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What's in Store for Daily Deals in 2013? 10 Trends to Watch for In 2013, we'll see offer platforms transform into offer networks and work more like digital ad networks, says Prashant Nedungadi, CEO of NimbleCommerce. He says running a business like Groupon requires sales teams and paying to distribute deals to customers - it's expensive...
November, 6, 2012
EXPERT COMMENT: NimbleCommerce MD on how e-commerce is making publishing profitable again E-commerce has fundamentally changed the environment in which we do business. Digital channels have opened up new opportunities and any brand with an engaged audience needs to be taking advantage of them. A carefully considered e-commerce strategy is absolutely central to success in a world where the distinctions between offline and online have blurred...
November, 5, 2012
Sharing deals can create sustainability The NimbleNetwork is the first facilitator of deal-sharing relationships. Any company that offers transactional deals can use the network; it allows deal platforms to work together and could rival the established affiliate button as businesses look for alternative approaches to raising revenue...
October, 8, 2012
Two new startups target newspaper advertising market Wanderful Media and NimbleCommerce Inc. both focus on bringing media companies together to use their collective strength. Wanderful, which launched out of stealth on Sept. 25 and is funded by major media companies, provides a way for newspapers and advertisers to make digital versions of their Sunday circular ads...
September, 28, 2012
Vendor Launches Deal Sharing Network NimbleCommerce announced this week that it has launched a new deal-sharing network, one of the industry's first. "Because it's so hard to source deals, pay for salespeople and distribute deals, we've facilitated our customers starting to work together," said Kevin Wray, svp of global sales and business development at NimbleCommerce...
September, 27, 2012
Start Me Up! A profile of the NimbleNetwork The NimbleNetwork is a premium transactional offers network which connects local and national advertisers to consumers through a network of publishers...
September, 26, 2012
Nimble Commerce Expands Off of White-Label Model, Launches Deal Exchange Nimble Network, the product takes its cues from the ad exchanges that have come to dominate the online advertising world, and applies this thinking to the deals space, creating an efficient and automated marketplace for excess inventory...
September, 25, 2012
NimbleCommerce Launches Daily Deals Network for Newspapers On Tuesday, the company launched a major new product, the NimbleNetwork. It creates a marketplace for media companies to share their daily deal ads with other media, and make some extra money in the process...
September, 25, 2012
NimbleCommerce Launches Offers Network, Publishers Can Now Share Revenue There are several Daily Deal commerce platforms on the market. Nimble commerce is one of the leading ones. In Canada, they operate the platforms for Tuango and Transcontinental Media among others. In the US, they also operate a large amount of publishers...
September, 25, 2012
Nimble Launches Deal-Based Ad Network Partners and participating companies in the NimbleNetwork include: Hearst, Cumulus Media and Johnston Press and Trinity Mirror in the UK. Overall NimbleCommerce has a partner network of more than 100 publishers and 500 online media properties in North America and the EMEA region. Wray expects that most if not all of these will become part of the NimbleNetwork...
September, 25, 2012
NimbleCommerce launches deal network NimbleCommerce, a white-label deals and offers platform that connects media companies to merchants and buyers, has announced NimbleNetwork, which it describes as a "breakthrough new model for the daily offers and discount vouchers space...
September, 25, 2012
The Evolution Of Daily Deals: The Rise Of Offer Networks Everyone is wondering about the next evolution of daily deals, and how the industry will take shape. The landscape has become increasingly crowded as hundreds of startups, media companies and Groupon clones rushed into the deal space. Many have become roadkill, but...
July, 20, 2012
NimbleCommerce Announces Significant Expansion Across Europe and Middle East NimbleCommerce, a leading enterprise local marketing and e-commerce platform, announced significant expansion across Europe and the Middle East, supported by two new hires and recently expanded offices in the U.K. and new offices in Lille, France. The company also signed on to power deals for Picarisimo in Spain and YallaBanana.com in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
June 28, 2012
Media Companies Poised For Deals Growth In part one of a two-part special report on the deals industry, NetNewsCheck examines how media companies are taking less than 10% of the deals market but are well positioned to be pulling in much more and take on Groupon and Living Social, the big pureplays currently dominating the deals arena.
June 11, 2012
Johnston Press leads the way in bringing Daily Deals 2.0 to the UK Almost since their inception, newspapers have had a pivotal role in supporting local consumers and advertisers...
June 1, 2012
NimbleCommerce Partners with Montreal's ViralNinjas to Fuel Viral Campaigns NimbleCommerce, an enterprise local marketing and e-commerce platform, has announced that it now provides Montreal-based ViralNinjas'...
May 17, 2012
NimbleCommerce, ViralNinjas Team On Viral Effort NimbleCommerce, a local marketing and e-commerce platform, announced today that it will now provide ViralNinjas' viral campaign service...
