We were all surprised to see Groupon's US revenue decline 30% in February, but apparently that's just the beginning. Yipit, as a daily deal aggregator, indexes offers from more than 400 services, including Groupon and … [Read more...]
Did Regulatory Risk Derail Google-Groupon?
UPDATE: Business Insider confirmed this the next day: "a source close to Groupon board members tells us that anti-trust concerns ultimately forced Groupon to turn down Google's $6 billion offer" The Google-Groupon … [Read more...]
Groupon Releases Pricing For Self-Serve Product
Over the weekend, we learned Groupon is quietly testing a new self-serve offering, with potentially major implications to the future of the company. Today, we found full details on the program in a welcome page to … [Read more...]
Groupon Reveals Its Future Lies In Self-Serve
Update: this post was picked up by Mashable, Business Insider, Screenwerk and was the top story on Techmeme on October 24, 2010. Update: full details of the program are available here. Groupon is quietly testing a … [Read more...]
White Label Providers: How Publishers Will Dominate Daily Deals
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. … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Groupon Scores with The Gap, Yelp Makes it Official, Gilt City Grows
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 … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Groupon Personalizes, Yelp Tests Daily Deals, Tippr Grows
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. … [Read more...]
Watch Out Groupon, Yelp Is Testing Daily Deals
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 … [Read more...]
Rapidly Growing Daily Deal Challengers
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 … [Read more...]
Why Gilt City Will Succeed
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 … [Read more...]