Team Velocity is an automotive agency with artificial intelligence technology that is revolutionizing the industry — and how dealers sell and service cars. Their proprietary technology platform, Apollo, is made by dealers for dealers. It analyzes sales and service data to predict who will buy, what they will buy and when they are ready to service. Apollo generates dynamic, offer-based campaigns across all channels, including search, display, social, pre-roll, email, text, direct mail, personal websites and landing pages. Eliminate the risk of traditional marketing when you market with Team Velocity and Apollo, which provides the ultimate consumer experience across every touchpoint — both on desktop and mobile. Team Velocity and Apollo’s site of capabilities successfully increases revenue and efficiencies for both dealerships and original equipment manufacturers. Predict, track, sell and service more customers with Team Velocity’s human-fueled creativity combined with the innovative, fully automated AI platform of Apollo.
Learn more about Team Velocity and the other 9 companies to watch in 2020:
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Team Velocity’s sophisticated technology platform, Apollo®, and ApolloGo mobile app take the industry by storm at NADA.
WASHINGTON, February 4th, 2019 – The 10th Annual AWA Awards presented by PCG Companies awarded Team Velocity with the Digital Marketing Innovation Leader and Rising Star Awards at NADA 2019. These awards recognize companies for their marketing technology that help dealers effectively buy, sell and service more cars. Team Velocity was recognized as an Innovation Leader for its marketing automation platform, Apollo, and its new digital retailing product, Transact.
“Our team is extremely honored to receive not only one, but two awards this year at NADA. We look forward to continuing to build technology that helps position our dealers in the market,” says Joe High, Senior Vice President at Team Velocity.
Team Velocity was recognized for their revolutionary technology platform, Apollo. Apollo aids both dealerships and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with technology that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and marketing automation to deliver hyper-personalized campaigns across a number of marketing channels. Apollo has been proven to increase results by as much as 250%.
While Apollo is comprised of many features and capabilities that enhance dealers’ profits and visibility, it’s Apollo’s comprehensive digital marketing product suite that took home the Innovation Leader award this year at NADA.
Apollo’s intelligent digital advertising platform is 100% automated to create, deploy and update data-rich ads across every digital medium, including Paid Search, Remarketing, Display Advertising, Social Media and Video Pre-Roll. This exclusive technology provides dealers with unlimited VIN-based ads for both new and pre-owned inventory and ensures consistent messaging and creative across all digital touchpoints.
“It is impossible to run successful digital marketing without artificial intelligence,” says Brian Pasch, CEO of PCG Companies and the AWA Awards.
Of Team Velocity’s recent digital product releases, one product in particular stands out amongst the rest: Advid™. Within a matter of minutes, Advid builds dynamic, payment-based video ads for every make and model the dealership sells, and automatically delivers these videos to YouTube. Every video is automatically updated nightly as inventory, incentives and pricing change.
Amongst Team Velocity’s newest achievements, is the public release of the ApolloGo Mobile App. The transformed Apollo desktop platform allows dealers to work leads on the go, from anywhere, at any time, all from the palm of their hands.
ApolloGo contains all the notable features included in Apollo but enables users to track all opportunities, communicate with customers directly via text and receive Hot Opportunity Alerts straight to their phone.
Team Velocity™ is revolutionizing the automotive industry with cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to help dealers sell and service more cars. Made by dealers, for dealers, Team Velocity’s proprietary technology platform Apollo® analyzes years of sales and service data to predict who will buy, what they will buy, and when they are ready to service. Apollo’s sophisticated AI automates the entire communication and marketing process by delivering hyper-personalized campaigns across every touchpoint, maximizing ROI and lifetime revenue.
Since 2008, AWA has become a benchmark in the automotive industry for outlining and reviewing technology that enables dealerships and OEMs to aid their revenue with cutting-edge technology in digital marketing, design, management tools and social media. The qualified experts at PCG conduct thorough reviews and research the best products for car dealers to optimize their investment and deliver the best customer experience.
