Orlando Date Night Guide

What Orlando Date Night Guide does

Orlando Date Night Guide is a digital content publishing platform that provides curated date night ideas, restaurant reviews, event listings, and activity recommendations for couples and families in Orlando and Central Florida. Founded in 2007, the company operates orlandodatenightguide.com, a WordPress-based content site that publishes articles organized around local experiences, dining, and seasonal events.

The platform distributes content through multiple channels: a primary website/blog, an email newsletter, and active social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, and Pinterest. The WordPress CMS architecture is standard for digital publishers of this scale and does not include disclosed proprietary technology. The site maintains a content library spanning roughly two decades of local Orlando coverage, which functions as the company's primary SEO and audience-retention asset.

Revenue is generated through digital advertising, sponsored content placements, and affiliate marketing partnerships with local restaurants, attractions, and event organizers. The company is a property of Media-AMJ LLC (doing business as Hooray Media), a Tampa-based media holding company that also operates Tampa Bay Date Night Guide, Orlando Parenting Magazine, and Tampa Bay Parenting Magazine. With six employees, Orlando Date Night Guide operates as a niche regional lifestyle media property within a broader multi-site network.

Name

Orlando Date Night Guide

Legal name

Media-AMJ LLC

Website

https://orlandodatenightguide.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Orlando Date Night Guide is a digital publisher of curated date ideas, restaurant reviews, and event coverage for couples in Orlando and Central Florida. Founded in 2007, the WordPress-based site monetizes via digital advertising and sponsored content under parent Media-AMJ LLC.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Lifestyle & Entertainment Digital Media

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHSACACAL

Party Venue Sourcing & Booking Services

Home & Personal Services/Event & Personal Concierge Services/Party & Social Event Services

Keywords

• Local lifestyle content
• Digital content publishing
• Event recommendations
• Date night guides
• Regional media network

Headquarters

HQ city

Tampa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Digital advertising and sponsored content: The website generates revenue through sponsored articles, affiliate marketing, and display advertising partnerships with local businesses and attractions in the Orlando area.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Orlando Date Night Guide is a digital lifestyle media brand that publishes locally written articles, event listings, and recommendations about date-night activities, restaurants, drinks, getaways, Disney experiences, and entertainment in Orlando and Central Florida. The site produces original editorial content across categories such as Things to Do, Events, Disney, Eats, Drinks, Getaways, Arts & Culture, and Music/Nightlife/Shows, distributed through its website, weekly email newsletter, and social media channels.

Product overview

Orlando Date Night Guide is a content publishing platform that provides date night ideas and activity recommendations for couples in the Orlando and Central Florida area. The core offering consists of editorial articles and event listings across multiple content categories (Things to Do, Disney, Eats, Drinks, Getaways, Arts and Culture, Music/Nightlife/Shows), distributed through the website and a weekly email newsletter. The company operates as a media publishing business with sponsored content partnerships.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Orlando Date Night Guide Website

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Tampa Bay Date Night GuideminorOthersA sister site within the Date Night Guide network, covering date night ideas in the Tampa Bay area. Part of the same content network operated by Media-AMJ LLC.
• Orlando Parenting MagazineminorOthersA partner publication covering family-oriented content for the Orlando and central Florida area, also operated by Media-AMJ LLC as part of their content network.
• Tampa Bay Parenting MagazineminorOthersA partner publication covering family content for the Tampa Bay and west central Florida area, providing complementary content alongside the date night guides.
• Media-AMJ LLC (Hooray Media)coreOthersParent company operating the Orlando Date Night Guide website and related properties including Tampa Bay Date Night Guide, Orlando Parenting Magazine, Tampa Bay Parenting Magazine, and other regional lifestyle publications.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• 6AM City: Local daily-email newsletter network covering dozens of U.S. metros with curated local lifestyle content and sponsored placements. It mirrors Orlando Date Night Guide's owned-audience newsletter + sponsored content model, just at broader scale and across many cities.
• Tampa Bay Date Night Guide: Sister site within the Media-AMJ LLC (Hooray Media) network covering date night ideas in Tampa Bay. It runs the same business model — locally-written SEO content and weekly newsletter — for a different Florida metro, making it the closest direct peer in format, audience, and monetization.

Broad incumbents

• Axios Local: National local-news brand that operates hyperlocal newsletters across many U.S. cities with sponsored content and event listings. Comparable as a larger, well-funded incumbent in the same local-content/newsletter category that Orlando Date Night Guide operates in.
• Yelp: Dominant local-business discovery platform with reviews for restaurants, nightlife, and attractions in Orlando. It is a much larger incumbent that competes for the same local advertisers and audiences searching for things to do in Orlando.
• Thrillist: National lifestyle/city-guide brand (now part of Insider) publishing curated things-to-do, dining, and travel content across U.S. cities. Overlaps with Orlando Date Night Guide's content categories but at a much larger national scale.
• Eater: National food-and-restaurant media brand covering dining scenes in major U.S. cities, including Orlando. It overlaps directly with the Eats and Drinks sections of Orlando Date Night Guide and competes for restaurant advertisers and foodie audiences.
• The Knot: Leading weddings-and-relationships content and marketplace brand. While more weddings-focused, it serves the same couples-and-relationships audience and offers event/vendor discovery functionality that overlaps with date-night planning.
• Time Out: Global city-guide media brand covering things to do, dining, and nightlife across major cities. It competes for the same advertiser and audience attention as Orlando Date Night Guide but at massive scale and with an established brand.

Emerging players

• Bucket Listers: Events-and-experiences marketplace curating local experiences and tickets in U.S. cities. Comparable as an emerging player in the local experiences discovery space that Orlando Date Night Guide covers through content.
• Fever: Global events-and-experiences platform offering curated local experiences and ticketed events in major cities. Overlaps with Orlando Date Night Guide's experience-discovery use case, though Fever operates a transactional marketplace while Orlando Date Night Guide monetizes via content.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OrlandoDateNite
• Facebookfacebook.com/orlandodatenight
• Instagraminstagram.com/Orlandodatenightguide
• Pinterestpinterest.com/OrlandoDateNightGuide
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/orlando-date-night-guide

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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