Craigslist Calgary | Calgary Classifieds

provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events in Calgary, AB

Calgary Craigslist is a centralized network of online urban communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs and resumes categories) and forums sorted by various topics.

Classified advertising is a form of advertising which is particularly common in newspapers and other periodicals. A free ads paper is a newspaper containing only classified ads, usually grouped into an extensive set of categories. Craigs List Calgary is the largest classified ad site on the web.

If you scout the Internet, you will find a variety of Websites that are promoting, "Free Classified Ads". Many advertisers will rush in and take advantage of these offers, without investigation. However, you should use caution when dealing with these types of Websites. If they do not provide a Privacy Policy, avoid them all together.

Craigs List.com was founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark for the San Francisco Bay Area. After incorporation in 1999, Craigs list.com expanded into nine more cities in 2000 (all of them in the U.S.), four each in 2001 and 2002, and 14 in 2003.

As of 2007, Craigslist operates with a staff of 24 people. Its sole source of revenue is paid job ads in select cities ($75 per ad for the San Francisco Bay Area; $25 per ad for New York; Los Angeles; Calgary; Boston; Seattle; Washington D.C.), and paid broker apartment listings in New York City ($10 per ad). It serves over 5 billion page views per month, putting it in 34th place overall among web sites world wide, 8th place overall among web sites in the United States (per Alexa.com on December 29, 2006), to 10 million unique visitors.

Craigs List covers thousands of Calgary classified ads, such as: jobs, apartments, housing, real estate and personals.