Category: Strategy

Yelp Pushing 30 Million. What’s next?

Posted in Local, Strategy by Steve Espinosa

Yelp announced that they hit over 29 Million Uniques per month in January and don’t have any plans to stop growing with their new $25 Million round. The company turned down an offer to be bought by Google not long ago, which will probably crank up M&A activity in the industry this year. On top of all this they have passed 9 Million Reviews on the site, which is the most any local search site has. So the big question is, who can compete with Yelp? Everyone.
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