Smart City Media, LLC

Name

Smart City Media, LLC

Legal name

Smart City Media, LLC

Website

https://smartmedia.city

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Smart City Media, LLC operates the Citypost interactive broadcast platform, deploying connected-space digital displays for municipal governments, transit authorities, universities, and retailers across the US. The 11-employee firm sells subscription platform services directly to city CIOs and institutional buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smart City Infrastructure Software

NAICS

Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251)

SIC

Communications Services, Nec (4899)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAIANAJ

Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Programs (Digital Planning, Civic Tech for Cities)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Housing, Urban Planning & Community Development

SECONDARYBPAIALAC

Traffic Management & Intelligent Transportation Systems (Signals, TMCs, Congestion)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Transportation & Infrastructure Agencies (Roads, Transit, Public Works)

Keywords

• Smart city infrastructure
• Interactive broadcast platforms
• Multimodal transit information
• Urban digital communications
• Connected city networks

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Smart City Platform Services: Providing smart city infrastructure and interactive broadcast solutions to municipal governments, transit authorities, universities, and retail environments. Revenue appears to come from platform deployment and ongoing services to government and institutional customers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Smart City Media operates the Citypost interactive broadcast platform, which combines curated local content with city applications for street-level communications. The platform delivers real-time multimodal transit information, IoT safety services, and small business inclusion features for deployment across municipal governments, transit authorities, university campuses, and retail environments.

Product overview

Smart City Media, LLC operates as a unified platform offering centered on its core product Citypost. Citypost is an interactive broadcast platform for connected spaces that delivers curated local content, city applications, real-time multimodal transit information, IoT safety services, and small business inclusion capabilities. The company serves multiple sectors including cities, transit, retail, and campus environments, with deployments across locations such as Kansas City, MO, Torrance, CA, Dallas DART, UMKC, MO, Jersey City, NJ, Greensboro, NC, and Aurora, IL.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Citypost: An interactive broadcast that mixes curated local posters and city apps for enhanced street level communications. Services include real-time, multimodal transit info, IoT safety services, and small business inclusion.

Products and services

• Citypost Citypost is an interactive broadcast system that mixes curated local posters and city apps for enhanced street-level communications. Services include real-time multimodal transit info, IoT safety services, and small business inclusion. It is deployed for municipal governments, transit authorities, university campuses, and retail environments.

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Soofa: Soofa builds solar-powered smart city digital displays that deliver neighborhood news, transit, and local content, directly comparable to Citypost's street-level interactive broadcast proposition.
• AdSpace Networks: AdSpace Networks operates large-format digital displays in urban environments with municipal and transit partnerships, comparable to Smart City Media's street-level display business.
• IKE Smart City: IKE Smart City deploys interactive digital kiosks in city centers delivering local information, transit updates, and public services. It is the closest direct competitor to Smart City Media's Citypost, operating in the same street-level smart city display category.
• City24/7: City24/7 pioneered the original NYC smart city kiosk deployment from which Smart City Media's founding team originated; it is a direct predecessor and conceptual peer in the interactive smart city display category.
• CIVIQ Smartscapes: CIVIQ Smartscapes provides connected community kiosks and digital displays for cities, transit hubs, and campuses, overlapping directly with Citypost's municipal and transit use cases and customer profile.

Broad incumbents

• Intersection: Intersection operates the LinkNYC program and a broad portfolio of urban digital media and transit information displays across major US cities, representing a much larger incumbent version of Smart City Media's offering.
• Cisco (Smart City / Kinetic): Cisco's smart city portfolio, including Cisco Kinetic for Cities, targets municipal IoT and connected infrastructure at much greater scale, representing a broad incumbent that competes for the same city technology budgets.
• Sidewalk Labs: Sidewalk Labs (an Alphabet company) incubated urban technology platforms and products like Flow, addressing the same connected cities and transit information market from a much larger resource base.
• Siemens Smart Infrastructure: Siemens Smart Infrastructure offers end-to-end urban transit, mobility, and smart city solutions, competing for the same municipal and transit authority digital infrastructure RFPs.

Others

• Lamar Advertising (Transit & Digital): Lamar Advertising operates a large transit-adjacent digital out-of-home network that shares real estate and transit agency relationships with Smart City Media, although its core product is advertising rather than civic information.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/smartcitymediallc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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