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 and copy with directing deals towards specific stories, images, and memes it posts on its site. Deal of the Day also proves the power of white-label Daily Deals, which provide publishers a new monetization vehicle for their authority and large audience. [Business Insider]
- Wildfire announced the release of a Daily Deal add-on to commercial Facebook pages called Group Deals. Group Deals will allow users to set and create their own Daily Deals, giving them control over the deal value, threshold, and linked e-commerce system to manage transactions. Users who purchase the deals will be able to seamlessly share their activity in their newsfeed. [Mashable]
- A bad Daily Deal was exposed by savvy readers in Tokyo. Users of Japanese Daily Deal site Recruit pointed out that a recent discount for a high-end Italian restaurant was already available. After users complained to both the merchant and site, both sides presented different explanations for the misprinted deal. Despite the confusion, sales of the promotion were not affected. [Asiajin]
- Groupon is now available on the Android. Non-iPhone users rejoice. [Yahoo]
- Canada’s Yellow Pages Group will soon be launching their own Daily Deal site, Red Flag Deals. [Twitter]
- Earlybird’s second promotion fails to impress followers. Maybe we were overly optimistic about this service. [TechCrunch]
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