Home

Yelp

AOL's MapQuest Adds Yelp's User-Generated Reviews

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 9, 2008 - 12:06pm.

New York - AOL-owned Web mapping service MapQuest has signed a deal to add user-generated local business reviews from Yelp to its service, CNET News.com reported. MapQuest also plans to add sports information to its local site, the company told News.com.

tags: AOL | Time Warner | Yelp | User-Generated | Mapquest |

Everywhere Mag and the Arrival of the User Generated Magazine

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on March 19, 2008 - 6:48am.

Imb_everywheremagAs someone passionate about travel and the travel industry, I pay a lot of attention to sites that are out there. Travel has long been an active industry online, whether you talk about people's behaviour with increasingly booking travel online, or the slate of review and opinion sites that let people share their opinions about travel destinations. From Yelp to Driftr to Dopplr there are new travel sites that let you do just about anything you want and they are all great ... yet none have quite found the right formula to harness the one thing that travel enthusiasts like me all have in common: a passion for talking about travel and sharing my experiences.

tags: Marketing | Publishing | UGC | Yelp | Driftr | Dopplr | Everywhere Magazine |

Yelp Gets $15 Million for User-Generated Local Reviews

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 27, 2008 - 12:56pm.

San Francisco - Yelp, a social media site where users can post reviews of local bars, restaurants and other businesses, announced on Wednesday that it has raised a $15 million fourth round of financing, led by DAG Ventures.

tags: Deals | VC | Social Networking | Benchmark Capital | Yelp | User-Generated | DAG Ventures | Bessemer Ventures |

Local Search Update: Yelp up 91%, Insider Pages up 34% in Past Six Months

Authored by Hitwise on March 2, 2007 - 3:10pm.
The following is a blog entry from LeeAnn Prescott at Hitwise: This week Insider Pages was acquired by the Citysearch division of IAC. Hitwise data shows that the market share of US visits to Insider Pages was up 34% in the past 6 months (August 2006 vs. February 2007). The market share of visits to Yelp, another user-generated local review site, was up by an impressive 91% in the same period. Judy's Book did not show an increase, although traffic jumped in September and October 2006 when it received a substantial increase in traffic from Local.com, suggesting a content deal that was turned off.
tags: Internet | Marketing | Metrics | Search | HitWise | Yelp |

How Yelp Beat Judy’s Book

Authored by Peter Krasilovsky on February 8, 2007 - 12:55pm.
There is no better guide to how to avoid the potholes in hyper-local than Judy’s Book Co-Founder Andy Sack, who has been writing a series of “don’t do this at home” posts about Judy’s Book’s failed efforts building an online review site. (The site is now refocused on local promotions). In the most recent installment, Sack talks about how Yelp came into the game with a better strategy.
tags: Internet | Advertising | Online Publishing | Reviews | Local | Online Communities | Yelp | Judy's Book |

User-Generated Local Reviews Site Yelp Raises $10 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 5, 2006 - 3:26pm.
San Francisco - Yelp, a site that publishes reviews of local businesses, announced on Thursday that it has raised $10 million in new financing from Benchmark Capital. San Francisco-based Yelp said it receives thousands of new user-generated reviews of restaurants and other local businesses each day, and has large online communities in Boston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Seattle. The site attracted 1.5 million unique visitors in September. The company said it will use the funds to expand its offering in major metropolitan areas across the country.
tags: Deals | Internet | VC | Advertising | Online Publishing | Reviews | Benchmark Capital | UGC | Yelp |