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YELP (YELP)

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Yelp to Acquire AI Platform Hatch for $300 Million
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M&A
New Projects/Investments
Revenue Acceleration/Inflection
  • Yelp announced on January 21, 2026, its agreement to acquire Hatch, an AI-powered lead management and communication platform, for approximately $270 million in cash plus $30 million in employee retention payments, with the deal expected to close in early February.
  • This acquisition represents a strategic pivot for Yelp towards a SaaS, AI-driven strategy, aiming to integrate Hatch's AI agents to automate lead follow-up and boost conversion for services businesses.
  • Hatch currently generates approximately $25 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and has demonstrated roughly 70% year-over-year growth.
  • The $270 million cash outlay for the acquisition represents about 15% of Yelp's market capitalization, which Yelp plans to fund by leveraging its strong profitability and healthy balance sheet.
Jan 22, 2026, 5:18 AM
Yelp Acquires AI Lead Management Platform Hatch
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M&A
New Projects/Investments
Revenue Acceleration/Inflection
  • Yelp Inc. announced its agreement to acquire Hatch, an AI-powered lead management and communication platform, for approximately $270 million in cash with an additional $30 million of employee retention.
  • The acquisition is intended to accelerate Yelp's AI transformation and expand its SaaS offerings to local businesses.
  • As of November 2025, Hatch achieved approximately $25 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), representing a 70% year-over-year ARR growth rate, at a modestly negative cash flow.
  • The transaction is expected to close in early February.
Jan 21, 2026, 9:05 PM
Yelp Discusses AI Strategy, Services Business Growth, and Cost Management
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New Projects/Investments
Product Launch
Revenue Acceleration/Inflection
  • Yelp is broadly applying AI to transform its consumer experience and operations, focusing on practical applications like the Yelp Assistant for request-to-quote and new voice products.
  • The company leverages its unique asset of hundreds of millions of curated, trustworthy reviews and ratings for local businesses, positioning itself as a key partner for local search.
  • The Yelp Assistant has driven a 400% increase in Request a Quote requests and is being expanded across all categories, enhancing the services business which now accounts for nearly 70% of ad revenue.
  • Yelp has effectively managed AI-related costs by stratifying compute across models and leveraging competition in the model market, avoiding significant cost increases seen by some other platforms.
Dec 9, 2025, 2:20 PM
Yelp Discusses AI Strategy and Product Innovation at Conference
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Product Launch
New Projects/Investments
  • Yelp is implementing an AI strategy to transform its consumer experience and operations, moving towards conversational search that provides answers and enables action, leveraging its curated human-generated content.
  • The Yelp Assistant, initially for request-to-quote, is being expanded across all categories to enhance user engagement and gather more relevant information for matching consumers with service professionals.
  • Yelp has launched voice products (Host and Receptionist) with positive initial feedback on their human-like voice quality and broad question-handling capabilities, aiming for practical and useful applications.
  • The company's services business, which contributes nearly 70% of ad revenue, is expected to benefit from the new conversational AI interface, enabling higher monetization without increasing perceived ad load, while AI-related costs have been effectively managed.
Dec 9, 2025, 2:20 PM
Yelp Discusses AI Strategy, Services Growth, and Cost Management at Raymond James Conference
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New Projects/Investments
Product Launch
Revenue Acceleration/Inflection
  • Yelp is broadly applying AI to transform its consumer experience and internal operations, leveraging its core asset of human-generated, trustworthy content (reviews and ratings) to provide answers and facilitate actions for consumers and advertisers.
  • The company's services business is a significant revenue driver, approaching 70% of ad revenue, with the conversational AI interface (Yelp Assistant) expected to enhance user engagement and enable higher monetization rates without increasing perceived ad load.
  • Yelp has effectively managed AI-related costs, with increased spending primarily on data rather than models, by employing a stratified model architecture and benefiting from competitive pricing in the model market.
  • Yelp is actively pursuing partnerships with other platforms (e.g., Apple Maps, Alexa) to extend the reach of its comprehensive local business directory and curated reviews, positioning itself as a preeminent partner for local search.
Dec 9, 2025, 2:20 PM
Yelp Reports Q3 2025 Results, Updates Full-Year Guidance, and Highlights AI Transformation
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Earnings
Guidance Update
New Projects/Investments
  • Yelp reported Q3 2025 net revenue of $376 million, a 4% year-over-year increase, and Adjusted EBITDA of $98 million, a 26% margin, exceeding its outlook for both metrics.
