Yext Supercharges PowerListings® Network with Google
Integration Allows Companies of All Sizes Unprecedented Control of Location Data Across Key Google Properties
Integration Allows Companies of All Sizes Unprecedented Control of Location Data Across Key Google Properties
NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Yext, the location data management leader, has announced the addition of Google to the Yext PowerListings® Network. The integration with the Google My Business API empowers businesses of all sizes to manage their location data—name, address, phone, hours, images, and more—via the award-winning Yext Location Management Platform.
Yext's addition of the world's largest and most popular global search engine into the PowerListings Network provides its customers with unprecedented control over how their location information appears online. Over 200 of Yext's customers and partners are already leveraging its Google My Business API integration to power nearly 100,000 business locations across Google Search, Maps, and ads.
"This release is the biggest development in location data management since the launch of our PowerListings Network nearly six years ago," said Howard Lerman, Yext Co-Founder & CEO. "Our integration eliminates the inefficiencies of manual submission, delivers a better consumer experience, and gives business owners unprecedented control over their business listings across Google Search, Maps, and ads. We couldn't be more excited about working with Google to deliver more customers to the front door of businesses around the globe."
"Having accurate location information helps us deliver more relevant and useful results when people search," said Aditya Tendulkar, Google Product Manager. "Our API makes it easier for businesses to manage their information at scale, and with the help of companies like Yext, we're eager to help more businesses take control of how their information shows up online."
The value of these updates across Google's properties was proven in January when Winter Storm Jonas struck the East Coast. Sweetgreen, the seasonal fast casual restaurant chain, used Yext to update its business listings across Google and the PowerListings Network to reflect weather-related store closings and reduced hours of operation.
"Without Yext, we wouldn't have had any way to update our store hours across Google, which we now rely on to serve our community of customers with transparent, real-time updates specific to their neighborhood stores," said Farryn Weiner, Sweetgreen's VP of Marketing and Brand Strategy. "And the addition of Google to the PowerListings Network enables us to enter new communities with all of the critical location and contact information, so we can connect with the local neighborhood the moment our doors open."
Google is immediately available to all Yext customers and partners worldwide as part of its PowerListings Network. Yext is also making the following resources available to help businesses of all sizes seize the real-time location data opportunity across Google:
About Yext
Yext is the global location data management leader whose mission is to help people go places. The award-winning Yext Location Management Platform enables companies of all sizes to manage location data across their websites, mobile apps, internal systems, and the industry's largest ecosystem of maps, apps, social networks, directories, and search engines including Google, Apple, Facebook, Bing, and Yahoo. Our products—PowerListings®, Pages, and Xone™—enable the world's 50 million businesses to drive face-to-face and digital interactions that boost brand awareness, drive foot traffic, and increase sales. Based in the heart of New York City with a growing team of over 500 employees worldwide, Yext has been recognized as one of America's fastest growing companies by the Inc. 500 (#212 in 2015), one of Forbes' Most Promising Companies (2014 & 2015) and one of Fortune's Best Places to Work (2014 & 2015). Learn more about how we help people go places at www.yext.com.
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