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OLX India Classifieds Huge Growth Attributed to Mobile Apps

September 23, 2013 By Gail Gardner 6 Comments

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OLX is the Craigslist of India and other countries including the U.S. – a next generation of free online classifieds that focuses on mobile. Whether you are in a country they serve (over 105 countries in 40 languages) or not, it is worth examining what they’re doing right to generate enormous growth:

In India alone OLX.in claimed more than 3.2 million downloads.
They had half a billion page views in July 2013.
52% of their overall traffic is from mobile.

OLX Classifieds for Android, Apple iOS

Unlike Craigslist, OLX features images to grab the user’s attention. Most important, though, is their focus on mobile.  Both OLX Classifieds for Android and for Apple iOS provide search results based on the location of the phone.

OLX applications are available for smartphones and tablets

Images appear full screen. To create an ad to sell something you can click on an existing image. Or snap a photo with your phone, fill in the details and it posts instantly. Click to share it with your Facebook friends instantly.

And all of this happens in your native language – which is really important in India where hundreds of languages are spoken. English has arisen  as the common language, but OLX users can choose to view ads in their local dialect.

OLX features all the categories you would typically see on any classified site: jobs, products, vehicles, real estate, services, classes, community and even matrimonial.

Ads can include videos as well as photos for stronger response rates.

OLX Viral Video Marketing

OLX is also using the viral nature of video and releasing advertisements so cute they’ll get shared – again, in multiple languages. Here is an example of one of their videos in English:

OLX India is a case study in positioning your business in front of a coming surge in demand. India consumerism is growing. According to a report by Stat Counter, India is the first country to see mobile devices dominate Web usage, surpassing destop usage in May 2012.

The latest McKinsey report predicts a 5-fold increase in Internet usage in India by 2015 with more than 3/4s of that growth being mobile devices. 

Download one of their mobile apps from the OLX site in your country.  (In the U.S. see OLX.com) Use OLX to look for products or offer your services.

Tired of Craigslist? Check out OLX.
Do you use OLX? Tell us how you like it in the comments.

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Gail Gardner is the founder of GrowMap.com. She is a Small Business Marketing Strategist she mentors small businesses, bloggers, and freelancers. After 23 years in the field with IBM and 5.5 years managing AdWords accounts, her focus shifted to small business marketing strategy. GrowMap.com is listed by Cision as a Top 100 Site for Marketers and has received three Small Business Influencer Awards from Small Business Trends. Named by D&B a Top 50 SMB Influencer on Twitter, you can follow Gail @GrowMap and on LinkedIn.
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  1. joy raymond says

    February 7, 2017 at 11:59 am

    olx is leading in classifieds industry but you can try out other options like ishuads.com and clickindia.com

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  2. Sunita Acharekar says

    March 19, 2016 at 11:15 am

    OLX and Quikr are online classifieds leader in India , but other classifieds site such as locanto and ishuads should also be consider

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  3. Eric says

    June 2, 2014 at 5:32 am

    OLX is so much better than Craigslist, in my opinion. It is much more well designed. I hope it takes off in Texas!

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  4. jeet says

    September 29, 2013 at 2:00 pm

    olx is a very best place to sell and buy things in all over the world i just love olx its best of all the classifieds

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  5. Allii Allee says

    September 24, 2013 at 12:49 pm

    OLX in Pakistan is also getting millions of Page views. and mobile app download might be different from India due to 3G network (as we have no 3G service available).
    And your last question about using OLX. I have sold dozens of things on it with some profit 🙂

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  6. Jones says

    September 24, 2013 at 6:01 am

    OlX is giving a tough competiton to other classified websites with its advanced features , now here comes the OLX mobile app , wow ,, now more easy to operate on Mobile 🙂

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