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Addition
of Three New Sites Ups Young Adult Hub Newcity.com
Content Partners to 18
TimmyBigHands,
Freezerbox.com,
Americandispatches.com
Rounds Out News From 49 Alternative Newsweekly Sites
CHICAGO (May
15, 2000) --- Newcity.com, a young adult content and commerce hub
linking a national network of alternative city and content Web sites
has added three new content partners, it was announced today by
Brian Hieggelke, President of Newcity Communications, Inc. The addition
of TimmyBigHands.com, Freezerbox.com and Americandispatches.com
bring the number of content sites linked to Newcity.com to 18. The
young adult hub also features news and reviews from 49 alternative
newsweekly sites.
An online humor
magazine which debuted in April, 2000, TimmyBigHands (www.timmybighands.com)
was created by five alumni of the cult television show MYSTERY SCIENCE
THEATER 3000, which ran for ten years - first on Comedy Central,
then on the Sci-Fi Channel.
The site features
the same stew of comic flavors that "MST3K" did, from sharp-edged
media parody to Perelmanesque wordplay to gentle whimsy, all seasoned
with tons of pop culture trivia.
E-zine Freezerbox.com
is dedicated to the belief that an active, informed citizenry is
crucial to the stabilization of spaceship Earth, which right now--judging
from the state of the environment and extreme global inequality--is
not on a sustainable, just path.
"Freezerbox
magazine creates a forum for good thinking and good writing from
both professional and non-professional writers alike," says editor
Cedric Howe. "Internet journalism--especially the electronic magazine--is
democratic, and we hope that all those who wish to share well crafted
thoughts, experiences and information will contribute. Activist-oriented
essays that include non-mainstream views on current events as well
as links to sources of further information are especially encouraged.
While we do not want to become simply an advocacy page whose articles
read like pamphlets at a rally, we nonetheless feel that there are
too many urgent issues to simply limit ourselves to stylistic jerking
off, so to speak. That said, we also publish fiction, reviews, photography
and art--as well as non-political essays."
Americandispatches.com
is an E-Zine launched in February as a sister site to print publication
American Dispatches, both produced by Consortiumnews.com. Consortiumnews.com
was founded in 1995 as a home for investigative journalism and has
produced more than 200 original stories on topics ranging from national
security to the environment, from politics to foreign affairs. The
site will reflect the print publication's honest journalism within
the Constitutional vision of the press corps as a guardian of democracy.
Newcity.com is a subsidiary of Newcity Communications, Inc., a 14-year
old media company based in Chicago that excels in reaching today's
generation of young adults. In addition to Newcity.com, Newcity
operates Newcity magazine, an alternative weekly distributed in
Chicago; and Newcity National Sales, a business specializing in
the sale of national print advertising in more than 100 alternative
weeklies.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Young
Adult Content and Commerce hub Newcity.com
Acquires SportsJones.com
"The Thinking
Fan's Sports Site" To Anchor New Daily Sports Coverage
CHICAGO (May
2, 2000) Newcity.com,
a young adult content and commerce hub linking a national network
of alternative city and content Web sites, has completed the acquisition
of SportsJones.com,
the online magazine for sports, it was announced today by Brian
Hieggelke, President of Newcity.
Royce Webb, the
founder, editor and publisher of two year-old SportsJones, will
join Newcity.com to begin the integration of daily sports coverage
into Newcity.com's mix of 67 content and city web sites. Other members
of the staff will follow shortly.
"The Web is
drenched in sports coverage, but the proportion of it that delves
into the intricacies of competition and the mind-sets of the players
is about as scarce as goals at the World Cup," says Mr. Hieggelke.
What Salon Magazine is for culture and politics, SporstJones is
for sports. ESPN calls SportsJones 'the thinking fan's sports site,'
and the Wall Street Journal says, 'Amid the Internet's sports clutter
of shrieking fan pages and colorless wire stories, SportsJones stands
out.'. "Sports
is a core area of interest for our young adult audience, yet is
one of the weakest coverage areas in the alternative press," Mr.
Hieggelke adds. "This acquisition is a way to jumpstart our entry
into that area, with a staff and relationships in place, a good
brand name, and an emerging reputation and base of traffic."
The site has
been nominated as a finalist for the prestigious Webby Award, in
the company of large sites like ESPN.com and FoxSports.com. SportsJones
has attracted the attention of larger players in the online media
space, who have secured syndication rights to its content. "We believe
that this is entirely consistent with our B2B2C model of building
a simultaneous consumer strategy while operating as a "wholesaler"
of content and services to other businesses, and expect to develop
this revenue stream substantially," says Mr. Hieggelke.
In 1999, Nashville,
Tenn.-based SportsJones became a content partner with Newcity.com
helping drive network traffic to over 14 million ad impressions
served on a monthly basis from just under 5 million a year earlier.
Terms of the acquisition of SportsJones, Inc., which is relocating
to Newcity¹s Chicago headquarters, are not disclosed.