May 17, 2012
Will Facebook's Self-Serve Offers Appeal to SMBs? Nimble Commerce CEO Prashant Nedungadi weighs in on Facebook Offerr...
May 7, 2012
Digital media marketing is undergoing a dramatic change. Traditional digital marketing - display ads and banner ads on specific websites - is not enough...
May 1, 2012
Radio in the Deal by Teresa Novellino Daily deals are headed to 1,400 radio stations across the country via a deal between NimbleCommerce and Cumulus Media's SweetJack...
March 29, 2012
The Social Graf: NimbleCommerce Powers SweetJack Daily Deals by Erik Sass SweetJack, the daily deal service launched by Cumulus Media, the nation's second largest broadcast radio group, has selected NimbleCommerce to power daily deals across all its station Web sites, as well as the radio station Web sites of Cumulus' strategic partner, Clear Channel Entertainment and Media...
March 29, 2012
Cumulus Media and SweetJack Pair with NimbleCommerce for Radio Deal Success by Stephanie Taylor Cumulus Media and NimbleCommerce had officially reached an agreement that the white label service provider will power the deal site SweetJack, which will feature national deals for over 1,400 Clear Channel and Cumulus radio stations nationwide...
March 29, 2012
Cumulus Taps NimbleCommerce for Deals Cumulus Media has tapped local marketing and ecommerce platform NimbleCommerce to power the radio company's SweetJack daily deals program...
March 29, 2012
More Papers Put Faith in Daily Deals and Tablet Payments as Profit Shrinks by Robert Andrews Some low-hanging fruit in newspapers' shrivelling orchard - Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) says it is investing in a Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) copycat and is repeating its earlier-stated intention to launch paid tablet editions, as it seeks to turn around shrinking profit...
March 15, 2012
DFM Broadens Deals Groupwide Digital First Media said it would roll out deals and customer relationship management software from NimbleCommerce across both its stable of MediaNews Group and Journal Register Co. newspapers...
March 5, 2012
A Nimble Move for Signpost by Teresa Novellino Signpost, a startup that specializes in local marketing by connecting customers with discount deals from local merchants, has made a deal of its own: an agreement with NimbleCommerce that will put its hyper-local offers before local and national online publishers. The key: no emails required...
March 2, 2012
MediaNews Group, Denver Post parent, signs NimbleCommerce for daily deals by Mark Harden Digital First Media, which manages Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc. and the Journal Register Co., has signed NimbleCommerce to power the "daily deals" digital coupon program at The Denver Post and its other newspaper websites nationwide, NimbleCommerce announced Wednesday...
February 29, 2012
Digital First Taps NimbleCommerce to Power National ecommerce by Steven Jacobs Digital First Media, which oversees the Denver-based MediaNews as well as the New York-based Journal Register Company, has inked a deal with Nimble Commerce to power an ecommerce initiative across the company's 150 plus local sites. The deal will replace the media group's largely fragmented ecommerce efforts - many of which pre-date the creation of DFM in October - with a single platform capable of launching daily deal and flash sales campaigns seamlessly across its media properties...
February 29, 2012
European Deals Market is Catching Up by Peter Krasilovsky Until recently, the European deal market was basically a year behind the U.S. But NimbleCommerce CEO Prashant Nedungadi argues that "they are beginning to catch up." Nedungadi says they've graduated to more advanced platforms, and are more committed to driving revenue...
February 29, 2012
NimbleCommerce Revamps Daily Deals For MediaNews GroupStartup NimbleCommerce wants to become the daily deal platform for media companies (often, but not always, the traditional ones that are struggling to make money online), and today it's announcing a big customer — Digital First Media, which manages the MediaNews Group (the second largest newspaper chain in the United States) and the Journal Register Company...
February 29, 2012
6 White-Label Deal Platforms for Publishers by Stephanie Miles Who says Groupon and LivingSocial get to have all the fun? An increasing number of local publishers have begun using white-label platforms to create deal offerings of their own.
February 14, 2012
Mecom Signs With NimbleCommerce to Deliver Daily Deals Across EuropeAgreement Expands NimbleCommerce's European Footprint to Include Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway Marketwire...
February 9, 2012
NimbleCommerce Partners with Mecom to Expand Daily Dealing Across EuropeLocal marketer NimbleCommerce has just announced a partnership with Mecom, a leader in the European news and information publishing business. Mecom will be employing Nimble's ecommerce platform to power its Sweetdeal site. Sweetdeal is currently the number one daily deal site in Denmark and the number two daily deal provider of branded daily deals in the Netherlands...
February 9, 2012
Daily Deals 2.0: Why Media Companies Will Win by Prashant Nedungadi The online business of serving up daily deals has attracted millions of dollars in venture capital and seen the rise of leaders Groupon and LivingSocial, as well as countless clones. Now the industry is starting to shake out - and it can't happen soon enough for local merchants...
