What?  You’ve never seen a Jellyfish roundup?  Here goes . . .

It’s been a busy couple of weeks of news for Jellyfish and I’d like to quickly summarize some of the key highlights. 

Smack Shopping Goes 24 by 7

Smack Shopping is now open for business 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (full release here and show schedule here).  7-Eleven better watch out!  Anytime you come to Jellyfish.com, there is now a live Smack Shopping show with our unique price dropping auction taking place.  We’ve also added a host of great social shopping features, including personal shopping pages (you can see mine here).  Early results are extremely positive, with our daily uniques up almost two fold and fantastic feedback from our community.  I’m just worried we may have to start a Smack-a-holics support group soon. 

Investor Business Daily Coverage

Thanks to Patrick Cain for a great article covering Jellyfish and Smack Shopping his past Friday.  As analyst Peter Kim mentioned in the article, programs like Smack Shopping need to be tied into solid content and a strong user experience, and we’ve worked hard to ensure that is the case.  I’m continually impressed with the loyalty and retention of our Smack Shoppers.  Becky Ford over at CompareRewards.com discusses our Smack loyalty here. 

ChannelAdvisor Partnership

We announced on Monday a fantastic partnership with ChannelAdvisor (full release here).  ChannelAdvisor is a fantastic company (Scot Wingo’s CSE blog is one of my favorites to keep up to date on the Comparison Shopping space), and the partnership will help us continue to bring tier 1 retailers into the Jellyfish Value Per Action advertising platform.  Scot was one of the first people we discussed the Jellyfish.com model with pre-launch, and its great to be partnering with ChannelAdvisor. 

A quick thanks to Thomas Claburn and Mitch Wagner over at InformationWeek for their coverage of Jellyfish and our Smack Shopping Show this week here and here.

I met with Tom in San Francisco last week and it was great to see his summary of our conversation about Smack Shopping.  One minor point of correction on the article, however, is that Brian is the CEO of Jellyfish; I’m the President.  No worries though Tom, I appreciate the promotion!  

Mitch wondered about our barriers to entry with Smack Shopping in his post.  I’m not aware of many start ups that have a business model that can’t be copied by the big boys (it all comes down to continuous cycles of innovation and excecution), but I did point out to Mitch that we’ve been pretty active with our patent filings at Jellyfish and are working hard to secure some patent rights to the Smack concept.