DMA Announces Finalists for New DMA Future Innovators Awards

October 16, 2009 — The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) today announced finalists for the inaugural DMA Future Innovators Awards (FIA), which recognize the innovative advances being made in the field of marketing. Honors will be presented at a special presentation on Sunday, October 18, at 5 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall near booth 1147, during the DMA09 Conference & Exhibition, the Global Event for Integrated Marketing, taking place October 17-22 in San Diego.

The awards will be presented each year to suppliers of new products or services exhibiting at DMA’s annual conference that are deemed the most influential and having improved the global marketing community in the previous year. In these difficult economic times, the need for creativity and innovation is great, and DMA is honored to provide the appropriate recognition as the marketing community continues to make strides.

Judges, comprised of the marketing community’s best and brightest, will review the submissions based on three main criteria: how innovative the product or service is, whether it is completely new or an advancement; the impact the product or service has on an end user (quantified with data); and whether or not the product or service made a difference to the global marketing community.

2009 DMA Future Innovators Awards Finalists

· AmazingMail.com Inc.

· BLI messaging

· City Twist

· Epsilon Sonar

· Experian Marketing Services

· FirstData and Visant Marketing Services

· Fresh Address

· Global-Z Real Time

· Harte-Hanks Marketing Intelligence

· Neustar

· NextMark Mailing List

· Portrait Software

· Unica Interactive Marketing

About DMA09 Conference & Exhibition

The DMA09 Annual Conference & Exhibition, the Global Event for Integrated Marketing, is the world’s largest gathering of multichannel marketing professionals. DMA09, which will be held October 17-22 in San Diego, will feature keynote presentations, educational sessions, roundtables, case studies, white papers, and research reports. DMA09’s exhibit hall will feature hundreds of exhibiting companies. For additional information, or to register for the six-day multichannel marketing event of the year, please visit www.dma09.org.

For information about DMA09 exhibition and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Donna LoPorto at 212.790.1468 or dloporto@the-dma.org.

DMA provides complimentary registrations for editorial staff of media outlets covering multichannel direct marketing. To request press registration, please email DMA at pressregistration@the-dma.org. For information about DMA’s requirements for press credentials, please click here.

About Direct Marketing Association (DMA)

The Direct Marketing Association (www.the-dma.org) is the leading global trade association of businesses and nonprofit organizations using and supporting multichannel direct marketing tools and techniques. DMA advocates standards for responsible marketing, promotes relevance as the key to reaching consumers with desirable offers, and provides cutting-edge research, education, and networking opportunities to improve results throughout the end-to-end direct marketing process. Founded in 1917, DMA today represents more than 3,100 companies from dozens of vertical industries in the US and 48 other nations, including half of the Fortune 100 companies, as well as nonprofit organizations.

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