SAO PAULO, Aug. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE:
YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local
businesses, today announced the availability of Yelp Brazil
(http://www.yelp.com.br). Beginning today, people throughout
Brazil are able to create accounts
on Yelp.com.br to share their opinions about great local
businesses. Yelp's free iPhone and Android applications will be
available as well as its free suite of business owner tools: Yelp
for Business Owners (http://biz.yelp.com.br).
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"We're excited to welcome this population of 200 million people
into the Yelp fold. With such a diversity of cultures, tastes and
ideas from every corner of the world, Brazil seems like a perfect fit for the Yelp
family," says Miriam Warren, Vice
President New Markets. "We can now give the 7th largest country by
GDP the opportunity to share experiences about amazing local
businesses; from the best place to watch football to where to drink
Caipirinha, the national cocktail, all from their computers and
smartphones."
The 23rd country in line to develop an active Yelp community is
the largest in Latin America, and
more notably it marks the company's first steps into South America. Adding to the list of firsts,
it is also the first Lusophone country, meaning Portuguese becomes
the 14th language in which reviews can be read, written and
shared.
Sao Paulo and Rio will be at
the heart of the initial community building focus, but the
full-featured site will be available across the whole of
Brazil, from the Rio Grande do Sul
to Roraima and from Pernambuco to Acre and everywhere in between.
Everyone, everywhere in Brazil
with access to the Internet on a desktop or a smartphone now has
the ability to share their insights on what is good, great and
not-so great about local businesses in their neighborhoods.
To learn more and see pictures of Yelp.com.br and our iPhone and
Android applications, visit our Yelp Official Blog
(http://officialblog.yelp.com).
About Yelp
Yelp (http://www.yelp.com or http://www.yelp.com.br) connects
people with great local businesses. Yelp was founded in
San Francisco in July 2004. Since then, Yelp communities have
taken root in major metros across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, The
Netherlands, Spain,
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Singapore, Poland, Turkey, New
Zealand, the Czech Republic
and Brazil. Yelp had a monthly
average of 108 million unique visitors in Q2 2013*. By the end of
Q2 2013, Yelpers had written more than 42 million rich, local
reviews, making Yelp the leading local guide for real word-of-mouth
on everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and
dentists. Yelp's mobile application was used on approximately 10.4
million unique mobile devices on a monthly average basis during Q2
2013. For more information, please visit http://www.yelp.com.br or
send an email to press@yelp.com.
* Source: Google Analytics
Media Contacts:
UK
Elliot Adams
Yelp
eadams@yelp.co.uk or press@yelp.co.uk
+44 (0) 207 347 1663
SOURCE Yelp Inc.