yesmail.com Experienced in providing customer acquisition and retention email programs, YesMail’s direct-marketing services let clients select audiences, get counts, develop messages, schedule delivery, and track results in real-time. Goto.com, NYTimes.com, Fingerhut.com, eMarketer.com, Dell.com, and Mapquest.com are among YesMail’s top patrons. Available since August, the YesMail Hotline grants access to a million new, segmentable names in the YesMail Network, who tend to respond at higher-than-average rates. YesMail’s Holiday Gift Package (consisting of free email addresses when marketers purchase a campaign of 100,000 names or more, tactics for increasing conversion, and a free strategy session on retention email marketing) is a fourth-quarter initiative to help clients increase their return on holiday marketing dollars.
DoubleClick With its DARTmail delivery platform, a secure web-hosted application, and DoubleClick eMail List Services (which helps list owners monetize opt-in email names and list renters find responsive prospects), DoubleClick manages 41 lists with more than 21 million opt-in names. On a buying spree that enabled it to sweep up less successful competitors and expand market share, DoubleClick recently bought L90’s ad-delivery technology and earlier this year acquired Adgile Interactive, MessageMedia, and FloNetworks. DARTmail has delivered nearly 2 billion emails on behalf of 250-plus agencies, merchants, and publishers, including J.Crew, Virgin MegaStores.com, and The Wall Street Journal Online.
24/7 24/7 Media is a one-stop email shop with a suite of services that includes email list management and brokerage, data analysis, advertising and direct marketing, ad serving, promotions, and more. Its latest program, the 24/7 Mail Business Alliance, consists of a database with email work addresses of 1.3 million business professionals. Earlier this year, 24/7 Media introduced its SelectMessaging opt-in service, which lets marketers automatically construct customized email newsletters and alerts containing chunks of personalized content based on each subscriber’s preferences. SelectMessaging also lets clients store and use consumer-supplied demographic information in numerous attribute categories. Clients include AT&T, Upshot.com, Tech Republic, Seagrams, Ameritrade, and Microsoft.