June 09 , 2004 -
CityXpress To Launch Multi-Market Travel Auction That Expands Ad Opportunities For Newspapers.

 

June 07 , 2004 -
CityXpress Receives Equity Investment From Knight Ridder To Fuel Growth In Newspaper Auctions

 

May 10, 2004 -
CityXpress Shareholders To Consider Knight Ridder Investment And Lee Enterprises Conversion

 
 
 

 


CityXpress is the leading supplier of revenue-generating auctions and online special sections to the newspaper industry. Over the past five years, we have blended cutting-edge technology with outstanding customer service to deliver successful, proven results for our newspaper affiliates. We understand their specific needs because our business is solely focused on the newspaper industry. We invite you to join the rapidly growing list of more than 150 newspapers that use our services to generate incremental sales from existing customers, secure new advertisers and increase revenue.
   

 

Newspaper
Event Auctions
 
Xpress Auctions, the industry-leader with more than 100 newspaper auctions to date, generates new ad revenue for newspapers. Xpress Auctions meets the specialized needs of newspapers and manages all aspects of an auction, from item maintenance to online bidding, from payment processing to management reporting. An event auction delivers maximum ad revenue for your newspaper, tremendous exposure for your advertisers and plenty of excitement in your community. Learn more…
Online
Special Sections
 
CityXpress is the leading supplier of online special sections to newspapers; our customers run over 250 Xpress Special Sections. Our sections deliver fresh editorial content daily for a low monthly fee and our suite of integrated promotional products are being profitably sold to local advertisers. At a time when newspapers are pressured to generate new sources of revenues, Xpress Special Sections are a cost-effective source of new online revenue. Learn more…

 

   

What Our Clients Say

 

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"Our net profit from this auction pleasantly exceeded our expectations. Each paper benefited significantly by tapping into the other's readership base…. The feedback we've received from advertisers has been overwhelmingly positive…. One of the main reasons for our success is we followed the proven model outlined by CityXpress."

Brad Hagstrom,
Retail Advertising Director,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
 
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"It was the partnership with the Star-Telegram that made [our joint auction] so successful. We moved our auction up two months to coincide with theirs. We lost selling time but felt that by doing it together, more consumers would be involved…. We will be doing another auction with the Star-Telegram in the near future."

Steven Weaver,
Senior Vice President for Advertising,
Dallas Morning News
 
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"The opportunity to launch a new, forward-thinking approach to developing advertising revenues to the benefit of publisher and advertiser is a unique one…. Doing business with [the] team at CityXpress has been a pleasure - incredible customer service, faultless technical functionality and support, despite the obvious difficulties imposed by a nine-hour time delay."

Steve Hollingsworth,
Deputy Advertisement Director,
Northcliffe Newspapers Group, U.K.
 
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"I don't know of any program, past or present, that can deliver a seven figure increase to our revenue like this program just did. Without a doubt, the auction program from CityXpress provided the biggest lift in revenue for us out of all the programs we have ever launched."

Kevin Bent,
Vice President Sales & Marketing,

The Vancouver Sun/Province
 
Recent Media Mentions

Using Auctions, On-line and In-line to Boost Classifieds
by L. Carol Christopher
August, 2003