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 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 (incorporated 1999) |
| Headquarters | , U.S.[1] |
| Area served | 570 cities in 70 countries |
| Founder(s) | Craig Newmark |
| Key people | Jim Buckmaster (CEO) |
| Services | Web communications |
| Revenue | US$660M [2] |
| Employees | 50 (2017) |
| URL | www |
| Advertising | None |
| Registration | Optional[3] |
| Launched | 1995 |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | Perl[4] |
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]
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- ^ 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.
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- ^ Lingel, J. An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of craigslist. (Princeton University Press, 2020).