City.vi By City Media Foundation - Building Local Video Information

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CITY MEDIA is an independent foundation based in Lausanne (Switzerland) created in 2007 following the 2006 "World Congress on Communication for Development" in Rome. Its aim is to facilitate information access on towns, cities and regions of the world. It promotes and offers local representatives tools for expanding their official communication and getting involved in global development by simplifying information access and knowledge sharing. Their latest project is called [City].vi, a network of 68,000 video sites, each specific to a city. With this videos of world cities are accessible through: "city name" followed by ".vi" For example: Paris.vi, Chicago.vi, etc.

The objective behind the [City].vi network: Become the leading resource for local video content.

Let's compare [City].vi to Google when it comes to local information (about 20% of Google queries).

With Google:
1.You type "Paris" in the search box.
2.You spend time and energy analysing the results.
3.You decide to click on a result, without being sure of having picked the best one for finding the information you are looking ...
... for.
4.You land on the selected site. Again, you spend time and energy analysing how the content is structured on the site and where the information you are looking for is, if there...
5.In the best case, now is when you find the information. In most cases, you need to keep searching, with no certainty, on other pages of the site, on Google's other search results, and often go through the whole process again with a slightly different query, etc.

This is what millions of people experience every day.

Why is it so complicated?

Search engines are directories of sites, their main purpose is not to particularly focus on local information. This is where [City].vi becomes interesting:

With [City].vi:
1.You know that you can directly type « Paris.vi » in the address bar, that's why you won't spend time or energy analysing Google's results.
2.You land on a site where the information is easily organised and even familiar once you know the network.
3.You browse through the videos, what's easy and fun. And Paris.vi welcomes any type of information related to Paris.

Easy to access, easy to use, whichever the city in the world!

For this reason, [City].vi is a possible alternative solution to Google when it comes to local information.

In two weeks we are going to contact over 1 million people in the world, either local bloggers or local representatives to offer them the opportunity to become the Administrator of their city's video site.
Future Administrators will entirely control content and directly earn all revenues made from their site. For more details on the proposal to become Administrator one's city's video site, please visit one of the sites.

Why today you should write an article on [City].vi rather than on another topic:

1 - By writing an article about [City].vi, you talk about something new that has no equivalent on the web and with a high potential. This point only might catch your readers' attention, but they can moreover directly experience what they are reading. It is always amusing to see that the model works every time, with every single city one may come up with: Sydney.vi, Barcelona.vi, Oslo.vi, Amsterdam.vi, etc....
Your readers will for sure appreciate this original experience that your article guided them to.

2 - By writing an article about [City].vi, we offer you several thousands of displays of your ad under videos of the city video sites of your choice (quantity of displays to be discussed). Just send us your logo or create a complete ad in 5 minutes with our dedicated tool (for example you can play Winnipeg videos to see an example of such an ad).
About Author:
Citymedia foundation (http://citymediafoundation.org) has launched www.city.vi , a network of 68,000 city specific video sites, where you can share videos about cities and regions across the world. like for New York videos you can visit http://newyork.vi . You can also find out about other cities that you are interested .