Marketing Analysis
Staff Reporters
Mar 4, 2011

INSIGHT: Backlash against Groupon ‘insensitivity’

Online discount coupon vendor Groupon’s first TVC shows a lack of cultural understanding. Campaign takes a look at what this could mean for the brand as it prepares to launch in China.

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