Cityguides.now

Name

Cityguides.now

Legal name

Cityguides.now

Website

https://cityguides.now

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cityguides.now is a curated digital editorial platform providing guides to contemporary culture, events, spaces, and communities across 21 European cities via city-specific subdomain websites, serving culture-curious urban audiences and visitors in Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online City Guides / Digital Cultural Media

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Local & City Guide Content Aggregators (MPACAKAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Neighborhood & Community Markets/Pop-Ups (Community-Led Bazaars) (MPAGAEAJ), Local Search & Business Directories (BPAMAAAE)

Keywords

• Curated city guides
• European culture content
• Event discovery platform
• Urban lifestyle guides
• Editorial city directories

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Cityguides.now operates as a curated digital editorial platform providing guides to contemporary culture, events, spaces, and communities across 21 European cities. Each city is served through its own branded subdomain (e.g., amsterdam.now, berlin.now, lisbon.now) that functions as a localized cultural discovery resource, with the entire network unified under the Cityguides.now brand and operated by Code & Media.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• amsterdam.now: City guide for Amsterdam
• antwerp.now
• athens.now
• berlin.now
• bilbao.now
• copenhagen.now
• düsseldorf.now
• frankfurt.now
• gothenburg.now
• ibiza.now
• kraków.now
• leipzig.now
• lisbon.now
• málaga.now
• milan.now
• munich.now
• nice.now
• oslo.now
• prague.now
• vienna.now
• zürich.now

Products and services

• Cityguides.now curated city guide network A curated digital guide platform covering contemporary culture, events, spaces, and communities across 21 European cities, delivered through a network of city-specific subdomain websites (amsterdam.now, berlin.now, lisbon.now, etc.) for culture-curious urban audiences.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Code & MediacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCode & Media is the company that runs Cityguides.now. They are responsible for the operational management and publishing of the curated city guide platform.
• Alfred NerstuminorOthersAlfred Nerstu is credited as the designer of Cityguides.now, providing the visual design and creative direction for the platform.

Scale indicators1 record

Regional players

• Visit Berlin: Official city tourism board site for Berlin with curated events, neighborhoods, and cultural listings. Representative of city-level tourism portals that Cityguides.now's city subdomains compete against for cultural-discovery traffic.

Direct peers

• Spotted by Locals: City-guide platform featuring locally curated tips written by residents across many European cities. Direct overlap with Cityguides.now's curated-by-locals approach to contemporary city content.
• TimeOut: Global digital city-guide media brand covering events, culture, food, and things to do in major cities. Direct competitor to Cityguides.now on curated urban cultural discovery across multiple European cities.
• Atlas Obscura: Curated discovery platform for unique places, foods, and experiences worldwide, with a strong editorial/editorial-community model. Overlaps with Cityguides.now in highlighting distinctive local spaces and cultural communities.
• The Culture Trip: Curated editorial platform for cultural travel and local discovery across global destinations. Comparable to Cityguides.now in its editorial-first approach to contemporary culture and city experiences.

Emerging players

• Resident Advisor: Discovery and ticketing platform for electronic-music events and club culture across European cities. Comparable as a niche cultural-event discovery layer Cityguides.now could compete with or partner alongside.
• Wallpaper* City Guides: Design- and culture-led city guides from Wallpaper* magazine. Comparable to Cityguides.now in curating contemporary cultural and lifestyle content for European cities, though from a premium magazine context.

Broad incumbents

• Tripadvisor: Dominant travel-discovery and reviews platform with city-by-city attractions and event content. Overlaps in helping users discover things to do in European cities, though much broader and review-driven.
• Lonely Planet: Established global travel-guide brand with extensive city coverage across Europe. Comparable in scope of city guides but broader (travel, hotels, transport) and more mainstream than Cityguides.now's contemporary-culture focus.
• Eventbrite: Global event-discovery and ticketing marketplace with strong presence in European cities. Adjacent to Cityguides.now's events content, with much larger scale but less editorial curation.

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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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