HiveBrain

Independent web publishing group

We build and run
web publications.

A network of city guides, three magazines with their own identity, and the platform underneath them, engineered in-house. Everything on this page links to something live.

City guides
88
Articles
1,905
Countries
44
Magazines
3
Languages
13

01 ยท Work

Three magazines. Three worlds.

Not one template stamped three times. Each has its own type, colour and idea of what a page is for.

A city guide from the networkCity guides88 cities, each on its own domain.Neighbourhoods, where to stay, what to eat and what is on, written city by city and priced live against partner inventory.guide2london.com โ†’

02 ยท Network

88 city guides in 44 countries.

The whole network, by name. Pick any of them.

United Arab Emirates1

03 ยท Platform

We build the machinery too.

Everything above runs on software we wrote and operate ourselves.

  1. 01

    One platform, every domain

    A single application serves the whole network, branding and routing per hostname. A new city is a row in a table, not a new site.

  2. 02

    Editorial engine

    Research, venue verification, writing and imagery run through our own pipeline, with closures and rebrands caught before anything publishes.

  3. 03

    Live inventory

    Hotel rates, experiences and car hire come from live partner feeds at request time, never pasted prices.

  4. 04

    Thirteen languages

    Every guide ships in English plus twelve translated editions, with hreflang and per-locale routing.

  5. 05

    First-party analytics

    Self-hosted, cookie-light measurement on our own infrastructure. We see our readers; nobody else does.

  6. 06

    Operations we run ourselves

    Edge filtering, crawler management, monitoring and deploys are ours, built and automated in-house.

04 ยท Contact

Partnerships, affiliate programmes, press.

[email protected]