Frequently Asked Questions

Absolutely.  If you are anything like our hundreds of other customers, we expect that you will.  There are both passive and active revenue streams built-in to the system to help you generate new revenue streams and monetize your event listings.

We offer standard listing upgrades (enhanced, featured, premium) as well as promotional add-ons such as a listing distribution (syndication to other sites in the market), email campaigns, mobile ads, and voice skill mentions.  We also allow you to offer any additional custom promotions of your choosing, each complete with its own dates and inventory (guaranteed print, social posting, holiday guides, over-the-air mentions, etc.).

Further, we provide options for your own private label ticketing service and voice skills, along with built-in tools for your sales team to create packages for local events and sell sponsorships to local businesses.

Almost assuredly.  We have worked with scores of different CMS systems and to this date have had no trouble with any of them.

The only quasi-exception to this is Wix–we have encountered some issues with the free website provider Wix, which does not allow javascript to be placed or run correctly on its site.

If you have more specific questions or concerns about your CMS, contact our sales team at sales@cityspark.com.

Yes!  A majority of our media partners are using our extensive reverse publishing tools to export for print, newsletters, email, magazines, etc.  We offer the most flexible and robust reverse publishing on the market.  You’ll have full control of the content selection, the exact formatting and layout (completely custom) and the export format (more than 10 options).  We are compatible with any layout software, and you can automate the entire process as much or as little as you like.

Yes, all of our portals and widgets are fully responsive and will look great on any screen size.

Yes.  No submitted events will go live without prior approval.  With several ways to review and approve events and a number of filters and settings, you can create a process that is as hands-on or as hands-off as you like.

You will always have real-time, complete editorial control.  As an admin user, your role will allow you to remove events with one click, edit events inline, and change any aspect of any event as you see fit.  This can be done through the admin site, or directly on the calendar itself.

All changes you make will update and appear in real-time.

Absolutely.  We do this for many, if not most, of our new customers.  We can import your content in just about any format, as long as a few basic criteria are met.  We will look at a sample output from you and let you know what, if any, changes need to be made prior to importing.

While in most cases, there is a small monthly fee for our platform, to cover the cost of the complex local event aggregation and processing service we provide, as well as  providing full phone and email support, in nearly all cases you can generate enough in just passive income from the site to more than cover the monthly amount, with us then sending you a check each month.   That doesn’t even account for the additional revenue from direct sales of built-in sponsorship packages, etc, which you keep 100%.

There are a number of variables that go into the final pricing for each customer–site traffic (bandwidth), market size (number of events), what configuration you are looking for (content, voice, tickets, reverse publishing, API, etc.), and how you want to split your revenue share.

We power hundreds of media sites in markets from a few thousand residents to those with a few million, and we make it work for all of them, and are confident it will work for you as well.

Contact us at sales@cityspark.com for a personalized quote.