What is NexTag? NexTag Review

Basic Introduction

Nextag is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in London, Tokyo and Gurgaon. NexTag is a comparison shopping website that started out as a price negotiation site for buyers and sellers of computers and electronics.

Nextag uses unique search technology to help customers select the best products from hundreds of products. The company operates comparison shopping websites including Nextag.com in the United States, Nextag.co.uk in the United Kingdom, Nextag.fr in France, Nextag.es in Spain, Nextag.it in Italy, Nextag.com.au in Australia, Nextag.co.jp in Japan and Nextag.de in Germany.

history

NexTag started out as a price negotiation site for buyers and sellers of computers and electronics.

Since 2000, NexTag has focused on the comparison shopping model.

In June 2007, the US private equity firm Providence Capital acquired two-thirds of the company's shares. In 2008, it was named one of the 50 best websites by Time magazine.

Acquisitions

In June 2007, Providence Equity Partners purchased a two-thirds majority stake in the company.

In November 2010, Nextag announced the acquisition of Santa Monica, California-based coupon company nextcoupons.com.

In April 2011, Nextag acquired Guenstiger.de GmbH, a leading online comparison shopping site in the European market.

In October 2011, Nextag acquired ThingBuzz, a real-time social shopping platform that tracks conversations about products in the social media sphere in an effort to provide an online shopping experience for its users.

In 2011, NexTag purchased event ticket search engine FanSnap.

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Regent acquired the company in March 2015.