À propos de Yelp

Yelp (http://www.yelp.fr/) est un site internet qui connecte les internautes avec les meilleurs commerces de leur quartier. Yelp a été créé à San Francisco en juillet 2004. Depuis, des communautés Yelp se sont implantées dans les principales villes des États-Unis, du Canada, du Royaume-Uni, d’Irlande, de France, d'Allemagne, d'Autriche, des Pays-Bas, d'Espagne, d'Italie, de Suisse, de Belgique et d'Australie. Yelp a attiré plus de 66 millions de visiteurs uniques en Q4 2011. Fin Q4 2011, les yelpeurs ont écrit plus de 25 millions d'avis sur les commerces de proximité, ce qui fait de Yelp le premier guide local de bouche à oreille pour tous les commerces, des boutiques et mécaniciens en passant par les restaurants et dentistes. En moyenne, plus de 5.7 millions de visiteurs uniques par mois ont utilisé les applications mobile Yelp en Q4 2011 pour les aider à décider de l'endroit où dépenser leur argent et ce où qu'ils soient. Pour plus d'informations, veuillez aller sur http://www.yelp.fr/ ou envoyer un e-mail à press@yelp.com.

L'actualité en France

Tribune de Lyon

1/19/2012

Top 10 des Lieux ou boire et manger a Lyon

Le Nouvel Observateur

1/11/2012

Soiree Yelp. Suivez le Guide

Marsactu.fr

12/6/2011

Les city-guides en ligne se bougent à Marseille

Faits Yelp

Distribution des avis

Nous avons les chiffres et voici la répartition actuelle (août 2011).

Distribution de tous les avis - 32% de tous les avis ont 5 étoiles, tandis que 34% ont 4 étoiles, 17% ont 3 étoiles, 9% en ont 2, et enfin seulement 8% ont 1 étoile.

Accolades

Time.com : 50 meilleurs sites Web 2009
  • 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

    1/2011

  • Travel & Leisure's Top Travel Apps 2010

    8/2010

  • 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

  • And 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.

    - Michelle Higgins, travel columnist, New York Times 11/29/2009
  • Yelp drew nearly 29 million unique visitors in September - besting its closest competitor, CitySearch, by three million visitors, according to web analytics company Compete.

    - Wall Street Journal 11/20/2009
  • The 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.

    - Reality Bytes, New York Times Magazine 11/15/2009
  • As 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.

    - Paul Smalera, Slate 5/2009
  • In 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

    - Tameka Kee, paidcontent.org 4/27/2009
  • It's also clear the company is providing a service that many other people feel is a godsend.

    - Chris O'Brien, SJ Mercury News 3/19/2009
  • I 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.

    - Daniel Winslow quoted in, NY Times 5/6/2009