Date published: 01.09.08 - not release date

Gumtree.com for all your editorial needs

We at Cow PR taken over the press office for Gumtree.com, the UK's number one website for local community classifieds.

Because Gumtree.com is all about the wide diversity of people who visit and use the site, we are an excellent resource to talk about lifestyle trends and alternative approaches to urban living. We’ve also got great human-interest stories from home swaps to finding love and long-lost relatives.

•Gumtree.com is known all too often as the leading website for jobs and flat rental / shares, but that represents only a small part of the story.

•People don’t just come onto Gumtree.com to find a job or a flat, but everything from a date, tennis partner, nanny for their children or to sell or exchange skills and goods.

•The site has gown rapidly and now has more than one million unique users per month - including 55,000 Londoners every day.

•The Gumtree.com community offers an alternative, individualistic way of leading your life - we call it the Gumtree economy - because you do not need to deal with businesses, simply other people.

•And it is not about Aussies! Yes, Gumtree.com was originally founded 5 years ago for Antipodeans in a new country or UK city, but the model has proved so universally popular that today it is being used by anyone and everyone to fulfill their local needs.

With such a diverse user base in each local area, the Gumtree.com press office is a valuable media resource.

We can offer informed comment and case studies across many areas:

Property and relocation: selling your home without an estate agent, flat share, flat rental, house swapping, moving to a new town or city in the UK or beyond.

Recruitment: We have more web traffic than any other recruitment website. The user base has made Gumtree.com a magnet for recruiters looking for skilled and trained workers without going through a conventional agency.

Dating: No one wants to be alone and once you've got a roof over your head and a pay slip, there's lots of people in the community who are finding like minds to cuddle up to.

Community: Need a bass player for your band, a left back for your football team or some girlies for a girly night out? Gumtree.com is a resource to find like-minded people for everything from making music to sharing a pint in the pub.

Skills swap: My cooking skills for your salsa lessons? French for Mandarin? The Gumtree economy helps people to barter their talents in exchange for tutoring in a different sphere.

Gummy Mummies: Gardeners, nannies, cleaners, personal trainers, yoga partners. Gumtree.com is a one-stop shop for Gummy mummies who can plan and organise their lives through the services and like-minded people on the site.

For further info please contact us at gumtree@cowpr.com, phone 0207 684 6950 or feel free to drop onto the site at www.gumtree.com.

Mark Perkins
Gumtree Press Office

About Gumtree.com
•Gumtree.com was created in London in 2000 and now covers 46 cities across 6 countries
•There are approximately 70 million page impressions every month and in the region of a million visitors a month
•The website receives more than 6,000 new listings every day
•Gumtree.com is one of London’s busiest jobs websites with more than 500 new job ads being posted every day. Interesting job offers include celebrity butler
•Gumtree.com receives more internet traffic than any other UK recruitment site, according to Amazon.com’s research wing, Alexa.com
•More than 25,000 new rooms are advertised a month, which means 10,000 rooms are rented a month through Gumtree.
•Recent category additions to Gumtree include: Gumtastic ads, rideshare, pets and voluntary work
•The website has 70 job categories of which only 30 are charged for, and at £19.95 per ad posting is about 90% cheaper than its nearest rival