Posts Tagged ‘Craigslist’

Wal-Mart Aids Local Newspapers In Fight Against Craigslist

June 4th, 2008

Wal-Mart.com has recently launched a new section to their website called Wal-Mart Classifieds and it could be exactly what local newspapers need to compete with Craigslist.com. Unlike Craiglist, searches on Wal-Mart Classified will reveal ads and listings from a wide array of sources, including local newspapers that make themselves available to Wal-Mart’s network. Local newspapers [...]

New Media Competes with Old — with a Tiny Fraction of the Head Count

January 15th, 2008

When YouTube was purchased by Google in 2006 for more than $1 billion and was broadcasting more than 100 million video clips a day, it did it all with 60 people on the payroll.  A TV network like CBS employs some 23,000.  Craigslist, the online classified ad site winning market share from local newspapers, employed fewer [...]