Recently. The New York Times’ media critic David Carr took a look at Backpage.com, the Village Voice Media’s classified ads site. The website features a section labeled “adult” with categories, such as “escort” and “strippers & strip clubs,” that has received a lot of attention iin the past couple of months, as there have been instances in which the section more…
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Backpage.com has responded to a request from attorneys general in Washington state and across the country. They want the online classifieds site to do more to protect kids who are being forced into prostitution. KUOW’s Sara Lerner reports. more…
Backpage.com, a leading online classifieds site, today announced the immediate suspension of certain areas of its personals and adult sections of the site while it continues to develop technologies, features and programs specifically tailored to prevent the misuse of the site and its services. Backpage also calls for the creation of a multi-stakeholder national task force to create best practices in the online classifieds industry to help stop the ability to advertise illegally. Backpage looks to work with its industry brethren like YellowPages.com, Twitter, Yelp, Youtube, and Eros.com, as well as state Attorneys General, law enforcement, and child advocacy groups in solving the challenges facing today’s online classified and personals industry. more…
Some 21 state attorneys general have asked online classifieds service Backpage.com to remove adult services listings from its site, arguing the service is often used to promote prostitution and human trafficking””including trafficking in children. However, at least for the moment, Backpage.com is refusing to comply with the request, saying it works with law enforcement to prosecute anyone using the site illegally. more…
Now that Craigslist has removed its adult-services ads category, the company could lose as much as $15 million this year, according to a new study. A report from classified ad research firm AIM Group suggests the site was poised to grab up to $45 million from ads for sex services like prostitution or escort services in 2010, before the firm scrapped the longtime ad category.
In August, AIM found that Craigslist led ad sites in revenue generation from prostitution and other sex service ads. Indeed, its projected revenue for 2010 rose from $36.3 million when measured in April, to $44.6 million when tracked again by AIM in August, representing growth of around 22 percent. more…
Phoenix, AZ. (PRWEB) — Backpage.com releases numbers that demonstrate a significant increase in online small business classified postings over the last few months. Postings in service and product categories have increased by 31 percent in the last six months. The largest increases in postings were related to therapeutic massage and health and wellness services; doubling in the last month. more…
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) — Backpage.com, a leading online classifieds website, announces new and enhanced service offerings that make posting advertisements easier and more effective for users.
Free job postings, sponsor advertisements, multiple city posting, auto reposting and relationships with traditional print media are unique to Backpage.com and contribute to the website’s increasing popularity. more…
How to make a Flickr pic or jpg link to your website on your Craigslist or Backpage ad.
This video shows you a neat little trick on how to make a Flickr pic on Craigslist redirect
to your website of choice. more…
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) March 13, 2009 — Though statistics are often misleading, nearly a quarter-billion people can’t be wrong. Backpage.com, a 5 year-old classifieds website originally created by the folks at the Phoenix New Times, has developed into the national online community’s preeminent resource for everything bought, sold, serviced, rented, and offered for work, as evidenced by roughly 216 million visitors last year. more…