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| Type of business | Private company |
|---|---|
Type of site | Classifieds |
| Available in | Russian |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Owner | Kismet Capital Group |
| Founder(s) | Jonas Nordlander and Filip Engelbert |
| Key people | Ivan Tavrin (owner, since 2022),[1] Vladimir Pravdivy (CEO) |
| Services | E-commerce, web communications |
| Employees | 2200+ |
| Parent | Kismet Capital Group |
| URL | www |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2007 |
| Current status | Active |
Avito is a Russian classified advertisements website with sections devoted to general goods for sale, jobs, real estate, personals, cars for sale, and services. Avito is the most popular classifieds site in Russia and is the biggest classifieds site in the world.[2][3][4]
In January 2019, it had more than 10.3 million unique daily visitors. On average, Avito's users post more than 500,000 new ads daily, and the overall ads are about 60 million active listings.[5] In 2015–2019, Russian Forbes put the service in third place in its list of the most expensive companies of Runet, estimating it at $4.9 billion.[6]
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kismet22was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Top Websites Ranking for Classifieds in the world". Similarweb.
- ^ "Avito Named World's Most-visited Classified Ads Site by Similarweb" (Press release). Business Wire.
- ^ Shu, Catherine. "Russia's Avito Becomes World's 3rd Biggest Classifieds Site After $570M Deal With Naspers".
- ^ "Naspers takes full control of Russian classifieds site Avito in $1.16B deal". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
- ^ "«Яндекс» возглавил рейтинг самых дорогих компаний Рунета". Forbes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-03-15.