TownSquare Interactive is a software company. It is clear to me now how they LIE, Manipulate and Fool Everyone!@@! Unfortunately, I failed to look deeper into their background. Merely One In Many Of Their Ways To FOOL EVERYONE... They use employee ratings to get the percentages on their behalf. Observe every possible review base on line and feed the detail back to where it started as with their Employee's Ratings. Obviously, The Said Employee's want their employer to make money in order to pay them for more than merely living expenses... Open your eyes now folks, Reality has been here for my entire life and I hope that you realize the same for you and your family. I was speaking with a fellow while going downtown in our Nation's Capital and he spoke strongly about TownSquare Interactive and with my stupidity I merely took his opinion as if it were etched in marble on The Lincoln Memorial... It Was My Fault In The Fact That I Automatically Trusted TSI. Tough Shoot Ignorant is my name now... I phoned them up and spoke with seven differently individuals where as when I look back I should have hit myself with the so called brick then. They, now I realize had a 'little bit' more than I when it comes to Website expertise. My Observations after more than $3000 dollars and only two customers... respectfully I told them where to go and canceled the contract in April, a few days before the new billing cycle. I got no bill for May... CAN YOU GUESS WHAT TO PLACE IN JUNE¿? I GOT ANOTHER BILL... HHhhmmmm The financial firm was called and such was canceled. I don't want to say the wrong thing and somehow have this review removed. I going to go over tbe the county seat and dance in for the folks with black robes on and let their opinions be known in public domain... This is done not only for myself, but for everyone that can't read between the so-called lines... read more

Please do not use this company! They over promise and under deliver. They charged me $499 a month and did nothing they promised, after that we cancelled they charged me again today another $499! Be aware this company is a scam! read more

Undortunetly yelp doesn't allow for 0 star reviews. We've been trying to get domain transferred for 2 months thanks o another provider. Our website went downbut wasn't never transferred over. we contributed to be billed. Now the website is back up and running and we continue to be billed. We stopped our google ads when the site was down costing us tons of money. We emailed multiple times a week to get it transferred And it finally was this week. They transferred the wrong domain name . Now we continue to be billed, and we have the wrong domain name for our new site. Whosever in charge here better fix this asap or our team of. Employees will dedicate the next week of going onto every single small service business pages and warning them. read more

If I could leave zero stars I would. This company is HORRIBLE!! The company I work for has suffered a loss of visibility due to a complete lack of quality and service. They promise to make requested changes that never happen. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT TRUST this company with your website or marketing!!! read more

Destroyed my businesses. I had 2 campaigns, 1 in New Jersey and 1 in Florida. When i switched to them i had a site in NJ and a site in FL. They combined them resulting in my google profiles being switched. My FL ad had my NJ phone number and said i service NJ, the NJ ad had my FL phone number and had Fl cities. Went on for 6 months. Tim Pirrone CEO never answered any of my over 20 emails. Problem was never solved. My phone didn't ring at all. They destroyed my business read more

Piss poor at best. All promises until you aren't getting what they said you would , then its all, we dont make promises and remember you have a 3 month contract with us. Thats all that Merideth talked about and cared about. They know jack s**t about my industry and it shows. Almost 2 1/2 months and no leads. We you got clicks she said. Well in ANY business clicks aren't s**t unless they are converted to leads which TSI has no clue to do. They are a rip off garbage company. All Merideth did was argue with me, but the other day sweet as heck. Even tried to tell me that my google ads dont always show up. Dont treat me like an idiot, as you make yourself look like one. You have no business in marketing Merideth..... read more

