Yelp Launches in Finland

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Yelp Launches in Finland

PR Newswire

HELSINKI, June 6, 2012

- The final piece of Yelp's Nordic puzzle slots into place

HELSINKI

,

June 6, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company

that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced the

availability of Yelp Finland (http://www.yelp.fi). Beginning today, Finns are able

to create accounts on Yelp.fi to share their opinions about great local

businesses and services. Yelp's free iPhone and Android applications have also

been made available in

Finland

, as well as its free suite of business owner tools:

Yelp for Business Owners (http://biz.yelp.fi).

"We are pleased to bring Yelp to

Finland

and complete the final piece of our

Nordic puzzle," said Miriam Warren, Vice President of New Markets. "As the

World Design Capital of 2012,

Helsinki

in particular is a vibrant and diverse

urban environment that we feel is ideally suited to host, entertain and grow its

own Yelp community.

Finland

is also one of the few countries in the world

whose land area is still growing, by almost seven square kilometers a year,

meaning there will always be a new bit of

Finland

for Yelpers to find, experience

and share."

The site supports Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, French, German,

Italian, English, and Spanish, providing users access to local insights in any one

of these languages.

Finland

is the seventeenth country to host a dedicated Yelp

community, the fourteenth in

Europe

, as the company continues to deliver on

its international growth strategy.

While available throughout

Finland

, Yelp will focus its initial community building

efforts in

Helsinki

-- a city-by-city approach that the company has used to

launch in markets throughout the world.

To learn more and see pictures of Yelp.fi and our iPhone and Android

applications, visit our Yelp Official Blog (http://officialblog.yelp.com).

About Yelp:

Yelp Inc. (http://www.yelp.com or http://www.yelp.fi) 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

and

Finland

. Yelp had a monthly

average of approximately 71 million unique visitors in Q1 2012*. By the end of

the same quarter, yelpers had written more than 27 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 applications

were used on approximately 6.3 million unique mobile devices on a monthly

average basis during Q1 2012. For more information, please visit

http://www.yelp.fi or send an email to [e-mail].

* Source: Google Analytics

Media Contacts:

Finland

Ville Lehtovirta

Aleksin Kaiku

[e-mail]

Mob: [phone]

UK

Elliot Adams

Yelp

[e-mail] or [e-mail]

[phone]