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City Lifestyle is a local media company founded in Kansas City in 2009. It publishes more than 250 monthly community magazines across 39 states, reaching over 6 million readers a month in print and online. Each magazine is owned and operated by a publisher who lives in the market it covers, and every edition also lives online at CityLifestyle.com.

City Lifestyle is headquartered at 514 W 26th St in Kansas City, Missouri. Design, editorial, print production and technology for the entire network run out of that office, while the magazines themselves are produced locally in each of the 250+ markets.

Search your city or state in the finder above, or browse every current edition at CityLifestyle.com/magazines. Each magazine has its own page with this month's issue, recent articles and the local businesses featured in it.

Yes. Each edition is mailed monthly to homes in its market at no cost to the reader, and every issue is published online in full, so you can read it whether or not it reaches your mailbox.

Each magazine is run by a local publisher who chooses the stories and knows the market, working with local writers and photographers. Design, editing and printing are handled by the Kansas City team, so the storytelling stays local while production stays consistent across the network.

Profiles of neighbors and local business owners, homes and design, food and drink, events, travel and the people shaping the community. The standard is the same in every market: positive, family friendly coverage of where you live.

You work directly with the publisher of your local edition. A partnership typically covers three things: a print ad in the magazine mailed to homes in your area, a business page and articles on CityLifestyle.com, and social media marketing. Start at accelerate.citylifestyle.com and your local publisher follows up.

There is no single rate card. Cost depends on your market, the size of the audience mailed there and which mix of print, digital and social you choose. Your local publisher builds a plan around your goals and your budget.

It is a full-service program for local businesses. The team handles strategy, design and content production through to paid placement, including guaranteed Meta impressions, so an owner does not have to run it themselves.

It can. Advertisers get a business page on CityLifestyle.com plus the articles their local magazine publishes about them. Those pages are indexed by search engines and read by AI assistants, so the business can surface when people nearby look for what it does.

City Lifestyle is a franchise. Publishers own and operate their market's monthly magazine and its digital hub in a protected territory, while design, editorial, printing, distribution and technology are handled by the Kansas City team. Market availability and the details of the model are covered at future.citylifestyle.com.

No. Most publishers come from sales, corporate management, teaching, real estate, the military or years at home with family. Writing, design and production are handled at headquarters, and every new publisher is paired with a launch coach.

Yes. There is one publisher per market. A territory is a defined set of neighborhoods the magazine mails to each month, written into the franchise agreement, and once a market is claimed it is closed to other franchisees.

A publisher's first issue typically mails 6 to 8 weeks after signing, depending on the market and the publisher's effort. That period is spent on training, mapping the market and building the first advertising partnerships while headquarters produces the issue.