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
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
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
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... Brian Blum | January 20, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
Classified advertising across newspapers in Australia’s Fairfax Media chain fell in December as much as 62 percent from the year before, according to a... AIM Group | January 19, 2009 | Automotive
The UK/Dutch media and information group Reed Elsevier has shelved plans to sell its subsidiary Reed Business Information (RBI), publisher of, among others, the... Brian Blum | January 16, 2009 | Automotive
By Linda Karlsson NettiAuto.com is another story about a tiny little company that came and took the market, this time in Finland. Launched in 2001 as an unknown... AIM Group | January 16, 2009 | Automotive, Horizontals
Ricardo.ch, the dominant consumer-to-consumer auction platform in Switzerland owned by MIH Internet Europe, has decided to open its virtual shop doors to... AIM Group | January 13, 2009 | Automotive
Yahoo Autos has redesigned its research pages for make, model and trim and is adding hundreds of vehicle videos. According to Lesley Kao, the director of Yahoo... 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... 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... 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... 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, Horizontals
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, Horizontals
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 car.”... 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, Horizontals
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.... 