Bigfoot Interactive Launches New Marketing Platform
New York-based e-mail marketing provider Bigfoot Interactive took the
wraps off the new version of its e-mail delivery platform, dubbed DREAM.
DREAM — short for Direct Response E-mail Application Manager — provides
greater segmentation, content assembly and personalization features than
earlier versions of the company’s offerings, which are available in
outsourced or in-house modes. Bigfoot also offers a mixed “collaborative
ASP” product as well.
The DREAM system features a redesigned interface with step-by-step guides
for handling lists, preparing and distributing campaigns, and analyzing
results.
It also offers more advanced personalization and data-management options
that provides marketers with greater control of the format in which data is
rendered in the e-mail itself, regardless of how that data might reside in
the database.
It also offers greater features in list management, offering deeper
analysis to segment lists, and better back-end connections to CRM and
analytical systems, and to Bigfoot Interactive’s own industry-specific,
automated modules.
Additionally, the service includes beefed-up graphical reporting.
“Never before has there been greater scrutiny on the cost of media and
its relationship to customer acquisition and retention return on
investment,” said Bigfoot Interactive Chief Executive Al DiGuido. “The
release of DREAM continues our mission to provide marketers with best of
breed technologies and services that provide a competitive edge in
leveraging the power of the email channel.”
Bigfoot Interactive said that more than 80 percent of its client base has
migrated to the DREAM platform.
BMWFilms.com Unveils Trailer
Automaker BMW released the first trailer of the upcoming second round of
short films in its acclaimed “The Hire” series, which appears on
BMWfilms.com.
The site includes the trailer of “Hostage,” the first short film slated
to be released by the company in 2002. It also includes behind-the-scenes
footage and information on the two upcoming films, “Ticker” and “Beat the
Devil.”
BMW made headlines and won awards last year with BMWfilms.com and the
first five films in “The Hire.” Designed by its ad agency, Fallon, the
BMWfilms.com effort tapped well-known directors to develop short films
starring Clive Owens as “The Driver,” and a BMW automobile. The automobile
manufacturer gave the directors free reign and underwrote the costs of the
production.
Eyeblaster Opens Award Voting
Rich media firm Eyeblaster is aiming to build buzz around its ad
management platform while honoring breakthrough creative with its annual,
eponymous award competition.
The New York-based company said an independent creative panel chose a
list of 25 finalists eligible for the award, out of a group of more than 500
campaigns. Ads for brands including GM , Warner Bros.
, American Express, Coca-Cola
, Nike
and Nextel
are represented on the list.
The company is encouraging advertisers, agencies and publishers to vote
at its Web site for the most visually engaging and creative campaign, and
the two runners-up. In return for casting a vote, participants are eligible
for an Apple iPod MP3 player.
The winner will be presented with the Best Eyeblaster Award for 2002 on
November 19 at a special ceremony in New York City. The awards are
co-sponsored by iMedia Communications.
It’s the second year that Eyeblaster has held the competition.
“Last year’s award demonstrated the industry’s rapid adoption of these
new ad formats,” said Eyeblaster Executive Vice President Joe Apprendi.
“This year, hundreds of Fortune 1000 brands are among those online
advertisers included in the competition.”
