‘Like I See It’ has already achieved best-seller status based on preorder sales. The book devotes chapters to margin compression, increased OEM control and financial reliance of their dealer partners, technology disruption and consumer preferences for digital retailing.
The fintech firm named Chuck Schofield vice president of dealer sales. The new executive previously served as a regional senior manager for Mercedes–Benz Financial Services. He now joins AutoGravity cofounder Aleks Bogoeski in expanding the firm's dealer network development program.
Cars.com has launched a number of new features and enhanced vehicle inventory pages designed to enable car buyers to quickly and easily find the right car for their needs.
CloudOne and iHeartMedia have agreed to a new advertising deal that will connect CloudOne’s lead-generation platform with iHeart’s network of radio stations.
Autotrader has listed the 10 most-searched vehicles in the site’s 20-year history, which includes more than 2 billion car shoppers and 350 million vehicle listings.
Finbarr O’Neill will retire as J.D. Power’s president and CEO in March 2018, after a decade of leading the company’s successful forays into the B2C and ‘big data’ segments.
Fastlane offers dealers an Amazon-like checkout process for consumers who want to buy their car online. It has chosen Market Scan to provide its ecommerce platform with real-time payment and rebate information from every car manufacturer, bank and credit union in the country.
New data from Cox Automotive reveals that dealership visits and dealer website visits fell by 5% and 3%, respectively, during the holiday weekend compared with the six prior weekends.
Cox Automotive has promoted Patrick Brennan to the role of senior vice president of marketplace for the company’s Inventory Solutions Group.
LotLinx has launched an invitation-only campaign to take its proprietary TURN artificial intelligence platform north of the border.
New Florida locations open inside Adesa Auction in Sanford and Manheim in Orlando are expected to increase buy/sell volume by more than 40% and create a unique remarketing model.
A new partnership combines CarStory’s artificial intelligence-based insights with Flick Fusion’s video marketing platform.
Through the collaboration, dealers using CDK websites will gain exposure for their inventory as well as high-quality leads from CarGurus.com. CDK will also leverage the online automotive marketplace’s anonymized, aggregated data in its suite of automotive digital marketing solutions.
PERQ’s latest Car Buyer Insights Report upends preconceived assumptions about customers, finding that the majority of website visitors are not in the ‘buy’ phase and phone calls are their least desired method of contact.
Former Showroom Logic CSO Matt Weinberg joins Drive Motors as the ecommerce firm’s senior vice president of consumer experience.
