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The Social Buying Universe

by Dan Martell on Oct 12, 2010

Social buying or group buying websites have become increasingly more popular over the past few years, and with the business being reportedly worth more than $1 billion, a flurry of new investors has bumped their net traffic 75 times higher than last year. Here is a look at some of the most popular social buying sites, including: Woot!, LivingSocial, Gilt, 8Coupons, Groupon, Yipit, Qponus, Dealon, Pricebunch, MyDailyDeals, Jasmere, Buywithme, TIppr, KGB Deals, homerun, socialbuy, scoopst, dailydeal, dealster.

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http://twitter.com/WhiskAwayNic Nicole V Jayne

Whoa, where is Scoutmob?
http://www.flowtown.com Dan Martell

Scoutmob? Didn’t come up on our radar .. we’re pretty sure we missed a few, it’s an explosive market.
http://twitter.com/WhiskAwayNic Nicole V Jayne

Well, check it out! I predict you will dig it. http://scoutmob.com
http://twitter.com/mspork Murray Spork

Am I reading the graphic correctly: Livingsocial founded in 2005? If so – think that is incorrect
Businessonli

Guys these really aren’t social buying sites. they stress the idea that so many have to buy to get the deal, but thats a given. these sites are marketing companies spewing spam emails.

Check out the future of social buying at Flightsunite. This is a real social buying network geared to travelers. It puts the power to the people, like social buying should be.
Saul Collon

LivingSocial used to do Facebook aps, but as a group buying site, they’ve only been doing it since 2009…..
Anonymous

Nice Infographic! One more to add to the list – http://www.Huddlebuy.co.uk. This site offers group deals exclusively for SME’s in UK.
http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-social-buying-universe-2nd-dimension The Social Buying Universe: 2nd Dimension / Flowtown (@flowtown)

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http://twitter.com/HunterFargo Michael Hutton

You’re reading it wrong. Look at the colour of the Founded line, and you’ll see LivingSocial is grouped in 2007.
http://twitter.com/dramae dara velasco

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