June 04, 2013
VW China knows a thing or two about listening to its customers. The truly epic People's Car Project campaign is a testament to that.
April 08, 2013
The automaker teams with innovative photographer Carl Warner to demonstrate that there's more to the new Volkswagen Golf than meets the eye.
April 01, 2013
In the luxury car market, Lincoln and Cadillac both have deeply rooted reputations—but which one has a more successful marketing strategy?
March 01, 2013
The iconic brand lets consumers take the wheel to power its People's Car Project.
December 01, 2012
Renault tapped Spanish agency Orbital Proximity to devise an ad for Pinterest, despite the fact that the social network doesn't currently allow traditional advertising formats.
October 01, 2012
Škoda España was on a hunt for the biggest pile of junk in Spain this spring as part of its "Change My Car" campaign.
October 01, 2012
Jaguar Land Rover is leveraging cutting-edge technologies to retain customers in an after-sales environment.
October 01, 2012
Today, auto manufacturers are incorporating elements such as social media contests and outreach to distinguish their respective brands.
September 05, 2012
Marketers of the resurrected compact plan for a spike in Web activity following a 90-second spot during the Giants-Cowboys NFL debut.
July 01, 2012
With DDB UK at the creative wheel, VW devised a tiny book of photography to encourage test drives of its smallest-ever car car by the people who matter most.
June 01, 2012
Cars.com has appointed mcgarrybowen as its creative agency of record (AOR) within the company's integrated team of marketing agencies.
June 01, 2012
Nissan España's multiscreen ads allow players to virtually park its new compact SUV using mobile devices.
May 01, 2012
Peugeot Panama's Pinterest game sounds fun and enticing enough, but it's nearly impossible to figure out.
March 20, 2012
By entering into this agreement the automaker essentially signed a player who is past his prime (a prime that lasted only two weeks, mind you) and set itself up for more than 700 days worth of tagline jokes
March 01, 2012
The Toyota "It's a car!" Facebook campaign features promotional videos, an interactive game and a trunk-full of awful jokes.
January 19, 2012
Volkswagen has launched a campaign and an iPad app to drive sales for its 2012 Golf R model, said Charlie Taylor, the car company's general manager of digital marketing, on Jan. 19. Volkswagen worked with digital agency AKQA to create the app.
January 01, 2012
The Opel Movano can move up to 3.5 tons and 2 GB. To raise awareness about the utility vehicle's actual "utility" as a transporter of large loads of cargo, Belgium-based agency McCann Lowe created a Web banner that serves double duty as an advertising vehicle and a file transfer device: The banner "carries your stuff... across the Web."
January 01, 2012
Marketing experts agree that gamification drives powerful and prolonged consumer engagements. But is the technology too new to invest in?
Marketing services firm Experian expanded its Global Consulting Practice, the company's data and analysis consulting division, to serve clients in the North American market.
Car rental company The Hertz Corp. and Live Nation Entertainment will enable consumers to book car rentals while purchasing concert tickets on LiveNation.com or Ticketmaster.com beginning in January.
December 01, 2011
Automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Co. unveiled the 2013 Ford Escape on Nov. 15 using social game developer Zynga's popular "Words With Friends" game and a competition against actress Jenny McCarthy, who played the Scrabble-like game live in Los Angeles.
November 30, 2011
BMW may sell hundreds of thousands of cars each year, but for its latest model, the all-electric commuter car ActiveE, it's looking for just 700 passionate consumers.
November 15, 2011
Automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Co. will unveil the 2013 Ford Escape on Nov. 15 via social game developer Zynga's "Words With Friends" game. Ford is working with its ad agency Team Detroit on the initiative.
October 21, 2011
Hyundai Motor America's October integrated marketing campaign promoting the Veloster automobile delivered a 73% increase in Veloster-related visits on Hyundai.com, said Jon Budd, senior group manager of CRM and interactive marketing at Hyundai.
The auto industry and magazine publishers have more in common than one might think - both "were dragged kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century," Jean Jennings, president and editor-in-chief of Source Interlink Media's Automobile Magazine, told attendees of the 2011 American Magazine Conference on Oct. 4 in New York.
September 27, 2011
Porsche Cars North America will launch a campaign in October that affixes 2-D barcodes to printed boarding passes. The campaign will promote the 2012 Porsche 911 and 2012 Porsche Panamera models.
August 29, 2011
Nissan launched an integrated campaign August 29 to support the company's 2012 Versa sedan. The carmaker worked with advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day's Los Angeles office, digital agency Critical Mass and media firm OMD on the campaign.
August 18, 2011
Virgin America and The Hertz Corp. have partnered to give members of the airline's Elevate loyalty program exclusive deals on Hertz rental cars. Elevate members who rent cars from Hertz will earn one point per $1 spent on qualifying rentals.
Chrysler Group hired Ignite Social Media as its lead social agency this week after a review process. Expect the firm to be on its best behavior.
Automotive brands GMC and Buick have integrated their online vehicle-configuration tools with Facebook to better track social media ROI. The General Motors Corp. brands worked with digital agency MRM Worldwide on the initiative.
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What's in our mailbox this month: fitness postcards from Retro Fitness, American Woman Fitness Centers, Union's United Taekwondo Academy, and Bally Total Fitness. (We're totally pumped.)
Social data can improve a brand's bottom line and customer relationships. Just ask brands Infiniti and Diamond Nexus.
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