Newcity.com is
a subsidiary of Newcity Communications, Inc., a 14-year old media
company based in Chicago that excels in reaching today's generation
of young adults. In addition to Newcity.com, Newcity operates Newcity
magazine, an alternative weekly distributed in Chicago; and Newcity
National Sales, a business specializing in the sale of national
print advertising in more than 100 alternative weeklies.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Young
Adult Content and Commerce hub Newcity.com
Ups City Partners to 48 and Content Partners to 15
Reports Ad Revenue Soaring by 700+ percent
CHICAGO (February 14, 2000) Newcity.com
(www.newcity.com), a young adult content and commerce hub linked
to a national network of alternative city and content Web sites,
has added two new content partners: street-culture-oriented POPsmear.com,
POP History Now, and eight new regional affiliates, it was announced
today by Brian Hieggelke, President of Newcity.com.
Launched in April, Newcity.com's network has grown to 63 content
and city partners and already reaches 700,000 unique visitors per
month with a total reach of about 1.1 percent of the Web (Media
Metrix, December 1999). Nearly half its audience is 18-34, and 85
percent is 18-49. Advertising revenue has grown 730 percent from
65 different advertisers.
The eight new regional affiliates are the Web versions of alternative
media publications:
The Valley
Advocate (MASS) www.valleyadvocate.com; the Fairfield County
Weekly (CT) www.fairfieldweekly.com; the New
Haven Advocate (CT) www.newhavenadvocate.com; the Hartford
Advocate (CT) www.hartfordadvocate.com; the Westchester
County Weekly (NY) www.westchesterweekly.com--all published
by New Mass Media Inc.--Casco
Bay Weekly (Maine) www.cascobayweekly.com; the Missoula
Independent (Montana) www.missoulanews.com; and the Colorado
Springs Independent www.csindy.com.
The combined circulations of these publications are over 350,000.
"The addition of these eight Web sites to Newcity.com's network
gives us very deep penetration in the affluent Fairfield County/Westchester
County region," says Brian Hieggelke, President of Newcity.com.
"This makes it easier for advertisers to connect with that elusive
18-34 demographic--they are people watching less TV, but spending
more time online than ever."
Recently, Newcity.com entered the e-commerce space with two programs:
In November, it launched Newcityshop, bringing targeted, browseable
shopping to the online market. Newcityshop
(www.newcityshop.com) attracted more than 50 retailers anxious to
sell to Newcity.com's target market of 18-34 year olds, among them:
ahah-pashmina.com; drugstore.com; moma.org; cooking.com; Proteam..com;
cdnow.com; fogdog.com; furniture.com; liquor.com and jcrew.com.
"Most online shopping sites are either destination websites that
stand alone (Macys.com), or shopping search engines that list hundreds,
even thousands of responses to a search for a particular item (Yahoo
Shopping, ShopNow.com)," says Mr. Hieggelke. "Newcityshop is unique
in that it is targeted at young adults. The shops included on the
site offer something useful or unusual and of interest to our demographic."
Newcity.com is also partnering with Acteva.com to offer tickets
to concerts, sporting events and nearly any local event that requires
admission tickets. The co-branded venture will be launched in a
pilot program in Chicago, with plans to begin roll out to Newcity.com's
48-city affiliate network within 90 days.
On the content side, Newcity.com launched alternativevote.com
in October to gather hundreds of alternative-press stories of the
2000 presidential race. Drawing from a deep pool of content sites
and alternative weeklies--including three in Al Gore's Tennessee
and two in George W. Bush's Texas--this site links to hundreds of
unconventional news and investigative reports, not to mention features
and analysis by the likes of controversial sex columnist Dan Savage
and once-and-future third-party candidate Ralph Nader.
Newcity.com's newest content partner, www.popsmear.com, is the
online version of the legendary underground POPsmear Magazine, which
recently closed its doors after five years of wreaking havoc on
pop culture. The website will continue into the future with constantly
updated feature stories on sex, drugs and rock and roll explored
in an intelligent and humorous way.
Pop History Now! looks at a different year each day from the 40's
through the 90's in a "This Week In..". format--the only one of
its kind on the web. Each day covers the headlines, Hollywood news,
radio charts, movies and silly stories from the same week you're
in, but a different year. The content is available to radio and
TV stations on a market exclusive basis as well. So what was it
really like--this week in 1972, 1959, 1985, etc.?
Newcity.com is a subsidiary of Newcity Communications, Inc., a 14-year
old media company based in Chicago that excels in reaching today's
generation of young adults. In addition to Newcity.com, Newcity operates
Newcity magazine, an alternative weekly distributed in Chicago; and
Newcity National Sales, a business specializing in the sale of national
print advertising in more than 100 alternative weeklies.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Newcity.com
Partners with Acteva to Sell Tickets Online
Leading Young Adult Content and Commerce Hub To Provide Self-Service,
Automated Web Ticketing And Event Registration
CHICAGO (January
24, 2000) Newcity.com
(www.newcity.com), a young adult content and commerce hub linking
a national network of alternative city and content Web sites, is
partnering with Acteva
(www.acteva.com) to offer online ticketing and registration for
concerts, sporting events and other shows and special events from
coast to coast.
