Seo, Development and Internet Observatory

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — A classified advertising battle is under way in Latin America, with regional classified portals expanding and evolving in hopes of fighting off major multinational media classified publishers moving in from outside the region.

Opportunities abound, as demonstrated by companies like EBay and Naspers targeting the traditional family-owned media companies in Latin America. The growth of interactive media and smartphones is...

Traffic to U.S. websites that publish escort and body-rub ads hit a record in March, while five of those sites sold at least $3.2 million in online prostitution ads during the month.

March revenue from online prostitution ads increased 2 percent from the previous month and 8.6 percent from March 2011, according to estimates by the AIM Group, and it was just $60,000 short of the record set in January.

There were 6.1 million unique visits to 22 tracked sites, according to...

This isn’t exactly a Canada story, but we were interested to see where Canada placed in terms of property website reach. Property Portal Watch’s Simon Baker put together the list, which found Australia’s RealEstate.com.au in the clear lead, reaching 17 percent of the country’s population of 22 million people. AtHome.lu in Luxembourg and ImmoWeb.be in Belgium also scored high with 14 percent reach.

On the other end of the scale, Japan, China, Brazil and Mexico have relatively...

Online prostitution advertising generated at least $3.1 million in revenue in February on five U.S. websites, an increase of 9.8 percent compared with the same month last year, but a drop of 3.8 percent from a record high in January.

Nearly 80 percent of the revenue was attributed to Backpage.com, which generated at least $2.5 million from the sale of online ads for escorts and body rubs in 23 U.S. cities. February prostitution-ad revenue at Backpage.com increased 36.5 percent...

By Christo Volschenk
AutoScout24 is the biggest auto platform in Europe and the third biggest in the world, measured by the number of professional clients (car dealers) auto portals have. On a global scale, only Ebay Classifieds Group and Schibsted are bigger than AutoScout24.

These interesting facts come from the first annual Autobiz study called “The Top 100 auto portals in the world” released in February. Autobiz does benchmarking...