UPDATE 6/9/10: This was published in the New York Daily News. UPDATE 6/15/10: This post was also referenced in the New York Times. What if we told you that you’d never have to pay full price for massages, facials, pilates classes or tanning ever again? The recent group buying phenomenon has led many of your [...]

UPDATE 6/9/10: This was published in the New York Daily News. UPDATE 6/15/10: This post was also referenced in the New York Times. What if we told you that you’d never have to pay full price for massages, facials, pilates classes or tanning ever again? The recent group buying phenomenon has led many of your [...]

The flash sale giant Gilt Groupe has quietly begun testing a local daily deal service in New York, Gilt City. While we think there is room for hundreds of daily deal companies to operate profitably, Gilt City in particular has some compelling characteristics that will cause to be a leader in the space: Vertical Focus. [...]

One common question surrounding the Daily Deal space is whether the discount percentages and deal services’ margins will hold at scale. We’ll handle some of the issues surrounding compression/expansion in later posts, however, one trend that makes us excited are special events being organized by the Daily Deal services that feature several local businesses. Some [...]

TechCrunch recently featured data we’ve analyzed to track the growing proliferation of Daily Deal Services in the United States. As of early April, there are at least 66 different companies creating daily deals. Many of them operate in more than one city, meaning there are more than 176 total daily deals running at any given [...]

We’ve begun tracking the Daily Deal services operating in the United States. Currently there 72 companies running 182 different daily deals across the United States. We’re hosting this data here: US Daily Deal Services. Please leave a comment or shoot us an email at (info at yipit dot com) if we’ve left anyone out or [...]

We’re going to be using the Yipit Blog to: Keep you apprised of the latest developments here at Yipit Talk about daily deal / group-buying industry trends Release interesting analysis from all of the data we collect If there are other things you want us to talk about, let us know! Tip:  You can also [...]