The co-branded venture initially will launch in Chicago on February
1 at www.newcitytickets.com,
with plans to begin rolling out to Newcity.com's network of 48 alternative
weekly newspapers and their affiliated Web sites within 90 days.
These alternative weeklies reach a combined readership of more than
5 million potential young concert-goers and club patrons every week.
Acteva offers breakthrough solutions for the online marketing of
entertainment, sporting and other special events, as well as ticketing,
registration, and membership sign-ups; the company also facilitates
the solicitation and collection of donations for non-profits.
"We provide promoters and other special event organizers with their
own ready-made event payment and registration sites, regardless
of the size of the event," said Lu Cordova, Acteva's CEO. "Up and
running in less than 30 minutes, our online service requires no
added software, or hardware or set-up fees; it also is risk-free
and controlled exclusively by the event promoter. Our new partnership
with Newcity.com will permit local and regional event promoters
around the country to harness the power of the Internet in driving
and processing ticket sales".
The Acteva deal propels Newcity.com to the forefront of the burgeoning
world of youth-oriented e-commerce. In November, Newcity.com opened
Newcityshop to bring targeted, browseable shopping to the online
market. Newcityshop.com attracted more than 70 retailers anxious
to sell to Newcity.com's target market of 18-34 year olds. Among
the companies already doing business with Newcity are ahah-pashmina.com,
CDNow.com, citystuff.com, liquor.com and j.crew.com. Newcityshop
is unique in that it is targeted exclusively at young adults. All
of the "shops" included on the site offer something useful, unusual,
or of special interest to Newcity.com's younger demographic.
"With a heavy concentration of young adults who already access our
network to research their entertainment options or simply check
starting times, we have a ready market of people predisposed to
going out to events," says Newcity.com President Brian Hieggelke.
"By partnering with Acteva, we are taking the uncertainty out of
ticket availability and making the process of attending events easier
and more convenient."
About Newcity.com
Newcity.com is a subsidiary of Newcity Communications, Inc., a 14-year
old media company based in Chicago that excels in reaching today's
generation of young adults. In addition to Newcity.com, Newcity
operates Newcity magazine, an alternative weekly distributed in
Chicago, and Newcity National Sales, a business specializing in
the sale of national print advertising in more than 100 alternative
weeklies.
About Acteva
Acteva, the "Marketplace for Activities," brings activity organizers
and participants together online.
Acteva provides an easy-to-use, self-managed Web-based service for
secure, cost-efficient transactions including registrations, ticket
purchases, donations, membership sign-ups and RSVP's. It works equally
well for businesses, associations, and individuals, whether they
are organizing fund-raisers, meetings, seminars, concerts, trade
shows, festivals, or corporate events.
Acteva's free service allows organizers to bring the convenience
of online registration and electronic payment to their constituents
in a matter of minutes. Acteva's self-service interface provides
organizers access to marketing distribution, information management
and real time reporting tools designed to increase revenues while
dramatically reducing administrative and processing costs. The company
maintains headquarters in San Francisco, CA.
Contacts:
Acteva.com
Don Keefer
Director of Public Relations
(415) 442-4849 ext. 334
dkeefer@acteva.com
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Stores Flock
To Newcity.com
Shopping Area Targeted to Young Adults
More than 50 Retailers Grab Spot in Portal for 18-34 Year-Olds
CHICAGO (November 18, 1999) Newcity.com
(www.newcity.com), a portal site linking content from a national
network of young adult city and content Web sites, has opened Newcityshop
to bring targeted, browseable shopping to the online market.
Newcityshop
(www.newcityshop.com) has already attracted more than 50 retailers
anxious to sell to Newcity.com's target market of 18-34 year olds,
among them: ahah-pashmina.com; drugstore..com; sharperimage.com;
moma.org; cooking.com; Proteam.com; cdnow.com; fogdog.com; furniture.com;
liquor.com and jcrew.com.
"Most online shopping sites are either destination websites that
stand alone (Macys.com), or shopping search engines that list hundreds,
even thousands of responses to a search for a particular item (Yahoo
Shopping, ShopNow.com)," says Newcity.com President Brian Hieggelke.
"Newcityshop is unique in that it is targeted at young adults. The
shops included on the site offer something useful or unusual and
of interest to our demographic."
Newcityshop includes shop windows and editorial descriptions of
each store so that shoppers have a feel for what each shop offers
and can enjoy a browsing experience that is otherwise hard to find
in the "search and buy" model of e-commerce. The site also highlights
three products of particular interest to its audience or related
to recent editorial features in its shop windows on the home page
of the site and one product on each departmental page.
Newcityshop plans to expand its user-friendly focus by providing
consumer editorial content such as shipping information, sale and
deals highlights, and talk-back discussion boards with "horror stories,"
"best deals" and other consumer topics.
Retailers on the site are selected by Newcity.com, but are not
charged a fee. However, Newcity.com does receive a commission for
items sold though Newcityshop.
