Advertising
Put your business in front of people nearby.
Advertising on Piasa Commons places your message alongside the local information people already come here to find. Build the campaign yourself, run it when you choose, and see how it performs.
Why advertise here
Start with the audience that can act.
A local business doesn't need attention from everywhere. It needs to be seen by people who can visit, call, book, buy, or remember it when the need comes up.
Your campaign reaches people at the moment they are thinking about where they are — looking something up, making a plan, deciding where to go. That attention is what a local business is actually buying.
Local by default
The context is already local.
Piasa Commons is built around the communities along this part of the Mississippi and throughout the Metro-East. There is no separate local-targeting setup: every placement appears inside a site devoted to the market your business serves.
What you control
Build it in your dashboard
Create a campaign, add ads, choose a design, use a photograph or text, and point each click where you want it to go. Preview everything before it runs.
Vary the message
A campaign can rotate different ads, so you can promote separate offers or compare which headline earns more clicks without starting over.
Start and stop it yourself
Nothing appears while a campaign is in Draft. Move it to Live when you're ready and back to Draft whenever you want it to stop — no request to us required.
Track impressions and clicks
An impression counts only after at least half the ad has been on screen for a full second. Clicks are reported separately, with results for each ad.
Beyond the standard ad
A growing library of distinct looks.
Alongside the clean standard designs, we're building more expressive treatments, each with its own typography, structure, and personality.
There is a long runway of ideas behind the library, and it will keep growing. Returning advertisers will have new ways to show up without changing how the ads are built, run, or measured.
How the subscription works
Pay for what is Live, not what you are building.
A subscription covers a set number of Live campaigns. Draft campaigns are free to build and revise for as long as you need, and they use no Live slot until you choose to run them.
When you want to pause, move a campaign back to Draft. It stops appearing immediately and frees the Live slot for a seasonal push, a new offer, or whatever comes next.
Advertising on Piasa Commons is available in beta. We're bringing the first advertisers aboard personally, helping with the first campaign, then handing over a dashboard they control.
Ready to run a local campaign?
Tell us about your business and what you want people nearby to know. We'll help you get the first campaign ready.
Talk to us