Place-Based Local Media

Your neighborhood lost its voice. We're giving it back.

PulseLocal is a layered media ecosystem that connects local businesses, venues, and communities through stories, screens, radio, podcasts, and maps.

Live in Charlotte, NC
2,500+
US newspapers closed since 2005

Communities didn't just lose news. They lost their connective tissue.

Local businesses lost their storytelling platform. Venues lost their media partners. Neighborhoods lost the shared context that made them feel like places, not just zip codes. PulseLocal replaces what was lost with something better.

Content flows. It doesn't sit.

A single community story becomes a radio segment, a podcast clip, a venue TV feature, and an article. One story, every surface.

Story
Radio
🎤
Podcast
📺
Venue TV
📰
Article
🗺
Map

Seven media layers. One ecosystem.

Pulse Feed

The social layer. Real-time community activity, business updates, and neighborhood happenings in a single stream.

📺

Hub TV & Venue TV

Local stories playing on screens in bars, restaurants, and gathering spots across the city. Content meets foot traffic.

📻

Hub Radio

Community radio streaming through venues and online. Local voices, local music, local ads that actually matter.

🎤

Podcasts

Long-form founder interviews, neighborhood deep dives, and community conversations. Stories that deserve more than a headline.

🗺

Community Maps

Interactive, living maps of local businesses, events, and stories. Discovery by geography, not by algorithm.

🛒

Social Selling

A local marketplace where businesses sell directly through the community. Commerce embedded in the neighborhood, not extracted from it.

Community-first. Always.

Stories are never pay-to-play. Discovery is earned. Promotion is optional. Everyone starts with a free listing.

Free
Community Listing
  • Basic business or venue listing
  • Map placement
  • Event submission
  • Eligibility for community stories
  • Hub discovery inclusion
$1
Community Verification
  • Verify ownership
  • Prevent spam listings
  • Trusted listing status
  • $1 goes to community fund

Venues don't pay. They earn.

Bars, restaurants, and gathering spots host the PulseLocal media network for free. In return, they earn a share of every ad dollar that runs through their screens and speakers. The more they grow the network, the more they earn.

Hub radio streams. Venue TV plays. QR-coded table tents, coasters, and window decals route customers to local stories and businesses. The venue becomes the distribution layer.

Venue
30%
Core
30%
Ambassador
15%
Metro
10%
Micro
10%
Operations
5%

Local media didn't die. It just moved indoors.

Into every bar screen, every coffee shop speaker, every QR code on a coaster. PulseLocal is the infrastructure for the community media that comes next. Starting in Charlotte. Growing neighborhood by neighborhood.