Newcity.com is a subsidiary of Newcity Communications, Inc., a
13-year old media company based in Chicago that excels in reaching
today's generation of young adults. In addition to Newcity.com,
Newcity operates Newcity magazine, an alternative weekly distributed
in Chicago; and Newcity National Sales, a business specializing
in the sale of national print advertising in more than 100 alternative
weeklies.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Young Adult
Portal Newcity.com
Partners with Ironminds.com and Consortiumnews.com for New Content
Also Launches "Alternative
Vote 2000" -- Unconventional Coverage of the Presidential Race
CHICAGO (October 25, 1999) Newcity.com
(www.newcity.com) a portal site linking content from a national
network of young adult city and content Web sites, has added two
new content partners: Ironminds.com,
and Consortiumnews.com
(the Internet's first investigative magazine) and launched a section
to take the varnish off the Presidential race, it was announced
today by Brian Hieggelke, President of Newcity.com.
Launched in April, Newcity Network (composed now of Newcity.com
and 56 content and city partners) already reaches 721,000 unique
visitors per month with a total reach of 1.1 percent (Media Metrix,
June 1999). Nearly half its audience is 18-34, and 85 percent is
18-49.
Alternative Vote 2000 promises to provide livelier coverage of
the Presidential race than conventional media. Drawing from a deep
pool of content sites and alternative weeklies--including three
in Al Gore's Tennessee and two in George W. Bush's Texas--this section
links to hundreds of unconventional news and investigative reports,
not to mention features and analysis by the likes of controversial
sex columnist Dan Savage and former third-party candidate Ralph
Nader.
"It's our goal to collect a raw, heady mix of activist political
journalism and canny commentary of a quality not seen since Hunter
Thompson roamed the campaign trail," says Editor Frank Sennett.
"In short, you don't have to swallow the campaign coverage served
up by conventional sources."
Columbia, MO-based Ironminds.com is a new daily online magazine
and content site for college students launched on August 30th. The
name "Ironminds" derives from a Silicon Valley term used to describe
programming geniuses. To Ironminds.com founder Andy Wang, former
editor-in-chief of Impressionmag.com and a Visiting Hearst Professional
at the Missouri School of Journalism, the term symbolizes a culture
of driven young people who are willing to risk everything to achieve
success on their own terms. "It's a culture where people work hard
because it's the only thing they know how to do," Mr. Wang says.
Started in November 1995, Consortiumnews.com (www.consortiumnews.com)
has published more than 200 investigative articles on a wide range
of topics, well-researched journalism on substantive issues ignored
or downplayed in the national news media. Its founder, Robert Parry,
is the former Associated Press-Newsweek reporter who, in the 1980s,
broke many of the stories now known as the Iran-contra scandal,
including the first story disclosing the existence of Oliver North's
secret contra-support operation.
Ironminds.com is partnered with the University of Missouri School
of Journalism, which is an equity partner in the venture. The site's
advisory board includes writers and editors who have contributed
to publications including MSNBC.com, The New York Times, Wired,
Rolling Stone, Spin and Esquire.
Stories from Consortiumnews.com, based in Arlington, Virginia
have ranged from the influence of special-interest money in American
politics to early warnings about the ethnic crisis in Kosovo, from
environmental threats in the United States to the financial meltdown
in Russia, from the politicization of the special-prosecutor apparatus
in Washington to human rights crimes in Latin America, from a detailed
analysis of CIA admissions about Nicaraguan contra-cocaine trafficking
to revelations about secret intelligence operations in the Middle
East. The Consortiumnews.com also offers a special interactive feature,
called "Fact Finders," that encourages readers to join in the process
of prying loose important information being withheld by the government.
Newcity.com is a subsidiary of Newcity Communications, Inc., a
13-year old media company based in Chicago that excels in reaching
today's generation of young adults. In addition to Newcity.com,
Newcity operates Newcity magazine, an alternative weekly distributed
in Chicago; and Newcity National Sales, a business specializing
in the sale of national print advertising in more than 100 alternative
weeklies.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Alternative
Media Portal Newcity.com
Jumps to 50 Affiliates Adding New Content and Columbus, OH Partner
CHICAGO (July
29, 1999) Newcity.com,
the recently launched portal site linking content from a national
network of alternative city and content Web sites, this week adds
new content, comix affiliate, The
City and Columbus, Ohio's Alivewired.com
as a city affiliate. There are now 40 cities in the network and
10 content affiliates.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Alternative
Media Portal Newcity.com
Adds Utne Reader Online Jumps to 48 Affiliates
CHICAGO (May
25, 1999) Newcity.com,
the recently launched portal site linking content from a national
network of alternative city and content Web sites, this week adds
Utne
Reader Online to its portfolio of 48 affiliates.
Since its launch
in 1984, Utne Reader has been the nation's leading digest of alternative
ideas. Its editorial mission is to provide readers with innovative
solutions for living more balanced, fulfilling lives and to bring
about positive social change in the world. It has been available
online since 1995. It generates about 1.7 million page views per
month from more than 23,000 registered users.
Utne
Reader Online is the critically acclaimed WEB version of Utne
Reader magazine which invites readers to interact with editors and
contributors on a wide range of topics. At the core of the site
is Café Utne one of the most active online communities in
North America according to Forum One, the leading Web forum search
engine (4/99). Cafe Utne is a free service where patronscan actively
participate in over 116 different conferences, with more than 8,600
topics or start their own.