  • Services revenue grew 7% year-over-year to a record $244 million, while Restaurants, Retail, and Other (RRNO) revenue declined 2% year-over-year to $114 million due to persistent macroeconomic uncertainties.
  • The company lowered its full-year 2025 net revenue outlook to a range of $1.460 billion to $1.465 billion but raised its full-year Adjusted EBITDA outlook to $360 million to $365 million, reflecting disciplined expense management.
  • Yelp is accelerating its AI transformation with over 35 new features, including an enhanced Yelp Assistant that drove a nearly 400% year-over-year increase in project submissions, and launched new voice AI subscription products like Yelp Host and Yelp Receptionist.
  • A new partnership with DoorDash expanded Yelp's food ordering network by 200,000 new restaurants to over 500,000, which is expected to generate incremental revenue.
Nov 6, 2025, 10:00 PM
Yelp Reports Record Q3 2025 Net Revenue and Updates Full-Year Outlook
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Earnings
Guidance Update
New Projects/Investments
  • Yelp reported record net revenue of $376 million for Q3 2025, an increase of 4% year over year, with net income rising 2% to $39 million.
  • Adjusted EBITDA for Q3 2025 was $98 million, a 3% decrease compared to the prior year.
  • The company updated its full-year 2025 outlook, projecting net revenue in the range of $1.460 billion to $1.465 billion and Adjusted EBITDA between $360 million and $365 million.
  • During Q3, Yelp repurchased approximately 2.3 million shares at an aggregate cost of $75 million.
  • Yelp continues to accelerate its AI transformation, rolling out over 35 new features and updates, including the expansion of Yelp Assistant and new AI-powered call answering services like Yelp Host and Yelp Receptionist.
Nov 6, 2025, 9:07 PM
Yelp Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results
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Earnings
Guidance Update
New Projects/Investments
  • Yelp reported record net revenue of $376 million for the third quarter of 2025, marking a 4% increase year-over-year, while net income grew 2% to $39 million.
  • Adjusted EBITDA for Q3 2025 was $98 million, a 3% decrease year-over-year.
  • The company updated its 2025 net revenue outlook to a range of $1.460 billion to $1.465 billion and its Adjusted EBITDA outlook to $360 million to $365 million.
  • Yelp is accelerating its AI transformation, having rolled out over 35 new features and updates, including the expansion of Yelp Assistant and AI-powered call answering services.
Nov 6, 2025, 9:05 PM
Yelp Unveils Extensive AI-Powered Product Release
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Product Launch
New Projects/Investments
  • Yelp announced its 2025 Fall Product Release, featuring over 35 new AI-powered features and updates designed to make local discovery more conversational, visual, and seamless.
  • Key consumer-facing enhancements include an evolved Yelp Assistant that provides instant answers about businesses, Menu Vision for visual menu discovery, and expanded natural language and voice search capabilities.
  • For businesses, Yelp is rolling out AI-powered call answering solutions: Yelp Host for restaurants, priced at $149 per month (or $99 per month for Yelp Guest Manager customers), and Yelp Receptionist for eligible local businesses, starting at $99 per month.
  • These AI solutions are intended to streamline operations for businesses by efficiently resolving customer inquiries, allowing staff to focus on customer service.
Oct 21, 2025, 11:00 AM
Yelp discusses Q2 results, strategic priorities, and AI initiatives
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Guidance Update
New Projects/Investments
Share Buyback
  • Yelp's Q2 results and outlook were impacted by policy uncertainty affecting seasonal advertising budgets, leading to a challenging environment for small businesses with rising input costs and consumer uncertainty.
  • The company's strategic focus on services is showing strong results, with Yelp Assistant driving a 400% year-on-year increase in generated projects and a 4x higher monetization rate compared to single search clicks.
  • Yelp is expanding off-platform monetization, with API calls for AI search providers increasing tenfold in the past two months, contributing to an over $10 million run rate in licensing ARR.
  • Internally, AI is enhancing efficiency, notably reducing the time to bring a feature to market by 60%.
  • The company maintains financial discipline, committing to flat headcount and an ongoing $250 million share repurchase run rate.
Aug 12, 2025, 5:05 PM