I signed up with Townsquare being promised the world by a sales person. I tried using this company to build marketing and gain clientele. Paid my initial fee and was given 2 FREE months for referrals. $397 was taken from my account after being told I was getting a free month of service. i did not budget for this and placed into the negatives at my bank. I had a few I had to pay because this company robbed me. Was told by an employee I would receive a refund within 5-10 business days. yesterday was 10 days. Today they took another hundred dollars from my account without permission and has placed me AGAIN in the negatives. THERE IS NO RECEIPT FROM EITHER OF THESE TRANSACTIONS FROM THIS COMPANY. Was offered my money back and then proceeded to take more money. DO NOT ISE TOWNSQUARE INTERACTIVE. The website is generic. nobody I talk to listens to what I want on the website or calls me back or actually wants to work with me. They will keep taking money and give you zero results. I do not under any circumstances recommend this company to used by anyone! Brett read more

Called me about my business listing attempting to sell me their services. When I told the rep I was ok with my account manager he got aggressive and rude. read more

If I could give 0 stars I would! The worst marketing organization I have ever worked with! Over promise, don't deliver, at all. Stay away! read more

Not going to mince words...by far the worst company i have dealt with in my 20+ professional career. They never do anything correctly the first time, even a simple copy/paste!, they get it wrong and it takes at least 2-3 additional communications to get it one simple item corrected. They burn through so many people we are switching contacts every few months. Looking forward to when we switch. read more

I should have listened to my gut and reviews. They promise the world, then once they get your money, no return phone calls. Days on end before receiving an answer to my emails.... I gave them my sign on credentials to my web hosting provider to they could publish my new website they were going to build. I had a temporary one up with my contact info. They sent me a link to view their progress almost 2 weeks later. I replied to that email with a bunch of things to change. Before they changed anything, they published the unfinished web page and redirected my domain to "their" servers and broke my domain email. This was right before new years and I couldn't get ahold of anyone to fix it. After the new year when they call came back, they STILL didn't fix it. I had to set up another email account and go change that on all my other accounts, plus use that one for my business cards, flyers, and the sign on the back of my truck sine I couldn't wait for them to get back to me. I finally got fed up and fired them. We'll see if I get a refund since they not only didn't produce what they promised, they screwed up things that were working fine! Run away from these people. read more

I don't think that this company was a good fit for my business. From the sales rep who was very pushy and all he wanted was a contract signed, and the designer of my page who designed something very quick and then said that they were able to make changes early. It just didn't work , my page looked nothing of what I wanted and I just cancelled. read more

They came to me and offered their services to get my website and SEO going. We had a hard deadline for getting my website live - I was attending an event that they were hosting tp promote my store. They were unable to get my website live before this event. I, knowing nothing about websites, was able to go on to GoDaddy and get a basic website live in about 15min. To say that I am disappointed and upset would be an understatement. I have sent an email to the people I've been working with asking for them the cancel my services with them and asked for a full refund. I definitely should have done some research and read reviews before hiring them to do anything for me. I will not be doing further business with any part of Townsquare Interactive in the future. read more

