AOL Relaunching City's Best Guides
Today AOL will reintroduce their City’s Best catalogues in 25 major U.S. markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Houston, and Seattle. Each local channel will review area restaurants, bars, and entertainment and all guides will be available online at citysbest.com
The project is similar to AOL’s Digital Cities franchise from the 1990s, however the competitive landscape is much more crowded now than it was over a decade ago. With Citysearch, Yelp, Chowhound, UrbanSpoon, and countless local blogs covering regional dining and entertainment scenes, AOL is relying on the promotional efforts of their Mapquest and Patch platforms to set City’s Best apart from the crowd.
According to a Mediaweek report, president of AOL Ventures, Local and Mapping, Jon
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