Yelp dabbles in Daily Deals, Groupon will show different deals to different people, and Tippr makes a move.  Here’s your Friday roundup: Yelp prepares to enter the Daily Deal space with a pilot program in Sacramento. I wonder who broke that story? [Yipit Blog] Groupon announced Personalized Deals in six of its markets. Users will still [...]

UPDATE: This story was picked up by TechCrunch, The Next Web, Screenwerk, and Mashable, was syndicated in Business Insider, and made it to the homepage of Techmeme. Yelp has been quietly testing a Daily Deal offering in Sacramento for the past few weeks, according to a Yelp community manager, Olivia Loy, on their discussion thread (screenshot [...]

An internet meme site finally launches into the Daily Deal space, Facebook pages prepare for a Daily Deal upgrade, and some Tokyo restaurant patrons expose a bad promotion.  Here’s your Friday Daily Deal roundup: BuzzFeed launched “Deal of the Day” based on its most LOLworthy memes. Powered by Tippr, BuzzFeed’s new sites combines wacky taglines [...]

UPDATE 7/21: This post was re-published on Business Insider. If you’ve been following our Daily Deal tracker recently, you’d know that the list has grown to over 110 Daily Deal companies across the US (running hundreds of different individual deals). How are these sites growing amidst an increasingly crowded space? One strategy has been verticalization, [...]

LivingSocial has its growth spurt, Earlybird plays nice, and WhitePages enters the Daily Deal space.  Also did you see the trailer for The Social Network yet?  Here’s your daily deal roundup for July 16, 2010: LivingSocial nearly doubled in size this week, adding on 25 new markets to bring its total count to 52 cities [...]

UPDATE 7/22: This post was re-published on LearnVest. We all want to stay in shape, but nobody wants to pay an arm and a leg to do it.  In Manhattan alone, there are over 90 gyms, each one offering different membership rates, fees, and facilities.  But is it worth the monthly cost if you’re simply [...]

A daily deal is a great way to get a terrific discount on a fantastic service, product, or experience.  But sometimes you can’t get to the deal fast enough, forget to buy, or end up with a deal you just don’t like.  Before you head right to posting an ad on Craigslist, consider the ever [...]

Twitter announces its new daily deal service this week, a UK-based daily deal site is in hot water over a promotion gone awry, and BuyWithMe has some major expansion plans.  Here’s your Friday daily deal roundup: Twitter announced it’s own daily deal service this week. “Earlybird“ plans to compete with Groupon and LivingSocial by offering exclusive [...]

UPDATE: Kim-Mai Cutler from VentureBeat reported on this analysis on June 28, 2010. UPDATE: This post appeared in Silicon Alley Insider on July 6, 2010. The Daily Deal competitive landscape is an extremely intense land grab for email subscribers. Here we review some of the fastest growing new entrants, and explore the keys to their [...]

This week, Groupon tries to deal with their latest batch of 100+ overseas competitors, and seeks partnerships with neighborhood blogs and newspapers.  Also, Adility is going to allow businesses have the upper hand in controlling their own online promotions.  We present our first ever weekly trade round up. TechCrunch reports that there are between 100-200 [...]