AmericanTowns Builds Base in Local Communities in Third Quarter


Site’s Monthly Unique Visitors Double to More Than 700,000

FAIRFIELD, CT Oct 27, 2008 - AmericanTowns.com, where residents of every town in America can find and share the best local information about their communities, today announced several key accomplishments for the third quarter of 2008.

AmericanTowns.com is the fastest growing site in the hyper-local space. Q3 traffic for AmericanTowns.com properties averaged over 700,000 unique visitors per month, 80% above Q2 levels, and 6 times traffic levels at year-end 2007. (Source: Google Analytics.) Monthly revenues in 2008 have grown by 15X, as "Revenue per thousand page views" ("RPM") has grown to $10.62. Citizen contribution to AmericanTowns.com now exceeds 300,000 postings for 2008, further enriching content for other users.

AmericanTowns has introduced more useful, local content for town residents. AmericanTowns has introduced school-related information, including school lunch menus, school supply lists, and school bus routes for thousands of school districts covering over 50% of the US population. AmericanTowns has also added a 'guide to car buying resources,' helping local residents find new and used cars at the right price with less effort.

AmericanTowns is becoming a key resource for municipal entities. Towns in several parts of the country are asking AmericanTowns to provide its tools to connect their communities. The town government of Franklin, MA, recently selected AmericanTowns to host all of their local community group information, including links and related information for community organizations, and a shared community calendar that includes an RSS feed of municipal events. Also, The Town of Ossining (NY), Village of Ossining, Ossining Public Library and Ossining School District jointly announced their collaboration with AmericanTowns to create a shared Community Calendar, reducing scheduling conflicts and providing a centralized online destination for Ossining's citizens to find and share local information. Further, bloggers across the US have begun to adopt the AmericanTowns Community Calendar to provide their communities with useful up-to-the-minute event information.

"Local residents, community organizations and town governments want rich, useful community content that is available in one well-organized location," said Ted Buerger, chairman, AmericanTowns. "Adoption of AmericanTowns tools in local communities and the resulting growth of our monthly traffic confirm that AmericanTowns is responding to this need."

AmericanTowns is also offering new services for local non-profit organizations. AmericanTowns launched new products designed specifically to help not-for-profit organizations at the local level:
  • A new widget gives groups an easy-to-update calendar for their existing website, which seamlessly posts events to Americantowns.com and the sites of its distribution partners, including Superpages.com, Eventful and other major event sites. Events posted by groups to AmericanTowns also now appear on a number of iPhone and cellular applications.
  • On-line event registration and ticket sales will soon be available on AmericanTowns, powered by Acteva, with no set-up fee in the "Express" model and a discount on Acteva's standard fees for the more comprehensive Pro model. "We are building out our platform and content to ensure that communities have the best information available to them that is truly local and useful to them in their daily lives," added Jim Maglione, AmericanTowns' co-president, Community. Content, revenue, or distribution partners wishing to work with AmericanTowns should contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Community leaders, bloggers, and publishers should contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it


About AmericanTowns

AmericanTowns is the leader in collecting and organizing community information for local residents, empowering them to find and share the best local information for their town. For every town in America, AmericanTowns has created a "community webspace" that brings together the nation's most extensive online database of community events, community groups, news, maps, local insights, videos, local resources and special tools for organizations. Local residents can add to, comment on, or otherwise edit this content. Dedicated to connecting citizens, community organizations and locally-focused businesses, AmericanTowns has featured more than 10 million community events in the last 12 months, and offers powerful tools to help more than 120,000 listed community organizations interact more effectively with local citizens. The fastest growing site in the "hyper-local" space, AmericanTowns.com is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Visit www.AmericanTowns.com.