For mayors' offices and city government
A holiday message from the mayor is a tradition. Make it look like your city, and end it with a link to holiday events or city services. These holiday ecards for city government are short animated cards with your city's logo, colors and words, sent by email to residents, local businesses, community partners and city staff, and you see the finished card before you pay.
No account until you pay. Communications approves it by link. One price for your whole list.
Since 2003
"...we never expected such a positive response in the form of calls and e-mails from our recipients."
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"We look forward to working with them on next year's card."
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Made for a city
Type your city's website address and the card takes your brand colors and finds your logo. Or drop in a file of your seal or logo and the colors are read from it. Then every line of text is yours: the greeting, the message, and whether it comes from the mayor, the mayor and council, the city manager or everyone at the City.
The result is a municipal holiday card that plays like a short film, with your city's name, colors and words and music, full screen on a phone. On a Photo & Text design you can add your own photos of your city. It plays on its own web page, and the email that carries it to your residents is designed for you, with an animated or still graphic of the card. The demo on this page was set up for a city; press Make this yours and the studio opens it, ready for your own logo.
Type your city's website and the card takes your colors and finds your logo. Or drop in your seal.
A watermarked approval link the mayor's office and communications watch on a phone, with no account.
Every word is yours, signed from the mayor, the mayor and council, or everyone at the City.
Send it yourself from the platform your city already uses, and the list never leaves your system.
Your holiday events, city services or the city website, shown as links when the card finishes.
The card's page shows how many people actually watched it, and sets no cookies on your residents.
Three steps
Pick a design and type your city's website, or add your seal. Your logo and colors come in.
Change the words, add your holiday events, watch the finished card play, and send communications the approval link.
Pick your list size and buy. We send it, or you send it from your own email platform.
The catalog
The demo above is one of 51 holiday designs, and every one of them takes your city's logo, colors and words. Press Change Colors to see a design in your colors, Preview to watch it, or Customize to open it in the studio.
A good mayor holiday message is short and for everyone: thanks for the year, a wish for a safe and happy season, and who it is from. Keep it a greeting. Event times, holiday closures and service changes read best as the card's ending links, not in the message. Start from one of these and change any word.
"Season's greetings from the Office of the Mayor. Thank you for a great year in [city]."
"From my family to yours, warm wishes for the holidays and a happy, healthy new year."
"Wishing every resident a safe and happy holiday season."
"Happy holidays from all of us at the City of [city]."
"Thank you to the businesses, volunteers and partners who made this a great year in [city]. Season's greetings."
"To everyone who kept our city running this year, and to those working through the holidays: thank you. Happy holidays."
Need more ideas for season's greetings from the mayor? Fifty more messages are in our holiday card messages for business.
Some mayors still mail a printed city holiday card to community leaders. A holiday message from the mayor sent as an ecard reaches every subscriber, business and partner on your list, at one price, and ends with your holiday events.
A card holds one message, so many offices make two: one from the mayor to residents and partners, one to city staff. Copy the first card, change the words, and both live in the same account.
A city's card speaks for everyone who lives there, of every faith and none, so the greeting is usually Season's Greetings, Happy Holidays or best wishes for the new year. Every word on the card is yours to type, so the same design carries whichever greeting your city uses. Keep it a greeting: no slogans, no announcements. If your office has rules on official messages, such as who may sign them or when they may go out, check the rules that apply to your office before you send. Some cities send a thank-you at Thanksgiving as well.
When the card finishes, it shows a row of links you choose. For a city in December, that is often the tree lighting, the parade or the holiday market, the winter schedule for trash pickup and city offices, snow and parking rules, and the city website. A resident who just watched the mayor's card is one click from the event they want to attend.
On a Photo & Text design, the photos are yours too: last year's tree lighting, your main street in the snow, your city hall. Residents see a place they know.
A message from the mayor usually needs a yes from the mayor's office, communications and sometimes the city manager or the clerk. Press Send for approval and pass on the link. It shows the real, finished card with a watermark, has nothing to download, and needs no account, so everyone who signs off can watch it on a phone, between meetings.
When the card is approved, answer one question at checkout and the clean card is made in about one to two minutes. Nothing is bought until you say yes.
There are two ways to send, at the same price.
Either way, the email is designed and tested to render as widely as possible, and the card's own page sets no cookies on your residents and is kept out of search engines. How each way works · Privacy.
Early to mid December is the usual window: late enough to feel like the season, early enough to point to the events still ahead. Send it midweek, in office hours. Some cities send a second, shorter card in the last days of December with wishes for the new year. If we send it, you can schedule it ahead of time.
| People you send to | Price (USD) |
|---|---|
| 0 to 500 people | $99 |
| 501 to 1,000 people | $249 |
| 1,001 to 2,500 people | $399 |
| 2,501 to 5,000 people | $599 |
| 5,001 to 10,000 people | $899 |
| 10,001 to 20,000 people | $1,499 |
| 20,001 to 30,000 people | $2,099 |
| 30,001 to 40,000 people | $2,699 |
| 40,001 to 50,000 people | $3,299 |
| 50,000+ people | Get a quote |
Prices in US dollars. One purchase per card. There is no subscription and nothing to renew.
Start from the demo, or pick any holiday design.
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