AOL : The Best is Back: AOL Launches City's Best 2010, Selects Twin Cities as Program's Featured City
10/13/2010| 07:10am US/Eastern
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AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced the launch of the 2010 City's Best
program, providing a guide to the best local food, entertainment and
lifestyle options in 25 major U.S. cities. Twin Cities has been selected
as one of the featured cities. With a commitment to providing the
highest quality and most relevant information at the local level, City's
Best editors and writers in Twin Cities have visited and selected the
best food, entertainment and lifestyle venues, creating a high-quality
local directory of listings. Now, AOL will engage Twin Cities residents
to vote for – and ultimately determine – the ?best of the best? that
Twin Cities has to offer.
Beginning today, Twin Cities residents are invited to join the quest for
its ?City's Best? by visiting www.citysbest.com
or downloading City's Best applications for iPhone and Android to vote
for their favorite businesses within a variety of food, entertainment
and lifestyle categories. Joining Twin Cities, the other markets
selected for AOL's 2010 City's Best launch include: Atlanta, Austin,
Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver,
Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orlando,
Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis,
Tampa Bay, and Washington, DC.
LET THE VOTING BEGIN FOR YOUR CITY'S BEST?!:
Voting Period (October 13 – November 30): City's Best voting
kicks-off today, October 13, and will run through November 30.
Individuals will ?vote? for their favorite spots from a list of top
businesses in specific categories. A winner will be determined for each
of the categories in Twin Cities and announced on December 14.
Categories were selected based on local popularity and general public
interest to ensure participation from the greatest number of people.
Categories include:
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-- Best Cheap Eats
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-- Best Burgers
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-- Best Breakfast & Brunch
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-- Best Dive Bars
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-- Best Desserts
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-- Best Chinese Food
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-- Best Happy Hour
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-- Best Hotels
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-- Best Hook Up Bars
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-- Best Italian Food
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-- Best Live Music
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-- Best Family Friendly Restaurants
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-- Best Movie Theaters
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-- Best Pizza
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-- Best Places to Break Up
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-- Best Salons & Spas
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-- Best Sports Bars
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-- Best Romantic Restaurants
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-- Best Steakhouses
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-- Best Thrift Shops
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?City's Best is a unique opportunity for Twin Cities residents to engage
in their community and be a part of recognizing outstanding local
businesses for the exceptional services they provide,? said Mindy Yahr,
AOL Midwest Regional Editor. ?City's Best is where neighbors and experts
find and share what is best in their city. And who else would be better
suited to decide Twin Cities' best food, entertainment and lifestyle
venues than Twin Cities residents and local experts who experience the
quality of these businesses every day.?
Resources & Tools for the Businesses Selected in Each Category
Throughout the voting program, the businesses selected in each category
will be featured on www.citysbest.com.
AOL has developed a number of resources and tools for the businesses to
use to promote their business, generate voting and garner visibility.
Tools include a downloadable City's Best logo, and tips and ideas to
help businesses encourage their fans and customers to vote online or via
their mobile phone. Additionally, the ubiquitous City's Best window
stickers are back. Throughout its history, City's Best has distributed
over 50,000 window stickers to local businesses across the country. The
2010 stickers include QR codes which will allow people to use their
smart phones to scan the sticker and then easily vote for the business
in real time.
Local businesses* in Twin Cities were chosen based on overall
reputation. City's Best editors and writers selected the businesses
based on editorial insight and local opinion of Twin Cities residents.
The selection process is fueled by the mission of City's Best, which is
to bring experts and neighbors together to find and share the best in
Twin Cities.
?Simply put, City's Best is the easiest way to find and engage with
what's best in our cities,? said Jon Brod, President of AOL Ventures,
Local and Mapping. ?Launching City's Best is an important step in AOL
Local's goal of providing the highest quality, most relevant and most
accessible local information, from hyper-local to major-metro markets.
We are tapping into professional editors and writers, in addition to
community members through their participation in the voting process to
find and share the best in Twin Cities.?
*A list of local businesses nominated within each category is available
upon request.
About AOL
AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) is a leading global Web services company with an
extensive suite of brands and offerings and a substantial worldwide
audience. AOL's business spans online content, products and services
that the company offers to consumers, publishers and advertisers. AOL is
focused on attracting and engaging consumers and providing valuable
online advertising services on both AOL's owned and operated properties
and third-party websites. In addition, AOL operates one of the largest
Internet subscription access services in the United States, which serves
as a valuable distribution channel for AOL's consumer offerings.
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AOL
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c.campbell@teamaol.com
or
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smcdaniel@brandresourcesgroup.com
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