, CEO of Citysearch, said the company began developing CityGrid in 2008, when it had three publisher partners. In June 2010, Citysearch launched CityGrid Media, a content and advertising network for local markets. The platform aggregates advertisers from company partners, enhances their listings' by adding Citysearch content and distributes it through a pay-per-performance ad engine to partner Web sites.
For advertisers
CityGrid Media offers a range of products including Content-based Advertising that is distributed across their CityGrid network, search engine optimization, Search Engine Marketing, and High ImpactDisplay Advertising. Advertisers are able to customize their CityGrid place page through a pay-per-performance model which drives more clicks, calls, and customers.
CityGrid Media has APIs that give developers access to premium local content including user reviews, editorial content, merchant messages and more, across 75,000 neighborhoods nationwide. CityGrid Media offers Content by CityGrid which provides a Places API, Offers API, and Reviews API. Places API provides functionality for information on local businesses, including search, detail, user content submission, and predictive text. Offers API provides coupons and special offers from businesses based on geographical location and category. Reviews API displays customer reviews based on listing IDs for certain geographic/category attributes. The APIs include more than 15 million local business listings, 3 million user reviews, and access to 800,000 local advertisers looking to reach people near their places of business. CityGrid Media also offers Ads by CityGrid which provides Places that Pay API and Custom Ads API. Ads by CityGrid allow you to get paid for displaying this rich, local content.
Notable developers on the platform
Where
Bing
City.com
MyCityWay
Local.com
Yellow Pages
Super Pages
Judy's Book
Mapquest
For resellers
CityGrid Media private label reseller program was created for sales organizations that currently do not have an online advertising product or are looking to expand their local product offering. The reseller program provides tools, platform and systems to drive profit.
