Yext files for long-awaited $100 million IPO
Summary
Our Listings feature provides customers with control over their digital presence, including their location and other related attributes published on the most widely used third-party applications. Yext started life as a pay-per-call provider and then, seeking to emulate “Google Tags,” sought to create a similar system across a network of local sites. In building that network, which included Yahoo, Mapquest, Superpages, Citysearch and a number of others, Yext created a presence management differentiator: real-time updates. It has been able to leverage that competitive advantage (until recently) and savvy marketing to elevate itself above the rest of the listings management crowd. However, if it wants to succeed as a public company, with all the corresponding investor expectations, Yext will need to continue to execute aggressively on the core value proposition but also broaden its customer population and build out its platform beyond its current capabilities.
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