As more newspaper subscribers get their news on screens instead of on paper, the venerable Sunday coupon insert has languished behind the swiftly-changing times. Despite the advent of electronic coupons, internet printables and mobile offers, the Sunday newspaper still provides the vast majority of coupons that are offered and redeemed. Now, one coupon provider is planning to shake things up,[Read More…]
Al Capone portrayed as a role model. Business tactics that one person compared to “rape.” Brazen threats to crush the competition. All in the service of saving us some money. Bet you never thought the world of coupons was quite so complicated. About the worst thing a couponer can do is clear shelves, or worse yet, pass counterfeit coupons. But[Read More…]
2013 got off to a roaring start, with more coupon inserts than we’d seen in the previous four weeks combined. A sign of good things to come, perhaps? Could be, according to a new report, and the 2013 coupon insert schedules. According to an annual Kantar Media study, insert coupon distribution is on the rise. More than 274 billion coupons,[Read More…]
This is not your typical Sunday coupon preview. After one of the longest coupon insert dry spells ever, comes one of the largest coupon insert bonanzas ever. Two RedPlum and three Smartsource inserts are scheduled for release this weekend, with many due to receive an additional Johnson & Johnson Target coupon insert to boot. It’s not unusual for RedPlum to[Read More…]
This is where you’d normally read a “Sunday’s Coupons – 12/16/12” update. But there will be none this week, nor will there be a “Sunday’s Coupons – 12/23/12”. And it will be slim pickings the following weekend as well. For the first time in recent memory, both SmartSource and RedPlum are taking an extra-long holiday vacation. Neither coupon insert publisher[Read More…]
Between Halloween candy coupons and Thanksgiving meal deals, there comes Veterans Day – not normally a holiday associated with coupon savings. But that’s changing. This weekend, for the second straight year, be on the lookout for dozens of high-value printable coupons, as part of SmartSource‘s partnership with the Wounded Warrior Project‘s Believe in Heroes campaign. One week before Veterans Day,[Read More…]
“End of Sunday Newspapers?” blares one headline. “The days of buying a Sunday newspaper in hopes of getting your money back in coupons may soon come to an end.” Now that we have your attention – SmartSource is offering digital coupons now. That’s all. So breathe. News America Marketing, parent company of SmartSource, announced today that SmartSource.com now features what[Read More…]
If you’ve never had a good reason to shop in a gas station convenience store, now you do – Circle K is about to become a tearpad and blinkie bonanza! News America Marketing, which runs SmartSource, announced today that it will be supplying its coupons to thousands of Circle K convenience stores “effective immediately.” Circle K operates more than 7,300[Read More…]
