Harness the Power of Canada’s Largest & Most Trusted Automotive Marketplace – AutoTrader.ca
Get your used car inventory in front of the most serious and qualified car shoppers with AutoTrader.ca Used Vehicle Listings. You’ll gain access to a robust inventory management system, 1-SOURCE, to efficiently manage your listings and get an instant view of your analytics and reporting. Select the package that suits your dealership’s needs and get ready to leverage value added features that drive online reach, engagement and conversion for your inventory listings on AutoTrader.ca.
WHY ADVERTISE ON AutoTrader.ca?
With Millions of Monthly Visitors, Nobody Reaches More Serious Car Shoppers Than AutoTrader.ca
11M
unique monthly visitors1
26M
monthly visits1
63%
of consumers rate AutoTrader.ca as the most trusted online automotive marketplace2
USED VEHICLE LISTINGS PACKAGES
Find the Package That Best Suits Your Dealership Operation
Score &
Recommendations
(Youtube Supported)
Specials Call-Outs
Exposure
Telephone Support
Services
EXPOSE YOUR INVENTORY TO MILLIONS OF CAR SHOPPERS
On Canada’s Largest & Most Trusted Marketplace – AutoTrader.ca!
PUBLISHING & CONTENT CREATION TOOLS
Boost Your Listings with Useful Tools & Recommendations
Video
Build Better Connections with Car Buyers and Bridge the Gap Between the Online & Offline Experience
Video has become an increasingly important tactic of a dealership’s online merchandising mix, arising from broader car shopper expectations as well as amplified engagement with video content on Vehicle Detail Pages (VDPs). Stitch Video and Custom Videos showcasing your inventory listings on AutoTrader.ca take prospective buyers beyond the surface, through a more engaging format, emulating the dealership experience and attracting more motivated car shoppers to your inventory listings.
Custom Video
Embed videos to your listings at the click of a button, to promote your dealership or your inventory – complete with YouTube embed support!
Stitch Video
A custom video made up of photos of your inventory images, stitched together, with automated trim-level captions and a post-roll informational banner.
Logo Overlay
Outpace Your Competitors with the Power of Your Brand
Save time by fully automating the process of adding highly customized branding to all the images of your used inventory making your dealership name top of mind while consumer browse your listing photos.
Vehicle Merchandising Score & Recommendations
Stay On Top of Your Merchandising with This User-Friendly Reporting Tool
This intuitive report features all of your inventory and provides simple recommendations to ensure your listings are appealing and informative for consumers.
Price Drop
Highlight Your Reduced Prices to Garner the Attention of More Motivated Buyers
Your drop in asking price for specific inventory listings will be highlighted on your Vehicle Detail Page (VDP) by showing a strikethrough on the previous vehicle price.
COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
Effectively Communicate with Your Customers Across Multiple Mediums
Chat
Message Consumers on the Go, at the Exact Moment They Want to Connect with You – Live & In Real-Time
Whether on mobile or desktop, car shoppers can instantly chat with a member of your team to get the answers they need about your inventory and dealership. What’s more, you can record a video of the vehicle and send it directly through the chat!
Email, Telephone with Call Tracking & Text Message
Give Consumers More Tool & Opportunities to Connect with You
Drive your prospects further down the funnel with focused methods of contacting you directly in any method they prefer, phone, email, or text. The Call Tracking feature dedicates a unique phone number to your dealership which appears across all of your inventory listings, reporting inbound leads directly to your 1-SOURCE Inventory Management Console.
LEAD & CONVERSION ENHANCERS
Get Improved Lead Quality with Rich Insight into Consumer Shopping Behaviour & Preferences
Payment Calculator – Plus
Drive Financially Fit Car Shopper Engagement & Leads for Your Inventory Listings
There is an ever-growing need to provide car shoppers with transparency and accuracy surrounding their vehicle payment rates and cost. Payment Calculator – Plus displays customized finance rates and drives pre-qualified leads for your inventory listings directly through the enhanced Payment Calculator on your Vehicle Detail Page (VDP). You can control your car loan finance rates via highly customizable configuration in 1-SOURCE to capture the details of financially sound car shoppers via an easy-to-use lead form, embedded directly to the Payment Calculator feature!
