Catalina Partners With Competitors For More In-Store Offers
If you can’t beat ’em – join forces with someone else instead! Several companies that have been shut out, hindered or otherwise unable to offer coupons in stores will now get a chance to do just that,...
View ArticlePrint a Coupon, Support a Movement
A few months ago, it seemed every company you’d ever done business with was sending you an email and making a public statement about how it planned to address the coronavirus pandemic. Now, with a new...
View ArticlePaper Coupons Are Alive and Well, Survey Finds
Remember when millennials, those young digital natives glued to their cell phones and disdainful of old-school dinosaurs like newspapers and printed coupons, were going to change couponing as we know...
View ArticleEverything Old Is New Again, With Latest Coupon Insert
If you missed it last month, the newest addition to the collection of coupon inserts that appear in your Sunday newspaper is coming out with another edition this weekend. Alongside your regular...
View ArticleThe Return of RedPlum? RetailMeNot May Be For Sale
Three years after RedPlum coupon insert publisher Valassis and RetailMeNot were united under the same corporate umbrella – and RedPlum was subsequently renamed RetailMeNot Everyday – the coupon insert...
View ArticleNo More RetailMeNot Everyday Coupon Inserts: Company Sale Prompts Another...
Your Sunday newspaper soon won’t have RetailMeNot Everyday coupon inserts anymore – but don’t panic. The parent company of the insert publisher has agreed to a sale of the RetailMeNot coupon code...
View ArticleOne Of Your Coupon Inserts Gets a New Look And a New Name
As expected, the RetailMeNot Everyday coupon inserts will be renamed in the coming weeks, now that parent company Vericast doesn’t own RetailMeNot anymore. But rather than returning to the earlier...
View ArticleShoppers Are “Excited” to Use Coupons Again
What are you most looking forward to, once life returns to normal? Going on a vacation, attending a crowded concert or sporting event – or going shopping with lots of coupons? A new survey says...
View ArticleCoupon Titans Square Off in Court Once Again
15 years and $500 million later, two of the biggest names in coupons are once again facing off in a federal courtroom. At stake in their latest dispute is the lucrative market of in-store coupons and...
View ArticleCoupon Titans Settle Multimillion-Dollar Dispute – Again
After weeks of testimony and years of animosity, the latest legal dispute between two major coupon and promotion companies has come to a somewhat anticlimactic end. Valassis, which publishes the Save...
View ArticleA New Twist In the Digital vs. Paper Coupons Debate: It Doesn’t Matter
Many in the coupon industry have been promoting the benefits of digital coupons, claiming that shoppers prefer them. Many couponers who feel otherwise claim that manufacturers are the ones who prefer...
View ArticleMarketers Fail to Meet “Heightened Demand For Coupons”
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? As both coupon distribution and redemption have been declining in recent years, the question is whether marketers are issuing fewer coupons because shoppers...
View ArticleThe Year In Coupons: The Top Stories of 2021
Coupons in the News will mark its tenth anniversary in the coming year. And how things have changed! This tenth annual look at the year gone by is quite different from the first, which was published...
View ArticleIn-Store Coupon Dispute Comes To An End
Will you soon be seeing a greater variety of in-store coupon dispensers, hangtags and peelies in your local stores? Or will one company still dominate the space with their own offerings? The two sides...
View ArticleHappy 50th to Your Coupon Inserts – Here’s to 50 More?
In some ways, it seems like coupon inserts have always been a part of your Sunday newspaper. In other ways, it’s hard to believe that coupon-clipping has been a Sunday ritual for so long. Either way,...
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