

I’m a Chicago webmaster who’s had the pleasure of meeting many of the Coupon Cabin staff at various Senate Bill hearings and meetings regarding legislation that might soon make running these types of sites an impossibility in the state of Illinois. The top coupon sites, based on unique visitors in November, according to ComScore: It’s a division of Catalina Marketing, the firm responsible for coupons printed along with supermarket cash-register receipts.


And recently launched is based in Chicago. is a property of Chicago-based marketing services company Q Interactive. Other top-ranked coupon sites were with 6.4 million visitors, with 5.4 million visitors and with 5 million visitors.Ī sampling of other coupon- and deal-related sites based in Chicagoland include, , and, a Chicago Tribune Web site. The guarantee was introduced in November. If one of its verified codes is expired or doesn’t work, CouponCabin buys the user dinner, in the form of a $25 gift certificate from. She attributed part of the site’s success in visitors - up 50 percent over last year - to its testing of discount coupon codes it offers and its guarantee that all coupon codes will work. “It’s definitely a big deal, considering we were second to Groupon,” said Jackie Warrick, chief savings officer at, based on West Illinois Street. “It’s great to see two Chicago-based companies, Groupon and CouponCabin, providing real value for consumers.” “We’re thrilled that millions of customers found Grouponicus in their hearts, and the perfect gifts on Groupon,” Mossler said. The e-mails were independent from its daily deals. Groupon, on West Chicago Avenue, hasn’t released specific numbers yet, but Groupon sent more than 100 million special Grouponicus e-mails to people who opted-in, Mossler said. Groupon had its biggest holiday shopping season - what it calls Grouponicus - since the site started in 2008, said Julie Mossler, a company spokeswoman. “Cyber Monday - the Monday after Thanksgiving - came in as the heaviest online spending day on record in the U.S., which contributed a strong portion of traffic growth at retail and coupon sites.”

“As the holiday shopping season kicked off in November, Americans were quick to take advantage of retailers’ early promotions and savings in crossing a few items off their shopping list,” Jeff Hackett, executive vice president of comScore, said in a statement. A record 44 million Americans visited a coupon site during November, up 40 percent since October. Second was CouponCabin, a coupon-code aggregator, with 8.8 million visitors, a 400 percent increase over October.Ĭoupon sites, which offer promotional codes and other discounts to consumers, ranked as the top-gaining category of Web sites at the start of the holiday season, ComScore said. Top ranked was Groupon, the daily deal site, with 10 million unique visitors in November, up 54 percent over the previous month, according to online research firm ComScore Inc. city has this holiday season? The top two busiest coupon Web sites. What does Chicago have that no other U.S.