Enriched Lead
Leverage Rich Insights to Prioritize the Most Serious Car Shoppers and Drive More Sales
Prioritization of inbound leads goes a long way to shortening the duration of your sales cycle. Get an in-depth view of each car shopper’s overall journey on the AutoTrader.ca Marketplace to focus on inbound leads from the most serious car shoppers. This tool provides you with a detailed view into your customers vehicle preference, time spent in the car shopping journey, and total volume of leads submitted, which are integrated to your CRM. Use these insights to build a customized follow up strategy.
Consumer Insights
Zoom Into Each Lead Record for an Instant View into the Specifics of Their Car Buying Journey
Discover the type of vehicles, new or used, and the overall budget of each lead, dealership type and lot sizes your prospects are browsing most often, and exclusive view into top searched models to make additional vehicle recommendations when the consumer visits your lot. The dashboard feature provides easy access to the specifics you need to make better decisions on your lead follow up prioritization and process.
Consumer Insights Alerts
Through the all-new Alerts feature, Consumer Insights will now identify leads that have returned to their car shopping journey after a period of inactivity, enabling your dealership to kick-off retargeting efforts with the goal of driving optimal conversion. Get all the specifics on when they were searching and exactly how their inventory preferences have changed so you can follow-up accordingly.
Vehicle Reservation
Connect With the Most Serious Shoppers
Shoppers can place a deposit to reserve a vehicle they are interested in, directly from your VDP, providing an all-new source of only the most serious leads, so follow up with these requests and close the deal!
Test Drive Incentives
Bring Your Online Traffic to Life with Test Drive Rewards
This feature identifies and targets highly engaged shoppers with gift cards from premium vendors like Apple or Amazon to incent them to visit your dealership for a test drive.
Book an Appointment
Streamline the Process of Scheduling an Appointment for Prospective Buyers & Your Dealership
This feature identifies and targets highly engaged shoppers with gift cards from premium vendors like Apple or Amazon to incent them to visit your dealership for a test drive.
DEALERSHIP BRANDING
Enhance Your Brand Exposure Online Through Powerful Solutions
Dealership Page
Showcase the prowess of your dealership’s brand & drive more eyeballs to your inventory
Dealership Page is a dedicated virtual storefront on AutoTrader.ca designed specifically to put your dealership and inventory on full display with the largest audience of car shoppers in Canada. Build confidence and trust with car shoppers by sharing unique aspects of your store, including years of operation, services, and incentives. What’s more, the remote services you offer are highlighted through visual treatments, so that car shoppers are aware of what’s available to them when shopping with you. Directly within the page layout, relevant vehicle reviews and news are plugged in to provide consumers with more information about the vehicles you have in stock.
360° WalkArounds
Bring the in-person vehicle walk around experience to your inventory listings
Impel 360° WalkArounds seamlessly integrate to your AutoTrader.ca VDPs, delivering a first-rate interactive and self-controlled virtual vehicle viewing experience to the largest audience of Canadian car shoppers!
Leveraging the native camera baked right into Impel’s Capture app, you can create dynamic exterior and interior views of your vehicles, and extract both video and still images, to further streamline your approach to inventory merchandising and bring you one step closer to VDPs that not only engage and educate, moreover, make that crucial lasting first impression.
Provide your prospects on AutoTrader.ca with the tools and transparency they expect with 360° WalkArounds.
VISIBILITY BOOSTERS
Get an Instant Boost to Inventory Exposure
Dealer Inventory Exposure
Expand Your Marketplace Exposure with Inventory Call-Outs on the SRP & VDP
Drive heightened visibility and clickthroughs to your inventory listings from highly engaged consumers by embedding contextually relevant inventory listings – containing similar or the same makes and models – on AutoTrader.ca Search Results Pages (SRPs), Vehicle Detail Pages (VDPs), as well as private seller VDPs.
SERVICE & SUPPORT
Dedicated Support Specialist to Handle Your Questions & Requests
Total Care Client Services
Access to an Exclusive & Highly Personalized Client Service Experience Aligned to Your Dealership’s Support Needs
Our industry leading Total Care Client Services offering provides your dealership operation with exclusive and unparalleled bilingual support, no matter where you are in the country. Staffed by highly experienced professionals, not only knowledgeable with our products and services, but also with the constantly evolving Canadian automotive landscape, you’ll have access to a single point of contact and an incomparable service experience tailored to your dealership’s unique needs.
Source: (1) TRADER Google Analytics, January 2023. (2) Consumer Survey, Angus Reid, July 2021.