Google Has Acquired Daily Deal Aggregator Start-Up Dealmap

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Joop Rijk

Dealmap, a daily deal aggregator start-up, has been acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum; but certainly less than the $6 billion Google offered for Groupon last year. The acquisition provides a path forward for Google to enhance desktop and mobile location-based search.

Dealmap, which was founded in May of 2010, claims to have 2 million users and 85 million visitors who visit its partner network each month. Dailymap taps a total of 450 sources which are making available over 400,000 local daily deals a day.

For the time being, Google will honor the existing partner deals that are in place with over 50 distribution partners, including Local.com, MerchantCircle, T-Mobile, Microsoft’s Bing. Source

About Joop Rijk

Joop Rijk, president and founder of Advanced Media Productions, did his formal studies in the Netherlands, getting an undergraduate degree in prepress technologies and typography from AGS of Amsterdam. He started his career in the newspaper industry at the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and moved to Product Marketing and Business Development in the US with Atex, Apollo/HP, Bitstream and DuPont/Imagitex. For over 14 years he has led Advanced Media Productions into becoming a leader in Internet Marketing and Web Development understanding both the digital media landscape, online market trends and the needs of businesses who want to play a key role on the Internet. View all posts by Joop Rijk →