Automotive
In our final AutoTrader Carology Talks airing of the year, Ian MacDonald, Chief Marketing Officer at AutoTrader, hosts Baris Akyurek, Vice President of Insights & Intelligence, to discuss the top trends that have shaped the Canadian automotive landscape in 2024 and a sneak peek of what’s the come in 2025.
Canadians Shifting Car Shopping Focus Away from Aspirational Luxury to Practicality & Affordability
New Data from AutoTrader Reveals a Shift in Consumer Preferences Amid Economic Pressures TORONTO, ON – December 10, 2024 — Year-end Top Searched and Top Sold data from AutoTrader, Canada’s largest and most trusted automotive marketplace, reveals that economic pressures may well be weighing on Canadian consumers when it comes to the type of car
Car Buyers Now Cross-Shop More Than Ever: AutoTrader.ca Key to Their Journey
Understanding how the car buying journey evolves overtime aids with establishing specifically when, where and how to attract the right buyers to your inventory listings. Our latest Path to Purchase study, conducted by Dig Insights, deep dives the car buying experience of both used and new Canadian car shoppers who purchased a vehicle in the
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AutoTrader Carology Masterclass: Enhanced Car Shopper Profiling
Car shopper profiling is a proven method that delivers accuracy to prospect segmentation and targeting through robust consumer profiles, rounded out by demographic, psychographic, shopping behaviour, and other relevant data. Watch our latest dealership excellence series masterclass to discover best practices for enhanced car shopper profiling and get on the path to improving the effectiveness
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Dealership Best Practices: Enhanced Car Shopper Profiling
In today's competitive automotive market, understanding your customers is key to driving sales and building strong customer relationships. Car shopper profiling, a strategic approach to gathering and analyzing customer data, offers a powerful way to achieve this. With the right tools in place, you can effortlessly gain access to the details you need to effectively
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AutoTrader Carology Bitesize: June 2024 Price Index
In this chapter of AutoTrader Carology Bitesize, we are joined by Baris Akyurek, Vice President of Insights & Intelligence at AutoTrader.ca, to discuss the latest trends from our AutoTrader Price Index report. Tune in to the episode for the inside scoop on Canadian automotive pricing, inventory supply, and the market dynamics at play.
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AutoTrader Carology Bitesize: Car Shopper Experience Takes the Stage Through My Account Enhancements
In this episode of AutoTrader Carology Bitesize, we’re joined by Kamal Piraisudy, Senior Product Manager at AutoTrader.ca, to detail a series of value-added features being introduced to My Account, which, individually or combined, elevate the consumer experience on AutoTrader.ca for the millions of Canadians shopping the marketplace for their next car.
AutoTrader Price Index: June 2024
Starting in the third quarter of last year, used car demand softened slightly on a year-over-year basis. This trend, coupled with increased used car supply, resulting from strong new car sales and subsequent trade-ins, as well as a pivot in demand to new cars due to a ramp up in production and availability, has brought
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AutoTrader.ca Launches First-of-its-Kind New Car Shopping Experience
TORONTO, ON – July 3, 2024 – AutoTrader.ca, Canada’s largest and most trusted automotive marketplace, today announced the launch of Storefront, a first-of-its-kind new car shopping experience, equally, a fresh tactic for automotive manufacturers and their dealership network to promote their complete new vehicle lineup to the millions of Canadian consumers that frequent the marketplace every month.
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Consumer Confidence in Personal Finances Outlook Reaches Highest Point in the Last 12 Months
Although the economy remains slightly unsettled, with the highest interest rates in over two decades only now making a slight dip, and gas prices still on the high end, consumer research shows that Canadians are still steady in their vehicle purchase intentions through the second quarter of 2024. In our latest study by DIG Insights,









