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Jumpstart Automotive Media

Website(s):
http://www.jumpstartautomotive.com/
http://www.thinkdigital08.com/
http://www.jumpstartlabs.com/ (soon to launch)

Target audience:
  • In-market automotive shoppers
  • Automotive influencers and enthusiasts
  • Allied/Aftermarket customers (finance, insurance, parts, etc.)

Name of targeting product: AutoPath and BehaviorPath

What types of properties do you work with:

  • In-market automotive publishers
  • Automotive enthusiast publishers
  • More than 5,000 distribution partners (extension of in-market audience reach via behavioral targeting)

What types of targeting can you do:

  • Category (SUV, Hybrid, Sedan, etc.)
  • Make
  • Model
  • Behavioral
  • Geo (Zip, DMA, etc.)
  • Demo

What types of special advertising products or campaigns can you produce for advertisers:

What types of ad units do you sell?

  • Homepage dropdown and peel-back
  • NADAguides.com Homepage Flash Header (integrated with NADA logo)
  • Category spotlight units
  • IAB Standard units (300x250, 160x600, 728x90)
  • Regional Dealer Association dedicated unit

What benefits can you deliver the properties you work with?

  • Rich automotive brands -- we work with every major manufacturer that sells cars in the U.S.
  • New automotive properties in the market (HybridCars.com, CarGurus), along with long-standing partners (NADAguides, Car & Driver, Vehix)
  • Differentiators among each publisher -- each brings a unique content element
  • Flexibility to new ad units and beta programs
  • Creative production by in-house team at Jumpstart (Labs)
  • Tried and true product strategy tested over many years of in-market selling
  • Centralized ad serving
  • Work with all tiers of auto advertisers -- from dealers to parts companies to manufacturer
  • Similar ad units across family of publishers

What types of advertisers do you work with?

  • Tier 1 Auto -- national manufacturers
  • Tier 2 Auto -- regional dealer associations
  • Tier 3 Auto -- mega dealers and large dealer groups
  • Allied and aftermarket
  • Enthusiast-minded advertisers

How do advertisers know where their ads are showing up? Detailed measurement and reporting

How can you slice up your network?

  • In-market vs. Influencer
  • Low funnel vs. mid-funnel vs. upper funnel shoppers
  • Video/rich content
  • Any way the client wishes

How does your company differ from competitors? 

  • Rep firm versus network -- we know who are publishers and truly care about their business
  • A unique family of branded automotive publishers
  • Publisher agreements are long-term and exclusive -- not an arbitrage network
  • Commitment to creativity and innovation
  • Unquestioned market and thought leadership in the automotive advertising industry
  • All-star team of employees (Ford Motor Media, Digitas, JWT, Carat Fusion, RPA, etc.)
  • True outside perspective on the business (unique position between automotive publishers and clients)
  • Performance based -- measured by specific success metrics by advertisers and publishers
  • Provide unique added value marketing services (creative production and consulting, event marketing)
 

Comments

Chris Perri
Chris Perri April 21, 2008 at 5:16 PM

Excellent job Nanette. Thank you.

Meredith Keller
Meredith Keller April 21, 2008 at 9:58 AM

A few others out there include Blogads, Federated Media, advertising.com and Adbrite.

Jim Birschbach
Jim Birschbach April 21, 2008 at 7:51 AM

Nanette, thanks for your insight. What do estimate is the total number of networks available to advertisers. I realize it may be hard to determine, but I would appreciate your estimate, insights, thoughts. Thank you!