Greetings! I'm a freelance SEO consultant who works on behalf of business clients to interface with their SEO firms. I personally do not perform the SEO work required to rank websites; I simply audit the work performed by these firms, recommend changes and hold SEO firms accountable to their clients to ensure my clients receive a healthy ROI for their SEO expenditures. I've now been working with TownSqaure Interactive as a client's liaison for a couple of months and I have to say, quite regrettably, their SEO services are less than desirable. Since working with TSI, I've had to tell them how to do their job to improve rankings through both on-page and off-page SEO, recommending simple things that should already be part of their SEO practices -- they're not. For me, they seem to be focusing on companies and business owners that have no clue what SEO really is, how it works, and that do not question their actions. They seem to 'prey' on small business owners that are none-the-wiser to their unscrupulous and unaccountable activities. They do not seem to have the clients' best interest in-mind. Rather, they do enough to get the website to improve in the rankings a little through on-page SEO and make minor changes here and there while collecting nearly $3,600 year. I've asked if they use certain tools to improve and test their work and some do not even know what it is -- it's called Google Lighthouse. They perform half of the SEO necessary to rank a website then tell me that it's up to the client to build the other half of SEO, off-page SEO, without ever recommending what it is, how to go about it or why it's so important. In fact, off-page SEO is just, if not more important than on-page SEO. To some people reading this... this may all sound gibberish to you and that's what it appears they hope for -- let's sound really smart to make it seem like SEO is something they can never really understand or measure. SEO is a marketing strategy that has numerous complex verticals but not overly difficult to understand. Here's just 5 reasons why I would recommend avoiding this company: 1. As mentioned, there are two parts to an SEO strategy: On-page SEO and Off-page SEO. TSI focuses solely on the easy on-page SEO (website edits and strategies) and never talk with their clients about off-page SEO (backlink building, social shares, etc.). Because off-page SEO is left up to the client to figure out (most businesses have never even heard of it), they do their clients a HUGE disservice and effectively charge prices for only half of what is required for a proper SEO strategy. 2. Many basic SEO requirements are missing from their on-page SEO strategies. I really have no idea what kind of experience their 'SEO experts' have but I can say in honesty that they're not very good at their job. When I'm making basic recommendations for SEO edits, this tells me their 'experts' are not very informed. 3. The content written for the sites is thin, cheap, and essentially regurgitated, and keyword stuffy. There is nothing unique about it. Granted, there is only so much content available before things become redundant but there is nothing written separating my client from every other site in his industry -- it all screams "Me too." 4. The simple fact that we have to hold them accountable to the work and results they deliver is a red flag. There is little to no reports sent to the client on the work performed and how their results were achieved, therefore, there is really no way to measure the SEO ROI. Today there was an announcement that all Google Reviews will be suspended until further notice due to COVID-19. One would think their SEO firm would make this announcement to their client base but my client received no notice -- I informed them. This is not what you would expect from your SEO firm. 5. What work they're doing doesn't seem to carry any long-term effects. I've asked on several occasions what the strategies were and either received vague or no responses at all. I think the company is intimidated by holding them accountable to their actions or lack thereof. Instead of focusing on the clients they do have and delivering an amazing SEO experience and result, it appears they just want to acquire more and more clients so that if one does decide they can no longer handle their tactics, they're fine with their client just leaving -- at the risk of taking hits in their ranking progress. In short, I would avoid this company at all costs -- literally. The results and experience you receive, unless changed due to all of the negative reviews, will be less than fruitful. Save yourself the frustrations and search for a better SEO firm that has your company's interests and results in-mind. read more

I wanted a local website designer and entered Miami in my google search. Unfortunately I entered my contact info and the first call I received from Townsquare was not a Miami web designer but someone from a call center. I soon realized that this was not the platform I wanted and told him do, to delete my info. I then received about 10 more random calls from all around the USA from Townsquare salespeople trying to sign me up. This morning I'm still getting annoying texts regarding the above, yet I told the first person that fielded my info that I was not interested in the Townsquare platform. read more

After being a loyal customer for over 5 years and referred many contractors as well as used me as a referral for their potential new customers my experience was great untill I switched to a new company. I canceled 5 days BEFORE my auto payment posted and and sent an email when I canceled and still was charged. Sent an email and all I was told was that it was out of thier control but good luck with your new company.. pathetic! read more

I signed up for 6 months of website SEO and was supposed to get ranking in my tiny town prior to the actual target market I wanted. Not only did my page views DECREASE from the time I ran the site to when Townsquare was managing it, the staff assigned to my account changed and all my requests for the site were never done. I requested Cancellation in December 2021. I was told that my account manager would process that. Twenty days later, I got a telephone call from her manager who literally tried to save the account by charging me MORE MONEY just to get what I was promised. No. Now I'm in a battle with GoDaddy.com to get my domain back because the "tech" people at Townsquare cannot figure out how to give me the private key to get my domain back (like I provided to transfer it to them in the first place). I would give zero stars if that were an option. This company did not do what they promised. They have no sense of responsibility for their salespeople and didn't honor my contract. I will be filing formal complaints. read more

