Compete Releases May 2009 Ranking of Top 10 Coupon/Deal Sites

BOSTON – (June 12, 2009) -- Compete, a TNS Media company, today released the rankings of the top ten coupons and deal Web sites for May 2009, based on data from Compete's panel of two million US-based internet users. The report shows that coupons.com still ranks number one, reaching over 11,570,000 unique visitors (UVs) in May 2009 (up 17% since May 2008), followed by eversave.com (8,161,000 UVs) and retailmenot.com (6,411,000 UVs).

“While Coupons.com continues to attract the lion’s share of site traffic, we can’t overlook the incredible performance of retailmenot.com over the past year. After all, the site jumped from number six to number three, growing by nearly 200% over the past year,” said Matt Pace, director of retail and consumer products for Compete. “Additionally, the site is quickly becoming the destination of choice for coupon code searchers. In fact, over the past three months, they’ve captured (on average) 17% of all search referrals on the term ‘coupon code.’ That’s over four times more ad share than their next closest rival couponcabin.com.”

Compete will be exhibiting at the Internet Retailer Conference and Expo (booth #901) from June 15 – 18, 2009 in Boston, MA. Please contact us to schedule press briefings during the show.

About Compete
Compete, a unit of TNS Media, helps the world’s top brands improve their marketing based on the online behavior of millions of consumers. Leading marketers such as Carlson Hotels Worldwide, Hyundai Motor America, Upromise, Chrysler, and Verizon Wireless rely on Compete's services to create effective online experiences and highly profitable advertising campaigns.  Compete’s online behavior database—the largest in the industry—makes the web as ingrained in marketing as it is in people’s lives.

Compete was founded in 2000 and is located in Boston, MA, with offices throughout the U.S.  For more information about us, please visit http://www.competeinc.com/, or to join the conversation visit http://www.compete.com/.

About TNS media
Established in more than 30 countries, TNS Media explores all the media—print, radio, TV, Internet, social media, cinema and outdoors worldwide, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and offers a full range of insights, analyses and audience measurement services.

TNS Media combines the deepest expertise in the industry to provide media and marketing intelligence including advertising expenditure monitoring, advertising creation monitoring, audience measurement, market influence analytics, online consumer behavior tracking, news monitoring, sports sponsorship evaluation and more.  The TNS Media companies track more than 3 million brands and provide vital market intelligence to 16,000 customers in the world. http://www.tnsmediagroup.com

The Kantar Group
The Kantar Group is one of the world's largest research, insight and consultancy networks. By uniting the diverse talents of more than 20 specialist companies – including the recently-acquired TNS – the group aims to become the pre-eminent provider of compelling and actionable insights for the global business community. Its 26,500 employees work across 80 countries and across the whole spectrum of research and consultancy disciplines, enabling the group to offer clients business insights at each and every point of the consumer cycle. The group’s services are employed by over half of the Fortune Top 500 companies.  The Kantar Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of WPP Group plc. For further information, please visit http://www.kantargroup.com