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Coupons

Coupons
 
Promote your business To 650,000+ unique readers with a coupon on our online coupon page.
Readers can access the page via “The Ads” drop-down in the menu bar, tile ads on the right side of all pages on westword.com and the services section on backpage.com

Coupons are searchable by keyword, zip code and category.
 
 

Digital Products

citypages.com offers:
  • The most comprehensive entertainment listings
  •  Exclusive articles and interviews
  •  Over 450,000 unique visitors per month
  •  Over 3.5 million page views per month
  •  Breaking news
  •  Twin Cities – lifestyle coverage
  •  Photo slideshow
  •  Video reporting

citypages.com Blogs:

  •  Gimme Noise - Music
  •  The Hot Dish - Food
  •  The Blotter - News
  • The Dressing Room - Fashion

Ad Index

 

 

 

Online Display Ads

PDFs of all display ads running in City Pages' print edition can be found on
the citypages.com Online Ad Index each week.

Online Display Ad w/Hotlink

Make your ad directly link to your website. Paid links will be listed at the top of
each section alphabetically, followed by the rest of the ads. Click on “view ad”
then click anywhere on the ad pop up to click to your website directly.

Ad Index Tower
(Towers available for retail, entertainment and restaurants.)

These special towers provide quick links to your print ads and your website.

Restaurant Towers: On right side of restaurants and film home pages.
Retail Towers: On right side of all calendar, arts home and columns’ home pages.
Entertainment Towers: On right side of all home, music home and search pages.

 

Email Marketing

Banner

Citypages.com - The Most Comprehensive Entertainment Listings

• Exclusive Film Reviews, Articles & Interviews
• Calendar Listings
• Restaurant Guide
• Slide Shows
• Promotions & Free Stuff Giveaways
• Music Reviews
• News, Music & Food Blogs

 
Your web banner advertising buy will include:
• Visitors to citypages.com
• Visitors from the Twin Cities DMA (Designated Market Area) to the Village Voice Media family
of web sites.


Research has shown:
• The most effective promotion for a web site is to be visible where the target audience is located.
• A web site greeting its visitors based on their location or displaying relevant offers, depending on their location, is sure to generate more clicks and garner a higher conversion rate.


Benefits of Geo-Targeting:
• Online businesses can present targeted ad content to the user based on his/her physical location.
• Allows businesses to target relevant local consumers and realize maximum return on investment.
• Plays a vital role in creating a level playing field for both small and large businesses. Small businesses with a local flavor (and smaller budgets) can achieve greater results with geo-targeted aad buys.
• No additional charges to geo-target on our sites - our only goal is to maximize return for advertisers.

Mobile

 

TEXT ALERTS

Target your message directly to consumers via City Pages Text Alerts. 

 

Estimated Subscriber Numbers:

Clubs: 2698

Food: 3206

Film: 1025

Insider: 2513

Music: 2647

 
Benefits:

 Immediate call to action

 Reaches consumers on the go

 Consumers can refer back for multiple impressions

 84% of Americans say wireless is their communication tool of choice

 Consumers have already expressed an interest in receiving your information

 A typical mobile subscriber sends/receives 357 test messages a month, compared to 204 phone calls. 


Why Utilize City Pages Food Text Alerts: 

 Reach the spontaneous active St. Louisans

 Align yourself with food criticRachel Hutton

 Promote upcoming events, specials, menu changes, etc.

 

 

Use Text Alerts to: 

 Drive Traffic to your event/venue/store

 Promote exclusive sales

 Offer discount cover charges

 Capture the attention of club goers while they are already out

 Advertise pre-sale offers

 Boost concert ticket sales

 Promote VIP events

 

 

To sign up for City Pages Text Alerts:

 Clubs: Text the word CPCLUB to 61721

 Food: Text the word CPFOOD to 61721

 Film: Text the word CPFILM to 61721

 Insider: Text the word CPINSIDER to 61721

 Music: Text the word CPMUSIC to 61721

 

Message and data rates may apply. To opt out at anytime, reply STOP to 61721. For help, text HELP to 61721, call 1-877-291-1751 or email info@phaz2.com. View our privacy policy.

 

Reach a new market using City Pages Mobile Web Site
• The growth of these mobile sites has increased consumer use of
smartphones, which expects to account for 45.5% of all mobile phone
sales in 2013, up from just over 9% in 2008.


