Discovering The Distance-to-Discount Ratio

Leena Rao

Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Friday, February 4th, 2011

When it comes to deals, the bigger the discount, the further people will travel. While this may sound obvious, mobile advertising company JiWire has some numbers to back it up. JiWire is releasing a new study today that evaluates consumers; behavior when it comes to location-based deals and discounts.

In a survey of more than 3,000 respondents, JiWire’s results show that the greater the discount, the further people will travel to redeem a coupon or promotion. For example, for a $100 item, 55 percent of consumers are willing to travel 15 minutes for a 10 percent discount. But 40 percent of respondents will travel an hour for a 50 percent discount, and 28 percent will travel two hours for a 75 percent discount. Essentially, higher discounts motivate consumers to travel farther.  But there are limits to how far people will go.  Even if you give away a product worth $100 for free, only 31 percent of people would travel more than two hours to get it.

While many location-based promotions generally target customers in an immediate vicinity or neighborhood, JiWire’s data indicates that the opportunity to reach new customers goes far beyond the check-in and can draw new customers, even from more than an hour away, into stores,

This isn’t surprising data but it does suggest that location-based deals can be targeted to users beyond just an immediate vicinity.

Company: JiWire
Website: jiwire.com
Launch Date: March 20, 2003
Funding: $35.7M

Jiwire is the dominant leader in connecting advertisers to today’s On-The-Go Mobile Audience. Utilizing the world’s largest location-based interactive media channel, JiWire uniquely engages users when they are out of the home and out of the office. JiWire’s platform enables advertisers to identify and target specific geographic audience segments, and deliver advertising based not only on a person’s exact physical location, but also the type of venue and even brand of venue. With a goal of...

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