magazines, has tapped mobile brand-advertising platform Sprout, Laura Schooling, Hearst Digital Media's executive director of marketing services, confirmed. Hearst will use the Sprout platform to enhance its mobile and tablet ad units for the digital properties of brands including Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and Seventeen.
March 01, 2012
HarperCollins teamed with Dentsu to launch a mobile Quick Response code campaign that drove in-store activity and online engagement.
January 17, 2012
Barnaby Dawe, the marketing communications director at News International, is leaving the newspaper industry to become the chief marketing officer for book publisher HarperCollins.
January 01, 2012
Online display advertising sellers are circling the wagons to reassert their position in a crowded market and fend off the swelling role of third parties, such as ad networks and demand-side platforms.
January 01, 2012
Mobile advertising is a fragmented market, with sketchy data on ad network market share and revenue.
January 01, 2012
At Fitness Magazine, insight is the driver that propels and informs every new initiative.
December 01, 2011
Digitas CEO Laura Lang has been named CEO of publishing company Time Inc. Lang will replace Jack Griffin who was fired in February, six months after being named to the position. She will report directly to Time Warner Inc. CEO Jeff Bewkes.
September 09, 2011
Forbes Media will replace Jorge Consuegra as CMO with Jack Laschever, a former group publisher at the company, Direct Marketing News learned September 9. Consuegra was named Forbes' first CMO in January.
August 01, 2011
David Brown, Meredith Integrated Marketing's EVP and GM, discusses the importance of building brand awareness and channel evolution
Amazon.com agreed to acquire online bookseller The Book Depository International, a UK-based retailer, on July 4.The Book Depository reported sales of $173.5 million in the 12 months ending in June.
Amazon.com net sales increased 38% year-over-year to $9.86 billion in the first quarter of 2011, the company said April 26 in an earnings report. However, net income decreased 33% to $201 million in the quarter, compared with the prior year, as marketing expenses increased by $126 million.
Media and marketing services company Meredith Corp. launched a social commerce network with Group Commerce, a group buying technology provider, on March 9. The network, which debuted on Parents.com, will provide Groupon-like weekly offers to consumers who sign up via Facebook or Meredith's online properties.
March 01, 2011
The printing industry's newfound creativity has recaptured marketers looking for impact as it races to compete against its digital brethren
March 01, 2011
A US Postal Service update to its periodical content rules last July gave marketers a new route to send creative print materials at a discount.
Publisher Condé Nast has named Specialists Marketing Services (SMS) its exclusive list management provider, effective with orders placed beginning January 3. SMS will replace Infogroup's Direct Media Millard.
December 01, 2010
To promote the November 16 release of Jay-Z's autobiography, Decoded, Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House, partnered with Bing and Droga5 for an interactive consumer campaign.
While many in the publishing world have been slow to embrace the digital evolution (save for a few e-readers), Scholastic is looking to take its decidedly old-fashioned - but popular - book clubs and bring them into a new era.
June 15, 2010
Martha Stewart, head of media company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, praised the role social media has played in building her business during an on-stage interview at the annual Digital Marketing Days Conference & Expo in New York June 14.
Statlistics and Merkle have partnered to launch a mobile-based lead-generation service that replaces traditional reader-service cards. Green Mountain Coffee is the first client using the service. The Print-to-Mobile platform helps publishers and advertisers use specific short codes, rather than service numbers, in their print advertisements.
Media auditor BPA Worldwide has refined the publisher widget it launched in early December based on customer feedback, DMNews has learned.
Ardath Harter Rodale, former chairman and CEO of health publisher Rodale, died at 81. She was the wife of the late Bob Rodale, former CEO, and the mother of Maria Rodale, who currently holds the chairman and CEO title at the media company. Ardath Rodale served as co-chairman of The Rodale Institute, a nonprofit institution dedicated to research and education focused on organic food and agriculture. The company built its magazine and book businesses through direct response marketing.
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What's in our mailbox this month: fitness postcards from Retro Fitness, American Woman Fitness Centers, Union's United Taekwondo Academy, and Bally Total Fitness. (We're totally pumped.)
Social data can improve a brand's bottom line and customer relationships. Just ask brands Infiniti and Diamond Nexus.
Here are three must-have data sets that every marketer should include in his or her email strategy.
