12. 1. The No 1 player in the field ranks systematically among the top 10
websites, regardless of the category;
2. it is always much bigger than the No 2;
3. it reaps most of the profits in the sector.
4. Portals invest on Paid Search Traffic and monetize it *
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/03/schibsted-online-classifieds
* Mitula’s own statement
Market Overview:
ONLINE CLASSIFIEDS LEADERS
15. mitula
International
Europe: UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, , Russia,
Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Turkey
The Americas: USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia. Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador
Asia-Pacific: India, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malasya, Singapore, Philipines, China,
Indonesia, UAE, Pakistan
Africa: Morrocco. South Africa.
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mitula Key Data (Q1 2014)
Unique browsers: 33 M. / month
Published ads:175 M.
Nº of partner portals: Over
7300
mitula is currently available in
37 countries and 14 languages
16. Mitula’s Business Model
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FREE TO LIST
CPC MODEL TO UPGRADE TO MORE TRAFFIC VIA PAY PER CLICK
ADDITIONAL REVENUE VIA CONTEXTUALIZED TEXT AND DISPLAY ADS
Yakaz: French vertical search engine. It has 5 verticals: jobs, used cars, motorcycles, real estate and miscellaneous. It operates globally, mainly in France, USA, Australia, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Chile. Its business model is drifting from CPC to Geo localized ads for mobiles. And social networks
Donkiz also French. It has 5 verticals: jobs, cars, motorcycles, real estate and miscellaneous. It operates in 45 countries mostly EU and Latam most of the rest of them with a smaller number of ads, Seems to rely solely on Adsense as business model and plenty of crawling.
Divendo is a relative newcomer. Also based in Spain, yet to prove to be a real challenge Trovit or Mitula, smaller team and structure.
Fisgo operates out of Brazil just for Brazil and Portugal for the time being. It has 4 vertcals cars, jobs, real Estate and Boats.
Oodle is a Us-based mega-marketplace to search classifieds, but also to post free classified and acts as a VSE. It has 18 verticals grouped into 6 sections: items, real estate, pets, vehicles, jobs and services. It used to operate in 5 countries. It also trades in Facebook under the name Marketplace
Nestoria perates a business model based on one sector specialization with mandatory inclusion fee or free and paid listing. Operates in 9 countries.
Nuroa, was established in Spain about 3 years ago. It operates out of their main offices in Barcelona. It lists exclusively property classifieds and it has listings in 15 countries. It’s business model is mainly a subscription based model at a CPC rate, though it also hosts Adsense type contextualized text advertising
VSEs filter and give appropriate relevance to the content that might otherwise be lost among the millions of potential results from a generic search in a major search engine.
Aggregators generate additional quality traffic sending qualified users to their partners. Over 15% of the quality inbound traffic of specialized portals comes from VSEs… and growing.
Aggregators have become a powerful and consolidated force on the web.