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…
Today at BIA/Kelsey's Deals3D conference, Gary Kearns, MasterCard group executive for information services, was all about the data. The volume of purchase data that flows through MasterCard puts it in a unique position to target offers in ways that boosts…
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…
Writing about Google+ wasn’t an option. When an 800-pound gorilla makes a frontal assault on Facebook, Skype AND Twitter, sending the tech punditry into breathless buzz and sparking curiosity about the potential seismic effects on social networking, well, that warrants…
Yelp reached a sizable milestone today, hitting 20 million reviews. More notable is the rate of growth. It reached its first million reviews in about 2.5 years. Then it took another three years to get to 10 million. That was…
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…
BIA/Kelsey's DMS ’11 event is shaping up nicely as a summit of leading innovators in small-business marketing and advertising solutions. Anyone selling directly to SMBs or building solutions for those that do should attend this event. The premise of DMS…
Just in time for next week's Deals 3D conference, we've published a new report on mobile deals. The idea is that as deals collide with mobile, it will represent the Act II of the exploding space (although deals go back…
Following on its announcement yesterday that it had acquired the U.S.-based e-commerce firm Znode, Yell Group has unveiled a new alliance with Microsoft to sell the software giant's cloud-based services to its U.K. customers. The services Yell will offer will…
AT&T Interactive announced this week the launch of in-app ads on its mobile ad network, an extension of YP Local Ad Network. In-app local ads are served within mobile apps based on a user's location. Earlier this year, AT&T Interactive piloted…
Foursquare announced today that it will add pre-purchased daily deals to its roster of nearby specials. These will come from a cluster of new partners and will operate under a rev share. They'll show up just like its current specials…
Yell announced today that it acquired Znode, an e-commere software development company in a deal valued at $19 million. Znode will be incorporated into Yell Group as part of its new consumer division, Yell Connect. Znode's technology will serve as…
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…
We work with online and mobile services every day, so it is easy to lose perspective on what “civilians” really do with such services. There is no better reality test for the progress of technology in our society than going…
Just short of reaching its first birthday, Shopkick has reached the 2 million user milestone. The company emphasizes these are active users, in response to recent industry outcry (and comments by Mark Zuckerberg yesterday) that measuring registered users is irrelevant.…
Continuing a recent string of acquisitions that tie together mobile capabilities, eBay announced it will acquire mobile payments provider Zong for $240 million in cash. Naturally, Zong will join the PayPal unit and strengthen its position in mobile payments. This…
Not long after Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley told me the service has signed up 300,000 businesses (and 10 million users), business development lead Eric Friedman blogged today that it has reached 500,000. To be clear, Foursquare is not yet monetizing…