Utne Reader
Online also features Kaleidoscope offering a spectrum of products,
services and interesting Web sites and the marketplace of Utne Reader
Online. Visitors can also subscribe to The Utne Buzz, the free bi-weekly
Internet newsletter of Utne Reader Online to keep patrons up-to-date
on special features and events.
"Utne Reader
brings forth the best from over 2,100 independent, small-circulation
publications, new book releases, and the leading-edge of the mainstream
media, plus original reporting," says Brian Hieggelke, President
of Newcity.com. "Utne.com helps site visitors find answers to the
most pressing personal and social questions opening eyes to great
thinking, emerging trends and new opportunities. It has everything
Newcity.com site visitors want in an online experience."
"We're thrilled
to be part of the Newcity.com network," says Robert Welsch, President
of Utne Reader. "Our affiliation with Newcity.com provides new opportunities
for our readers to access and interact with a wide spectrum of alternative
and independent content on the web. It's a perfect match for Utne.com."
Utne Reader,
founded in 1984 by Eric Utne, has a paid circulation of 225,000
and has been nominated three times for the prestigious National
Magazine Award for General Excellence.
NewcityNet
LLC is a subsidiary of New City Communications, Inc., a 13-year
old media company based in Chicago that excels in reaching today's
generation of young adults. In addition to Newcity.com, NCC operates
Newcity magazine, an alternative weekly distributed in Chicago,
along with www.newcitychicago.com, its sister web site; and Newcity
National Sales, a related business specializing in the sale of national
advertising in more than 100 alternative weeklies.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Alternative
Media Portal Newcity.com
Adds RSUB
and SportsJones
as Content Partners Jumps to 47 Affiliates
RSUB
is a network of eight award-winning, original, and distinct sites
created specifically for the World-Wide Web including: The Blue
Dot, typoGRAPHIC, Bunko!, This Girl, TheNvelope and disinformation
the recently launched RSUBOX, a 24-hour streaming media area featuring
original, alternative film and video content available no where
else, and RSUB Audio, its own radio station. RSUB pushes the limits
of creative technology while distilling information, developing
new processes, and providing engaging, enlightening entertainment
experiences to its visitors.
"RSUB has creating
compelling on-line entertainment experiences providing users with
daily dynamic content from cutting edge sources such as Nerve, SonicNet,
and Paper Magazine," says Brian Hieggelke, President of Newcity.com.
SportsJones
is "the thinking fan's sports site," says ESPN, and the place where
"sports and literary writing converge," according to the Wall Street
Journal. Featuring top-notch writing and insight from a variety
of alternative viewpoints and voices, SportsJones is for readers
who want to see sports in a different light. What Salon.com is for
culture and politics, SportsJones is for sports.
Royce Webb,
SportsJones' creator says the mandate of SportsJones is to "take
sports back from the loudmouthed, cynical, corporate sports media.
Weíre tired of letting the media tell the same stories theyíve told
6000 times before, give meaningless stats, and offer flash over
substance. Weíre sick of letting the media giants hound and tear
down athletes and sports in general."
"The urban
20- and 30-somethings that make up most of the Newcity.com audience
donít view sports through a conventional media lens," says Mr. Hieggelke,
"we think SportsJones' idiosyncratic style is a perfect fit
for the attitude and perspective of Americaís alternative culture."
Newcity.com's
other content affiliates include subculture search engine Disinformation;
comic strip Red
Meat; Real
Astrology; Weekly
Wire; and Film
Vault.
Newcity.com's
network of whip-smart, in-your-face cultural commentary aimed at
urban adults aged 18-34, is second only to Digital Cities (52) in
the number of markets served among the branded city networks --reaching
more cities than Sidewalk (10), CitySearch (14), RealCities (28)
and Yahoo! Metro (12)-- but with an enhanced ability to attract
a sizeable number of young adults.
NewcityNet
LLC is a subsidiary of New City Communications, Inc., a 13-year
old media company based in Chicago that excels in reaching today's
generation of young adults. In addition to Newcity.com, NCC operates
Newcity magazine, an alternative weekly distributed in Chicago,
along with www.newcitychicago.com, its sister web site; and Newcity
National Sales, a related business specializing in the sale of national
advertising in more than 100 alternative weeklies.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Newcity.com's Alternative Media Web Network Adds
Disinformation Subculture Search Engine & Content
CHICAGO (March
1, 1999) Newcity.com
a national network of city and content sites spawned by the alternative
press, announced plans to add Disinformation, the Web's gateway
to the underground, as a content partner for its network of 45 sites
filled with whip-smart, in-your-face cultural commentary aimed at
urban adults aged 18-34.
Disinformation
is a powerful specialist search for those interested in all things
weird and wonderful on the Web, as well as five original content
zones providing rated links to outside sites. The zones are Propaganda,
Revolutionaries, Censorship, Counterculture and Counter- intelligence,
plus Newspeak, a section providing links to a wide variety of news
and information sources. Disinformation hosts popular forums in
each category, free disinfo.net e-mail, chat, internet access and
many other megaportal-like features, creating a strong base for
its alternative community. Disinformation hosts popular forums in
each category. Also featured is Creative Director Richard Metzger's
popular net TV talk show, The Infinity Factory. A sister site, the
Disinformation Headshop, sells CDs, books, videos and branded merchandise.
