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Going Full Gilt: DailyCandy Gets Into Sample
Going Full Gilt: DailyCandy Gets Into Sample
Like a lot of media companies that rely on advertising revenue these days, DailyCandy is eager to diversify its revenue streams. To that end, the Comcast-owned fashion and lifestyles site and e-newsletter has introduced Swirl , a sample sales site available only to DailyCandy subscribers. With ...
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Going Full Gilt: DailyCandy Gets Into Sample-Sale Game
paidContent — Like a lot of media companies that rely on advertising revenue these days, DailyCandy is eager to diversify its revenue streams. To that end, the Comcast-owned fashion and lifestyles site and e-newsletter has introduced Swirl, a sample sales site available only to DailyCandy subscribers. With the new site, DailyCandy is taking on The Gilt Groupe and Rue La La, which GSI Commerce just acquired as part of a larger, $350 ...

The Rebirth Of The Sample Sale
TechCrunch — ... As I noted earlier, the success of this model has now led to a number of retail shops and other technology companies sniffing around to either acquire or build private shopping sales of their own. Yesterday, DailyCandy released the news of their private shopping club and even designers themselves, like Tory Burch, are holding few-day private sales online. And as we reported earlier in the month, we hear that Gilt, Amazon and eBay are all actively looking at acquisitions in the European private shopping club space. ...

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