• The way users have embraced smartphones, especially the iPhone, coupled
with a rise in fl at-rate data plan pricing, signals that a fundamental change
is underway in how consumers interact with high-end devices.


• Our mobile-friendly site has seen great growth as we continue to add new
features, from 18,000 per month in June 2009 to 55,000 per month in
November 2009


• Our growth in social media, including Facebook and Twitter, has helped
with the rise in mobile pageviews, and will continue to do so.

 

 

City Pages Happy Hour Application!

City Pages Happy Hours Moblie App locates food and drink specials
going on near you. View photos, specials, menus, location details,
amenities, and even discover what other people have to say. City Pages'
Happy Hours is the nation's premier Happy Hour Guide. And, it's FREE to
download on iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.

 

City Pages IPHONE MOBILE APP

City Pages iPhone mobile app gives a glimpse into City Pages without all the content of the Mobile Website. It is more social (as a Twin Cities guide to the weekend) and features only specific sections:

•   Calendar

•   Music

•   Restaurants

•   Last Night

•   Slideshows

•   Bars/Clubs

 

City Pages Best of the Twin Cities App

“Best Of …” will allow hyper-local discovery of the best attractions a city has to offer in Food & Drink, Arts & Entertainment, Sports & Recreation and Shopping & Services.

The application’s initial features include:

  • Explore – Search through various categories in the Twin Cities or see the range of “Bests” across all 30 markets
  • Discover – Users can sort through categories and places by popularity or by location
  • Share – Each place page enables users to vote, “check-in” and opt-in to share via Facebook and Twitter; check-ins will appear on their “Best Of …” feed, within their personal profile page

 

 

 

Partner Sites

 

UrbanSpoon.com is a leading online local restaurant guide that aggregates restaurant reviews from across the web, from newspapers, professional foodcritics to bloggers and diners. Available online or via its popular iPhone application, Urbanspoon provides reviews for restaurants throughout theUnited States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Why Urbanspoon? Urbanspoon presents reviews not just by users, but also pulls together the opinions of trusted local sources - reviews from newspaper critics and food bloggers - to help diners find a great place to eat.

Site Features:

  • Voting system allows users to vote on restaurants and leave comments - creating their own reviews.
  • Restaurant Slot Machine helps you pick a restaurant when you can’t decide where to eat.
  • City at Night shows each of Minneapolis/St. Paul
    5,645 restaurants as a point on the map
  • Dinner and a Movie lets you choose a movietheater, then shows you a list of nearby restaurants.
  • Round Table allows you to personalize your homepage and compile a buddy list, to compare favorite places with your friends.
  • Talk of Town tracks the hot new restaurant openings in the city.
 
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CheckOutMyInk.com is a free tattoo-centric, community-driven web site that offers the world a chance to stock, share and flaunt their tattoos.

  •  Over 180,000 page views and over 11,000 visits
    each month from the Mpls/St. Paul DMA
  • Traffic sources: 60% search engines
    21% referring sites
    19% direct

Rates for all Sizes:
  •  4x - $15 cpm
  •  8x - $13 cpm
  •  13x - $11 cpm
  •  26x - $10 cpm

Minimum 4-week investment for all advertisers.
Minimum investment: 20,000 impressions per week.

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VOICE Deal of the Day

 

VOICE DEAL OF THE DAY -


EFFICIENT, MEASURABLE, RISK FREE MARKETING.
VOICE Daily Deals is a web-based business model whereby a single product or service is offered for sale at a heavily discounted price for a period of no less than 48 hours
 

Why Businesses should use VOICE Deal of the Day?

City Pages Press Advantages

  • Existing local communities of users that will kick-start and sustain the daily deal product
  • Strong local market brand, making client and consumer acquisition easier
  • Established hyper-local marketing channels (print, web, email, mobile sms, street) to drive awareness, consumer acquisition and sales

Benefits

  • Provide exposure to thousands of ready to buy consumers through deal specific marketing to our email list, facebook advertising, SEM and banner advertising on our site
  • This isn't a FREE offer: when a VOICE user walks into your business, they are already a customer and have spent money to take advantage of your deal.  How much they spend and if they come back should be your focus.
  •  This platform allows the business to pay on performance of the deal.  Your only cost is when actual customers BUY your product.

Daily Marketing

  • 1 exclusive email blast to Deal of the Day Subscribers
  • 48 hour deal exposure online (Friday deal may be extended up to 72 hours)
  • 10,000 web impressions on citypages.com
  • Social media posts on our various twitter and facebook accounts.

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