About

For over twenty years, Bert Sperling has been helping people find their own Best Place to live, work, play, and retire. As the foremost creator of these studies, his work appears in the national media nearly every month, where they enlighten and entertain millions.

Annually, his “Healthiest Cities for Women” study is featured in SELF magazine. Other projects include “Best Places to Live” and “Best Places to Retire” (Money), “Best Cities for Women” (Ladies’ Home Journal), “Great College Towns” (Newsweek), “This Town Rocks! - Best Cities for Teens” (Seventeen), “Best Places to Buy a Second Home” (Smart Money), “Best Places to Raise an Outdoor Family” (Outdoor Explorer), “Hot Dating in Small Towns (MTV), “America’s Best City to Live” (USAWeekend) and features in Country Home, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, Men’s Fitness, Kiplinger’s, Business Week, Marketwatch, Fortune, and Forbes.

Sperling’s firm has also performed a number of "Best Places" studies for corporate campaigns including the recent “Most Photogenic Cities“ (FujiFilm), “Most Romantic Cities” (Korbel Champagne), “Best and Worst Cities for Skin Care” (Keri Lotion), “Safest Cities” (Chevrolet), “Worst Places for Fleas” (Hartz Mountain), “Most Hazardous Places” (Duracell), “Pet Healthiest Cities” (Purina), “Asthma HotSpots” (Glaxo Smith Kline), “America’s Sweetest Cities” (Hersheys), “Most UnWired Cities” (Intel), “Most Drivable Cities” (Pep Boys), “Most Fun Cities” (Cranium), “Best Cities for Sleep” (Ambien), “Most Stressful Cities”, “Best Cities for Dating” (AXE Bodyspray), “Sites for Sore Eyes” (Acuvue), “Best and Worst Cities for Navigation” (Avis/Motorola), “Most Fiscally Fit Cities” (State Farm), “America’s Healthiest Cities” (Centrum), “Best Cities for Seniors” (Banker’s Life), Riskiest Cities for ID Theft (Intersections), American Heart Association (Heart Friendly Cities), AARP (Best Retirement Spots) and more.

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  • Mobile Display
    • Mobile Rich Media (Including Interstitials & Expandables)
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    • Tablet Traffic
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    • Native & Custom Mobile Executions
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    • Requires SDK Integration
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  • Social
  • Desktop Video
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    • Video Companion Ad
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  • Email
  • Desktop Display, Mobile Display, Social, Desktop Video, Email
  • CPM
  • Web Publisher
  • Headline:
    Compare cost of living, crime, cities, schools and more. Sperling's BestPlaces
  • Self / Managed Service:
    Managed Service
  • Industries
    Education
  • Key Differentiator
    BestPlaces.Net offers sponsors the opportunity to deliver messages to consumers at a time when consumers are making decisions related to the best place to live. Sponsorship is purchased on a monthly basis through the purchase of content, studies or space on the site.
Site Traffic
  • 16133 Global Rank
  • 3136
    United States
  • 3.89 M Estimated Visits
Traffic Sources
  • Search
    87.51%
  • Direct
    11.12%
  • Referrals
    0.76%
  • Social
    0.48%
  • Mail
    0.12%
  • Display
    0.02%
Geography Breakdown
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Alexa Traffic Data
Global Rank 16,721
141
United States Rank 3,419
216
United States Page Views 91.1%
3.7%
Top Countries
Top Search Keywords
  • Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals
  • Pharmaceuticals
Mobile App Data
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  • 10 K Downloads
  • 10 SDKs
  • 2.59 Avg. Rating
  • 83 Total reviews
  • App Url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bestplaces.mobile
  • App Support: http://www.bestplaces.net
  • Genre: travel_and_local
  • Bundle ID: com.bestplaces.mobile
  • App Size: 18.1 M
  • Release Date: August 3rd, 2018
  • Update Date: December 19th, 2019

Description:

The BestPlaces mobile app gives you comprehensive place ratings for all 217,000 block groups across the United States– pinpoint information down to the detail of a few city blocks. Using mobile device geolocation for a level of accuracy and insight that is not available via desktop computer or laptop, this is the most detailed U.S. place info available.

The free version of the app lets you access data for the exact location in the United States you are currently standing or driving. The paid version unlocks the full app functionality and lets you search and save locations anywhere in the United States.

On a 1-10 scale, see scores for Livability, Affordability, Economy, Culture, and Weather. Includes median housing prices, restaurants, climate and comfort rankings including sunny and rainy days, unemployment rates, median income, average life expectancy and health quality, crime risk, commute times, education scores, air quality and cancer risk, cost of living scores, and much more.

