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Craigslist

Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is a privately held American company operating a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community service, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.

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Dot com company.name: Craigslist Inc.
Dot com company.logo: Craigslist logo.svg
Dot com company.logo_caption: Logo used since 1995
Dot com company.screenshot: Craigslist.png
Dot com company.caption: Screenshot of the main page on January 26, 2008
Dot com company.founder: Craig Newmark
Dot com company.services: Web communications
Dot com company.revenue: US$660M
Dot com company.advertising: None
Dot com company.registration: Optional
Dot com company.language: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Dot com company.company_type: Private
Dot com company.foundation: (incorporated 1999)
Dot com company.location_city: San Francisco, California
Dot com company.location_country: U.S.
Dot com company.area_served: 570 cities in 70 countries
Dot com company.key_people: Jim Buckmaster (CEO)
Dot com company.num_employees: 50 (2017)

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Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list to friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area. It became a web-based service in 1996 and expanded into other classified categories. It started expanding to other U.S. and Canadian cities in 2000. In 2023 Craigslist listed seven hundred cities in 70 countries on its website and generated 560 million visits per month. Despite such global presence, 90% of the website visitors are from the USA. Nevertheless, according to Alexa, Craigslist was the 19th most visited website in the United States in 2022 and #16 in the World in 2023.