Ad:Tech - desperate to spam?

Paul Sinclair, European Sales Manager for DMG World Media cold-called a couple of weeks back to sell me a spot as an Exhibitor at Ad:Tech.

No thanks, I’m not doing that this year. Though he’s never heard of me or my company before, he offered instead to consider putting me on the speaker panel if I sent my details. Sounded like an attempt to add me to an e-mail list instead, so no thanks.

He’s found it anyway - now received my third UCE spam from them, inviting me to put my company in front of “4,000 marketing decision makers!”.

Never signed up to anything with DMG World Media, never requested their services or further information - but they are repeatedly e-mail spamming my company mailbox.

The business world is often predatory and aggressive, but I would have thought that Ad:Tech was a more highly-respected event than to have to begin a UCE campaign to get the vendors in.

Perhaps UCE spamming by DMG World Media would make an interesting speaker presentation at Ad:Tech this year…