AdMob Mediation
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Android API
The Android platform provides a framework API that applications can use to interact with the underlying Android system. The framework API consists of: A core set of packages and classes. A set of permissions that applications can request, as well as permission enforcements included in the system
DoubleClick
DoubleClick Digital Marketing (DDM) is an integrated ad technology platform that enables advertisers to more effectively create, manage and grow high-impact digital marketing campaigns. DDM brings together world-class solutions to help buyers run holistic programs across multiple channels.
Firebase
Firebase is a platform developed by Google for creating mobile and web applications
Google Authorization
Google Play services offers a standard authorization flow for all Google APIs and all components of Google Play services. In addition, you can leverage the authorization portion of the Google Play services SDK to gain authorization to services that are not yet supported in the Google Play services platform by using the access token to manually make API requests or using a client library provided by the service provider.
Google Mobile Ads
Ad Manager uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK which helps app developers gain insights about their users and maximize ad revenue. To do so, the default integration of the Mobile Ads SDK collects information such as device information. iOS setup Android setup.
Google Play Location APIs
The location APIs make it easy for you to build location-aware applications, without needing to focus on the details of the underlying location technology. They also let you minimize power consumption by using all of the capabilities of the device hardware.
Google Play Services
Google Play services powers a broad set of SDKs on Android to help you build your app, enhance privacy and security, engage users, and grow your business. These SDKs are unique in that they only require a thin client library to be included in your app, as shown in figure 1. At runtime, the client library communicates with the bulk of the SDK's implementation and footprint in Google Play services.
Google Search
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Google Sign-In SDK
Google Sign-In is a secure authentication system that reduces the burden of login for your users, by enabling them to sign in with their Google Account—the same account they already use with Gmail, Play, Google+, and other Google services. Google Sign-In is also your gateway to connecting with Google’s users and services in a secure manner. You can give your users the opportunity to pay with Google Pay, share with their Google-wide contacts, save a file to Drive, add an event to Calendar, and more. Integrate Google’s user-centric APIs and services inside your app to help your users take action and convert.
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Ad Intelligence
  • Native
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  • Standard
    90.98%
  • Direct
    8.56%
Ads Seen Recently
18,556
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Ads.txt
Ad Exchange
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Publisher ID
Certification ID
udmserve.net
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rubiconproject.com
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rhythmone.com
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appnexus.com
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appnexus.com
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districtm.io
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google.com
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Sperling's Best Places advertising reaches 3.89M visitors across desktop and mobile web, in countries such as United States, Canada, India, United Kingdom, Mexico, China. Pricing models they offer are CPM on channels such as Display, Mobile, Social, Video, Email Advertising on Sperling's Best Places will allow you to reach consumers in industries or verticals such as Education.

They are headquartered at Kent, WA, United States, and have 1 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava. According to their Ads.txt, Sperling's Best Places inventory partners include: udmserve.net, advertising.com, rubiconproject.com, rhythmone.com, appnexus.com, districtm.io, google.com, pubmatic.com, synacor.com, emxdgt.com, lkqd.net, spotx.tv, spotxchange.com, contextweb.com, sonobi.com, openx.com, indexexchange.com, coxmt.com, aolcloud.net, adtech.com, tribalfusion.com, exponential.com, yahoo.com, ad-generation.jp, lkqd.com, lijit.com, freewheel.tv, 33across.com, infolinks.com, gumgum.com, sovrn.com, aps.amazon.com, bidtellect.com, aol.com, conversantmedia.com, vindicosuite.com.

Sperling's Best Places works with Advertising technology companies such as AppNexus, Yahoo Genome, Conversant, Chango, SiteScout, Magnetic, Yield Manager, DoubleClick.Net, Turn, Collective Media, Datonics, Zedo, RadiumOne, The Trade Desk, Pubmatic, Zenovia, Rubicon Project, Google Adsense, X Plus One, BlueKai, Neustar AdAdvisor, Digilant, Dstillery, Videology, Specific Media, Facebook Exchange FBX, DoubleVerify, Choice Stream, eXelate, Brilig, Aggregate Knowledge, Tapad, AOL-Time Warner Online Advertising, Bizo, Media Innovation Group, AudienceScience, Index Exchange, Twitter Ads, Yahoo Small Business, ContextWeb, Adify, Evidon, SpotXchange, Integral Ad Science, Adap.TV, Brandscreen, Simpli.fi, IponWeb BidSwitch, IntentIQ, DemDex, Sonobi Direct, ContextWeb Direct, AOL Direct, Google Direct, ContextWeb Reseller, AppNexus Reseller, Ads.txt, RhythmOne Direct, Google Reseller, GumGum Direct, Converstand Media Direct, Sovrn Direct, OpenX Reseller, Lijit Direct, PubMatic Reseller, GumGum Reseller, Synacor Reseller, 33 Across Reseller, Fyber Reseller, SpotXChange Reseller, Criteo Reseller, Sovrn Reseller, Tremor Video Reseller, Smaato Reseller, Taboola Reseller, RubiconProject Reseller, AppNexus Direct, AOL Reseller, Avocet, IndexExchange Reseller, C1X Reseller, Comet Cox Media Direct, Amazon Direct, RhythmOne Reseller, BidSwitch, Tru Optik, ORC International Direct, Exponential Direct, Infolinks Direct, LKQD Direct, RubiconProject Direct, Underdog Media Direct, Bidtellect Reseller, Comet Cox Media Reseller, DistrictM Reseller, ORC International Reseller, FreeWheel Reseller, LKQD Reseller, Sonobi Reseller, Yahoo Reseller, Brightcom Direct, Improve Digital Reseller, Lijit Reseller, OneTag Reseller, SmartAdServer Reseller, Brave Direct, AdMan Reseller, comScore Activation, E-Planning Reseller, Beachfront Reseller, ShareThrough Reseller, The MediaGrid Reseller, Yieldmo Reseller, 33 Across Direct, Admixer Direct, adtelligent Direct, DistrictM Direct, E-Planning Direct, IndexExchange Direct, Media.net Direct, OneTag Direct, OpenX Direct, pixfuture Direct, PubMatic Direct, ShareThrough Direct, SmartAdServer Direct, Synacor Direct, Telaria Direct, The MediaGrid Direct, Tremor Video Direct, Adform Reseller, Genesis Media Reseller, ucfunnel Reseller, Between Digital Reseller, Converstand Media Reseller, LoopMe Reseller, Outbrain Reseller, Stroeer Reseller, Triple Lift Reseller, Media.net Reseller.