Nextdoor Deepens Its Commitment to Local Business Discovery and Recommendations

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 2, 2026--

Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NXDR), the essential neighborhood network, today announced major improvements to the platform that will make it easier for neighbors to find the most beloved local businesses around them. This overhaul will not only benefit neighbors looking for local business recommendations, but will also help businesses build their local reputation in the U.S., Canada, and United Kingdom.

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These ongoing investments reinforce Nextdoor’s commitment to becoming the go-to resource for local business recommendations while recognizing the vital role businesses play in the neighborhood ecosystem. For years, millions of neighbors have tapped their neighbors for local business recommendations on Nextdoor. This organic behavior already represents nearly 30% of all content on Nextdoor, proof of how central local recommendations are to how neighbors use the platform. Nextdoor businesses have also claimed their free Business Page and collected recommendations and Faves (Nextdoor's signal that a neighbor vouches for a business). Today's announcement shares how Nextdoor is taking that to the next level both for neighbors and businesses.

Nextdoor’s opportunity to be the trusted place for local business recommendations matters now more than ever: 97% 1 of consumers still lean on reviews to guide their purchase decisions, yet 59% 2 have encountered an online review they believe was fake. Nextdoor is uniquely positioned to close that gap: both neighbors and businesses are verified on the platform.

“Local businesses have always grown through word of mouth. Online, though, reviews can be bought, manipulated, or faked,” said Nextdoor CEO and Co-Founder Nirav Tolia. “Nextdoor's approach mirrors the value of real word of mouth: a real neighbor, in a real neighborhood, sharing a business they've actually used. By surfacing those recommendations more prominently, Nextdoor is helping neighbors discover great local businesses and helping those businesses earn a reputation that can't be bought.”

At the center of Nextdoor's rebuild is a simple conviction: real people, not algorithms, decide who's trustworthy. The FTC has adopted rules targeting fake and purchased reviews. On Nextdoor, the platform is designed to help prevent them: every Fave is a verified neighbor’s endorsement—no tiered stars, no paid reviews, no anonymous voices, no manufactured credibility. The local businesses winning on Nextdoor are winning the right way, and their neighbors are telling that story.

The announcement comes as the platform reports nearly 75 million Faves across nearly 6.6 million businesses globally.

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Business improvements:

“Nextdoor is the cornerstone of my business,” said Kelly Jakob, owner of ProLine Painting in Chicago, IL. “Unlike other platforms, the customers are always legitimate; they've usually heard about me from somebody else. I have customers I've done numerous jobs for, and anytime they see anything about painting on Nextdoor, they recommend me.”

To learn more, visit business.nextdoor.com/en-us/small-business/faves. To join the conversation in your neighborhood, visit nextdoor.com.

About Nextdoor

Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network for over 110 million verified neighbors, offering trusted local news, real-time safety alerts, neighbor recommendations, for sale and free listings, and events. Nextdoor connects neighbors to the people, places, and information that matter most in their local communities. In addition, businesses, news publishers, and public agencies use Nextdoor to share important information and engage with neighborhoods at scale. Download the app or join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com. For more information and media assets, visit nextdoor.com/newsroom.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding our future business expectations, including statements regarding planned product features and functionality. These forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual results due to a variety of factors, as more fully detailed under the caption “Risk Factors” in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on August 4, 2026, and our other SEC filings, which are available on the Investor Relations page of our website at Home - Nextdoor, Inc. and on the SEC’s website at SEC.gov | Home. All forward-looking statements contained herein are based on information available to us as of the date hereof and you should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. We undertake no obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements for any reason after the date of this press release or to conform these statements to actual results or revised expectations, except as required by law. Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements in this press release.

1 BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey https://www.brightlocal.com/research/local-consumer-review-survey/
2 Gartner Insights, Champion Trustworthy Reviews to Drive Consumer Shopping Decisions https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/5571827

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ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish cargo ship with 10 crew aboard sank Wednesday after a collision with a tanker off Istanbul, Turkish authorities said.

A lifeboat and other debris belonging to the Tugberk Imamoglu have been found but there is no sign of the crew, the General Directorate of Maritime Affairs said in a statement.

“There are 10 seafarers on board, including the captain,” Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said. “They are all Turkish. We can say that the sinking occurred rapidly in 11 minutes. No one has been found alive.”

Two helicopters and 12 search and rescue vessels are searching the area.

The ship collided with the Turkish-flagged tanker Alsu in the Marmara Sea at 3 a.m., the statement said. An emergency signal was received from the Tugberk Imamoglu and the first rescue craft reached the site 4:10 a.m.

The vessel, which was carrying rolled steel, collided with the Alsu about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Silivri, a western suburb of Turkey’s largest city.

“It is assessed that the Tugberk Imamoglu vessel sank because it did not respond to any calls and the mobile phones of the personnel on board went unanswered,” the maritime directorate said.

The owner of the Tugberk Imamoglu said the captain had contacted the Alsu before the collision to warn that it was entering the cargo vessel’s shipping lane.

“Despite this, according to our initial findings, the collision occurred as a result of M/T Alsu’s navigational movements and our ship sank shortly afterward,” the statement from Imamoglu Denizcilik said.

There was no immediate response to the claim from the Alsu’s owners.

The 90-meter (295-foot) cargo ship was traveling from Turkey’s Mediterranean post of Iskenderun to Eregli in the Black Sea. The 91-meter (298-foot) Alsu is an oil or chemical tanker sailing from Kocaeli, east of Istanbul, to Aliaga on the Aegean coast, according to the Marine Traffic website.

The rescue operation comes as Turkish naval units are helping search for a passenger ferry that sank off the coast of Cyprus on Sunday. Eight people died when the Filo Jet sank and 20 remain missing.

The Turkish Straits, comprised of the Bosphorus Strait and Dardanelles Strait at either end of the Marmara Sea, are among the busiest shipping lanes in the world, with hundreds of thousands of vessels transiting between the Mediterranean and Black Seas each year.

FILE - People sit in front of cargo ships anchor in the Marmara Sea await to cross the Bosphorus Straits in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)