AVÍZO MEDIA

What AVÍZO MEDIA does

AVÍZO MEDIA, a.s. is a privately held Czech joint-stock company headquartered in Ostrava that operates avizo.cz, a free online classifieds marketplace serving consumers, small businesses, and a handful of larger enterprise advertisers across the Czech Republic. The company was founded in 1990 as a print classified advertising newspaper publisher and operated in print for three decades before discontinuing its newspaper in 2020 and transitioning fully to the online platform. The platform enables private individuals, sole traders, and select enterprises (such as the used-car dealer AAA Auto and the real-estate agency Bidli reality) to post unlimited free listings across a horizontal category taxonomy covering vehicles, real estate, jobs, electronics, furniture, household appliances, children's goods, sports, clothing, services, and dating.

Name

AVÍZO MEDIA

Legal name

AVÍZO MEDIA, a.s.

Website

https://avizo.cz

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AVÍZO MEDIA, a.s. is a Czech online classifieds marketplace operating avizo.cz since 1990, serving private individuals, small businesses, and select Czech enterprises with free unlimited listings and paid premium placement across vehicles, real estate, jobs, and consumer goods.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ostrava

HQ country

Czechia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Premium listing services: Paid promotional services for sellers wanting to increase visibility of their listings. Services include TOP positioning and VIP listings.
2. VIP Positioning: Premium placement of listings at the top of categories. Priced at 270 Kč per week per listing.
3. Náš TIP featured listings: Featured listings displayed across all categories for maximum exposure

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

AVÍZO operates a free online classifieds marketplace (AVÍZO.cz) covering vehicles, real estate, jobs, electronics, furniture, services, and consumer goods across the Czech Republic. Users post unlimited free listings with no character or photo limits, and optional premium paid services (VIP Pozice, VIP Inzerát, Náš TIP) provide top-of-category or cross-category visibility at 270 CZK per week per listing.

Product overview

AVÍZO.cz is a free online classifieds platform (online bazaar) that enables private individuals and businesses to post unlimited advertisements across diverse categories including vehicles, real estate, jobs, electronics, furniture, children's items, sports equipment, clothing, services, and white goods/appliances. The platform operates as a unified marketplace with optional premium services including Náš TIP for cross-category visibility, VIP Pozice/Inzerát for priority placement, and Hlídací pes for price alert notifications. The core offering is the free posting of classified ads without character or photo limits, complemented by location-based search across all Czech regions. The company also organizes offline Avízo mini bazar events and provides educational guides for safe trading.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Avízo mini bazar: Event organized by AVÍZO for selling or buying items for children

Products and services

• AVÍZO.cz Online Classifieds Platform Free online classifieds marketplace for private individuals and businesses to post unlimited advertisements (no character or photo limits) across 17+ categories covering vehicles, real estate, jobs, electronics, furniture, children's items, pets, clothing, services and trades, and household goods. Nationwide coverage across the Czech Republic with city-level browsing and search.
• VIP Pozice (VIP Position) Paid premium placement service that displays the seller's listing at the top of selected categories in 5 rotating positions for enhanced visibility. Priced at 270 CZK per VIP position per week (including VAT), transactional/per-listing billing.
• VIP Inzerát (VIP Ad) Premium visibility service for individual classified ads, highlighting selected listings in VIP positions within specific categories. Starting from 270 CZK per week per listing, pay-as-you-go transactional billing.
• Náš TIP (Our Tip – Premium Positioning) Cross-category featured-listing service for sellers who want maximum reach across the entire AVÍZO.cz marketplace. The advertisement is displayed across all categories, distinguishing it from category-scoped VIP Pozice/VIP Inzerát placements.

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Hyperinzerce: Hyperinzerce.cz is a major Czech horizontal classifieds site with a very similar category structure (vehicles, real estate, jobs, electronics) and premium placement model, making it a near-direct substitute for AVÍZO.
• Aukro: Aukro is the largest Czech auction and marketplace platform. It overlaps with AVÍZO on used goods, electronics, and collectibles, and competes for sellers considering paid listing models.
• Bazoš: Bazoš is the leading free classifieds platform in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, directly competing with AVÍZO in autos, real estate, jobs, and general goods with a similar free-listing-plus-premium model.
• Sbazar (Seznam.cz): Sbazar is the classifieds property of Seznam.cz, the dominant Czech portal, giving it massive bundled traffic. It competes head-on with AVÍZO across all major categories and benefits from cross-promotion with Sreality.cz and other Seznam verticals.

Broad incumbents

• Heureka Group: Heureka is the dominant Czech price comparison and marketplace platform. It is more retail-oriented but competes for advertising budgets and seller attention that might otherwise go to AVÍZO.
• Craigslist: Craigslist is the archetypal free horizontal classifieds site and serves as a global structural peer to AVÍZO in terms of business model, category breadth, and freemium with paid placement monetization.
• Marktplaats (Adevinta): Marktplaats, part of the Adevinta-owned classifieds group, is a major European horizontal classifieds operator. While primarily Dutch, it represents the same business model and strategic benchmarks relevant to AVÍZO.
• OLX (Czech operations): OLX operates one of the largest global horizontal classifieds networks and has a Czech presence, competing for the same C2C and SMB advertiser base as AVÍZO with much greater scale and capital.

Emerging players

• Sreality.cz (Seznam.cz): Sreality is the leading Czech real estate vertical owned by Seznam.cz. It overlaps with AVÍZO's real estate category and demonstrates the verticalization pressure that horizontal players like AVÍZO face.
• TipCars: TipCars is a Czech vertical focused on used and new vehicle listings. It directly competes with AVÍZO's auto-moto category, illustrating the vertical-specialist threat to AVÍZO's horizontal model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/avizocz
• Facebookfacebook.com/avizocz
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/avizo-cz

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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