Happy 5th Birthday Latest Deals!

Happy 5th Birthday Latest Deals!

Thank you to everyone for helping our money-saving community!

People thought Kelsey, Deepak and I were mad for quitting our jobs and risking life savings to start a website where we reward every member with points and Amazon vouchers (or cash, as it was when we first started).

Professionals said a community model could never work. The very idea of “giving back” seemed absurd… five years on, here we are!

So thank you for sharing our dream: to be the UK’s best money-saving community. To bring like-minded people together, and provide information and tools to help everyone save. To give back to contributors and reward those who help others.

What progress did we make in the last year?

This year I am very proud of the huge effort the team has put in:

• Money-saving guides - We launched the UK's best guides on credit cards, mortgages, household bills, budgeting, tax, and more. They are free for members of Latest Deals and our competitors are scrambling to copy and catch-up.
• Facebook Groups - We launched 3 new Facebook groups: DIY On a Budget, Cheap Supermarket Cooking, Arts & Crafts on a Budget. Over 50,000 members share photos, tips, and chat every day, alongside our main Latest Deals Facebook Group with 220,000 members.
• Deal Alerts on Latest Deals App - We launched Deal Alerts so you get quick access to the best deals you want when they're on special offer.
• Price comparison - 3x larger, with more than a million new products you can compare the prices of.
• More Points Available - You can now get even more points for a wider variety of actions
• Supermarket Price Comparison - is even better with the addition of Co-Op.
• News - Latest Deals News is now the #1 source of real-life money-saving stories for the national media. We achieved over 1,000 national media stories in the last year.
• Environment - Latest Deals went carbon negative. We now give enough money to plant between 3,000 - 4,500 trees every year, taking out more CO2e of the atmosphere than we emit. And, our method also helps impoverished families in developing countries, for the trees are used in small-hold farms, for example, fruit trees.

What does the future hold for Latest Deals?

We have big ideas for Latest Deals including new tools, personalised experiences, and better deals. The dream is that you come on to Latest Deals and you see exactly what you like at incredible prices.

Kelsey remains our tech hero - the one man machine coding everything you see and touch on Latest Deals. This year we're looking to recruit additional tech help to double-down our efforts in creating new, exciting tools for you.

Thank you again for your time and support of Latest Deals,

Tom

p.s. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, http://LatestDeals.co.uk is a community website where everyone contributes by finding deals, vouchers, freebies, and competitions and shares them with each other. Contributors earn points and rewards. To learnsign up for free.r free.