Yellow pages & business directories
Print directories, directory websites (YP.ca, Canada411) and marketing services sold to small businesses. Revenue is declining.
3 leading companies in yellow pages & business directories, one segment of business listings & data providers — Yellow pages to data feeds: local listings, reviews, B2B firmographics, listings software and billboard ad tech
new market segment · researched 2026-11-14
Yellow pages & business directoriesLocal listings & review sitesB2B data & sales leadsListings & reputation managementSales CRMBillboard & out-of-home ad software
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Leading yellow pages & business directories companies
3 companies, with the scale each source states. Scale is the whole company's unless the row says otherwise.
| Company | Where | What they do | Scale |
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| Yellow Pages Limited Y.TO ↗ | Montreal, Canada since 1908 | Canada's yellow-pages publisher. Runs YP.ca, Canada411 and 411.ca, sells digital marketing services and still publishes print directories. | revenue: 198.9 CAD millions (2025) ↗ |
| Thryv Holdings THRY ↗ | Dallas, United States since 2013 | Formed from Dex Media and YP Holdings. Publishes The Real Yellow Pages and is moving its clients to its small-business SaaS platform. Plans to exit marketing services by the end of 2028. | revenue: 785 USD millions (2025) ↗ |
| Infobel ↗ | Brussels, Belgium since 1995 | Began as an online international telephone directory and now sells B2B and location-intelligence data. Wikipedia names Google, Apple, TomTom, Shopify and Trulioo as clients. | — |
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In Canada
- 2026-02Yellow Pages Limited's 2025 revenue fell 7.4% to C$198.9M (2024: C$214.8M). Digital revenue was C$161.3M, down 6.3%, and print fell 12.1%. Net income was C$18.1M. ↗
- 2026-11Yellow Pages Limited reported Q3 2026 revenue of C$45.0M, down 7.0%, and an Adjusted EBITDA margin of 18.8%. During the quarter it launched an AI Receptionist product for Canadian businesses. ↗
- 2026-06Yellow Pages Limited completed a plan of arrangement on 2026-06-22. It repurchased 2,037,489 shares pro rata at C$12.27 each and made a voluntary C$2.0M contribution to its defined benefit pension plan. ↗
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The business listings & data providers market
The whole market this segment sits in.
total revenue, directory and mailing list publishers (employer firms) · US4,582
↗USD millions · 2022
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Quick answers
- What are yellow pages & business directories?
- Print directories, directory websites (YP.ca, Canada411) and marketing services sold to small businesses. Revenue is declining. They are one segment of the business listings & data providers market.
- Who are the leading yellow pages & business directories companies?
- Yellow Pages Limited (Canada), Thryv Holdings (United States), Infobel (Belgium).
- Which yellow pages & business directories companies are publicly traded?
- Yellow Pages Limited (Y.TO), Thryv Holdings (THRY).
- Which Canadian companies are in yellow pages & business directories?
- Yellow Pages Limited, Montreal.
- How big is the business listings & data providers market?
- For the whole business listings & data providers market, not this segment alone: total revenue, directory and mailing list publishers (employer firms) (US) 4,582 USD millions, 2022 — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) / U.S. Census Bureau.