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Craigslist shuttering its Adult Services section has been a boon for Village Voice Media, the New York Observer reports.
Backpage.com, the classifieds site owned by VVM, is now the only popular site still willing to run barely disguised ads for prostitution. In the month following the disappearance of Craigslist’s Adult Services, visitor numbers have soared. According to Quantcast, the site experienced a half million person bump in traffic, becoming the Web’s top publisher of escort ads, and The Aim Group estimated that Backpage made $2.1
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