
Yelp’s New Video Feature Lets Users Upload 12-Second Videos Via Their Phone
After reports this past May that Yelp would be adding video, the business review site announced yesterday that iPhone users can now...

Yelp Gives Customers The Ability To Send Messages To Businesses
Yelp, the review site created to enable people to talk about local businesses, is giving customers the ability to communicate with...

Yelp Will Allow 12-Second Video Reviews Starting Next Month
As Business Insider reports, the video review feature will launch next month and initially only for “Elite” users. A Yelp spokesperson...

Yelpocaplyse Resolved: Yelp Returns After 3-Hour Lunch Break
Yelp may be down for some of you right now. We’re experiencing networking issues, but working to get back up to speed ASAP. — Yelp...

Yelp Introduces Free Restaurant Reservations
Yelp is getting deeper into transactions. One manifestation of this is restaurant reservations. In July of 2013, Yelp bought reservations...

FTC Discloses Small Business Complaints Against Yelp
Many small businesses continue to feel that Yelp is unfair or complain that Yelp salespeople are using strong-arm tactics to get them to...

Yelp Hires Republican DC Lobbyist For IP, Free-Speech Issues
The Hill, Yelp has hired a former Republican legislative aide as its first formal lobbyist. The lobbyist is Laurent Crenshaw, who was...

Yelp, Happy With iOS Mobile Reviews, Expands Feature To Android
letting Android users write reviews directly from their mobile device, too. Yelp didn’t allow its users to write reviews on mobile...

Confidence Crisis: 40 Percent Don’t Trust Online Reviews
review scandals. Most recently, there was a New York regulatory crackdown on fake reviews being generated by “reputation management”...

NY Attorney General Settles With 19 Companies In Fake Review Crackdown
Today, the New York Attorney General’s office announced a settlement with 19 companies that agreed to stop writing fake online reviews....

Yelp Sues Law Firm For Faking Reviews, Firm Claims Retaliation
McMillan Law Group for breach of contract and related claims. The site claims the law firm posted fake reviews about itself. The Yelp...

Yelp CEO Initially Didn’t Like Name “Yelp,” Sounded Like “Cry For Help”
criticism of Google’s local efforts (17:35 below). However, Rose asked Stoppelman about a wide range of subjects, extending beyond Yelp...

Yelp Changes Course, Allows Review Writing From Mobile
announced a pretty significant change of course: Its mobile app will now allow users to write and publish full business reviews. There’s...

Yelp: 59 Percent Of Searches Now Mobile
announced its second quarter earnings. Net quarterly revenue was $55 million, which represents 69 percent growth over last year. The...

Google Recruiting “City Experts” To Get More Local Reviews
Google appears to be trying to create its own version of Yelp’s Elite Squad, a community of trusted high-volume review generators. A...

Yelp More Likely To Filter Extreme Reviews & New Accounts [Study]
Yelp keeps the details of its review filter algorithm secret, for obvious reasons, but a new study suggests that there are some things...

Yelp Platform Brings Transactions To Local Business Pages
formally announced a new tool called Yelp Platform that turns its local business pages into a platform for consumer transactions. It’s...

Yelp Sues To Take Down Paid Review Mill
The Daily Dot, Yelp has sued to terminate and collect damages from a site called BuyOnlineReviews.net. The site leads with Yelp but it...

Nielsen Study Reveals 4 Out Of 5 Yelp Users Stop By Yelp Before Making Local Purchases
According to a Nielsen survey commissioned by Yelp, four out of five Yelp users visit Yelp.com before spending money, and 93 percent say...
























