Showing posts with label local. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local. Show all posts
Monday, 16 May 2016

Yelp has 121,000 local advertisers

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"[Y]esterday Yelp reported Q1 earnings that were better than expected. The company said it had 121,000 local advertiser accounts, repre...
Monday, 23 June 2014

180 UK Airbnb landlords list five or more properties in London

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"Airbnb is a website that's fast becoming the bane of the hotel industry. The Silicon Valley startup, founded in 2008, lets people ...
Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Yelp's platform is generating over 10,000 food orders a week

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"Yelp reported significant revenue growth vs 2012. The company announced $70.7 million revenue for Q4 2013. That represented 72 percent...
Monday, 30 September 2013

3 million taxi journeys in London have been made using the Hailo app

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"Three million taxi journeys have been made in the capital using smartphone app Hailo, the London-based tech start-up announced today. ...
Monday, 5 August 2013

59% of Yelp's searches are on mobile

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"Yelp mobile:  Yelp mobile continues to grow rapidly.  In the second quarter, approximately 40% of local ads were shown on mobile devic...
Thursday, 2 May 2013

45% of Yelp's search queries come from mobile devices

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"Yelp said that 36% of ads shown in Q1 were on mobile devices. The Yelp app was used on “10 million unique mobile devices” monthly in Q...
Monday, 8 April 2013

Local businesses that advertise on Yelp receive an average of $23,000 in extra revenue

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"The Boston Consulting Group, a leading advisor on business strategy, recently surveyed 4,800 business owners to learn the economic imp...
Monday, 11 March 2013

90% of national advertisers on the xAd US mobile network take part in 'conquesting'

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"I had an interesting catch-up call with xAd this morning. We discussed a number of trends and metrics that the company is seeing in di...
Monday, 10 December 2012

The number of local businesses advertising on Facebook has doubled since January

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"The following new numbers were pushed out today by Facebook’s PR firm to coincide with Dan Levy’s session at the BIA event in LA. Levy...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Yelp bought Qype for $50m

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"Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced it has acquired Qype, Europe...
Monday, 3 September 2012

The impact of online restaurant ratings

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"It is something every restaurateur and hotel owner knows: good reviews boost takings while terrible ones can close you down. And, in a...
Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Google Maps features over 1 million public transit stops in over 500 cities

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"Since 2005, we’ve collaborated with hundreds of transit authorities around the world to make a comprehensive resource for millions of ...
Sunday, 22 July 2012

Zaarly's has 500,000 members, who have completed $30m worth of tasks

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" Most people who have heard of Zaarly know it as a service that allows users to posts tasks for others to fulfill, such as babysitting...
Friday, 27 January 2012

5m guest reservations have been made on Airbnb

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"Airbnb, the online marketplace where you can rent out your house or spare room to travelers, announced today it has reached a mileston...
Friday, 3 June 2011

Groupon has 83m subscribers across 43 countries

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"Groupon, a three-year-old Chicago-based start-up, is by some measures the fastest growing firm in history. It notched up revenue of $9...
Thursday, 7 April 2011

Yelp has 17m reviews and 50m monthly visitors

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"Today the company has surpassed 50 million monthly unique users (as reported by their internal Google Analytics), up from 46 million t...
Monday, 27 September 2010

Groupon is growing at a rate of 1 million subscribers a week

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As stated in this interview by Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason Source:   Bloomberg TV, 16th September 2010
Thursday, 16 September 2010

Groupon (Est. 2008) has 230 websites in 29 countries and 15m subscribers

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"The most successful is Groupon (a combination of the words “group” and “coupon”, which buyers print out to pay for their service). Alt...