3:57 pm, November 8, 2023
Long gone are the days when car dealers could rely on an advert in the local paper to sell a vehicle, service or MOT but this week on the Car Dealer Podcast we learned just how far advertising has come.
Chris Ashton-Green, CEO of Regit, appeared as guest judge on the latest show and shared how his company is taken customer targeting to the next level with Sky AdSmart.
The new technology takes Regit’s data and anonymises it before combining it with Sky AdSmart’s household data. This allows car dealers and garages to offer more relevant adverts depending on where they are in the car ownership lifecycle.
He said: ‘If Mercedes Benz or any of the car brands want to serve you a TV ad in relation to your home demographic, and the vehicle that you now own, where you are in that car ownership lifecycle, looking at intent signals, in terms of you looking to buy, looking to sell or looking to maintain are all data points within the Regit digital garage.
‘We obviously have service expiry, mot expiry, tax expiring, mileage, how long they’ve owned it, and we can send intent, insight and information through to Sky about users that we’ve now attached to the home who are reading the electric vehicle content or hybrid content.
‘This means you can be served a tailored ad from Mercedes Benz in relation to the vehicle you own and where you are in that car owning lifecycle.
‘Just like Sky have always been doing within the home but now we’ve attached a vehicle asset, which means that can now serve automotive related ads to where you are in that car ownership.
‘It’s super, super clever, and has allowed sky and their AdSmart product to really evolve.’
This week on the podcast, Jon Reay and James Batchelor were choosing the stories and covered the top 100 most profitable dealers, Vertu’s malicious agent and more.
You can click play on the player above and find out more about all of the stories listed below.
- Car Dealer Top 100: Britain’s most profitable dealers clock up £2.78bn earnings
- Car dealer group Vertu Motors suffers ‘malicious’ amendments to Companies House records
- Tesla boss Elon Musk warns Artificial Intelligence will one day ‘eliminate jobs’
- Toyota reverses plans for fifth-generation Prius and says new car WILL now be sold in the UK
- Jaguar Land Rover boss says sorry for crippling parts crisis which has wiped cars off the road
- Jaguar Land Rover dealers accused of using second-hand parts to clear huge backlog
- Jaguar Land Rover celebrates record first-half revenue as it swings to profit
If you’d like to be guest judge on a future episode of the Car Dealer Podcast you can contact the team on [email protected].
