Yelp (http://www.yelp.com/) is a website that connects people with great local businesses. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in July 2004. Since then, Yelp communities have taken root in major metros across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Australia. Yelp had a monthly average of 66 million unique visitors in Q4 2011. By the end of Q4 2011, Yelpers had written more than 25 million rich, local reviews, making Yelp the leading local guide for real word-of-mouth on everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and dentists. On average, more than 5.7 million monthly unique visitors relied on Yelp Mobile applications in Q4 2011 to help them make a spending decision on the go. For more information, please visit http://www.yelp.com/ or send an email to press@yelp.com.
About Yelp
Recent Media Highlights
Worcester Telegram
1/22/2012Businesses learn to cope with online reviews
Miami New Times
1/16/2012Yelp Launches Beret Cinema Club at O Cinema
Tucson Morning Blend
1/12/2012Yelp Tucson Community Manager, Corey Dane Discussing Tucson's Best Restaurants of 2011
FOX 12
1/4/2012Yelp Portland Community Manager, Don Bourasa Discussing Portland's Best Restaurants
Company Announcements
- Yelp Announces 2012 Elite Squad January 13, 2012
- Top 10 Yelp Restaurants of 2011 January 5, 2012
- BMW will be enhancing their in-car infotainment system known as BMW Online, with Yelp Dec 21, 2011
- Yelp Celebrates H@ckath0n VI Dec 20, 2011
Yelp Facts
- Yelp had a monthly average of 66 million unique visitors in Q4 2011
- Yelpers have written more than 25 million reviews by the end of Q4 2011
- Yelp Factsheet
- Company Timeline
Distribution of Reviews
We crunched the numbers and here's what we found (as of August 2011).
Accolades
Jeremy Stoppelman named one of America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food
Yelp is Named One of PC Magazine's 40 Best Free iPhone Apps for 2011
The Yelp iPhone app is one of Time Magazine's 50 Best iPhone Apps 2011
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Travel & Leisure's Top Travel Apps 2010
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Travel & Leisure's Top Travel Websites 2009
11/2/2009
Yelp is one of Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites 2009
8/24/2009
PC World named the Yelp iPhone app as one of the Best Free Apps and Services for Your Phone
3/23/2009
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- Michelle Higgins, travel columnist, New York Times 11/29/2009And when I arrive at my destination, I use the iPhone to pull up the Yelp app, and its built-in mapping feature, to find the most highly user-rated bars and restaurants.
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- Wall Street Journal 11/20/2009Yelp drew nearly 29 million unique visitors in September - besting its closest competitor, CitySearch, by three million visitors, according to web analytics company Compete.
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- Reality Bytes, New York Times Magazine 11/15/2009The current wave of excitement about augmented reality often involves peering at a smartphone screen, rather than a computer. For example, Yelp, the online service that reviews restaurants, bars and small businesses, has added a feature to one mobile app: point your (properly enabled) phone at a row of restaurants as if you were going to take a picture of it, and in addition to seeing what's really there, you'll see the Yelp ratings hovering in front of each.
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- Paul Smalera, Slate 5/2009As a consumer, it doesn't bother me that my satisfaction is tied to businesses' desire to avoid negative ratings on Yelp. If anything, I'm glad the exchange between business and customer is finally being shown for what it is: a transaction between strangers rooted in the hope that nothing gets screwed up in the process.
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- Tameka Kee, paidcontent.org 4/27/2009In just a year, local review site Yelp has grown to attract nearly the same size audience as its larger, better-funded rival and the latest stats from Compete show that Yelp's visitors are staying longer, viewing more content and returning more often than Citysearch's users do
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- Chris O'Brien, SJ Mercury News 3/19/2009It's also clear the company is providing a service that many other people feel is a godsend.
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- Daniel Winslow quoted in, NY Times 5/6/2009I got hooked on Yelp as a way to find places on the road, and even in Boston, for clients," he said. "For example, I needed to find a vegan restaurant for a Hollywood actor who was in Boston shooting a TV pilot. Even though I live here, I'm not vegan and so I had no idea where to take him, but Yelp helped me find a great place.