For more information about PCG and the AWA Award, visit: http://awa.autos/
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Team Velocity is now participating in Enhanced Digital Advertising and In-Market Retail.
We are proud to announce that Team Velocity has completed all requirements to participate in the Digital Advertising Program under the GM Dealer Digital Solution.
This allows Dealers the opportunity to leverage in-Market Retail (iMR) funds to reimburse themselves for the cost of their Digital Advertising services. Please refer to the iMR Dealer Program guidelines located at www.gmlam.com for further information.
Providers who are participating in the Digital Advertising Program provide advertising solutions that include:
Improved efficiency, coordinated spend and strategy across all tiers of advertising
Participation commitment for:
Streamlined packages each offering full service solutions for sales and fixed ops
A single, managed monthly fee with cap
Performance accountability
Day 1 Go-to-Market readiness
Strategic and tactical advertising coordination with brands and LMAs
Dashboard for visibility into performance
If you have any questions about the benefits of Digital Advertising Program, please do not hesitate to reach out to our Support Team at 703-783-9759 or via email at https://teamvelocitymarketing.com/gm for further details.
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Team Velocity named a finalist by Google for Video Advertising Innovation Award
Team Velocity, a marketing technology company based outside of Washington, D.C., has been named a Video Innovation finalist in this year’s Premier Partner Awards, presented by Google Partners.
Google’s Premier Partner Awards honor innovation in digital marketing across Search, Mobile, Video, Display, Shopping, and Growing Businesses Online. Team Velocity was named a finalist in Video Innovation for its latest product, Advid™, an automated video advertising solution that creates automotive model-specific, payment-based videos that are updated on YouTube nightly.
Team Velocity offers a comprehensive digital marketing solution backed by its technology platform, Apollo®. Designed to support the automotive retail industry, Apollo creates and delivers dynamic, automated, omni-channel marketing campaigns to in-market audiences based on behavior prediction analytics. Working hand-in-hand with Apollo’s intelligent offer management system, Advid creates hundreds of dynamic, high-quality video pre-roll ads in minutes and uploads those ads to YouTube automatically every night.
Team Velocity’s award submission included a case study on its long-term client Paragon Honda, describing the impactful results Advid delivered for the dealership. “Marketing today is all about relevance to the customer and attributing advertising spend to revenue. Video is the fastest-growing consumer medium, but traditional television advertising costs a fortune, offers little targeting and zero attribution. Google explained how video advertising on YouTube can better target in-market audiences and be attributed to store visits. We knew we wanted to shift some of our marketing budget away from traditional advertising efforts and into YouTube’s TruView platform. We put Team Velocity up to the challenge knowing the power of their technology. The results were incredible,” says Brian Benstock, Paragon’s Vice President and General Manager.
With Apollo, Team Velocity had the ability to target in-market audiences with relevant ads and provide attribution reporting on search and display, but video offered a unique set of challenges. For video ads to be relevant to the customer’s shopping history, advertisers would need a video for every model, which would be costly and time consuming to produce. The ads would also need to include the actual payments to provide the customer what they really want to know. However, offers and payments change frequently and need to meet state and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) compliance regulations. On top of all of this, YouTube lacks an API, meaning every video would need to be manually uploaded, creating the biggest challenge of all.
Costs aside, it was clear that attempting this process manually would be impossible to scale. Team Velocity would need technology to automate the process. Thus, Advid was born.
“With Advid, we have created a scalable video advertising solution. For every model of every brand, Advid creates a unique video and uploads those videos to YouTube every night despite the lack of an API. The ads include vehicle payments, factor in OEM and dealer incentives, meet compliance requirements and have the same message and offer seen on search, display, mail and email campaigns, which Apollo creates for every vehicle,” says David Boice, Co-Founder and CEO of Team Velocity.
Paragon Honda was the first dealership to pilot Advid. With just 20 percent of its budget allocated to video advertising, Paragon saw 47 percent of its store visits attributed to video.