I recently started a Nonprofit to search for missing kids, so I hired them to build the site, initially it was ok but then my team and I decided we needed a more design heavy company. So we told them we'll be switching and that we didn't need their services. Despite this they charged me another 700 dollars, claiming that they thought I said I wanted another month to move my stuff to the other vendor. My email was quite clear that I did not. When I asked and pressed for a refund they ghosted me. I hope it was worth it, because that could have bought us 10 more hours of private investigator work to find a missing kid. Take your business elsewhere. read more

TERRIBLE COMPANY! -NO MORALS! Nothing but crooks and liars I hired them for my business account and they drug get along doing almost nothing for six months. They did very very little and then complained demanded to cancel. They lied at Everton(every turn)n They continue to bill me month after month $400! Even after I tried to cancel and cancel and then they block your email address and they kept my domain name routed to their website!! This would be a terrible company to get associated with. My name is Eddie Hernandez with Concrete Genie I am not being anonymous and I'm not scared to answer anybody's questions read more

We are web developers. A client came to us as they cannot retrieve a copy of their website at TownSquare Media (Interactive), and their domain name "expired" the same day as the client canceled their account (that's a bit of a coincidence). They hired us to rebuild the same website as they were paying $300 per month and were supposed to have leads driven to their door but have not received many, if any at all. My client can no longer access their domain names and TownSquare will not help retrieve them, event though they control them. While they say the client "owns" the site, they will not provide anything but written content, no photos, no copies of the look and feel.. Additionally, they said that they "offer" to move/transfer the domain, but never lets the client know that information. I asked if they sent a notice to the client outlining what they'll need to do in order to retain the domains and their TownSquare's domain tech Evan, said that they are not able send notices. We then asked to speak to a supervisor, Evan claimed there "is no one else to speak with", he is the tier one support. He retracted that later in the conversation and said he would have a manager "reach out" to me. No one has "reached out" to us. We have been calling TownSquare Interactive for two weeks as of today, 9/5/23. My only recourse is to give an accurate review on every social media outlet and maybe someone will "hear" us. Sadly they don't respond to comments on social media, they have ZERO engagement on their Facebook page and have no interaction with their "followers". This is a company who's very business is providing expertise in SEO, Social Media marketing, engagements, how to respond to reviews and building websites that are "owned" by the client...(until the client leaves). Let's hope they will put there money where there mouth is. In checking with the Better Business Bureau (BBB), there are 8 pages of unresolved complaints. That speaks volumes. https://www.bbb.org/us/nc/charlotte/profile/digital-marketing/townsquare-interactive-0473-361663/complaints?page=8 Very poor business practices. read more

Doesn't respond, doesn't listen, doesn't do what they said they would do, hires unprofessional people to post unrelated things on your page. Misleading marketing schemes. Overpriced. Very unprofessional I do not recommend and will never use their service again. read more

Terrible experience Website is trash. Way too much turnover, template style no creativity. All a bs scam about Google algorithm. They take 300 a month to do nothing. Do not use this crap company read more

This Media Company is terrible. I was in the process of closing my company and needed the website taken down (or at least updated that we were closed) so customers were aware. I had reached out to my media specialist 2 weeks in advance to let them know that we will be closing and that this information should be put on our Google listing and our website. It is now three weeks later (AFTER OUR CLOSING DATE) and the website still says we are open and the google listing hasn't been touched. I wish I could say this experience with TSI was the only bad one, but unfortunately, since I started working with them, communication was horrible, updates would come months later after they were needed, and expertise on media design was extremely disappointing for paying $350/ month on something I could've created myself. read more

