BLocal AI Marketing
Everything online in one place
bLocal combines over forty capabilities that previously required separate subscriptions, separate logins and even separate specialists to manage. Everything you need to reach your local audience. We use Ai that works for your business.
AI Content Generation
Generate articles, images, podcasts and audio tracks. AI agents produce ideas, draft content and refine it for every channel automatically.
Multi-Channel Distribution
Publish to X/Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads and Pinterest. Send email campaigns and reach media contacts — from one dashboard.
Website Builder
Build professional websites with 40+ drag-and-drop components. No technical knowledge needed. AI designs the layout and populates it with your content.
Manage Google Business
Manage your Google Business Profile listings (details, opening hours, review replies and updates) alongside your bLocal directory.
Business Directories
Feature local businesses, product catalogues and event ticketing. Create additional revenue streams by offering directory listings to local traders.
Engagement Analytics
Track page visits, email open rates and social engagement in real time. See which content performs and make data-driven decisions.
AI Sentiment Tracking
Measure how AI bots perceive your brand. Track your GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) score and get recommendations to improve AI visibility.
Feed Aggregation
Import and auto-update from any RSS or CSV feed. Curate and republish third-party content across your publications on a schedule you control.
SEO & GEO Optimisation
Every piece of content is enriched with Schema.org structured data and Open Graph metadata. AI agents fact-check and optimise for both search and AI crawlers.
Newsletters & Online Magazines
Build and distribute powerful and interactive email newsletters and magazines to keep your customers fully updated
Video & Audio
Generate and manage vodcasts,podcasts, audio versions, video postings and generate video from text using AI
All The Commercial Angles
There are so many commercial models built in, all fully integrated with content, from local ecommerce to classifieds and native advertising
Community Features
Discussions, notice boards, local for sale, local business directories, events, news, everything local is here in one place.
Loyalty Schemes
Run loyalty and incentive schemes and build repeat business, get to know your customers
Virtual Marketing Director
Controlling the whole system is your virtual AI marketing director coming up with plans and activities and monmitoring your progress
✨ Website Builder✨ App Builder
60+ ready-made components for any app or site
From a hyperlocal neighbourhood magazine to a regional business directory — pick your components, let AI arrange the layout and publish in minutes. No developer required, ever.
✓Business directory
✓Databases
✓AI Components
✓Layouts & grids
✓Customer forms
✓Photo gallery
✓Live news ticker
✓Weather forcast
✓Product catalogue
✓Event calendar
✓Community chat
✓AI Quiz
✓Polls & surveys
✓News aggregator
✓Audio player
✓Video player
✓Advertising slots
✓Booking system
✓Noticeboard
✓Live Traffic
✓Food takeaway
✓Club management
✓Loyalty schemes
✓Horoscopes
🤖 AI-Native Platform
Tens of specialist AI agents working for you
bLocal wasn't built with AI tacked on afterwards. It was designed from day one around AI agents that collaborate to create, verify and distribute your content.
Idea Generation
AI analyses your audience, sector and current trends to produce a rolling pipeline of editorial angles and content ideas tailored to your publication.
Article Assitant
Research and fact check articles and add structured AI bot friendly metadata — optimised and ready to publish or edit.
Optimised Distribution
Your content is automatically optimised for generation across social media platforms, including optimising content and tags.
Podcast & Audio
Convert articles into podcast episodes or audio summaries. AI handles scripting, narration style and audio formatting — no studio required.
SEO & GEO Agents
Optimise content for traditional search engines and AI crawlers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini). Fact-check and improve metadata automatically.
Marketing Schedules
AI builds an optimal publishing and distribution schedule based on your audience behaviour, platform best practices and campaign objectives.
Extend Your Capabilities
For hospitality, for local media and for marketing agencies. We provide the perfect platform.
Local Publishers
Run a community magazine, regional news site or local business directory. AI handles the content pipeline, commercialisation and distribution whilst you focus on relationships and community impact.
Hospitality
We provide all the online resources a hospitality business needs including bookings, takeaways, loyalty schemes.
Local Marketing
If you run a local marketing agency then bLocal provides all of the functions you need to manage websites, social media and customers as well as media management.
Keeping It Simple
One Subscription vs. Many. See what you would typically need to replace bLocal — and what it would cost.
| Feature | Traditional tools | bLocal |
|---|---|---|
| Website builder | GoDaddy / Wix / Hostinger | ✓ |
| Email marketing | MailChimp | ✓ |
| Social media scheduling | Hootsuite / Buffer | ✓ |
| Surveys & forms | SurveyMonkey | ✓ |
| AI content writing | ChatGPT / Jasper | ✓ |
| Podcast hosting | Anchor / Buzzsprout | ✓ |
| SEO & analytics | SEMrush / Google Analytics | ✓ |
| AI sentiment / GEO tracking | Brand24 / Mention | ✓ |
| Community Boards | Circle / ProBoard | ✓ |
| Ticketing | Eventbrite / TicketTailor | ✓ |
| Directories | Brilliant / CommunityBox | ✓ |
| Newsfeeds | IOReader / RSSapp | ✓ |
| Club Management | Pitchero / MyClubhouse | ✓ |
| eCommerce | Shopify / WooCommerce | ✓ |
| Classifieds | Osclass / Flynax | ✓ |
| Native Advertising | Taboola / Outbrain | ✓ |
| Socail Media Management | Hootsuite / Sprout Social | ✓ |
| Video Player | Radiant / JWPlayer | ✓ |
| Payment Processing | SumUp / Stripe / Square | ✓ |
| Paywall Software | RevenueCat / Piano | ✓ |
| QR Voucher & Loyalty | RewardForge / JoinIt | ✓ |
| Pricing | £300 - 1000++ | £20-200 |
Ready to get started ?
Join the publishers, consultants and local businesses already running their entire business from bLocal. Fill in the form below and we will give you a demo and discuss your project.
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