“Our creative and development teams created something truly innovative. The automation of creating thousands of video ads on a nightly basis that include the dynamic details a consumer actually cares about is amazing. Our teams’ recognition is well deserved.” explains Joe High, Senior Vice President of Team Velocity.
Team Velocity is part of a select group of digital specialists that Google celebrates as Premier Partners. To qualify as a Premier Partner, digital marketing agencies and professionals must pass a series of exams, and prove their expertise in using and applying Google’s advertising products.
Premier Partner Awards 2018 winners are scheduled to be announced in October at g.co/PartnerPartnerAwards.
About Team Velocity
Team Velocity™ is revolutionizing the automotive industry with cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to help dealers sell and service more cars. Made by dealers, for dealers, Team Velocity’s proprietary technology platform Apollo® analyzes years of sales and service data to predict who will buy, what they will buy, and when they are ready to service. Apollo’s sophisticated AI automates the entire communication and marketing process by delivering hyper-personalized campaigns across every touchpoint, maximizing ROI and lifetime revenue.
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Team Velocity’s technology platform, Apollo®, leads the industry with intelligent marketing automation.
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2018 – The 9th Annual AWA Awards presented by PCG Companies, awarded Team Velocity with the Vanguard Award at NADA 2018. The Vanguard Award honors companies that continue develop impactful technology and captivating products in the automotive industry. Team Velocity was recognized as an industry leader in innovation for their advanced technology platform, Apollo.
“We are excited to be recognized for our hard work and innovation and look forward to our dealers benefiting from our latest technology developments as we continue to create intelligent, automated solutions,” says Joe High, Senior Vice President at Team Velocity.
Team Velocity was recognized for their ground-breaking technology platform, Apollo. Apollo eliminates the risks of traditional marketing techniques by utilizing sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) and marketing automation technology to increase revenue and efficiencies for both dealerships and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Apollo’s AI automatically generates dynamic, offer-based campaigns through omni-channels including search, display, social, pre-roll, email, text, direct mail, personal websites and landing pages. Apollo eliminates the need for multiple platforms by combining everything into one easy-to-use, automated platform that reaches each dealership’s Perfect Prospects® with a consistent message across all marketing channels and is the only platform that runs automatically 24/7, producing hyper-personalized, payment-based ads on real inventory.
Through an extensive review process, the experts at PCG review, research, and rate the best products for car dealers to incorporate into their process or showroom. The AWA awards companies that are on the forefront of new development or ideas to pave the way of the future of the automotive industry.
“This year we started a new tradition by selecting four companies that stood apart from the field of 57 products reviewed this year,” says Brian Pasch, Founder of PCG Companies. “[Apollo’s] seamless integration of online marketing and direct mail, through state-of-the-art technology, is jaw-dropping. We congratulate Team Velocity for being named a 2018 Vanguard Award winner and thank them for participating in this year’s review process.”
Amongst Team Velocity’s recent technology innovations comes the first-ever automated video advertising tool, Advid™. Within a matter of minutes, Apollo uses AdVid to build dynamic, payment-based videos for every make and model the dealership sells, and automatically delivers them on YouTube. Every video is automatically updated nightly as inventory, incentives and pricing changes using a proprietary API Team Velocity developed for YouTube. Dealerships can now experience the ease and scalability of serving thousands of unique, payment-based pre-roll videos that are used for re-targeting and behavioral for in-market shoppers.
About Team Velocity: Team Velocity™ is revolutionizing the automotive industry with cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence to help dealers sell and service more cars. Made by dealers, for dealers, Team Velocity’s proprietary technology platform Apollo® analyzes years of sales and service data to predict who will buy, what they will buy and when they are ready to service. Apollo’s sophisticated AI automates the entire communication and marketing process by delivering hyper-personalized campaigns across every touchpoint, maximizing ROI and lifetime revenue. Predict, track, sell and service more customers all from the palm of your hand.
For more information, visit www.teamvelocitymarketing.com.