My company wanted local targeted ads. That's all. We have our own customer portal, website, everything already. We got upsold web development and it came with their garbage portal as a package. Didn't want it but whatever. I tell them I like my site as it is but if they can improve it there were two minor changes they could do. I tell them the changes: Make my listed services all plural, and add one slogan on the splash page. That's all. This is child's play text work for web, like 10 minutes of work. Two months go by $800 and they sent one website "update" where none of my changes were done but instead they used some garbage template and changed my site removing most pertinent information about the business and didn't do the two minor changes I asked for. I said "this is all wrong" so they sent another template that was even worse that reversed all the colors making my logo unreadable. Finally I said to forget the web work due to the inability to do anything right. I can't use anything and they aren't listening to my simple requests, but at least we have been doing local targeted ads, right? WRONG. THEY NEVER RAN THE ADS. Charged me $800 for this and refuse to give out a refund. I'm going to have to take legal action to get my money back as they are still claiming they provided services! What services exactly???? RUN FROM THIS COMPANY. DO NOT TRUST WHAT THEY SAY. Google got me but they are obviously PAYING for 5 star reviews. read more

Really disappointed. Hired for SEO Optimization (which indeed takes time), all they did was send me "customer reviews" in an email every reporting period. The reviews never changed. My account rep ended up quitting before I could get this issue resolved to my satisfaction, no one new was assigned to my account and when responses ceased they sent me to a debt collections agency. Buyer beware. read more

Highly recommend not coming here. Worst business you can make, spent $2,200 in 4 months and you could not see any progress being made upon canceling my last month they still took payment even though i was happy with their service representative stated no one can refund me my money worst experience. read more

It was the worst most anxious experience ever with a web developer. The web designer Matt in one month never even putted the correct location of the business, page never got fix with simple word edits . He called in sick or that a family me never had die to give an excuse for the delays twice in Teo weeks. Don't hire this comoany save your money. I lost $800.00 my go daddy page for 30.00 a month was giving me way better results. I never got a reservation while using their services. They are a scam the Lauren that Makes the sale is a genius on her words and will promess to triple your sells DONT BELIEVE . I never got not even 1 customer coming from their marketing expertice. Is all a lie don't believe in them . Please save your money. read more

Their performance in constructing a simple website for my business was awful. If I could give them zero or negative stars here, I would. I terminated their services after only a few months. read more

These people called promised the world and took money and now do not even return my call. Think they are going to get more money. Not

I was a faithful customer for three years and had nothing bad to say....until I sold my business and the new owner wanted to switch SEO companies. Sam from Townsquare was not cooperative in transferring my files to the new company, and then, with EXPLICIT instructions NOT to auto bill my account on the following month, they billed it anyway and now refuse to return the funds even though we showed him emails proving they were not authorized to pull the funds. I am now disputing this with my bank and warning everyone that this company is NOT reputable. Stay away! Zero stars if possible! read more

I signed up on a Thursday at 4:30, I then have been trying to cancel ever since and have not been able to get anyone on the phone. I have even emailed client relations in order to get a refund because no services have been done yet. I haven't even had the "design meeting" with them yet. I'm worried they are going to continue to charge me like the other reviews have stated. read more

rude waste of time asking for price and dwelled for a hr on a phone for her just to try & charge me $600 month and had the nerve to hang up as soon I said your crazy thinking im going to pay y'all $600 a month so you can sit on your ass while sim hard working eating my money read more

Run from this company they lied to me took my domain. I paid them $300 a month never got any work from there site in 8 months. I started with a Vista Print webpage for $400 for a year and got a few jobs in the first two months. Townsquare contacted me and told me how my webpage was weak and they could do a lot better for me 8 months and $2400 later no work once you sign the contract your screwed. I hope to save someone else from this experience. read more

Hello, I would like to let everyone know my initial experience. This company is aggressive in their sales tactics. As a professional business person I prefer to not be talked to like I am an idiot. These people do that. They try the tactic of, you need this online presence to go on. Wait a second, if I haven't used this in years, and my business is fine, why do I need to pay you? Also, Everything they tell you, you can do yourself. When I asked for pricing and current incentives that he kept referring to, I never got an answer. I explained I would like to do some review first of their company. See what others were saying. I was already burned by HomeAdvisor and I am not paying another company (these people I'm leaving a review for since they love to talk about your companies online reviews I thought it fitting to leave them one), to take money for something that can be done myself. In my industry the business comes from door to door communication, referrals, and quality work. These people are driving their sales by making you believe that if you don't have an online presence you are doomed to fail. Seriously!? I told the guy that if he wasn't going to give me pricing today then I wasn't going to proceed. He said they decided they would wait till I was ready. I told him he was now wasting my time and I was wasting his if he wasn't going to give me a cost analysis. Then he repeated they would wait till I was ready. So I told them I was no longer interested in their services and they hung up. Be smart people. Review, read, I am happy I am not doing business with these people just based on their initial sales call, and the reviews I have just read on yelp. read more