December 22, 2011
NimbleCommerce Continues to Enhance Daily Deal Sites by Stephanie Taylor NimbleCommerce is an enterprise local commerce and group buying platform, which announced today a significant gain in providing its "white label" e-commerce platform to a continuous stream of category-specific publishers...
December 21, 2011
NimbleCommerce CEO: Helping Online Publishers Leverage Deals by David Hirschman The "daily deals" concept as pioneered by Groupon and LivingSocial (and countless clones) has certainly seen a dramatic trajectory in the past couple of years, culminating with Groupon's recent IPO. "Horizontal" deals companies have built up huge email lists and a handful have built businesses worth billions in a very short amount of time...
December 1, 2011
DiscountVouchers.co.uk moves into daily deals Money-saving website DiscountVouchers.co.uk is moving into the daily deals market with a promise to guarantee the retailers it works with payment even if a customer does not appear to claim their daily deal...
November 28, 2011
NimbleCommerce Announces Ground-Breaking Entry to UK Market; Platform Chosen by More Than a Dozen Leading PublishersNimbleCommerce, an enterprise local commerce and group-buying platform, today announced that it has signed new deals that establish its leadership in the UK signing more than a dozen preeminent UK media properties which will be rolling out sites driven by NimbleCommerce's local commerce and daily deals platform...
October 20, 2011
LivingSocial under fire: Can daily-deal sites keep offering huge discounts?The hyper-discounts of online coupon dealers like LivingSocial have not created loyal customers. Some businesses are finding that smaller numbers of coupons - and smaller discounts - might be more sustainable in the long run...
September 13, 2011
Johnston Press to launch online vouchers business in a bid to boost falling profitsThe newspaper group's move into the growing discount vouchers market will be possible thanks to a recently announced digital partnership with Nimble Commerce.
Money-off vouchers, special deals and freebies have become popular among Britons as they are faced with rising living cost, a survey by Halifax Home Insurance revealed earlier this month...
August 25, 2011
Local Legacy Media Say 'Let's Make A Deal'Local broadcasters, newspapers and others are among a rapidly growing number of Groupon imitators battling for a piece of the multibillion dollar daily deal market. For the most part, the local media companies are turning to white-label platform providers so that they can build their own brand in the marketplace and potentially make more money. In Part II of this special report tomorrow, NetNewsCheck will provide a listing of the leading white-label platforms now working with local media companies...
June 16, 2011
ILM:10: Deals as an 'Ecommerce Platform'In the context of Google's reported $6 billion acquisition offer to Groupon, questions were raised at ILM:10 about the true potential of Deal a Day beyond its current two or three daily deals and banner ad emails. For Nimble Commerce CEO Prashant Nedungadi...
December 10, 2010
Two companies partner to give San Francisco small businesses an ecommerce boostToday NimbleCommerce, the leading white-label group-buying platform, and Adility, the developer of a new location-based advertising platform for retail merchants, announced a partnership where NimbleCommerce will...
December 7, 2010
Newspapers hope to engage readers with group-buying deals companyA new company wants to bring online group-buying deals to newspapers and service directories, claiming it's a win-win for struggling media companies. How can publicizing deals online help save media outlets? NimbleCommerce says...
November 20, 2010
Group Deal Platform NimbleCommerce Is Ready For Its CloseupLocal publishers have begun entering the Daily Deal space, and for good reason. Many are helped by group buying solutions, to which publishers outsource some combination of sales, deal production, and technology. These white-label platforms enable local publishers...
November 19, 2010
NimbleCommerce lets newspapers build their own GrouponStartup NimbleCommerce is officially launching today, but founder and chief executive Prashant Nedungadi said the company, which has been working in stealth mode for the past year and half, has already signed up more than 25 large newspapers and business directories for its...
November 19, 2010
OpenTable Launches Group Buying Deals (Updated)Local publishers have begun entering the Daily Deal space, and for good reason. Many are
helped by group buying solutions, to which publishers outsource some combination of sales,
deal production, and technology. These white-label platforms enable local publishers...
September 14, 2010
OpenTable Launches Group Buying Deals (Updated)Restaurants are among the top categories for group buying deals. Now OpenTable, the
restaurant reservations service, is getting in on the game. On its blog today, OpenTable
announced that it is launching a weekly "Spotlight" offer that provides diners with $50.00 of dining
for $25...
August 4, 2010
Services Combine Social Media, Marketing - Wall Street JournalSome small businesses are experimenting with new Web-marketing services that
integrate social media. While entrepreneurs say they've seen some positive results, some
of the services carry hefty fees and their long-term value remains unclear.
February 23, 2010