The growth of digital retailing is broad-based in the auto business.   It runs the gamut from startups offering consumers peer-to-peer or direct-to-consumer online car-buying, to companies like Cox Automotive and CDK Global helping facilitate digital retailing at dealerships. And even certain pieces of the car-buying process are becoming more digitalized — for instance, consumers being […] [Read More]

Online car-buying platform Beepi is now offering nationwide delivery, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. Before this latest expansion, Beepi had been operating in a few handfuls of markets. Now, the entire U.S., essentially, will have access to Beepi. “While we’ve been active in 16 markets, we’ve been inundated with questions from people […] [Read More]

Roadster will be making its e-commerce platform available to dealers as a white-labeled solution, the company said Thursday. Through the platform, called Express Storefront, dealers will be able to put the entire car-buying process online, “from merchandising through home delivery,” Roadster said. It will initially be available just for new cars, but Roadster plans to […] [Read More]

Officials highlighted on Wednesday that CDK Used Lot Intelligence now will offer live auction capability for dealers as part of a new relationship with TradeRev, a mobile vehicle appraisal and auctioning system for dealers. The companies explained the new integration can enable dealers to efficiently and effectively receive instant, live bids at the point of […] [Read More]

Arriving just a couple of days after video advertising technology firm Pixability detailed how many monthly views automotive content on YouTube generated in 2015, social video analytics company OpenSlate pinpointed the Top 10 automotive brands that enjoyed an average subscriber growth rate of 27.3 percent in January. OpenSlate indicated general automotive content YouTube channels generated […] [Read More]

Carvana has added a physical location in its 14th market: Richmond, Va. This is the online car retailer’s first location in Virginia, expanding its footprint that already included a wide swath of the South farther up the East Coast.   Carvana now provides “as-soon-as next-day delivery” to the following markets: — Atlanta — Austin, Texas […] [Read More]

eBay will be launching a pilot program with online retailer Vroom in the third quarter that will allow Vroom to make formal cash offers on cars listed by select private sellers on eBay Motors. Tony Hoang, head of vehicles for eBay Motors North America, said in a news release: “eBay continues to enhance its vehicles […] [Read More]

Imagine if you could choose the sales associate from whom you will buy your next car — before you even set foot in the dealership. With Surge Curve, you can do just that. The web-based "meet the sales team" tool launched Tuesday with 12 beta active sites, and the company is seeking 12 additional retailers to […] [Read More]

It’s more than just videos of cats playing the piano or Auto-Tuned oddballs from the local news. YouTube has become “the powerhouse platform for video,” including automotive content, says video advertising technology firm Pixability. The company’s Get Behind the Wheel: Auto in the Premium Video Ecosystem study released Monday said that auto-related YouTube content generated […] [Read More]

Before Beepi launched in April 2014 as “one of the first ways to completely buy or sell a car online,” questions remained as to whether the general public was ready for this type of platform, says head of product Tyler Infelise. “But, resoundingly, the answer was, ‘yes, they were,” Infelise said in a phone interview […] [Read More]