Virtually all
parts of the site are open to advertiser sponsorship opportunities.
Current advertisers include SONY, Wells Fargo Bank, Doubleday, Netscape,
Intel, e-bay, Claritan Plus and Office Max.
"Two third's
of Disinformation's traffic is coming from people smack in the middle
of our target demographic," says Brian Hieggelke President and founder
of Newcity.com. "So, we are not only adding content that fits perfectly
with Newcity.com's iconoclastic, independent and creative mission,
but we are enlarging our audience for advertisers targeting young
urban adults, an extremely hard to reach audience in any medium."
Newcity.com is
second only to Digital Cities (57) in the number of U.S. markets
served among the branded city networks --reaching more cities than
Sidewalk (10), CitySearch (13), RealCities (30) and Yahoo! Metro
(12)-- but with an enhanced ability to attract a sizeable number
of urban adults aged 18-34.
"The Disinformation
user is typically well educated, informed and inquisitive. They
are skeptical of traditional media outlets and are eager for information
from alternative sources," says Gary Baddeley, President, CEO and
co-founder of Disinformation. "Having Disinformation linked into
the Newcity.com gives our audience a much larger playground for
their attitudes and imaginations."
NewcityNet LLC
launched in August 1998, is a subsidiary of New City Communications,
Inc., a 12-year old media company based in Chicago that excels in
communicating to today's new generation of young adults. In addition
to the web network, NCC operates Newcity magazine, an alternative
weekly distributed in the Chicago market, along with
www.newcitychicago.com, its sister web site; and Newcity
National Sales, a related business that specializes in the sale
of national advertising into more than 100 alternative weeklies.
The Disinformation
Company Ltd. owns and operates the flagship Disinformation
site, the leader in alternative information on the Web since
its launch in September 1996. TDC is producing a Disinformation
television series for Channel 4 Television in the United Kingdom
and will release its first compact disc under a joint venture with
Relativity Records (Sony Music) in the summer of 1999. TDC's prototypical
demographic type is the notoriously hard to reach educated, skeptical
male consumer age 16-30.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Newcity.com
Selects
Concrete Media Construction to Build its Portal Site
CHICAGO (February
16, 1999) Newcity.com a national network of 45 alternative city
and content sites has selected Concrete
Media Construction, the Internet Consulting and Development
unit of Concrete Media Inc. to build its portal site at www.newcity.com.
Newcity.com is
second only to Digital Cities (57) in the number of U.S. markets
served among the branded city networks --reaching more cities than
Sidewalk (10), CitySearch (13), RealCities (30) and Yahoo! Metro
(12)-- but with an enhanced ability to attract a sizeable number
of urban adults aged 18-34.
"With the virtually
overnight consolidation of the web into a small handful of large,
mainstream players, both consumers and advertisers will look beyond
the bland sameness of these established "portals" for places that
better match their interests and affinities. This is especially
true in the case of our audience of bright young city dwellers who
have long favored the more iconoclastic sensibilities of the alternative
press, which is why we believe the time has come to build a portal
site for that kind of content." says Brian Hieggelke President and
founder of Newcity.com.
"We selected
Concrete for a variety of reasons, including their professionalism
and the quality of their past work. But mainly because they have
a track record of building media sites, both for themselves and
for some of our friends in the alternative press."
"We're excited
to be working with Newcity.com." says Aaron Cohen President of Concrete
Media Construction. "We are committed to building Internet businesses
from inception and think Newcity.com has a great chance to be a
strong niche portal."
NewcityNet LLC
is a subsidiary of New City Communications, Inc., a 13-year old
media company based in Chicago that excels in communicating to today's
new generation of young adults. In addition to the web network,
NCC operates Newcity magazine, an alternative weekly distributed
in the Chicago market, along with www.newcitychicago.com, its sister
web site; and Newcity National Sales, a related business that specializes
in the sale of national advertising into more than 100 alternative
weeklies.
Founded in 1996,
New York-based Concrete Media is focused on building leading Internet
companies for itself and for corporate clients. The company is comprised
of three units: Concrete Media Construction, Bolt (the worlds largest
teen portal and the "Girls on" Network, the largest destination
for women in their twenties. Concrete Media Construction specializes
in helping clients build and deploy Internet
businesses from the
ground up based on the experience and intellectual capital it has
gained building its own proprietary companies. Concrete Media Construction
utilizes the company's internally created methods to build Internet
environments for clients such as Bertelsmann AG ,Time Warner, ABC
Television, Hachette Fillipachhi, and numerous other companies.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Newcity.com
Web Network to Reach Young, Urban Americans by Linking Alternative
Media Web Sites. Web portal and network launches at
www.newcity.com.
CHICAGO (July
29, 1998) The Web sites of 34 alternative publications are being
aggregated to form a national network that will widely disseminate
whip-smart, in-your-face cultural commentary and help marketers
reach urban adults aged 18-34.
