Craig's List Murders Newspapers

Ever heard of Craig's List? If you're in the local newspaper industry you should have! Craigslist started in 1995 as an e-mail newsletter that Craig Newmark sent to friends informing them of San Francisco cultural events. As interest grew, the newsletter became an online flea and job market and an essential community bulletin board. Now almost every major city in the US has its own list and its also growing in Europe too. London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as other UK cities have their own Craigslists.

The list contains small ads on anything from bikes to musical instruments as well as not so small ads for houses, rented apartments, cars and business services. Their are job vacancies, personals, community chat rooms and information on gigs and local events. In fact Craigslist is performing the role traditionally played by the local newspaper and it is said that the Craigslist has bought the local newspaper market to its knees in the US.

However, if you're not in newspapers, Craigslist is a fantastic cost free way of advertising what ever you have to sell. For further information on marketing opportunities on the web take a look at www.ju2.com