One city
City Float / 24 hours
Floats on one city page for a day. Spend also boosts that city.
$19
For business · Season 01
Buy the spot.
Back the city.
Bid for one of five business spots on a city page, or float an ad over the whole board. Either way the money lands on the city’s score — your ad budget rallies the city you sell to.
How it works
#01
Pick a city
Every city on the board sells 5 business spots for the season.
#02
Bid to hold a spot
Spots rank by total spend. Top up any time to climb or defend.
#03
Your money moves the city
Spot bids and city floats add to that city’s score on the leaderboard.
City spots
What a spot costs right now
All 5,908 cities in the catalogue sell 5 spots each — backed or not. Search for yours.
Reading the Shanghai board…
Float ads
Hover over the board
A dismissible card in the corner of the page. City floats run on one city page and add their full price to that city’s score; global floats run everywhere.
One city
City Float / 7 days
A full week on one city page. Spend also boosts that city.
$79
Site-wide
Global Float / 24 hours
Floats across every page on the board for a day.
$99
Site-wide
Global Float / 7 days
A week of site-wide rotation, weighted by spend.
$349
Site-wide
Global Float / 30 days
A whole season floating over the leaderboard.
$999
Before you bid
A ranked listing on a city page for the current season — your business name, one line of copy and a link to your site. Cities sell 5 spots each, ordered by total spend.
Your listing stays published and moves to the challenger queue underneath the live spots. Top up any time to move back up — bids stack rather than reset.
No. A bid is a paid placement and is credited to the city score the moment payment clears, which is what makes it move the leaderboard.
A spot is a permanent listing on one city page. A float is the card that hovers over the page for a set duration, either on one city or site-wide, rotating against other live floats weighted by spend.
No. Every paid link is published with rel="nofollow sponsored ugc" and opens in a new tab. Buy a spot for the audience, not for SEO.
Link shorteners, IP addresses and non-http(s) URLs are rejected at checkout. Listings that misrepresent what they link to are removed without refund.
Spots start at $25. Floats start at $19.