MORE ABOUT AWA AND THE VANGUARD AWARD.
For over nine years, the AWA has become a benchmark in the automotive industry for outlining technology that enables dealerships and OEMs to aid their revenue with cutting-edge technology in digital marketing, design and social media. The qualified experts at PCG conduct thorough reviews and research the best products for car dealers to optimize their investment and deliver the best customer experience. The AWA Vanguard Award is awarded to the top four most innovating technology products in the industry. PCG undergoes a rigorous review process that encompasses over 57 of the best products on the market in 2018.
For more information about PCG and the AWA, visit awa.autos.com.
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Paragon Honda First Dealership To Build App For Google Assistant; Creates Blueprint For Future
Paragon Honda partners with Google, Team Velocity & Red Cap to create a frictionless experience for consumers
NEW YORK, April 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Paragon Automotive, the largest Honda and Acura dealer in the nation, is utilizing technology to make it easier for customers to shop, buy, and maintain their car. They have collaborated with Google, Team Velocity, and Red Cap Technologies to reinvent the customer experience and to create a frictionless future for consumers.
“Time is the new currency so we’ve got to move at the speed of the customer,” says Brian Benstock, general manager and VP at Paragon Honda, “If we don’t disrupt ourselves, the customer will do it for us.”
To attract and serve their customers better, Paragon has partnered with 3 technology providers to make it easier for customers to do business with them. Paragon uses Team Velocity’s Apollo platform to attract more customers for less by delivering personalized offers to in-market buyers through a personal website that is dynamically built for each consumer. After the sale, Paragon is making it easier for their customers to communicate with them through its Google Assistant app, which allows customers to use their voice on Android, iPhones, speakers like Google Home and more to schedule appointments with the dealership. Through their partnership with RedCap, Paragon also offers a free pick up and drop off service so customers can do business with Paragon without visiting the dealership.
“The modern consumer doesn’t want to be sold, so we help them buy, by talking to them about what is relevant to them,” said Benstock. “Instead of advertising what we want to promote, we deliver personalized offers that are relevant to each individual customer.”
Paragon utilizes Team Velocity’s Apollo platform to create and deliver hyper-personalized offers to in-market consumers via multiple advertising channels. When consumers click on the offer, it links them to a personal website that has all the offers that are relevant to them, their car and where they are in their ownership cycle. Paragon utilizes hundreds of Apollo’s ready-to-go campaigns that promote all of the dealerships profit centers and they use Apollo’s Automated Intelligence to monitor and optimize campaigns to maximize ROI, by automatically spending more where the dealership makes more, and less where they make less.
“We are working diligently to build technology that improves every aspect of the consumer experience, with both OEM’s and dealerships,” says David Boice, Co-Founder and CEO of Team Velocity. “It has been great to collaborate with Google, RedCap and Paragon to make buying and maintaining cars easier for consumers and we look forward to further integrating this technology into Apollo.”
Paragon is also leveraging technology to make it easier for customers to service their vehicle with the dealership after they buy. Car maintenance is an inconvenience that’s amplified when it requires visiting a dealership during working hours. In an industry first, Paragon has teamed up with Google, Team Velocity and RedCap to build an app for Google Assistant that makes it easy for customers to use Google Assistant to contact the dealership or schedule service with the use of their voice. With a few words, customers can contact the dealership, book an appointment, and schedule a service. The app guides consumers through a series of voice assisted prompts, resulting in scheduling a service appointment without having to speak with a person.
Paragon began working on the project with Google, Team Velocity and RedCap in August of 2017. After months of working with Google’s automotive team to develop the application, the persona became known as “Paul”. Work on crafting responses for possible user interactions was completed in early 2018, with a pilot program for the assistant launching in early February. Paragon revealed the new app at this year’s 2018 National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Convention on Saturday, March 24th.
“We are humbled to be first dealership Google worked with to create an app for the Google Assistant,” said Benstock. “Their technology is everywhere and our integration makes it much easier for customers to do business with us.”
