{"id":7550,"date":"2011-02-08T04:02:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T04:02:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-28T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T02:02:14","slug":"Is-Groupon-the-real-Super-Bowl-loser-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=7550","title":{"rendered":"Is Groupon the real Super Bowl loser?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The discount-deal site goes from darling to dud after a series of ads that some viewers thought were in bad taste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No such thing as bad publicity? Groupon hopes so.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Who are they kidding?  They know so!!  FYI Timothy Hutton is a MAJOR investor in many restaurant chains in NYC alone!  Don&#8217;t doubt for a minute that he doesn&#8217;t know what HE is doing!<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"450\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vXGYK1eP_wo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The company has suffered days of negative feedback after running three Super Bowl spots that appeared to make light of issues like human rights oppression in Tibet. &#8220;The people of Tibet are in trouble,&#8221; actor Timothy Hutton said with apparent concern. &#8220;But they still whip up an amazing fish curry!&#8221; You can watch the spot here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ads triggered so much criticism that Groupon&#8217;s founder, Andrew Mason, went online not to apologize for them but to explain them. 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