What’s New at YARD

Here you see a list of recent developments. To see what is coming up next, checkout our roadmap.

• July 4, 2025: YARD Website: The focus of the website shifted from business events to smart connection profiles, as YARD is preparing for the introduction of YARD Cards.
• June 29, 2025: You can now pre-register for the YARD Cards and Premium YARD Cards online.
• June 29, 2025: You can now register for the YARD Calendar and Premium YARD Calendar online.
• June 22, 2025: YARD Calendar: A new parameter "modal" was introduced which lets you disable/enable the modal window when clicking on an event.
• June 17, 2025: Every event now has a lifecycle status: by default, an event is "published". An event entry can now also be a "draft", "in review", "cancelled", "postponed", etc.
• June 8, 2025: A timezone can now be assigned to an event. In the future, this will help users to better be informed about upcoming virtual events (where the right timezone is critical).
• June 8, 2025: Any social media site can now be connected to an event. Before, only LinkedIn and X were supported.
• June 8, 2025: A new version of the event management tool was released having an updated design. All fields are now immediately visible (no more paging).
• June 7, 2025: You can now duplicate an event (to access its information for saving a new event). The functionality can be accessed on an event page.
• June 7, 2025: Events can now have an estimated date (month/year or year). Example: Crypto Assets Conference 2027
• June 5, 2025: YARD Calendar: A new field "languages" was introduced which you can use to filter for talk languages. Example: Events in Germany conducted only in German language.
• June 5, 2025: Events now support new field: talk languages (i.e. "english" or "english, german"), registration type ("registration required" or "just attend the event"), and ticket cost ("free" or "paid").
• June 4, 2025: Coupons for paid events can now be assigned to events. You can add coupons by editing the event. Later, discount codes for events will also be automatically discovered.
• June 3, 2025: Events can now be hidden/deleted through a new field called visibility.
• June 1, 2025: Data changes concerning individual events are now having a change history. Every data edit is being recorded and automatically discovered event information will soon leverage this functionality.
• May 31, 2025: Three new fields are now available to be used for events: the URL to the physical Google Maps location of the event, a streaming URL, and an event description.
• May 30, 2025: YARD Calendar: You can now assign multiple topics ("finance", "fintech") or distribution formats ("conference", "fair") for an event. These fields now have alternative names in the add event form for better matching.
• May 30, 2025: Tags like frankfurt-school can feature additional information, such as a title and description. Tags will be introduced for cards as well.
• May 30, 2025: YARD Website: You can now submit business events for indexation by adding website links. Simply enter any URL of a relevant business event and it will later appear with all its data via YARD.
• May 29, 2025: YARD Calendar: Events are now using smarter locations.
• May 29, 2025: YARD Calendar: A new field "state" was introduced which you can use to filter for states.
• May 7, 2025: YARD Website: You can now add an event directly on the YARD website.
• May 5, 2025: YARD Website: You can now define your calendar focus using a modal for faster finding relevant events. You can set the calendar focus from the website main navigation and in all Yard Calendars on the Yard website. Yard Calendars on 3rd party website don't have access to the calendar focus functionality, as they already always have a pre-defined focus (a topic and/or location).
• May 4, 2025: The website navigation was updated and now features more focused items.
• May 3, 2025: The homepage design was updated and now features a prominent stage.
• May 1, 2025: YARD now has more than 1k upcoming finance and business events listed.
• April 28, 2025: YARD Website: The product page of Yard Promote has been launched. Yard Promote allow customers to highlight events as promoted events in Yard Calendars.
• April 28, 2025: YARD Website: The product page of Yard Ads has been launched. Yard Ads allow customers to place advertisements in Yard Calendars.
• April 18, 2025: YARD Website: The pricing page has been released for paid products.
• March 4, 2025: YARD Calendar: You can now enter tags (keywords) for each event and the search functionality now can process it. Example: Bitcoin events (by using the bitcoin tag)