LiveDeal.com and Vast.com Form Relationship; LiveDeal to Feature Millions of Listings From Vast.com Across Key Vertical Categories.

Relationship Combines Vast.com's Aggregation Model with LiveDeal's Best-of-Breed Classifieds Platform to Create a Superior Classifieds Solution

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- LiveDeal.com, (http://www.livedeal.com/), one of the nation's leading free local online classifieds sites, announced today it has formed a relationship with Vast.com, the largest and fastest-growing aggregator of online classifieds content. With this relationship, the millions of listings on Vast.com -- including automobiles, vacation rentals, real estate, pets, merchandise, and a number of additional key vertical categories, will be seamlessly integrated into the LiveDeal platform. This relationship creates a wealth of new inventory for buyers visiting the LiveDeal.com site seeking items in their local areas.

According to comScore Media Metrix, online classifieds is one of the Internet's fastest growing categories, with LiveDeal.com ranking among the category leaders. While the online classifieds category as a whole grew at 47 percent over the past year, LiveDeal's growth in that same period was 104 percent.

"By combining Vast.com's aggregation model with LiveDeal's best-of-breed online classifieds platform, we're creating a hybrid model with a consistent user experience that will enable us to offer a superior classifieds solution that, importantly, builds community," said Rajesh Navar, founder and CEO of LiveDeal. "This is one more reason consumers can turn to LiveDeal.com as the Internet's 'must-visit' local classifieds site for buying and selling in their local areas."

"Vast.com provides tens of millions of listings from nearly a hundred thousand sites," said Naval Ravikant, CEO of Vast.com. "We're excited to combine the Vast feeds with the LiveDeal platform, which will provide consumers access to the largest database of searchable classified listings on the web. These millions of listings will enable LiveDeal users to find exactly the items they seek, regardless of where they appear."

About Vast.com

Vast.com maintains and distributes the largest database of fresh online classifieds, representing tens ...