Los Angeles, CA - April 29, 2010 - Garnering a total of 6 awards, including first place for “Best Presentation of Classified Advertising on the Internet,” El Clasificado proved successful at the latest Association of Free Community Papers event that took place in Tucson, Arizona, from April 22 to 24.

With almost 22 years of continuous work in the Hispanic community, this new award exemplifies El Clasificado’s leadership not only in print but digital media as well. “It is a great honor for us to have our efforts in digital media recognized thanks to a web page that is easy to browse and allows users to quickly find the product or service they seek through well-structured and search friendly categories,” says Martha de la Torre, El Clasificado’s founder and CEO. Elclasificado.com currently has more than 300 categories, featuring classified ads posted in all major Latino cities in the United States and Latin America.

El Clasificado was also awarded second place for “Best Agency Ad-Color” and “Best Sales Presentation” thanks to its newest digital product, the online business directory Pacoslist.com. In addition, El Clasificado’s community advertisements were awarded third place for their excellent illustrative quality.

For the fifth consecutive year, AlBorde.com, a multiplatform company and part of El Clasificado’s network of media products, was awarded first place for “Best Original Artwork,” the result of a design created to promote the “Al Borde Día de los Muertos Arts and Music Festival,” a yearly cultural and musical event that takes place in November. Al Borde’s outstanding editorial content and graphic design was also awarded second place for “Best Internet Home Page.”

El Clasificado is a Hispanic multiplatform media company that provides a marketplace for Spanish speaking Latinos in grassroots communities. With over 18,000 online classified ads and over 3.8 million monthly page views ElClasificado.com is the leading online classifieds portal connecting buyers and sellers in the U.S. Latino market. El Clasificado print is a verified publication with a weekly circulation of 400,000 and is distributed to more than 200 cities in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura and Kern Counties.

Al Borde is Los Angeles’s leading source for news and entertainment in the Latin Alternative rock en Español arena and is rapidly becoming a leading multiplatform company that offers advertising opportunities through sponsored events, section sponsorships, web sites and mobile services.

The Association of Free Community Papers (AFCP) represents publishers of more than 3,000 free-circulation community papers, reaching an average of 45 million homes weekly. The combined circulation of all free papers is larger than all daily newspapers in the United States. This year’s Annual Competition Contest included over 2,000 entries from 138 companies.

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