Groupon Pulls Ads From Trump's Show After "Birther" Quest

[mucifer]

Groupon ads previously appeared on The Apprentice website. After hearing a bunch of complaints today, Groupon announced that they will not be advertising on The Apprentice website in the future.

more at: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/28/groupon-dumps-trump/

[tabatha]

1. I think there was a report that they had never supported the show.

It was in another thread on this same topic a day or so ago.

On edit:
http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/things-go-viral-on-the-internet-who-knew/

"You know when you hear some juicy gossip about Sarah dating Peter, and it spreads around the office, and suddenly Sarah’s secretly married to Peter who’s cheating on his taxes so that he can pay for magician school? That happened to us today.

Someone online began a petition to boycott Groupon because they believed we were a sponsor of the Apprentice, a show that is in the middle of some political criticism at the moment.

Then, just like that, it was announced we were pulling our sponsorship and boycotting the Apprentice and NBC. Pulling a fake sponsorship that didn’t exist….

Here’s the thing: Groupon has never been a sponsor of The Apprentice on TV or on the web. We invest heavily in online advertising through networks that place ads on a rolling basis, meaning that we know one will appear on NBC.com but not specifically which page. We know that some advertising appeared on the Apprentice home page a few weeks ago."

[frazzled]

2. This is about the tenth thread on this, so let's get the info straight

Groupon never advertised "with" the apprentice. Like many companies, they contract for web ads--this time on NBC--and have no control on which page their ad can pop up. This said, it's true the Groupon ad did appear, at least once, on the Apprentice web page and that due to the complaints, they've asked that their ads be blocked from that page.

But it's not like they ever chose to advertise with The Apprentice.

[RichGirl]

3. Everyone needs to....

Follow DumpDTrump on twitter! They are organizing a campaign to get sponsors to pull from Apprentice. Working on Pepsi now.

If Facebook can take down a dictator in Egypt...we should be able to take down a DICK!