Seemingly everyone launched new daily deal sites or expanded their scope this week.  It’s a crazy industry out there, let’s round it up: Valpak, the company that sends those blue envelopes full of coupons that you either love or completely ignore, has launched their own daily deal site, Valpak Deals. In an interesting move, the [...]

Local publishers have begun entering the Daily Deal space, and for good reason.  Many are helped by group buying solutions, to which publishers outsource some combination of sales, deal production, and technology.  These white-label platforms enable local publishers to offer their own Daily Deals, as well as provide consumers a viable alternative to using mainstream Daily Deal [...]

Exciting week in Daily Deals as geographic expansion, verticalization and publisher entrance continues. Even Wall Street has started to pay attention. Here’s your Friday Roundup: TravelZoo (TZOO) saw a big bump in share price and OpenTable (OPEN) was upgraded by Merrill Lynch, both as a result of their introducing Daily Deal products. This has led [...]

LivingSocial deals are now hyperlocal in two cities, Microsoft launched a Daily Deal service in Australia, and Yelp is still tasting sweet victory from its first Daily Deal in San Francisco.  Here’s your Friday roundup: We reported on Wednesday that Yelp outperformed Groupon with its first Daily Deal in San Francisco.  It’s a good sign [...]

Yesterday, Yelp ran its first daily deal in San Fancisco and it killed. Yelp’s first deal was for a massage in San Francisco which are relatively common in the daily deal space– a $110 massage for $49 from the well-reviewed Psoas Massage + Bodywork. (It’s not linked from their home page but you can do a [...]