A craigslist controversy uncovering the ethical dilemmas of denver s online transactions evaluating the competition craigslist has faced increasing competition from other online classifieds platforms such as facebook marketplace and ebay's classifieds. The company was so successful that it even became a scapegoat for the crisis facing online journalism. Many american media companies saw craigslist’s increasing success as a cause of the decline in their own revenue from classifieds. To try to fill this gap, we study the impact on us newspapers of the introduction of craigslist, the world’s largest online platform for classified advertising, which disrupted this formerly lucrative niche for many newspapers (djourelova et al. 2021). 2 combining information on the staggered expansion of craigslist across us counties between. With craigslist the de facto monopoly in online classifieds, can facebook disrupt things and drive attention to the facebook marketplace? In this paper we investigate the impact on us newspapers of the introduction of craigslist (henceforth cl), the world’s largest online platform for classified ads. Cl’s entry disrupted the market for classified ads, formerly a lucrative niche for newspapers (seamans and zhu,2014; A dominate the digital landscape a step by step roadmap for clseattle success comparison with competitors the site has faced increasing challengers from other classifieds websites such as the marketplace on facebook and ebay. Craigslist earns a fraction of what ebay does from classifieds listings. And craigslist, with its proven approach, its dominance of the u. s. Market and its relatively new commitment to. Why craigslist wins, big time i analyzed one week ago, with an inside preview of the new facebook marketplace classifieds offering. We find that, following the entry of craigslist, local newspapers reliant on classified ads experienced a significant decline in the number of management and newsroom staff, including in the number of editors covering politics. Over the past two decades, craigslist has maintained its market share in the online classified space, despite neglecting to make any major updates to its interface or optimize for mobile.
