# Entertainment search demand in Tampa-St. Petersburg THE SEARCH LEDGER · TAMPA-ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA · ENTERTAINMENT Every month Tampa-St. Petersburg types 453,900 entertainment searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/tampa-st-petersburg/entertainment#colophon) 289 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026 453,900 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026 $922K MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $2.03 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Tampa-St. Petersburg searches for entertainment Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in APR and lowest in SEP. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 63, February 53, March 65, April 100, May 93, June 62, July 62, August 50, September 46, October 47, November 46, December 52. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Entertainment category in Tampa-St. Petersburg — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Tampa-St. Petersburg pays per click for entertainment The 20 highest-volume of 289 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“monster jam tickets tampa”** at $4.64. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | seminole hard rock hotel & casino tampa | 110,000 | $1.12 | 16 | commercial | | 2 | lightning tickets | 90,500 | $3.90 | | informational | | 3 | rays tickets | 60,500 | $2.81 | | informational | | 4 | tampa busch gardens tickets | 40,500 | $0.89 | | informational | | 5 | tampa concerts | 9,900 | $0.32 | | informational | | 6 | side splitters comedy club tampa | 9,900 | $1.94 | | branded | | 7 | tampa events today | 6,600 | $0.84 | | informational | | 8 | hard casino tampa | 6,600 | $1.10 | | commercial | | 9 | tampa casino | 5,400 | $2.93 | 12 | commercial | | 10 | tampa events | 5,400 | $1.04 | | informational | | 11 | lowry park zoo tickets | 5,400 | $1.20 | 7 | commercial | | 12 | tampa events this weekend | 5,400 | $1.33 | | informational | | 13 | tampa bay area renaissance festival | 5,400 | — | | branded | | 14 | bucs tickets | 5,400 | $3.26 | | informational | | 15 | show bar ybor | 4,400 | $0.16 | 0 | commercial | | 16 | monster jam tickets tampa | 3,600 | $4.64 | | informational | | 17 | adventure island tampa tickets | 3,600 | $0.88 | | informational | | 18 | zootampa at lowry park tickets | 3,600 | $1.83 | 8 | commercial | | 19 | palm pavilion clearwater beach | 2,900 | $1.79 | | branded | | 20 | concerts in tampa tonight | 2,900 | $0.31 | | branded | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the Tampa-St. Petersburg entertainment results Live position tracking for 3 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. lightning tickets 90,500/mo · $3.90 CPC ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 nhl.com - 2 ticketmaster.com - 3 seatgeek.com - 4 nhl.com - 5 gametime.co rays tickets 60,500/mo · $2.81 CPC ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 mlb.com - 2 seatgeek.com - 3 ticketmaster.com - 4 stubhub.com - 5 mlb.com tampa busch gardens tickets 40,500/mo · $0.89 CPC ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 buschgardens.com LOCAL - 2 buschgardens.com LOCAL - 3 buschgardens.com LOCAL - 4 buschgardens.com LOCAL - 5 tripadvisor.com Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The entertainment businesses competing in Tampa-St. Petersburg The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa | 4.3 ★ | 59,313 | Casino | YES | | #2 | The Florida Aquarium | 4.5 ★ | 22,029 | Aquarium | YES | | #3 | AMC Veterans 24 | 4.5 ★ | 9,815 | Movie theater | YES | | #4 | Straz Center for the Performing Arts | 4.7 ★ | 7,369 | Performing arts theater | YES | | #5 | AMC Riverview 14 | 4.6 ★ | 6,765 | Movie theater | YES | | #6 | Sugar Factory - Tampa Bay | 4.4 ★ | 5,863 | American | YES | | #7 | Hyde Park Village | 4.7 ★ | 5,291 | Shopping mall | YES | | #8 | AMC The Regency 20 | 4.1 ★ | 5,180 | Movie theater | YES | | #9 | Xscape Theatres Riverview 14 | 4.5 ★ | 5,103 | Movie theater | YES | | #10 | Centro Ybor | 4.5 ★ | 5,102 | Business center | YES | | #11 | AMC Woodlands Square 20 | 4.4 ★ | 4,930 | Movie theater | YES | | #12 | Hilton Tampa Downtown | 4.2 ★ | 4,817 | Hotel | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Entertainment brands Tampa-St. Petersburg searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. side splitters comedy club tampa 9,900/mo tampa bay area renaissance festival 5,400/mo palm pavilion clearwater beach 2,900/mo concerts in tampa tonight 2,900/mo candlelight concerts tampa 2,400/mo tampa nightlife 1,900/mo the coliseum st petersburg 1,600/mo days inn & suites by wyndham tampa raymond james stadium 1,600/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Tampa-St. Petersburg asks about entertainment People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Tampa-St. Petersburg entertainment results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. How much are Tampa Lightning tickets? How to get cheap Lightning tickets? Do Tampa Bay Lightning games sell out? Where can I buy Tampa Bay Lightning tickets? How to get discounted Rays tickets? Why is Rays attendance so low? How much is the new Tampa Bay Rays stadium going to cost? Is it cheaper to get baseball tickets at the box office? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Tampa-St. Petersburg metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) ## More Tampa-St. Petersburg search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida · Entertainment · 289 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 289 entertainment keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. 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