Big couple of weeks for the Daily Deal space:
- Groupon’s foray into national brand deals was a home run, earning the company over $11 million in gross revenue with its Gap promotion. The company also acquired competitor sites in Japan and Russia. [GigaOm]
- Yelp launched its official Daily Deal service in San Diego. After previously testing deals earlier this summer, the user-generated guide site finally rolled out its first one day promotion. Yelp plans to launch “soon” in San Francisco and New York if all goes well. [VentureBeat]
- More local publishers and sites continue to launch their own deal services. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune launched STeals this week, powered by Shoutback. Travelzoo, already known for its travel deals, launched Local Deals in Des Moines and Minneapolis. Both sites plan to focus on local enterainment deals in their respective cities. [E&P][Barron's]
- Luxury Daily Deal provider Gilt City expands to LA and San Francisco. [TechCrunch]
- SMB focused CRM platforms are starting to get into the DailyDeal game. Close.ly, StepRep and GenBook are examples, and from our conversations more will be joining soon. [Screenwerk]
We’ve got a few pieces of Yipit news to share as well:
- Vin wrote the mother of all guides for media companies looking to launch a Daily Deal product. [Yipit Blog]
- Jim released some Daily Deal redemption and conversion data in a webinar last week, slides are available here: [Yipit Blog]
- We’re now available in Denver and Miami! Find your favorite personalized deals in Colorado and South Florida, all in once place!
- Time is running out on Yipit’s proposed SXSW panels. If you haven’t yet, please vote for Jim’s on The Future of Group Buying and Vin’s on Becoming your own Technical Co-Founder.
Heard anything else interesting or disagree? Comment below or call us out on Twitter:@yipit. Otherwise, we’ll get back to building Yipit, which gathers and filters daily deals based on your tastes.
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