What Is Kijiji? Is Craigslist Doomed?
Have you guys seen this? Ebay has been increasingly taking ground on their new brainchild kijiji, a free classifieds site in an attempt to compete with Craigslist.
Launched last summer, it still has time to grow, but take note of this, since last summer, the U.S. site has grown from 362,000 visitors in July, 2007 to 1.8 million in January, according to comScore!! Below are some charts showing their growth. The bottom chat however shows they still have some time to compete with Craigslist, but they have a good thing going.
Hey Tim, what do you think? I bet you like Craigslist?
They still have a ways to catch up to Craigslist.. (Craigslist in Green - kijiji in Red)
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I have to be honest, for now, Craigslist is still my preferred (I actually use Craigshelper - http://www.craigshelper.com ) free classified listing. While Kijiji does have a nice GUI, and does show some promise (and plenty of $$$ from ‘mama’) it hasn’t ‘earned’ the grass roots, trusted “local” community feel yet. As always, just my two cents.