Chart of the Day: we question whether flash sales and daily deal marketing services are still giving customers what they want?
Daily deal sites have taken a few blows over the years, Groupon cut staff and fired it's CEO, Living Social was eventually bought by Wowcher which was sold by the Daily Mail. Amazon have also closed their daily deals service. But one great insight into daily deal sites is search history, which has slowly declined for 5 years.
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The UK is one of the most prominent countries searching for daily deals, Australia, Ireland, Canada and the US also have a pretty strong taste for daily deals too.
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Google Trends also reveal that one of the most searched for keyphrase was www.ebay.co.uk daily deals.
Searches for daily deals might be declining, and…
