According to this article Craigslist sites are generating 3 billion page views every month and running more classified ads than all US newspapers combined. According to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster the biggest problem they have is keeping up:
"We struggle to keep up. Last year overall
growth was 200 per cent, both in terms of page views and listings – and
if it pools to 100 per cent, we would be happy with that."
I can think of a few newspaper people who would LOVE to have that problem.
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