Amerikaanse kranten uit de San Francisco Bay area schreeuwen (binnenshuis) moord en brand. Craigslist, een bedrijf dat voor 25 procent in handen is van eBay, snoept tussen de 50 en 60 miljoen dollar advertentieinkomsten van ze af, schrijft InternetWeek:
"(...) Craigslist, which is a quarter owned by EBay Inc., has grown to a billion page-views a month. (...) Earlier this year, market-tracking company Corzen Inc. reported that leading online job boards nearly tripled the revenue growth of traditional newspaper classified ads in the third quarter.Revenue growth at national online boards Careerbuilder, Monster and HotJobs was 47.4 percent in the quarter, compared with the same period last year, versus 15.9 percent for newspapers's recruitment category in classified ads, the New York company said.
In terms of revenues, however, online boards were way behind newspapers, $217 million versus $1.1 billion. (...) "