Paragon’s Google Assistant integration also allows customers access to ParagonDirect, a free service to pick up, service, and return customers vehicles to their home within 24 hours—without them having to visit the dealership.
“The whole notion of having to come to a dealership for service is outdated, If a customer doesn’t want to set foot in the dealership, they shouldn’t have to,” said Benstock. With ParagonDirect, the dealership has multiple cars being delivered daily, and it can be very difficult to manage all the drivers, customers and the communications between them.
To manage all the activity, Paragon uses RedCap’s technology platform to monitor and optimize their deliveries and the customer experience.
“RedCap makes it easy for our customers to communicate with our drivers for pick ups and drop offs,” added Benstock. “The redcap mobile site functions similar to Uber, in that our customer can track where their car is and can dynamically communicate with the driver to let them know if they are running late.”
David Zwick, Managing Director of RedCap, added, “The best service experience for the customer is that the customer does not have to experience the service at all.”
With most consumers being able to experience seamless and frictionless experiences in other aspects of their lives, it is obvious to the consumer when the slightest bit of friction enters their transaction.
Paragon is using technology to remove friction from car ownership, which makes it easier for customers to do business with their dealership.
“Our customers don’t have time to waste when buying or servicing their car. Technology has changed their expectations so we have changed our approach to meet and hopefully exceed those expectations.”
About Paragon: Paragon Honda makes it easier for customers to buy and service their vehicles. Paragon Honda has been serving Woodside, NY, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, New Rochelle and New York NY with pristine customer experience longer than many customers have owned their current car. With those years comes invaluable expertise, which we put to our customers’ advantage. We’re not just talking acumen on new Honda models, but used cars, service and auto repairs and perhaps most importantly – Honda financing. Our inventory is one of the largest in the New York region, making it easy to find the exact car you want, at the price you want.
About Team Velocity: Team Velocity™ is revolutionizing the automotive industry with cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence to help dealers sell and service more cars. Made by dealers, for dealers, Team Velocity’s proprietary technology platform Apollo® analyzes years of sales and service data to predict who will buy, what they will buy and when they are ready to service. Apollo’s sophisticated AI automates the entire communication process by delivering hyper-personalized campaigns across every touchpoint, maximizing ROI and lifetime revenue. Predict, track, sell and service more customers all from the palm of your hand.
About RedCap: RedCap is changing the way dealers and customers work together. Our platform delivers out of store experiences to a dealer’s customer, wherever they are and whenever they want it. RedCap was recently acquired by Solera Holdings, Inc. a global leader in intelligent data, software and solutions to manage and secure the automotive, light and heavy truck fleet, home and identity ecosystems.
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Digitize the car buying experience. Our digital retailing tool, Transact, is built natively into Apollo Sites, further integrating the online and in-store shopping experience. Without ever leaving your website, customers can easily check their credit, apply a trade-in, obtain financing, and even have their vehicle delivered straight to their home.
Customize payments with ease. Transact includes an advanced payment calculator, allowing customers to desk their own deal on the fly. Payments reflect current rebates, incentives, all taxes and fees, customer equity and your preferred pricing.
Pre-qualify your customers in seconds. Our credit pre-qualification tool empowers shoppers to personalize their payments with zero impact on their credit. Powered by our exclusive integration with Equifax, consumers can access preferred bank rates and terms based on tiered credit scores.
Drive more leads with online financing. Make it easier than ever for customers to obtain financing with our fully integrated financing application. Our native financing solution offers customers a streamlined and convenient way to apply for financing while shopping on your website.
Elevate the customer experience with touchless delivery. Provide unrivaled convenience for the customer with seamless vehicle delivery. Thanks to Apollo’s integrations with RedCap and Draiver, car buyers can have their new vehicle delivered straight to their doorstep for a truly frictionless end-to-end retail experience.
Command Center
Connecting the customer journey.
Meet your AI-powered lead management system. Streamline your team’s workflow with a single dashboard view that enables them to quickly gauge their top prospects, identify active shoppers, and engage new opportunities.