Newcity.com
will be composed of affiliated city and content sites spawned by
the alternative press, as well as web-only sites with similar affinities.
Among the city sites will be: Among the city sites will be:San
Francisco Bay Guardian,
Detroit Metro Times, Philadelphia
City Paper, Chicago
Newcity, and New
Orleans Gambit.
Additional content
for the network will be provided by Weekly
Wire, a supersite of arts and entertainment, news and cultural
content from the alternative press; Film
Vault, a supersite of movie content from the alternative
press, featuring thousands of film reviews and hundreds of interviews
and profiles; and Red
Meat the official web site of the Red Meat comic strip,
which appears in over 70 alternative weeklies and magazines worldwide.
Newcity.com
will be second only to Digital Cities (52) in the number of markets
served among the branded city networks --reaching more cities than
Sidewalk (10), CitySearch (14), RealCities (28) and Yahoo! Metro
(12)-- but with an enhanced ability to attract a sizeable number
of young adults.
Young adults
remain the premier target for national advertisers seeking to reach
consumers at the critical juncture in life where spending and consumption
is experimental, and where lifetime consumption habits are being
formed. And young adults remain the most dedicated users of the
Internet. A study from Forrester Research, found that nearly 5 million
18- to 24-year-olds are online today, and that number will double
to 10 million by 2001. 22% of the 25 million US 18-24s are online
now, and a third will be by 2001.
"The lure of
Newcity.com for young adults, is alternative culture which has become
THE culture of young American with its influence extending to music,
fashion, magazines, the Internet and even television," says Brian
Hieggelke president and founder of Newcity.com. "Today 'alternative'
really stands for much more than the alternative weeklies, but for
a broad mix of cultural forces that reach young urban adults with
a disposition toward iconoclastic, independent and creative ideas.
Newcity.com has found a way to sustain maverick creative spirit
and independent journalism on the web."
Later this year
Newcity.com will create a portal page, so that visitors can navigate
from one alternative publication to the next with ease and advertisers
will be able to reach an even greater share of the young, urban,
adult market.
Newcity.com
will sell national advertising across the network or into combinations
of sites that meet advertiser needs. Online ads can also be bought
in combination with print ads.
"Traffic-building
and brand marketing are core imperatives of the network," says Mr.
Hieggelke. "The affiliation structure allows for a significant amount
of media inventory for the network, both in print and on the web.
On and off-line advertising are essential components of Newcity.com's
business model."
Newcity.com
has forged a partnership with DesertNet, an award-winning web technology
company based in Tucson, Arizona, which is developing a suite of
tools for the production of media web sites. DesertNet has also
developed a series of alternative-press content-aggregation sites
(see weeklywire.com) which are content affiliates of Newcity.com.
Newcity.com
city sites include:
Albuquerque, New Mexico Weekly
Alibi
Boise, Idaho Boise
Weekly
Buffalo, New York Buffalo
Beat
Burlington, Vermont Seven
Days
Chicago, Illinois Newcity
Chico, California Chico
News & Review
Cincinnati, Ohio CityBeat
Columbia, South Carolina Free
Times
Detroit, Michigan Metro
Times
Eugene, Oregon Eugene
Weekly
Fort Worth, Texas FW
Weekly
Indianapolis, Indiana Nuvo
Kansas City, Missouri PitchWeekly
Knoxville, Tennessee Metro
Pulse
Las Vegas, Nevada Las
Vegas Weekly
Madison, Wisconsin Isthmus
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Shepherd-Express
New Orleans, Louisiana GambitWeekly
Park City, Utah Mountain
Times
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh
City Paper
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania City
Paper
Portland, Oregon Willamette
Week
Quad Cities, Iowa/Illinois River
Cities Reader
Reno, Nevada News
& Review
Sacramento, California Sacramento
News & Review
Salt Lake City, Utah Salt
Lake City Weekly
San Francisco, California The
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Syracuse, New York Syracuse
New Times
Tucson, Arizona Tucson
Weekly
NewcityNet LLC
is a subsidiary of New City Communications, Inc., a 12-year old
media company based in Chicago that excels in communicating to today's
new generation of young adults. In addition to the web network,
NCC operates Newcity magazine, an alternative weekly distributed
in the Chicago market, along with www.newcitychicago.com,
its sister web site; and Newcity National Sales, a related business
that specializes in the sale of national advertising into more than
100 alternative weeklies.
Contact:
Brian
Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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Newcity.com's
Alternative Media Web Network Jumps to 45 Affiliates; Adds Astrology
and City Index Content
CHICAGO (December
11, 1998) Newcity.com
a national network of city and content sites spawned by the alternative
press, has added five new affiliate sites jumping the network up
to 40 sites filled with whip-smart, in-your-face cultural commentary
aimed at urban adults aged 18-34.
Newcity.com is
second only to Digital Cities (52) in the number of markets served
among the branded city networks --reaching more cities than Sidewalk
(10), CitySearch (14), RealCities (28) and Yahoo! Metro (12)-- but
with an enhanced ability to attract a sizeable number of young adults.
