The transfer of reward points and offers from print receipts and clipped newspaper pages to the cloud is expected to be a big part of promotional media’s next wave. But some merchants seem to be deliberately dragging their feet. CVS,…
Groupon got a flying jump investing in overseas properties that have basically cloned its daily deal concept and set up local operations. International now accounts for 54 percent of Groupon’s revenues, according to the S-1 it filed with the SEC…
Google has acquired Dealmap, a deals aggregator and exchange, and will presumably use it to complement its own sourcing of deals for Google Offers, the daily deal site now in New York, the Bay Area and Portland and coming soon…
Gannett has now publicly announced that it has expanded its DealChicken platform to 10 to 15 markets, and will be in 57 markets where it has newspapers and/or TV stations. The company obviously enters a crowded marketplace, but will likely…
In true McLaughlin Group style, Greg Sterling moderated the final session at Deals 3D -- “Deals: The Next Stage” -- more as a rapid-fire roundtable than a traditional panel. He dished, they debated. So, consistent to the theme, here are…
There are already many types of deals and a plethora of deal providers. And all signs point to even more growth and variety. To peer a year or two ahead, moderator Matt Booth led a discussion with four seasoned players…
For Part Deux of the Mobile Meets Deals series, host Mike Boland continued his dialog with segment leaders. First up was Brian Knapp, VP of Business Operations, Loopt. Knapp presented Loopt's new u-Deals program, launched a few weeks ago on…
While deals are getting most of the attention right now, coupons remain a substantially larger player in the promotions business, says Steven Boal, CEO of Coupons.com, who was keynoting at BIA/Kelsey’s Deals 3D conference this week in San Francisco. Boal…
Deals are more than a one off when combined with merchant services such as mobile payment processing and scheduling, according to panelists at BIA/Kelsey’s Deals 3D conference in San Francisco today. Daily deal merchants can get a higher rate of…
Who cares what happened when Harry met Sally!? The real action is here at the Deals 3D Conference, where "Mobile Meets Deals." In "Part I: Heavy Hitters," host Mike Boland ran a triad of fast-past interviews with key players rooted…
Media companies are beginning to strongly leverage their databases and promotional capabilities to push deals, according to several panelists at BIA/Kelsey's Deals 3D conference today in San Francisco. Radio stations, for instance, haven’t really cashed in with online opportunities, but…
Facebook touts itself as a platform that allows and encourages partners to further build out its social graph. In Deals, it has now found its most significant partner yet, inking a deal with American Express to push socially curated deals…
Group buying is growing up…and growing more complex in the process. It has long-outgrown the Groupon-and-the-seven-dwarfs phase and has added new layers reminiscent of other, more mature digital sectors, expanding into vertical niches, attracting media companies and necessitating aggregators. Now,…
David Krantz, president and CEO of AT&T Interactive, announced the launch of AT&T's "Deal of the Day" program this afternoon at the BIA/Kelsey Deals 3D conference. The program is being offered initially in three markets: Atlanta, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Los…
In a keynote at Deals 3D in San Francisco today, Gary Kearns, MasterCard InfoServices group executive, said that "I am probably what I buy, not what I search for," and noted that "purchase data is the new demographic" information that…
The appeal of deals was initially their role in discovering new merchants and services, right? But as aggregators and others started entering the deals space, there have been more elements of “shopping,” where people would find the best discounts among…
Aiming to be a Top 5 deals site by the end of next year, Local.com today announced that it has bought Southern California’s Screamin' Daily Deals to provide the infrastructure for its Spreebird daily deals site. The site has been…
Lately I've been exploring our video archives to pull out hidden gems and relive some of the important takeaways from our past conferences. Appropos to our Deals 3D show coming up in just over two weeks, I spent some time…
As we keep saying, mobile will represent "Act II" of the exploding deal space. We even have an entire segment of our Deals 3D conference next month devoted to it. It kicks off with a session of heavy hitters including…
We’ve been focused so much on deal a day that we sometimes forget it is just part of the mix when it comes to successful SMB promotions. Seth Gardenswartz of SpaBoom, a provider of promotion services for spas and restaurants,…
