AIM Group | October 26, 2009 | Marketplaces
MySpace has moved its Oodle-powered classifieds into its Apps Gallery, making it possible for MySpace users to place the Oodle-built application on their personal...
Sharon Hill | November 17, 2009 | Marketplaces
If you've ever bemoaned the need to be a card-carrying member of your local grocer in order to earn lower prices, or stood in line behind someone who was slowly...
Peter M. Zollman | December 02, 2009 | Marketplaces
Skype’s gone, so the next big thing for EBay is classifieds. “I’m going to be very aggressive looking for opportunities to strengthen that...
Peter M. Zollman | December 10, 2009 | Marketplaces
Who comes out looking good in the first of the two EBay versus Craigslist trials? Frankly, no one so far. Based on the testimony of EBay executives — Craig...
Peter M. Zollman | December 20, 2009 | Marketplaces
“Shocked. We’re just shocked.”...
Peter M. Zollman | December 23, 2009 | Marketplaces
There's been a lot of smoke blown about the lawsuits between Craigslist and EBay, including...
bruce oren | April 30, 2008 | Recruitment, Marketplaces
It’s easy to see why, and how far, newspaper stocks are in the tank. And the recent circulation figures don’t make it look like we should expect a...
bruce oren | April 30, 2008 | Marketplaces
Since 1951, The Conference Board, a New York-based research organization, has published its Help-Wanted Index of print recruitment advertising. It’s based on...
buzzwurzer | May 19, 2008 | Marketplaces
Recently, my 13 year old grandson and his friend spent a week over spring break with me in Florida. His two older brothers are varsity athletes and thus kept his...
Ross Hoddinott | November 10, 2008 | Marketplaces
Sensis and Google in the same room. Who’d have believed it? It was only three years ago that Sol Trujillo, CEO of the big Australian telco Telstra (Sensis’...
bruce oren | September 01, 2008 | Marketplaces
Here at Classified Intelligence, we have an acronym we use about once a week: “YACLW.” It stands for “yet another Craigslist wannabe.”...
bruce oren | September 16, 2008 | Marketplaces
We’ve written about it before in CIR; now The Wall Street Journal is reporting it too....
bruce oren | September 22, 2008 | Marketplaces
For a while, even before she worked on the Romney campaign for U.S. president, people have been...
Katja Riefler | October 06, 2008 | Marketplaces
Turbulent times at EBay -- the company held a predawn conference call today to say it was laying off 10 percent of its global workforce, or about 1,000 permanent...
bruce oren | October 17, 2008 | Marketplaces
An interesting twist today in the “Craigslist murder” – the sad case of...
admin3 | November 07, 2008 | Marketplaces
I couldn't help noticing that the Craigslist crackdown on prostitution is limited to Craigslist's category of Erotic Services. You know that category; it's...
bruce oren | November 07, 2008 | Marketplaces
The decision by Craigslist to charge $5 for ads in its prostitution "erotic services" category and donate all the proceeds to charity got us wondering: What...
bruce oren | November 20, 2008 | Marketplaces
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (at the BIA Kelsey Interactive Local Media conference): Look for expansion into Canada and the U.K. next year by Angie’s List, a...
joe michaud | November 25, 2008 | Marketplaces
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook is searching for a partner to take over its classified listings application. Apparently Facebook distributed a...
Peter M. Zollman | November 26, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Newspaper advertising revenues totaled $8.9 billion in the third quarter of 2008, down 18.1 percent from the same quarter last year, according to figures released...
bruce oren | December 02, 2008 | Marketplaces
We used to talk about “Craig and Meg” --- Newmark, founder of Craigslist, and Whitman, former CEO of EBay --- as major players in the classified...
joe michaud | December 03, 2008 | Marketplaces
It’s all still rumors but Silicon Alley Insider shares with readers what it’s hearing about a possible successor to Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo. The...
bruce oren | December 03, 2008 | Marketplaces
If you’ve been hanging on to a few shares of Trader Classified Media NV,...
joe michaud | December 05, 2008 | Marketplaces
Why did Google really pull out of its deal with Yahoo? Because they got a tip that the company had just hours until the Department of Justice was set to file an...
Peter M. Zollman | December 06, 2008 | Marketplaces
Zilok is an online rental marketplace that allows individuals or businesses to rent anything or offer anything for rent. Zilok launched in 2007 in the United...
Peter M. Zollman | December 07, 2008 | Marketplaces
While mainstream media wrings its collective hands over Wall Street's collapse, retailers and marketers are fixating on reading the entrails of Black Friday and...
admin3 | December 16, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Recently I've reviewed a number of small newspapers' websites and strategies, particularly around classifieds. As you might expect, there are a few common threads....
Brian Blum | December 19, 2008 | Marketplaces
Want to search Craigslist from your iPhone or iPod Touch? Now you can. PheedYou, Inc. has launched an iPhone app called CraigSearch. The interface is as...
Brian Blum | December 23, 2008 | Marketplaces
Canwest has announced it will be the exclusive Canadian supplier of ShopLocal. The ShopLocal Canadian site will bring together content from SmartCirculars (online...
