AIM Group | July 21, 2015 | Marketplaces
Updated with additional detail, links Backpage.com has sued the sheriff of Cook County, Ill., for persuading Visa and MasterCard to quit handling payments for the...
Peter M. Zollman | July 09, 2015 | Marketplaces
There’s an old adage in law enforcement: “Follow the money.” Sheriff Thomas J. Dart of Cook County, Ill., (the county that includes Chicago), did that very...
AIM Group | July 08, 2015 | Marketplaces
Two men in the Boston area were charged this week with murder in the killing of a female escort they met through Backpage.com, in a case reminiscent of the...
Brian Blum | November 21, 2014 | Marketplaces
This article first appeared in CIR 15.21, on November 21, 2014, a client-only report. To receive the bi-weekly Classified Intelligence Report (CIR), go here. ...
Peter M. Zollman | August 11, 2013 | Marketplaces
For the third time, a federal judge has blocked a state law targeting Backpage.com, ruling that the federal Communications Decency Act protects the website from...
AIM Group | July 10, 2013 | Marketplaces
Revenue from U.S. online prostitution advertising totaled $45 million in the 12 months ended in May, surpassing a benchmark set when Craigslist abandoned its adult...
AIM Group | June 10, 2013 | Marketplaces
Revenue from U.S. online prostitution advertising totaled $5.1 million in April, a 56 percent increase compared with the same month in 2012. Nearly all of the...
Christo Volschenk | June 03, 2013 | Real Estate
Rumania-based Mondinion.com, a real estate portal with a global focus, partnered with two, multi-country general classifieds platforms to extend the reach of its...
AIM Group | April 22, 2013 | Marketplaces
Monthly revenue from U.S. online prostitution advertising exceeded $5 million for the first time in March. The March total of $5.1 million on five tracked websites...
Mark Whittaker | April 01, 2013 | Marketplaces
Thanks to a rate increase of almost 250 percent in some cases, Backpage.com generated a 55 percent increase in revenue in February from online prostitution...
Jim Townsend | March 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Classified publisher Backpage has won its injunction against the state of Tennessee, filed in June, 2012, in U.S. District Court in Nashville. Backpage had...
AIM Group | February 28, 2013 | Marketplaces
A January rebound in the number of online ads for escorts and body rubs boosted revenue at Backpage.com and pushed the total revenue from online prostitution...
AIM Group | January 25, 2013 | Marketplaces
Listings on Backpage.com for escorts and body rubs hit a two-year low in December, down almost one-third from the figures just a year earlier, according to the AIM...
Jim Townsend | January 10, 2013 | Marketplaces
Voice Media Group has sold two of its prominent alternative weeklies - the Seattle Weekly and the SF Weekly. Seattle Weekly was one of the affiliates of the new...
AIM Group | December 21, 2012 | Marketplaces
Backpage.com has raised its prices an average of 40 percent for escort or body-rub ads and for reposting those ads. The Backpage price increases, plus increases at...
Peter M. Zollman | December 12, 2012 | Marketplaces
The state of Washington finally admitted the inevitable: Backpage.com is absolutely allowed to publish adult services ads. The state has agreed it cannot enforce...
AIM Group | December 03, 2012 | Marketplaces
Revenue from online prostitution advertising on five websites tracked by the AIM Group dropped to $2.8 million in October, reaching its lowest point since December...
AIM Group | October 26, 2012 | Marketplaces
Online prostitution advertising on five tracked websites generated at least $37.3 million during the last 12 months, but that’s still less than the estimated $44.6...
Peter M. Zollman | September 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Updated Sept. 27 with additional detail With the Craigslist vs. EBay lawsuit languishing in the discovery phase, there’s nothing like another juicy fight to whet...
Peter M. Zollman | September 24, 2012 | Marketplaces
Updated: 4:15 p.m. EDT September 24 with additional comments Backpage.com is becoming a stand-alone classified advertising business, with its two owners selling...
AIM Group | September 20, 2012 | Marketplaces
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. --- Estimated online prostitution-advertising revenue on five U.S. websites declined 2.8 percent to $2.95 million in August compared with...
Peter M. Zollman | August 28, 2012 | Marketplaces
For more than two years, we’ve reported on “prostitution advertising” on Backpage and Craigslist. And we’ve been hammered for it from some quarters, because who’s...
AIM Group | August 24, 2012 | Marketplaces
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – It’s been nearly two years since Craigslist stopped accepting paid advertising from escorts and escort services, and other sites still...
Jim Townsend | July 31, 2012 | Marketplaces
Village-Voice-Media-owned Backpage.com has been able to temporarily halt the enforcement of Washington State Senate Bill 6251, thanks to a July 27 decision in...
Mark Whittaker | July 20, 2012 | Marketplaces
Online prostitution advertising generated a projected $19.1 million in revenue on five websites during the first six months of 2012, an increase of 7.8 percent...
AIM Group | July 11, 2012 | Marketplaces
Today we report on two seemingly unrelated developments in the ongoing saga about Backpage and its adult-services ads: --- The company has sued the state of...
Mark Whittaker | July 06, 2012 | Marketplaces
Estimated online prostitution-advertising revenue on five U.S. websites declined 4 percent to $3.2 million in May compared with the previous month. Backpage.com,...
Mark Whittaker | July 06, 2012 | Marketplaces
Online prostitution-advertising revenue totaled $3.3 million on five U.S. websites in April, setting a monthly record as the highest total since Craigslist closed...
Peter M. Zollman | June 13, 2012 | Marketplaces
A hearing is scheduled for federal court in Seattle on Friday on the validity of a Washington state law that requires online classified advertising publishers to...
Peter M. Zollman | June 05, 2012 | Marketplaces
Backpage.com, the free-classifieds website that is the leading publisher of prostitution advertising in the United States by revenue, is suing to block enforcement...
