UPDATED 8/9/2024

Official Rules

What are the City Best Awards?

The City Best Awards, presented by Flyertap, invites users to recognize the best businesses, activities, attractions, entertainers, and people across various locations.

Is Registration Required?

Nomination surveys are anonymous and do not require registration. However, you will be asked to provide your name, email, and telephone number to receive updates. You can submit your nominees in any topic area and return to complete the survey anytime before the deadline.

How can I vote?

All nominations and voting are done through our website, citybestawards.com, which includes a link to our voting platform. No other form of voting will be considered.

How the nomination process works

The nomination period begins at noon PST on July 18 and ends at 11:59 PM PST on Wednesday, August 18, at citybestawards.com. We depend on our audience to provide us with the names of outstanding individuals, businesses, and establishments in over 500 categories.

Once the nominees are finalized, our audience will be asked to vote for one choice in each category. According to our guidelines, you can nominate or vote once every 24 hours. City Best Awards reserves the right to refuse nominations at its sole discretion.

We invite our audience to nominate their favorite businesses and services by choosing from one of the 16 topic areas listed below:

• Beauty & Fitness
• City's Best
• Eat & Drink
• Education
• Entertainment
• Finance
• Health & Beauty
• Home & Garden
• Hotels & Casinos
• Law
• Living Local
• Motors
• Real Estate
• Services
• Shopping
• Things to Do

To nominate someone, enter their name and city in the text entry fields. Although unnecessary, providing additional information such as a phone number, address, or URL will help us verify the nominee. You are not obligated to nominate someone in all categories.

The deadline to add nominations is 11:59 PM PST on August 18. It's okay to nominate a single business in multiple categories. A business with multiple locations will count as a single nomination during the voting phase.

A nomination is required for a business to appear on the final ballot. Businesses that are business associates or advertisers of citybestawards.com or its affiliates will not receive special treatment.

Our submission period has ended. However, late entries may be considered at our discretion upon request. Please email all late entries to info@citybestawards.com for consideration.

When selecting nominees or winners, the City Best Awards does not consider business licenses, trade affiliations, Better Business Bureau ratings, or online ratings. The public is solely responsible for nominating and selecting the winners of the City Best Awards through online nominations and voting.

Will everyone who has been nominated appear on the ballot?

To be eligible for the ballot, a category must have at least three distinct businesses competing for votes. If someone is nominated for a category they don't qualify for, we will decide whether to move the nominee to a similar category or reject the nomination at our discretion.

I have been nominated. What is required of me?

Once verified, businesses, organizations, or nominated individuals will be added to our ballot. If a business receives enough votes to make it into the top five, they might need to complete a simple online questionnaire.

This questionnaire will ask for basic business information such as name, location(s), year established, business hours, phone number, and web address (if any), and also requires the submission or availability of a photo of the business, organization, or individual. Participation is free of cost and obligation.

How are votes tabulated?

Regular voting begins at 1:00 AM on August 19 and ends at 11:59 PM PST on September 28.

A third party tabulates nominations and votes. The City Best Awards only know the contest results once they are publicly announced. In each category, our audience votes on their favorite nominees. You are permitted to vote in each category once per day.

All late entries must be emailed to info@citybestawards.com for consideration.

When will the winners be announced?

The winners' names will be posted and announced at citybestawards.com on December 9 at noon. In a tie in any category, more than one winner or runner-up may be awarded.

How do I get the winner's logo?

The City Best Awards and its unique logos are registered trademarks of the City Best Awards and can only be used with express written permission. Winners can obtain a license to use the logos by either spending $1,295 or more on marketing or by making a direct payment.

Marketing spend must be met before March 1, 2025, to qualify. The purchase of City Best Awards merchandise does not count towards the logo license spend.

Questions about the City Best Awards can be directed to our support desk. These are the complete Official Rules. The City Best Awards are produced each year by the City Best Awards. Content © 2024 City Best Awards.

Please get in touch with us if you have questions about nominations, rules, awards, or entry challenges