Coupons.com is a website founded in 1998, operated by Quotient Technology, Inc. headquartered in Mountain View, CA. Steven Boal is the founder and CEO of Quotient, formerly known as Coupons.com Incorporated. Quotient offers digital coupons, including online printable, social, mobile and loyalty card promotions. Sunday newspapers have traditionally been the dominant distribution method for coupons; in 2009 it was estimated by Coupons.com that approximately half of the redeemed coupons in the United States originated from weekly supplements in Sunday papers. In June 2011, after receiving approximately $200 million of new investment, its value was estimated at a billion dollars. In October 2011, Greylock Partners announced an investment of up to $30 million in a secondary market purchase of company shares. In June 2012, Bay Area News Group named Coupons.com to its list of Top Workplaces 2012.
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Products
Clients include consumer packaged goods brands, restaurant, toy and entertainment companies, as well as general retailers. Coupons.com also has an affiliate marketing program called Brandcaster which is aimed at long tail users. In November 2010, Yahoo announced that it was including coupons.com offers in its new local deals offering. In June 2013 Coupons.com released the KitchMe app for Google Glass, the first cooking application for Google Glass. With the KitchMe app users can search for recipes, make shopping lists, and receive step-by-step cooking instructions.
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Valuation
Coupons.com is being tracked as one of the 30 companies in China, Europe, and the United States valued at $1 billion or more by venture-capital firms. Coupons.com went public with $100 million IPO in January 2014 with NYSE trading under COUP. In 2015, Coupons.com changed its corporate name to Quotient Technology Inc (NYSE: QUOT), but continues to operate its website as Coupons.com.
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External links
- Tedeschi, Bob (February 19, 2007). "From Clipouts to the Web, Coupons Transition Slowly". The New York Times. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- Wong, Elaine (June 23, 2009). "Digital Coupon Use Skyrockets". Adweek. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- Sloane, Martin (February 21, 2001). "More Cyber-coupons Available Via the Internet to Help Shoppers". The Daily Gazette. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- Coupons.com reveals dramatic rise of digital coupons | Drug Store News
- Coupons.com Reaches $1 Billion In Coupons Printed, Growing At A Rate 5x That Of Newspapers | TechCrunch
- Summers, Nick (June 27, 2013). "Coupons.com launches KitchMe Google Glass app for hands-free cooking". The Next Web.
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