When Rahm Emanuel won the Chicago mayoral race last month, he immediately promised to bring change and reform to a city that has had the same mayor for the past 22 years. And his first order of business has, so far, been just that, change, starting with a little tool called social media.
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Attention, Chicago: You have just been Curbed. The network of local sites launched three of them in the Windy City Wednesday — Curbed Chicago (neighborhoods and real estate), Racked Chicago (retail, shopping, sales), and Eater Chicago (food, obviously) — as well as debuting Eater Austin for Austin, Texas.
Curbed is now up to 19 sites in its six-year existence, with Curbed Chicago joining similar sites for New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Hampton, and a national site, and the two new Eater sites joining those for New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland (Ore.), Miami, and a national site.
Chicago resident Mark Boyer is at the helm of Curbed Chicago.
Earlier this week Buddy Media revealed a Facebook app it powers for Hollywood.com, displaying how its “app-vertisments” can not only engage users and garner market research for the entertainment industry, but offer a direct advertising option within a social network that benefits both Hollywood.com and Buddy Media as well.
With the success its multifaceted company has seen in the past year alone, it doesn’t really come as a surprise to see that Budd Media is opening an office in Chicago. With Alicia Driskill as the Midwest Sales Director, it looks like Buddy Media’s Chicago office will be focused on advertising sales. Driskill has over ten years of experience with digital media, previously working with TVGuide.com, also in the Midwest region, as well as prior work at Comcast networks and a number of other marketing agencies.
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