Main Street Organizations
Turn your downtown into the heartbeat of your community. Yodel helps Main Streets and Downtown Districts effortlessly showcase everything happening locally, boost visibility for businesses and nonprofits, and create new revenue streams – all without the time-consuming upkeep.
Pain Points Solved
Incomplete & Inconsistent Event Listings: Relying on local businesses and nonprofits to submit their own events often leads to gaps, missed opportunities, and an underwhelming calendar that doesn’t reflect everything happening in your downtown.
Time-Intensive Manual Work: Aggregating events across social media and local websites can easily eat up 5-10 hours per week – pulling you away from higher impact initiatives like business development and placemaking.
Lack of Visibility Online: Without a robust, frequently updated events calendar, your website struggles to rank on search engines – meaning fewer people discover what’s happening in your downtown.
Missed Foot Traffic Opportunities: If events aren’t centralized and easy to find, potential visitors simply won’t show up – resulting in lost revenue for local businesses and less vibrancy in your district.
Lack of Sustainable Revenue Streams: Many districts are actively searching for new, non-tax-based revenue sources – but struggle to find solutions that don’t require significant upfront investment or ongoing effort.
Limited Data & Insights: Without a centralized system, it’s difficult to track what types of events drive engagement, attendance, or economic impact – making it hard to plan strategically.
The Solution: Yodel’s AI Powered Event Calendar
Complete & Consistent Event Listings
Yodel automatically aggregates events from local businesses, nonprofits, and online sources, ensuring your calendar is always up-to-date, comprehensive, and truly reflects everything happening in your downtown.
Saves Time & Reduces Manual Work
No more spending 5–10 hours per week chasing event submissions. Yodel does the heavy lifting, freeing your team to focus on business development, placemaking, and other high-impact initiatives.
Boosts Online Visibility
Yodel’s AI-powered platform is designed with SEO in mind, helping your website rank higher in search results so more residents and visitors can discover your events—and your district.
Drives Foot Traffic & Local Engagement
By centralizing events in one easy-to-navigate calendar, Yodel makes it simple for people to find what’s happening, increasing attendance and supporting local businesses and nonprofits.
Generates Sustainable Revenue Opportunities
Yodel opens doors for non-tax revenue through sponsored listings, partnerships, and enhanced visibility for local organizations—all without a large upfront investment.
Provides Actionable Data & Insights
Track engagement, attendance trends, and economic impact with Yodel’s reporting tools, giving your team the insights needed to plan strategically and make data-driven decisions.
Check out Downtown Kent
By integrating Yodel’s AI-powered event calendar into their website, Downtown Kent (Kent Main Street) transformed their digital presence into a dynamic, always-updated hub for community activity. Instead of relying on time-consuming manual event entry, their team can now automatically aggregate local events, ensuring residents and visitors always have access to the most current happenings. This not only saves valuable staff hours but significantly boosts website engagement, increases time on page, and strengthens local SEO by continuously publishing fresh, relevant content. For an organization like Kent Main Street—focused on supporting local businesses, fostering community connections, and driving downtown foot traffic—Yodel helps position their website as the go-to resource for everything happening in Kent, ultimately enhancing visibility, participation, and economic impact across the district.
Complete Event Coverage: Yodel collects an extensive range of local events, including those that may not be typically submitted by member, providing Chambers with more comprehensive listings.
Full control of what events are shown:Despite the automation, clients retain full control over which events are displayed.
Improved SEO Performance: By helping clients rank for a broader range of event-related keywords, our system attracts significantly more web traffic, increasing visibility and engagement for local events.
Easily integrate with tools you already use
Music & Entertainment
Yodel spotlights live shows and DJ sets, driving repeat clicks from fans hunting the next big night out.
Fairs & Festivals
Yodel packs your calendar with upcoming carnivals and food fests―turning curiosity into high-volume page views.
Family Fun
Yodel surfaces kid-approved adventures so parents flock to your site first when planning the weekend.
Clubs & Organizations
Yodel keeps your listings pulsing with themed nights and member mixers, attracting nightlife traffic round-the-clock.
Non Profits
Yodel promotes charity runs, galas, and drives—channeling mission-minded visitors straight to your platform.
Sports
Yodel feeds scores of local games and watch parties, spiking engagement from every armchair athlete.
Performing Arts
Yodel highlights premieres, plays, and recitals, luring culture seekers back for what’s opening next.
Sports Leagues
Yodel autoloads league schedules and sign-up deadlines, boosting hits from players, parents, and hardcore fans alike.
Your Site, Every Downtown Event.
Turn your website into the ultimate hub for all downtown happenings – sparking community engagement, boosting local commerce, and helping businesses thrive.
See what our Partners are saying about Yodel…
Yodel has been incredible to work with. Their team is responsive, attentive, and truly listens to their customers. If your community calendar isn’t on Yodel’s platform, you are missing out. We used to manage everything manually and the level of automation they provide has taken us to new heights and helps us work smarter, not harder.
Bryce Riggs
Seneca County Collaborative
Yodel has been an amazing partner in every way. From the start, they have ensured we have the information we need, and they have talked us through options and opportunities in a way that made it clear how much value they could bring to our business. Their communication is stellar, and their work is timely and on point. They are open to new ideas and took the time to talk with us about our vision; and now they are looking into the technology to potentially make that vision a reality. We couldn’t be happier with the quality of the product, the service, and the care Yodel has provided.
Andrea Brady
Miami Milford Chamber of Commerce, Exective Director
Yodel has not only been a pleasure to work with in our community but has been an asset to allow me to get more done throughout the day. Yodel gives our community a chance to stay connected all on one accord.
Jaime Coffee
Ridgecrest Area Chamber of Commerce, Office Manager
Yodel has saved my organization the most valuable of all resources…time. Our past events calendar was very labor intensive and with Yodel it’s very hands-off and has allowed us to provide more events and their accompanying details with efficiency and accuracy. And to top it off, our website analytics have skyrocketed after implementing Yodel. The staff is also very responsive to inquiries regarding the platform and they continually check-in.
Lindsay Stangl
Visit Watertown