Interview with Matt Coen, President and Co-Founder, Second Street. Second Street, the well-established white label, providing online promotion platforms to 2400 media companies, is stretching the mold for typical media companies entering the digital space with straightforward, full service marketing approaches to social commerce. Second Street clients include Applebee’s, Dow Jones, The Washington Post, Los [...]

A Daily Deal Media Exclusive: Overview of Jay Edelson’s Persuasive Daily Deal Industry Report Contribution, “Preventing Your Daily Deals from Becoming Permanent Targets” In our 2012 Daily Deal Industry Report, we were fortunate to have an especially knowledgeable contribution by legal expert Jay Edelson, Managing Partner of Edelson McGuire, LLC focusing on the growth of daily deal industry [...]

Daily Deal Media Interview with Jasper Malcolmson, of Bloomspot On Monday I had the opportunity to visit Bloomspot in San Francisco, and met with CEO Jasper Malcolmson to learn more about the company. Malcolmson is the former VP of Product for Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Commerce Division, and launched Bloomspot two years ago. Although they currently compete with some [...]

As a follow up to the news about Gilt Groupe’s recent layoffs I reached out to the company for additional information. I received the following response from Caitlyn Carpanzano, spokesperson for Gilt. Regarding Gilt City, that business has developed a clear market position and terrific offerings in our core cities, with NY, LA, SF, Chicago, Boston, DC and Miami all showing growth [...]

With the ever growing popularity of daily deals and ecommerce, it seems only natural that established media companies would start programs of their own.  We’ve seen radio stations team up with deals companies and other media groups hopping on the deal train recently more now than ever. I had the opportunity to speak with Amy Littlefield, Product [...]

We’ve been receiving a steady stream of emails and tips about massive layoffs at kgbdeals for about two weeks now.  At first they were easy to dismiss since they also claimed that kgb is exiting the US market, or one claiming that kgb is shutting down deals entirely after a string of disappointing quarters. I reached [...]

As Google releases their 2012 New Year’s Doodle, it seems it’s finally come that time to wrap up the year with a Happy New Years post. On behalf of Daily Deal Media and the entire Social Commerce and Daily Deal Industry, I wish you all the best as we begin another journey of challenges, victories, [...]

We’re putting the finishing touches on our annual Daily Deal Media Report and we need your help! We’ve assembled a small survey that we’d like to publish in our final report, scheduled to be released on January 16, 2012.  We’ll be sharing the results of this poll with everyone that participates.  As a small thank [...]

Groupon officially went public this morning, trading under the ticker “GRPN” and opened the day at a surprising $20.00. The stock shocked skeptics when it started trading +40% after only a few hours. The stock hit a day high of $31.14 and a day low of $25.90 – Not bad for a company under such [...]

Overnight BuyWithMe.com ceased to be. If you attempt to go to buywithme.com, you will be redirected to Gilt City. In a press release this morning, Gilt City announced the acquisition of the assets of BuyWithMe which will essentially double the size of the upscale flash sales company. Execs from both companies gave the usual generic [...]