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UPS has launched a new service that will allow customers to intercept or reroute sent packages before they are delivered, writes CNET.
By calling or visiting the company’s website, customers can change the delivery address or halt delivery of a package, at any time. According to Kurt Kuehn, UPS senior vice president for worldwide sales and technology, the service allows for flexibility for customers, “in a world of tight deadlines.”
He cites the example of a customer who mistakenly sent two packages to a customer during the test phase. The customer was able to recall one of the packages and avoid embarrassment. He said the service will allow companies using UPS to compete more effectively, because they have more complete control over their packages while they are in UPS’s care.
TargetSpot has acquired online streaming ad rep firm Ronning Lipset Radio in a move that will form the largest audio advertising network and streamline the buying of online radio spots, the companies say.
TargetSpot is an online system for creating,…
FT Group, publisher of the Financial Times, saw total revenue leap 11% for the first nine months of 2008. Circulation and ad revenue grew, as did revenue from interactive data.
Ad revenue was up 1% over the first nine months…
Location-based services that allow marketers to connect with consumers wherever they are have long been considered the ideal in advertising. eMarketer is predicting that the opportunity will grow significantly in coming years, with the number of consumers using such services…
Comedy Central is building on the success of its two wildly popular fake-news programs, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show, adding a show called Chocolate News.
The new show will star David Alan Grier as the pompous host of…
Prices of list rentals are declining across the board and – for the first time ever - show a downward trend in every B2C and B2B category tracked, according to Worldata’s Fall 2008 List Price Index (see table), writes MarketingCharts.
Permission-based email…
Custom publications are being increasingly produced by specialty editors and designers (73%) rather than by those in communications roles, according to a study conducted by the Custom Publishing Council (CPC) in cooperation with Publications Management, writes MarketingCharts.
The survey, “Staffing and Compensation:…
