To coincide with the launch of their new smartphone apps on iPhone and Android, yell.com are running the ‘Yell Golden Ticket’ competition, which has a massive £10,000 worth of prizes up for grabs!
The competition is easy to enter – using either the Yell App (which you’ll find in the app store on your iPhone, or in the market for Android owners) ,or Yell.com all you have to do is track down a vinyl copy of ‘Pulse & Thunder’ (a 90s dance classic from Dave V Lately) in one of your local independent music stores, photograph yourself holding the record sleeve and then upload it to the Yell.com Facebook page. Ten copies have been hidden around the country – I don’t have any inside information but my experience tells me that if you’re in London you should probably start off with the stores in and around Berwick St, which are well known for stocking obscure titles – I’ve found the most weird and wonderful stuff in the Sister Ray stores before now, from small circulation early Elbow singles to Japanese remixes of Dead or Alive albums! If you’re not lucky enough to grab that £10,000 first prize all is not lost, because there is also a 55″ 3D Sony TV up for grabs, as well as a surround sound system, decks, mixing lessons and more.
In addition to talking about the competition, I’ve also been asked to try out the Yell app itself and, having downloaded it to my Android phone, I have to say that I am impressed. I already use a few location-based apps on my phone – Qype and Google Places, so I wasn’t expecting to get a better experience using yet another one. However, it turns out that the Yell app actually has some distinct advantages. Qype just deals with restaurants, bars and clubs, and Places’ only has a few more categories than that. In contrast, Yell has absolutely masses and masses of choices – you can search from local florists to pet shops, or even solicitors to driving schools. Once you’ve found the place that you want, you can then click through for their address and phone number and then look at a very useable map that will even give you directions to find your way there.
If you decide to enter the competition I wish you the very best of luck and, even if you don’t, give the new Yell app a try – I think you’ll like it!
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