Publisher Spotlight
Aric Boyles
Founder, CentralPark.com
New York, New York
Meeting people who turn their passions into livelihoods is the best part of writing the Yahoo! Publisher Network blog. CentralPark.com founder Aric Boyles, 35, has had a love affair with New York’s Central Park for as long as he can remember. He solidified that love affair a few years back when he developed and successfully marketed the first, complete, aerial-view poster of the park. To create the poster, Aric chartered a plane to fly over Manhattan. Since then, Aric has built a print and web-based business around a very specific niche market – people who love Central Park, want to celebrate it, find out what’s happening there this weekend, and learn about its past.
“Self-service contextual advertising makes sense for our business, because it gives us the freedom to focus on what’s most important to us, the content,” Aric says. “CentralPark.com is all about the Park, and Yahoo! Publisher Network helps us with the revenue to keep it that way.”
—Michael Mattis, Blog Editor
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April 11th, 2006 at 6:22 am
Very well put together site. Looks like the ads integrate very well into the site!
I am yet to get to Central Park (or to New York for that matter), but I certainly want to visit this park someday. Congrats to Aric for making it into YPN’s spotlight =)
April 11th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Nice publicity for Aric! Well deserved!
April 11th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Hi guys,
Love the blog, just a quick comment. It really doesn’t view well in Firefox. Kind of a pain to have to change to IE just for this site…. Just giving you a headsup.
Thanks for putting this together, I really like being able to keep up to date on Yahoo Publisher.
April 11th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Great publicity for a great website! =)
April 12th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Nice site, but it’s another example of how YPN needs more ad formats.
The 120×240 that CentralPark.Com is using would look much better and fit more into their site if it was 160×240 ad.
It is very “old school” to lock us into the graphical formats of “Internet 1.0″ for Internet 2.0 text advertising.
YPN giving us publishers more flexibility in filling our available spaces would be a grand revolution!
Thank you for your efforts,
The folks @ http://www.Writing.Com/
April 12th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Looks nice. I like the YPN biplane with the banner. Creative and clean. Makes my site’s functional approach seen elementary.
Heath @ reindex.com
April 14th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Very nice site indeed. One Question.
Does YPN choose the site based on revenues earned or esthetic?
April 22nd, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Very nice site!
It’s odd though that I didn’t see any Yahoo! ads on the site (maybe I missed them?) but I did see Google ads there. You did a wonderful job on the site and I love the colors and the photos.
June 26th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
I see both Google ads and YPN ads, can you do that?
August 15th, 2006 at 11:02 am
[…] Way back in April when the blog first launched, we ran a Publisher Spotlight featuring Aric Boyles and his already outstanding web site, CentralPark.com. Well, Aric continued to enhance his site, adding quality content, new features and functionality. At Yahoo!, we were pretty pleased to see Flickr and Yahoo! Answers interactivity badges among the many additions and refinements. “I’ve found that the addition of Yahoo! content really enhances the overall user experience on my site,” Aric told us over the phone from his home New York. […]
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Hello,
I am a children’s writer and published author from Keralas,India. . I’ am submitting a proposals for you.
Proposal-1
I’ve 50 comic books for children. Whole works are done by famous Indian artists based on Indian mythology, folks etc like Amar Chitra Katha. we are ready to give whole copy right for you. We can also prepare new stories..
Salient features:
1. No. of pages 32
2. Mode of submission: colour CD.
If you are interested pls. write.
Regards
venuvariath@yahoo.com