Automotive marketing cloud company Orbee Auto recently named Peter Fong as chief revenue officer, stating that Fong could improve the company’s offerings “aimed at enabling automotive dealerships to more easily tackle the complexities of today’s digital marketing landscape.” Fong’s more than 26 years of industry experience includes various executive-level sales, marketing and brand management positions […] [Read More]

On Monday, SiriusXM and General Motors announced an extension of their long-term agreement, continuing a relationship that began back in 2002. As part of the new agreement that now stretches into 2027, GM said it will increase vehicles equipped with SiriusXM to nearly all Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac units beginning with model year 2021. “General […] [Read More]

A company providing a solution primarily to just independent dealerships in Utah received a funding injection to broaden its customer base nationwide and with franchised stores, too. Carketa, the Utah-based developer of the Carketa Recon Software as a Service app and the Carketa Condition Report announced on Thursday that it closed a $1.375 million seed […] [Read More]

Impact Auto Auctions Ltd., the Canadian business unit of digital global marketplace IAA, said on Thursday it was shifting its online auction platform Impact AuctionNow to a “fully digital experience.” IAA developed AuctionNow, which is an adaptive platform used in the Canadian and U.S. markets. IAA says it developed the platform “to allow product enhancement […] [Read More]

Enhanced Facebook automotive inventory ads as a new capability for the Netsertive Platform will help manufacturers, auto groups, and dealerships “embrace the changing face of consumer shopping behavior,” according to Netsertive. Netsertive, a digital advertising platform for multi-location businesses, said that with the enhancements, the platform can “dynamically optimize ad spend across its existing portfolio […] [Read More]

Shift Technologies has added three new members to its planned public-company board of directors following the approval and completion of its pending merger with Insurance Acquisition Corp. Shift, an online used car marketplace, said all three of the new directors are former executives of global consumer companies. Those companies include General Motors, Wealthfront and Hilton. […] [Read More]

Back in June, Vroom launched its initial public offering; a move the online auto retailer called both “exciting” and “unusual.” Vroom made its next investment move this week, announcing that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of its common stock. Vroom is offering 9 million shares of its common stock pursuant to a registration […] [Read More]

A recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers now is part of the executive team at DealerSocket. This week, the software company announced the appointment of Tony Graham as executive vice president and general manager of its Auto/Mate business unit. DealerSocket highlighted that Graham brings a proven track […] [Read More]

It’s even less likely in our current pandemic world that shoppers are walking the lot at your dealership. Dealer.com said it understands that the increase in online car-shopping activity demands an upgraded user experience. To answer the call, Dealer.com is introducing an all-new search results page experience with strategic new upgrades that improve inventory search, […] [Read More]

Dealership service drives can be a beehive of activity, and keeping track of the store’s loaner vehicles can compound potential problems. To help store managers, ARSLoaner and Dominion DMS announced a new partnership last week to provide VUE DMS customers with software to manage their rental and courtesy vehicle operations. Through this new partnership, Dominion […] [Read More]