Marchex Announces Local Content Partnerships with Several Leading Providers Including Yelp and Avvo
April 22 2008 - 9:15AM
Business Wire
Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX) (NASDAQ: MCHXP), a local online
advertising company and leading publisher of local content, today
announced local content partnerships with several of the Internet�s
most respected providers, including Yelp and Avvo among others.
Under the separate agreements announced today, Marchex will add
more than 5 million reviews and ratings to its local network,
bringing the total number of reviews and ratings covering local
businesses across the United States to more than 8 million. The
content will be integrated into Marchex�s local network, which
attracts more than 26 million unique monthly users1 and features
more than 150,000 local Web sites, including the hub of the
network, OpenList.com. These new agreements will further Marchex�s
ongoing effort to provide consumers with the most relevant content
and information to help them discover and make better informed
local decisions. Marchex is adding content to its local network
from the following partners: Yelp.com: A site where people read and
write reviews of their favorite neighborhood businesses. Yelp will
be providing more than 2.5 million reviews that Yelpers have
written about everything from restaurants and spas to dentists and
mechanics. The site had more than 9 million unique visitors in the
month of March. Avvo.com: This leading attorney rating service,
which profiles hundreds of thousands of attorneys using information
from state courts and bar associations, Web sites and the lawyers
themselves in addition to reviews from users, is providing its Avvo
Rating and user-generated reviews for thousands of attorneys across
the United States. HealthGrades.com: Under expansion of an existing
relationship, the leading health ratings organization is providing
detailed listings for more than 750,000 physicians and will be
adding more than 5,000 hospitals nationwide. lilaguide.com: This
resource site for local parents will provide more than 150,000
user-generated reviews and recommendations for parents on local
shopping, baby gear, activities, restaurants, daycare and other
parenting resources. Restaurant.com: This online dining resource is
providing reviews, restaurant photos, wine lists, links to menus
and discounted gift certificate offers from thousands of
restaurants across the United States. Restaurant.com customers have
saved more than $50 million through their gift certificate program.
Gusto.com and Urbanspoon.com: These leading restaurant and travel
sites are collectively providing tens of thousands of customer
reviews of restaurants in select markets across the United States.
�These partnerships are a win for all companies involved; the rich
local content adds to the scale and quality of Marchex�s local
network and further enhances our position as a leading local
information resource for consumers,� said Pete Christothoulou,
Marchex Chief Strategy Officer. �In turn, Marchex�s local network
expands our partners� reach and awareness with local consumers and
delivers targeted traffic deep into their Web sites.� About
Marchex, Inc. Marchex (www.marchex.com) is a local online
advertising company and leading publisher of local content.
Marchex�s innovative advertising platform delivers search- and
call-based marketing products and services for local and national
advertisers. Marchex�s local content network, one of the largest
online, helps consumers make better, more informed local decisions
through its network of content-rich Web sites that reach tens of
millions of unique visitors each month. Forward Looking Statements:
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve
substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than
statements of historical facts, included in this press release
regarding our strategy, future operations, future financial
position, future revenues, acquisitions, projected costs,
prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking
statements. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or
expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements and you
should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements.
Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans,
intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking
statements we make. There are a number of important factors that
could cause Marchex�s actual results to differ materially from
those indicated by such forward-looking statements which are
described in the �Risk Factors� section of our most recent periodic
report and registration statement filed with the SEC. 1 Unique
visitor statistics are based on internal traffic logs, which
calculate unique IP (Internet protocol) addresses on an
unduplicated basis during a given month.
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