Sharon Hill | May 29, 2012 | Automotive
By Sharon Hill According to a prominent Canadian publisher, the country's auto dealers, both new and used, are prospering. Unlike the U.S., there doesn't seem to...
Christo Volschenk | May 25, 2012 | Automotive
By Christo Volschenk Reinhard Schmidt, head of automotive intelligence at auto portal Mobile.de, was promoted to the position of director at EBay Motors Germany...
Sharon Hill | May 22, 2012 | Automotive
By Sharon Hill While it's OEM rather than dealer-specific, Yahoo's Plugged In Yahoo Screen reality contest has real possibilities for local as well as national...
Christo Volschenk | May 20, 2012 | Automotive
By Christo Volschenk Munich-based AutoScout24, Germany's second biggest auto portal, is caught in a race with two competitors to roll out its repair service...
Sharon Hill | May 16, 2012 | Automotive
FindingCarBuyers.com, a Cars.com site especially for dealers, showcases its media efforts to bring consumers to Cars.com dealer advertisers. One of the more...
Linda Karlsson | May 10, 2012 | Automotive
By Linda Karlsson Today, EBay relaunched the Danish No. 1 auto classified site BilBasen with a new design. This step is part of the site's effort to get more...
Sharon Hill | May 09, 2012 | Automotive
Boston-based personalized used-car shopping startup MojoMotors.com has expanded beyond its Mass., Rhode Island and Conn. roots, with help from $3 million in new VC...
Sharon Hill | April 26, 2012 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
In its Q1 2012 earnings report, The McClatchy Company reported a loss of $2.1 million, with classified revenue down more than 8 percent year over year. While much...
Sharon Hill | April 20, 2012 | Automotive
By Sharon Hill AutoTrader.com and dealer software provider DealerTrack appear to be planning an early-2013 collaboration to somewhat change the face of online...
Sharon Hill | April 16, 2012 | Automotive
By Sharon Hill Edmunds.com just signed with Contact At Once, joining AutoTrader.com and Cars.com in adding live chat to its dealer listings, with the goal...
Sharon Hill | April 16, 2012 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
Gannett Company, Inc. has just reported that digital revenue was up nearly 7 percent the first quarter of 2012, primarily thanks to recruitment revenue boosts at...
Sharon Hill | April 10, 2012 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
By Sharon Hill Texas-based Green Shoot Media has created AdSupercharger, to digitize print ads. AdSupercharger works with Freedom Communications's Odessa (TX)...
Sharon Hill | April 10, 2012 | Automotive
While there has been little coverage and as yet no confirmation, Dow Jones has reported an upcoming $400 million payment by AutoTrader.com to its shareholders....
Sharon Hill | April 03, 2012 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
Ellington Marketplace, a licensed product of The World Company's Mediaphormedia, is the platform behind Tribune Limited's new Tribune242.com, in Nassau, Bahamas....
Christo Volschenk | April 03, 2012 | Automotive
After 7 years at Mobile.de, Germany's Nr. 1 auto portal, Joachim Muzarek (43), now moves to Autoscout24.de, Germany's Nr. 2 auto portal. Muzarek, who was manager...
Steve Shipside | April 02, 2012 | Automotive
Looks like the U.K. car classifieds market is hotting up. First Manheim buys Motors.co.uk, and now Rupert Murdoch is said to want a piece of the action. News...
Sharon Hill | April 02, 2012 | Automotive, Real Estate, Marketplaces
By Sharon Hill FindTheBest.com founders Kevin O'Conner (who also founded DoubleClick) and Scott Leonard (who runs CeBotics) describe their startup as an unbiased...
Sharon Hill | March 30, 2012 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
By Sharon Hill The long-time lament of newspaper executives has been that while digital ad dollars are coming in, they can't compare to the revenue that was...
Peter M. Zollman | March 27, 2012 | Automotive
By Steve Shipside The dust hasn't settled yet on the Manheim / Motors.co.uk deal announced last week, and both sides are limiting themselves to general statements...
Steve Shipside | March 23, 2012 | Automotive
The French car classifieds market has a new player as general sales portal PriceMinister diversifies into motoring. PriceMinister has 9,000 cars available from the...
Sharon Hill | March 23, 2012 | Automotive
By Sharon Hill Online car shopping assistant CarWoo has added both consumer and dealer features to its vehicle broker service since we last talked with founder and...
Peter M. Zollman | March 21, 2012 | Automotive
Is a battle of the auto-advertising titans in the works? You bet! Manheim, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Cox Enterprises, yesterday announced the acquisition of...
Alessandra Ritondo | March 14, 2012 | Automotive
By Alessandra Ritondo Piubarche.it, owned by Editorial Secondamano (read the Editoriale Secondamano story here) is one of Italy's most popular portals focused on...
Sharon Hill | March 09, 2012 | Automotive, Real Estate, Marketplaces
In its 4th quarter 2011 and year-end revenue report, Gatehouse Media announced an increase of digital advertising revenue of more than 26 percent quarter over...
Christo Volschenk | March 09, 2012 | Automotive
By Christo Volschenk AutoScout24 is the biggest auto platform in Europe and the third biggest in the world, measured by the number of professional clients (car...
Sharon Hill | February 23, 2012 | Automotive, Real Estate
Journal Communication's Q411 earnings report delivered unsurprising news that classified advertising revenue decreased 18.6 percent YOY largely due to a decrease...
Sharon Hill | February 16, 2012 | Automotive, Marketplaces
New Price Markdown Feature Enables Dealers to Highlight Affordability of Their New Car Inventory on AutoTrader.com ATLANTA, Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --...
Sharon Hill | February 15, 2012 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
By Sharon Hill The Austin (TX) American-Statesman's Statesman.com is running an intriguing viewer contest that unfortunately missed some of its potential for...
Christo Volschenk | February 14, 2012 | Automotive, Real Estate
The Serbian subsidiary of Swiss-based Ringier AxelSpringer (RAS) acquired Mojauto.rs, the second biggest auto portal in Serbia, for an undisclosed amount, the...
Steve Shipside | February 13, 2012 | Automotive
AutoScout24, the biggest car site in Belgium, claims to host three out of every four second-hand cars for sale in the country. Now it is joining forces with TTY,...