Brian Blum | March 13, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
Adicio has announced the winners of its 5th annual Best Practices Awards. The Seattle Times, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, VNU Media and Roularta Media Group were...
Brian Blum | March 12, 2009 | Automotive
By Mya Frazier Ah, the joys and travails of the Internet’s metadata. In the pre-digital age, marketers suffered from a dearth of data. Today, it’s the abundance of...
AIM Group | March 12, 2009 | Automotive
Motorpress’ weekly car magazine Autohoje has launched a new online TV project in Portugal. According to multimedia manager Alexandre Rodrigues, Autohoje TV...
AIM Group | March 09, 2009 | Automotive
The tough economic environment has turned the German auto industry into a true “buyer’s market,” in which special offers and big discounts are...
Brian Blum | March 06, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
A new startup allows users to search Oodle, Craigslist and Kijiji (or EBay Classifieds) all at once from a single interface. The oddly named Tinkomatic lets you...
Brian Blum | March 05, 2009 | Automotive
EasyAutoSales.com has launched an automotive community on Facebook. The community allows members to post articles, upload pictures, link to YouTube videos, ask...
Brian Blum | March 02, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Private label classified vendor Gabriels has hooked up with Endeca Technologies to provide Gabriels’ clients with better search. In an announcement, the...
AIM Group | February 27, 2009 | Automotive
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Cox Auto Trader plans to close most or all of its print publications in the U.S. in the next few months. Doug Franklin, the new...
AIM Group | February 26, 2009 | Automotive
Steve Wilhite is the new president & CEO of San Francisco-based Jumpstart Automotive Media. Wilhite, a veteran auto marketer who worked at Volkswagen and...
AIM Group | February 26, 2009 | Automotive
Kelley Blue Book is launching a new ProfitDriver webinar series. The first webinar will highlight “Maximizing Online Lead Generation and Sales Using Kelley...
AIM Group | February 26, 2009 | Automotive, Recruitment
Internet Brands has picked up four new classified and reviews Web sites. In Q4 of last year, the company paid $2.8 million for two recruitment sites –...
AIM Group | February 25, 2009 | Automotive
Brian O’Kelly is the newest market partner for AutoUpLinkUSA, which makes inventory data and vehicle image acquisition software. O’Kelly opens up the...
AIM Group | February 15, 2009 | Automotive
Bilbasen.dk has developed an iPhone application. The application will help users to quickly get a mobile overview of the vehicle market and simplify their search...
AIM Group | February 13, 2009 | Automotive
If you need parts for your car cheap, FrugalMechanic.com aims to help. The Web site boasts over 5 million auto parts from 50 retailers and includes a price...
AIM Group | February 12, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
In recent months and in a down economy, Carlsbad, Calif.-based Adicio has launched more than 40 new sites on its careers, automotive and real estate platforms. The...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Automotive
PureDealer has launched a service to post a dealer’s entire used car inventory to Craigslist. The company will work with all of the major data providers to...
AIM Group | February 03, 2009 | Automotive
The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading national newspaper, has launched a new used-car online vertical, called AutoHound. It’s powered by Boost Motor...
AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Automotive, Recruitment
Was it worth it? Amid the worst recession in recent memory, a trio of classifieds brands – Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com and Cars.com – coughed up a...
AIM Group | January 30, 2009 | Automotive
Here’s a YouTube look at Cars.com’s Super Bowl ad, featuring a young genius named David Abernathy who capable of everything — except buying a car...
AIM Group | January 29, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
The German classified portals operator Scout24 Group, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, has decided it must muster all its power to keep competition at bay. To do...
Linda Karlsson | January 28, 2009 | Automotive, Recruitment
The interest for the emerging markets of Eastern Europe is growing, which is confirmed by Daily Mail and General Trust’s (DMGT) recent activities in the...
Brian Blum | January 27, 2009 | Automotive
Autobytel has ended its evaluation of a possible sale of the company. The company and its financial advisor, RBC Capital Markets will, however, continue to look...
Brian Blum | January 27, 2009 | Automotive
The automotive industry is in chaos. But one classified listing service seems to have the golden touch. Santa Monica, Calif.-based Zag, an auto-buying service that...
Brian Blum | January 26, 2009 | Automotive
When it comes to automotive Web sites, who’s the fairest of them all? According to J.D. Power’s semiannual study: Honda.The company’s...
Brian Blum | January 26, 2009 | Automotive
It’s NADA week in New Orleans and announcements are flying. Here’s one from Cars.com: The addition of Internet chat functionality to its online ad...
Brian Blum | January 23, 2009 | Automotive
Cobalt’s Dealix division has re-launched its Usedcars.com site. The site is highlighting its relationship with Kelley Blue Book for dealer price comparisons....
Brian Blum | January 23, 2009 | Automotive
Cars.com is heading back to the Super Bowl. Its 60-second spot this year, which will air in the second quarter, is called “Lifetime of Confidence.” It...
Brian Blum | January 23, 2009 | Automotive
The Montreal-based Yellow Pages Income Fund, best known for producing phone books, is spending $35-million to buy a 20-per-cent stake in U.S.-based Dealer.com. The...
Brian Blum | January 23, 2009 | Automotive
Some good news on the economy. New car shopper activity is up at KBB.com, the Web site of Kelley Blue Book. Traffic is up 20 percent in January so far compared to...
Brian Blum | January 21, 2009 | Automotive
Cars.com and Carfax have renewed their partnership to give Cars.com shoppers access to Carfax Vehicle History Reports. The companies first linked up in 2005. The...
