Partner with us
Don't have time to focus on the ad sales, client support and technical aspects of your local news site? You're not alone.
Local News Now partners with online local publishers to apply our expertise to your business. You focus on creating great local content and building an audience, and we help to monetize it, while also hosting the site on our WordPress-based platform.
LNN’s experienced sales team understands local markets and has a unique consultative approach to ad sales, resulting in happy, repeat clients. We also are very good at the unheralded but crucial operations side of the business: making the ad buying process as easy as possible for clients and helping them make the most of their investments.
The following functions are handled by the LNN team for you:
Hosting your site via super-reliable, enterprise-grade managed hosting that can handle traffic spikes with ease
Ongoing design and web development of our proprietary WordPress theme
Creating a media kit for your site and setting ad pricing
Selling display advertising and sponsored content, with time-tested inbound and outbound sales strategies
Managing client relationships, sending campaign stats and collecting on overdue invoices
Designing ads; writing and editing sponsored content; and other creative services to fulfill campaigns
Managing a premium programmatic ad network to supplement direct ad sales
Providing self-serve monetization options on your site, including an event calendar and announcement section
Services are provided entirely on a revenue-share basis. There are no fixed costs and you are welcome to keep 100% of revenue from reader revenue sources, from memberships to merch sales.
We send monthly revenue reports and remit electronic payment based on the previous month’s gross receipts.
Our current partners are: PoPville (D.C.), Potomac Local (Va.) and MoCoShow (Md.).
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