A new look at the Classified Advertising Industry
One of the largest employment vertical, online partners to the print world has just announced it is cutting jobs in-house, to maintain revenue to cost ratios. The partner I am speaking of is Monster.com. To me, this is fascinating news, as we have seen so many print publishers create advertising
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The Sun-Times News Group in Chicago has launched a new Real Estate site for their classified listings. The new website allows consumers to search Real Estate listings from 90 classified listing titles around the greater Chicago area and 10 counties in Northeastern Illinois and Northwest I
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Local.com, one of the leading search engines in the US focused on the hyper local market purchased the PremierGuide business directory sites. As more and more companies chase the hyper local market we expect to see more consolidation between Directories, Search and Classifieds. These 3 services
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MediaCorp has launched its new classifieds site, Mocca.com, with a focus on providing more social interaction than is traditionally available for classified sites. The site will focus on the Asian marketing and specifically the Singapore market initially. Going well beyond basic classifieds the si
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CozyBug.com has launched a new classified site focused around larger items traditionally more difficult to sell through classifieds. The site hopes to connect buyers and sellers through Swap Spots. Swap spots are local businesses that assist with getting buyer and seller together and may be able t
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Autobytel has launched MyRide.com, a new Automotive with a more focused community experience. Car lovers can use video, audio, multiple pictures, message boards and even blogs to description their favourite cars. The site includes feature articles on popular automotive topics like Hot Rods and
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iMoondo announced yesterday that its launched its video classified product. Video classifieds have been available for awhile in some classified verticals, specifically dating, but the process of creating videos has only recently become easier. Even with the advances in technology its not clear if
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Autotrader.com has launched a new website focused on their Dealer business. One of the key components of the Automotive Classified business is providing Dealers with the ability to effectively advertiser their vehicles. While the typical consumer may advertise and sell a vehicle ever 3-4 years, s
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Darby Sieben recently wrote about , Canada's largest directory launching the ability to save directory listings to a variety of social bookmarking sites. The most interesting component is the ability to post the listing in Facebook. Facebook in Canada is extremely popular and until recently Toron
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DMGT (Daily Mail and General Trust) sold its Irish Buy and Sell for Euro 20 million to Naldin Limited with connections to the Boundary Group. The Boundary Group is an Irish holding company with a reputation for the increasing the rate of return from a variety of businesses. The deal seems like a g
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While not your typically Classified site but MLS.ca or the Multiple Listing Service cannot be ignored. The MLS.ca site ...
FreeAdLists.com has launched a free classified service worldwide. All classified ads are free and can be placed by geog...
In addition to providing a classified republishing system, Edgeio, has announced that they will provide a paid content d...
