Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 12:05AM MINNEAPOLIS, MN October 20, 2010 – For the calendar year-to-date (CYTD) period ending September 30, 2010, the number of digital coupon events increased by 59.9 percent versus the same period in 2009 across key websites tracked by Marx, a Kantar Media solution.
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 1:37AM The recession didn't help many industries, but it may prove the savior of print coupons. Even consumers in their 20s and 30s appear to be adopting the coupon-clipping habit, defying what once looked like long odds, declining newspaper circulation and the growth of digital media.
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 2:09AM 
LocalGreatDeals.com, a leading online deals/coupons marketplace solution for local coupons and deals, announces the launch of its online deals/coupons marketplace in Boston, Massachusetts.
With today's announcement the company's online coupon and deals marketplace is now live in 20 U.S. cities, with plans to expand to 35 cities in 2010 and a national presence with 100 cities in 2011. LocalGreatDeals.com provides local small to medium sized businesses with a manageable, cost-effective way to participate in the growing market for local deal/coupon advertising.
Friday, October 22, 2010 at 2:25PM Marketers—in this case, food marketers—are trying a new approach when it comes to winning followers: Online coupons and incentives that grow in value as more consumers “like” a brand on Facebook.
ConAgra Foods’ Healthy Choice, burger chain Jack in the Box and Barilla’s Wasa Crispbread are recent examples of brands that have been offering these digital incentives. It’s not a race to get more Facebook followers, the companies claim, but to create a sense of community and engagement among consumers.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 4:39AM Coupons from the Internet are the fastest-growing part of the coupon world--their redemption increased 263 percent to about 50 million coupons in 2009, according to the coupon-processing company Inmar. Using coupons to link Internet behavior with in-store shopping lets retailers figure out which ad slogans or online product promotions work best, how long someone waits between searching and shopping, even what offers a shopper will respond to or ignore.
The coupons can, in some cases, be tracked not just to an anonymous shopper but to an identifiable person: a retailer could know that Amy Smith printed a 15 percent-off coupon after searching for appliance discounts at Ebates.com on Friday at 1:30 p.m. and redeemed it later that afternoon at the store.
Original Post: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/business/media/17coupon.html
Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 4:51PM Who wouldn't pay $10 for a $25 meal, or $25 to enjoy an opulent $50 dinner?
That's the appeal of companies offering online coupons good for discounts at restaurants locally and nationwide. Analysts say the niche actually expanded amid the sagging economy, as a restaurant outing is a relatively affordable indulgence compared with, say, a new sports car.
And if you have a coupon to defray the cost of a meal, so much the better.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 6:31PM According to Inmar, a coupon processing settlement provider, coupon redemption in the fourth quarter of 2008 grew nearly 10% compared to the fourth quarter of 2007, marking the first jump in redemption since the early 90s. The Winston-Salem NC company credits the uptick in coupon redemption to the economy, yet gains in online coupon redemption has out-clipped newspapers 17-to-1, according to Coupons.com.
"When everyone started hearing reports of record unemployment, drops in consumer confidence and losses on Wall Street, coupon redemption volume started to go up," said Bob Carter, president of Inmar CMS Promotion Services.
Monday, March 2, 2009 at 12:33PM MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Mar 02, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- With the economy driving more shoppers to search out savings, interest in online coupons has spiked, helping spur record growth for Coupons.com in 2008. The world leader in digital coupons more than doubled the amount of savings printed from the site and helped more than 38 million consumers print coupons. The Company also drove innovation in the printable coupon market with key product developments and partnerships.
"We believe shoppers will continue to seek out savings everywhere they can find them as the economy further tightens in 2009," said Steven Boal, CEO of Coupons.com. "With local newspapers struggling, many consumers will lose access to their Sunday coupons. As a result, household brand name companies are increasingly looking to deliver savings to those consumers online. Our goal in 2009 is to bring coupons to as many digital platforms as possible so that consumers can readily find savings in these difficult times."
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 2:16PM Discussing the annual value of a customer can be a very powerful way to establish the value of the local online coupon advertising. Most local online coupon sales forces has the ability to generate activity reports based on the number of times an advertiser’s online coupon is viewed, printed, sent to a mobile phone, etc. These reports can be very powerful. It’s critical that, as a sales rep, you understand how to use them to maintain the relationship with the client and build steam toward an advertising contract renewal.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 11:11PM Steve Horowitz, engineering director of Google's Android project to build a Linux-based open-source phone operating system, has left the company to become chief technology officer of Coupons.com.
