AIM Group | September 15, 2010 | Marketplaces
Commercial-sex ads are gone for good on Craigslist's U.S. sites, according to testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on domestic minor sex...
Sharon Hill | September 13, 2010 | Marketplaces
BackPage executives declined to comment, and AdultSearch.com folks have yet to respond, but in the screenshots below you'll clearly see the "hay" BackPage.com and...
Peter M. Zollman | September 05, 2010 | Uncategorized
Is Craigslist done carrying “adult services” ads? Yes. And no. We’re betting that this weekend’s stunt, placing a “censored” banner where the adult-services...
Sharon Hill | June 17, 2010 | Marketplaces
The female-focused Women's Funding Network, in discussing its newly published "Men Who Buy Sex with Adolescent Girls: A Scientific Research Study" just announced...
Sharon Hill | June 02, 2010 | Automotive
With a non-traditional-media attitude about selling auto advertising, Hearst automotive VP Wes Freas oversees automotive ad sales for The Houston Chronicle and all...
Peter M. Zollman | April 29, 2010 | Marketplaces
Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigslist, has posted not one, not two, not three, but five lengthy...
Mark Whittaker | September 21, 2009 | Marketplaces
Muutu.com launched its classified aggregator site at TechCrunch50 in San Francisco. Calling it the EBay of classified ads, representatives demonstrated a slick...
Mark Whittaker | September 11, 2009 | Marketplaces
SeekYourItem.com, an offshoot of Classified Ads Free, just announced its free search engine for classifieds. While calling it all-inclusive, it only seems to...
Peter M. Zollman | July 09, 2009 | Marketplaces
Can U.S. newspapers team up to aggregate their "stuff" classifieds on one, nationally branded site that beats Craigslist? Perhaps. That's the dream. But the road...
Brian Blum | July 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
Classifieds Web site Backpage.com has launched an affiliate program that pays Web sites, bloggers and Internet marketers for driving traffic to the Backpage site....
AIM Group | June 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
While Craigslist charges a fee for some recruitment and rental ads in specific cities, and all adult-services ads, it is primarily a free classified site. We have...
AIM Group | June 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Is Craigslist a hotbed of crime? Not really. Reading the paper or watching the tube you might think so. And it’s certainly true that thousands of crimes...
AIM Group | February 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
Tired of Craigslist's iconic but clunky, Web 1.0 interface? Somebody at Motion Technologies was and built a free, downloadable reader that looks like a Microsoft...
Brian Blum | September 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Imagine this scenario: You stumble onto a new Web site. A loud male voice – like in the OxyClean infomercials – shouts: “(Your site here)...
joe michaud | September 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
By Joe Michaud The battle of free vs. paid ads is over, the battle of print vs. online ads is over, and now the winners and survivors are figuring out what to do...