Groupon has a roaring head start in the deals of the day category for groups, with over a million users. We’ll hear all about Groupon from CEO Andrew Mason at next week’s Marketplaces conference in San Diego, where he is keynoting. But there are now countless imitators adding their own deals.
New York-based 8Coupons.com, [...]
Yearly Archives: 2010
Group-Based ‘Deals of the Day’ Sites: 55 (and Counting)
March 16, 2010 – 10:27 pm
CBS Local Launches Auto Portal with High Gear Media
March 16, 2010 – 4:17 pm
CBS Local has launched an auto shopping guide on the website of WCCO-TV Minneapolis, using vertical content and services from High Gear Media, a Palo Alto-based auto specialist publisher launched two years ago by Daily Shopper founder Hesky Kutscher.
The CBS Local deal marks the first local effort for High Gear, which has 90 car-related [...]
Goby.com: Search Engine Focuses on Local Events + Travel
March 15, 2010 – 3:53 pm
Events are a vertical that cuts across many segments: travel, retail, sports, entertainment, education, dining, culture and others. Major players include specialists such as Zvents, Eventful, Americantowns.com and Center’d. City sites such as Citysearch and Yelp are active in the space as well.
A new one for us is Goby.com, a venture-backed firm that comes [...]
Living Social Raises $30 Million; Goes Head-to-Head with Groupon
March 12, 2010 – 12:13 am
The “Flash ecommerce” space got hotter today, as Washington, D.C.-based LivingSocial announced a new $30 million round led by U.S.Venture Partners. Grotech Ventures and Revolution (Steve Case’s company) are also participating.
The fund will be used to launch deal-a-day coupon sites in Chicago, Denver/Boulder, Raleigh Durham and San Diego. These cities are actually live today, [...]
MerchantCircle Index: Mixed Awareness Levels for Local Players
March 11, 2010 – 8:01 pm
MerchantCircle’s Merchant Index tracks merchant confidence in the economy (low). But it also yields some unexpected “real world” insight into merchant awareness and use of their local online marketing options.
The Index is based on 11,000+ email respondents , so there is likely to be an online bias in the results. Of its 1.1 million registered [...]
Bay Area News Project Envisions $12 Million in Revenue
March 11, 2010 – 1:27 am
Local news cooperatives are now in development in San Diego, Chicago, Hawaii and San Francisco. The latter, known as The Bay Area News Project , is building up with a $5 million investment from philanthropist Warren Hellman, who apparently thought it would be a better idea to start fresh than buy The San Francisco [...]
Red Beacon Teams with BigTent, Adds ‘Friendly Advice’
March 11, 2010 – 12:43 am
Red Beacon, one of the new breed of social/local leads providers for SMBs, said it is now available throughout the entire Bay Area and teaming up with BigTent, a mega-moms network in the Bay Area with more than 100 local cells. BigTent will receive a revenue share carved from Red Beacon’s 10 percent commission.
The [...]