Initially I was promised a month free for each person I recommended. This did not occur. Then I was promised to be in the top five Google search within 90 days. This also did not occur. I built and designed my own website and they came in to make several (wrong) changes. I had to continually ask them to reverse several of the changes they made. They posted the wrong days, wrong hours, wrong descriptions of products. Then they tried to take my website domain name from me when I was the one who paid for it and set it up. Months later this is still an issue. I spent almost $1000 dollars and have nothing to show for it but a giant headache. read more

Introduction sales call promised #1 on Google searches, updates all the time, and more sales. Everything they say is a complete LIE. They said they couldn't work with our current website and had to build a new one. The new site they designed was a very badly used template. It had so many grammatical and spelling errors. I did not like the site they made but they refused to do any edits until it "went live". After 3-4 months of service, paying almost $300 a month, according to their own reports I was finally listed by google on page 30 and got 1 maybe 2 responses. They FRAUDENTLY did an unauthorized charge on my ATM card and I now have over $90 in bank fees. When they call, hang up immediately. read more

I don't understand how these guys are still in business after all of the scams they've done. I was a loyal customer for 3 years thinking they were on top of it. Hired them to handle my SEO and come to find out, a friend of mine who owns his own SEO company reviewed my SEO and advised me that nothing had been done as Townsquare stated. They had done the bare minimum and continued to charge me over $400 a month. FOR 3 YEARS! They constantly change account managers so every quarter it seems like I get a new person handling my account. After introducing myself with each person I would make it very clear of the direction Im needing done for my company. Those things were never executed as requested. I finally stopped paying and they reached out to me demanding payment or that I'll PERMANENTLY lose my website. Keep in mind, my website was created way before I hired them. They are now threatening to take something I own and paid them to adjust/add to. THATS STEALING. Then Liz from account resolution stated that if I leave then I'd lose all of my SEO and would have to completely start all over with a new company. WHICH I FOUND OUT WAS A LIE. When I finally decided to transfer my website to another company, Will in accounts resolution said to email him the info and he would have it done. THAT WAS ALSO A LIE. I had the new company email him and received nothing. So I had to go out of my way to copy my website just so I wouldn't have to deal with them again. Couple days later I get a call from Liz stating the website will be shut down by the end of the day. Nothing else about assisting me on how to transfer my website to a new company. These guys treated me like an experiment and I was paying them religiously every month. Biggest scam of my life. Do not trust that they have a new team and system in place... cuz that's what they'll say to save you from leaving. They have too many people doing too many things and no organization. If you need someone good who you can just call and they pick up right then and there and fix the problem right away (rather than wait a few days like Townsquare) call Carlos at (407) 949-4743 with Smile More Business Solutions. He's completely transparent and will also educate and empower you on how to navigate your account . Extremely knowledgeable and guided and saved me from this mess. read more

Absolutely horrible. The only thing good about this company is their sales. Don't fall for it. You won't be able to find your page. If you commit months to the company and decide to leave, you can't even take your page. They basically trap you. Huge scam, do not recommend read more

They will scam you into a contract that as soon as you sign you have to pay, if you don't pay they will send debt collectors after you. I've never seen a company this pity in my entire life. read more

Buyer beware. They will take your money even if you cancel. Also threaten to report to the credit bureau if not paid. This company is quick to paint this wonderful picture of how eloquent their service is and then all but forget about you after you've signed up. Over promise and way under deliver. I'm not the only one. Please people don't not fall for their scam. read more