Craigslist

Craigslist Inc.
	Logo used since 1995
	Screenshot of the main page on January 26, 2008
Type of business	Private
Type of site	Classifieds, forums
Available in	English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Founded	1995; 29 years ago (incorporated 1999)
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Area served	570 cities in 70 countries
Founder(s)	Craig Newmark
Key people	Jim Buckmaster (CEO)
Services	Web communications
Revenue	US$660M
Employees	50 (2017)
URL	www.craigslist.org
Advertising	None
Registration	Optional
Launched	1995; 29 years ago
Current status	Active
Written in	Perl

Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is a privately held American company^[5] operating a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community service, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.

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 had ca. 560 million visits per month.^[6] Despite such global presence, 90% of the website visitors are from the USA.^[7] Nevertheless, according to Alexa, Craigslist was the #19 most visited website in the United States in 2022 and #16 in the World in 2023.^[8]

^ "craigslist – Company Overview". Hoover's. Archived from the original on January 12, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2008.
^ Yltaevae, L. (November 30, 2022). "Annual revenue of classified website Craigslist from 2018 to 2021". statista. Archived from the original on April 1, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
^ Jay Leon. "Why Does a Person Need a Craigslist Account?". Small Business - Chron.com. Chron. Archived from the original on September 19, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
^ Roger Chapman. "Top 40 Website Programming Languages". roadchap.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
^ Salinas, Sara (January 24, 2019). "Craigslist is raking in $1 billion a year, according to one researcher's estimates". CNBC. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Archived from the original on September 28, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
^ https://firstsiteguide.com/how-many-websites/
^ Lingel, J. An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of craigslist. (Princeton University Press, 2020).
^ Lingel, J. An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of craigslist. (Princeton University Press, 2020).

[1] "craigslist – Company Overview". Hoover's. Archived from the original on January 12, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2008.

[2] Yltaevae, L. (November 30, 2022). "Annual revenue of classified website Craigslist from 2018 to 2021". statista. Archived from the original on April 1, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2023.

[3] Jay Leon. "Why Does a Person Need a Craigslist Account?". Small Business - Chron.com. Chron. Archived from the original on September 19, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2018.

[roadchap-4] Roger Chapman. "Top 40 Website Programming Languages". roadchap.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2011.

[5] Salinas, Sara (January 24, 2019). "Craigslist is raking in $1 billion a year, according to one researcher's estimates". CNBC. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Archived from the original on September 28, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2023.

[6] ttps://firstsiteguide.com/how-many-websites/

[7] Lingel, J. An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of craigslist. (Princeton University Press, 2020).

[8] Lingel, J. An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of craigslist. (Princeton University Press, 2020).

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