Brian Blum | January 08, 2009 | Automotive
The weekly classified car magazine Exchange & Mart in the U.K. is ceasing publication of its print edition in February and will continue as an online only...
AIM Group | January 06, 2009 | Automotive
Sales of cars directly via the Internet have been growing in the U.S., albeit slowly. In France though, the trend is positively booming. According to a study by...
AIM Group | January 06, 2009 | Automotive
New York’s Cablevision and Newsday are pooling listings to create a new cross platform automotive classified service. Cablevision’s “Optimum...
AIM Group | January 05, 2009 | Automotive
Enthusiast auto classifieds site Mautofied.com reached a sales milestone when the 10,000th custom auto changed hands in 2008, representing a 58 percent sales...
joe michaud | January 05, 2009 | Automotive
Advertising Age picks up on one of the risks of behavioral targeting: As Tracking Proliferates, Web Publishers Are Left Out. As Ad Age sees it, the...
Brian Blum | December 23, 2008 | Automotive
New and notable A small startup is mashing up automotive classified ad listings with social networking. VLane allows users to get feedback from their personal...
Brian Blum | December 22, 2008 | Automotive
If you’re looking to buy a used car that’s had only one previous owner, Adicio has a new feature that can help. The company has teamed up with Carfax...
Brian Blum | December 19, 2008 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Jonathan Miller is not a candidate for the CEO job at Yahoo and isn’t pushing to buy the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. The former chief of...
admin3 | December 16, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Recently I've reviewed a number of small newspapers' websites and strategies, particularly around classifieds. As you might expect, there are a few common threads....
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Automotive
Kelley Blue Book and FreeCreditReport.com have inked a deal allowing visitors to KBB.com to access their personal credit reports. Kelley says that in a slowing...
Brian Blum | December 10, 2008 | Automotive
Cobalt’s Dealix division announced that the company’s Phone Leads 2.0 product has signed up its 1000th dealer. Phone Leads 2.0 is a pay-per-call...
Brian Blum | December 10, 2008 | Automotive
Got a flyhoopty? Even know what a flyhoopty is? We didn’t until we ran across a site which explains that flyhoopty is slang for “cool used...
bruce oren | December 09, 2008 | Automotive
Caroline Little, who ran WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive during its great period of...
Brian Blum | December 08, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate
Reply.com used to be a high-flying classified advertising portal, placing both automotive and home listings under one roof. The San Ramon-based company has now...
Brian Blum | December 05, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Marketplaces
Mascus, an online classified portal focused on used heavy machines and trucks, has signed deals to expand its presence in Europe and Africa. In South Africa,...
Brian Blum | December 04, 2008 | Automotive
Cars.com has put together an amusing list of some of the worst and most frustrating features about cars. It’s tongue in cheek and worth giving a quick read....
Brian Blum | December 03, 2008 | Automotive
Cars.com is gone in Rockford. Register Star Media (owner of the Rockford Registar Star) has launched a new automotive site, RockfordWheels.com, which lists 2,300...
Peter M. Zollman | November 26, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Newspaper advertising revenues totaled $8.9 billion in the third quarter of 2008, down 18.1 percent from the same quarter last year, according to figures released...
AIM Group | November 25, 2008 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Portuguese classified-ad print publisher Ocasião -- part of Controlinveste S.A. -- intends to launch three vertical-search sites by the end of the year, focused...
Brian Blum | November 25, 2008 | Automotive
Good news from Detroit…sort of. Car sales are down but online advertising is up. A study by Nielsen Online AdRelevance said that online ad spending by the...
Linda Karlsson | November 24, 2008 | Automotive, Marketplaces
U.K. Internet users are increasingly looking for second hand goods online, according to a new study by Hitwise. In the 12 months to October U.K. Internet searches...
AIM Group | November 14, 2008 | Automotive
Forbes is shutting down its automotive site and laying off its staff, according to a tidbits in blogs from Gawker, Silicon Alley Insider and confirmed by...
Brian Blum | November 14, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
And the numbers just keep on dropping. Now it’s Lee Enterprises’ turn.For the year, the Davenport, Iowa-based community newspaper publisher swung to a...
Brian Blum | November 13, 2008 | Automotive
Burst Media has launched new behavioral targeting program targeting national auto marketers and dealers on the Web. The idea is that Burst will track consumer...
Brian Blum | November 12, 2008 | Automotive
Oodle has partnered with The Car Connection to power the classified ads that appear on High Gear Media's flagship site. Visitors to The Car Connection site can...
AIM Group | November 11, 2008 | Automotive
For the next three months, AutoTrader.com is testing a Vehicle Purchase Program in Kansas City, whereby private auto sellers can receive a purchase offer online....
AIM Group | November 11, 2008 | Automotive, Recruitment
Despite a slumping automotive sector, business is good at Cars.com. It must be. The company is buying a 60-second spot in the second quarter of Super Bowl XLIII,...
Brian Blum | November 10, 2008 | Automotive
Oodle today announced a deal with High Gear Media, formerly the Car Advisory Network, that puts classifieds on vehicle-review site TheCarConnection.com.As part of...
Brian Blum | November 10, 2008 | Automotive
Colbalt-owned Dealix which provides leads for automotive dealers and manufacturers, has rolled out a new version of its telephonic lead-gen system on its...
Brian Blum | November 10, 2008 | Automotive
EBay Motors’ recent decision to offer free listings to individual sellers might sound like a reaction to the free posts from competitors such as Craigslist, Geebo...
