Not too many moves this week. kijiji Tokio is heading its way up to the top, now arriving number 2 in total ranking. Vivastreet Paris lost a little after last weeks hype, but still fighting for the Paris crown. 2 categories, community and housing are already lost to kijiji, but 4 categories remain, including the strong marketplace category with firstly more than 10.000 listings! Thats a big bunch! Only Craiglist Sanfran is doing better… ten times to be honest. The place where it all began is showing a big performance on the lisiting rankings, but nearly no growth at all (4% since April). San Fran’s Craiglist seems to finally be at the level, that an free-ad site is able to reach.
All figures at a glance // All articles at a glance // Explanation of the counting method (German)
Am 30. Juni 2005 um 13:43 Uhr
Schon gesehen? Kinjiji übernimmt Opusforum: http://florida.blogs.com/florida/2005/06/opusforum_sold_.html
Am 1. Juli 2005 um 09:01 Uhr
Ohh, ohh, very interesting.
This shows again and again two things:
1) Kijiji is doing everything with money & power. Kijiji is chicken-hearted, they are not competing. As in the auction market they are simply buying.
2) To labell a website as “community” means nothing but another marketing trick. I know only one exception: Craigslist!