The new affiliates
are:
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington
Independent
Las Vegas, Nevada Las
Vegas Weekly
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois The
Octopus
Iowa City, Iowa Icon
Springfield, Illinois Illinois
Times
The new content affiliates are:
Real
Astrology: Featured in 110 markets worldwide, and consumed
by upwards of seven million readers, this is one of the most popular
features in all the alternative press. An example of online astrologist
Rob Brezsny’s, um, "alternative" horoscope:
ARIES (MARCH
21-APRIL 19): In one of your past lives you were the genius who
invented Pig Latin. In another, you were a nun who was expelled
from your monastic order for wearing crotchless habits, whereupon
you became an itinerant saleswoman of religious sex toys. In yet
another incarnation you were the world's foremost collector of antique
candy wrappers. All the talents you developed way back then will
come in very handy as you meet this week's challenges. APRIL FOOL!
None of the glorious accomplishments of the old days will be of
any use to you anytime soon. Your cosmic mandate is to utterly ignore
and triumph over the past. Do not imitate what's worked for you
before! Start from scratch whenever possible!
Boulevards: An
online entertainment roadmap via an index of alternative newsweeklies
and Web sites emphasizing travel, arts, entertainment, contemporary
culture and politics, Boulevards features 37 U.S. and four international
city index sites.
"The lure of
Newcity.com for young adults, is alternative culture which has become
THE culture of young American with its influence extending to music,
fashion, magazines, the Internet and even television," says Brian
Hieggelke President and founder of Newcity.com. "Today 'alternative'
really stands for much more than the alternative weeklies, but for
a broad mix of cultural forces that reach young urban adults with
a disposition toward iconoclastic, independent and creative ideas.
Newcity.com has found a way to sustain maverick creative spirit
and independent journalism on the web."
Newcity.com,
launched in August, sells national advertising across the network
or into combinations of sites that meet advertiser needs. Young
adults remain the premier target for national advertisers seeking
to reach consumers at the critical juncture in life where spending
and consumption is experimental, and where lifetime consumption
habits are being formed. And young adults remain the most dedicated
users of the Internet. A study from Forrester Research, found that
nearly 5 million 18- to 24-year-olds are online today, and that
number will double to 10 million by 2001. 22% of the 25 million
US 18-24s are online now, and a third will be by 2001.
NewcityNet LLC
is a subsidiary of New City Communications, Inc., a 12-year old
media company based in Chicago that excels in communicating to today's
new generation of young adults. In addition to the web network,
NCC operates Newcity magazine, an alternative weekly distributed
in the Chicago market, along with www.newcitychicago.com, its sister
web site; and Newcity National Sales, a related business that specializes
in the sale of national advertising into more than 100 alternative
weeklies.
Contact:
Brian Hieggelke
NewcityNet LLC
312.243.8786
312.243.8802 (FAX)
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NEWCITY
IN THE PRESS
AlterNet
May 16, 2000
"If the reader is interested in exploring the machinations of the Webbys more deeply and getting good assessments of the nominees, go to Newcity.com... [which] provided by far the most extensive, in-depth coverage."
Media
Central
February 28, 2000
Newcity.com adds eight affiliates, two content partners
Editor
& Publisher
February 25, 2000
More Residents For Newcity.com: Newspapers Get Services, Traffic
ChannelSeven.com
January 25, 2000
Brains + $$$ + Youth = Prime Target Audience: Who's Hitting the
GenX Bullseye
Colorado
Springs Independent
January 6, 2000
Article profiles Newcity.com and its Alternative Vote special section
Salon
October 22, 1999
Election coverage, gonzo-style: Alternative Vote 2000 brings the
counterculture to election coverage
AAN
News
October 21, 1999
Newcity.com Launches Election Website: It's Politics Unusual at
Alternative Vote 2000
Media
Central
October 12, 1999
Newcity launches alternative website for election coverage
About.com
September 4, 1999
"NewCity.com is an Alternative web portal that has some of the most
creative and informative stuff on the Net. Totally hip and great
look and feel. You must check out the WahooGoBot [parody]. It is
a seriously funny spoof of Yahoo.com and HotBot.com."
The
Industry Standard
February 1, 1999
Alternative Weeklies Find a Natural Ally Online
Adweek
Online
December 16, 1998
Alt Net Signs New Sites
Internet
World
December 7, 1998
New Ad Network Links Alternative Newspapers
Advertising
Age
November 1998
NewcityNet links non-mainstream newspapers New portal rolls $1 mil
campaign backing alternative print, content
Editor
& Publisher
November 12, 1998
Alternative Papers Target Young Adults NewcityNet Is Building A
National Network
TechWeb
November, 6 1998
Internet companies are beginning to cater to local markets, eyeing
the billions of advertising dollars traditionally spent on newspapers.
ZDNet
November 5, 1998
NewcityNet takes aim at rich youth market
Digitrends
Online
September 24, 1998
Network Targets Young City Spenders
University
of Chicago Magazine
April, 1998
Going up against the Internet giants, the Hieggelkes of Chicago's
Newcity are building a gateway to alternative media on the web.
