Lists and Prospecting: Re-evaluating Co-op Database Options Monday, December 01, 2003: Until recently, if a consumer cataloger wanted to join a major cooperative database, it had two choices: the Abacus Alliance and Z-24, both founded in 1991. (A third option, SmartBase, was launched in 1995 by list firm Direct Media but was acquired and phased out by Abacus in the late 1990s.) |