Gain insight into every customer interaction. The Command Center’s Customer Journey Report provides you unparalleled access to every step of the customer’s path to purchase, from email opens to digital ad engagements and website actions. This comprehensive view offers valuable attribution insights for your marketing strategies and empowers your team to personalize every interaction, ultimately boosting your ROI.
Get instant notifications for active shoppers. Improve your close rates with Apollo’s Active Shopper Alerts. Receive notifications when customers are shopping, customizing a quote, scheduling service, completing a high-cost repair order, or contacting your dealership from the website. Apollo will also notify you when customers are in positive equity, with upcoming lease, loan and warranty expirations, and more.
Improve visibility and automate lead nurturing. Apollo’s automated Deal Alerts keep you informed of changes to customer ranks, highlighting potential transactions. This proactive approach allows for strategic engagements with customers to help your sales and service teams close more deals more efficiently.
Identify your top prospects with ease. The Apollo Command Center’s intuitive scoring system contains over 25 customizable settings tailored to past buyers, service-only customers, and conquest prospects, enabling your team to effortlessly prioritize leads and automate follow-ups with your top prospects for maximum efficiency.
Personalize every interaction. The Command Center seamlessly integrates with your CRM, empowering your team with comprehensive customer insights driving meaningful interactions at every stage of the vehicle ownership lifecycle.
AssistantAI
Guiding seamless transactions.
Introducing your online assistant. An industry first, AssistantAI is designed to replace traditional chat tools with a more user-friendly solution for online customer service. Powered by Apollo and Google AI, AssistantAI intuitively answers questions and seamlessly guides customers through routine inquiries like scheduling service or requesting a quote.
Serve your customers 5x faster. Customers today face frustration with traditional chat tools’ lengthy processes and lack of real assistance. With AssistantAI’s innovative website and DMS integration, our technology can access a customer’s unique profile to personalize each interaction, providing superior service that results in a transaction in under 45 seconds.
Boost your ROI. AssistantAI makes it easier than ever for your customers to complete sales and service transactions on your website, leading to the highest completion rate in the industry. The AI-powered assistant can even proactively pull customers into the sales funnel by starting conversations with in-market shoppers who are ready to transact.
Expert Lead Generation. Not only does AssistantAI help you capture leads, but it also creates two exclusive new lead types for your dealership by encouraging shoppers to opt into price drops and exclusive deal notifications on their vehicle of interest. Every lead populates in the Command Center in real-time, empowering your sales and service teams with actionable insights.
Personal Websites
Amazon-like shopping experiences.
One website, two experiences. Just like Amazon, customers can choose to utilize your public website or log in for a customized retail experience tailored to their unique customer profile.
Powered by your DMS. Apollo seamlessly integrates with your DMS, harnessing your first-party data goldmines to create personalized websites for each customer.
Personal vehicle details. When a customer logs in, they are greeted with their name and current vehicle details, including their current payment, pay-off, mileage, trade value, open recalls, and complete service history with your dealership.
Dynamic website banners. Enjoy automated banner updates that dynamically reflect each customer’s shopping activity and your latest specials—no manual intervention required. Plus, when a shopper returns to your website, their last viewed vehicle takes the spotlight in the banner, ensuring a personalized and enticing experience every time they visit.
Upgrade customers to their next vehicle. With Upgrade Matrix®, our patented trade pattern prediction tool, you can predict and promote a customer’s next vehicle with 85% accuracy.
Make scheduling service a breeze. Proven to generate 4x the number of service appointments as the leading 3rd party providers, Apollo recommends relevant services for every customer based on their unique service history and activity status with your dealership. Customers can apply coupons and schedule service with optional pickup and delivery in seconds. It’s also integrated with Xtime for automated DMS writebacks.
Collect customer favorites. Make it easy for customers to save their favorite vehicles and review their customized payments.
SEO & Analytics
Optimized for success.
Stay top of mind every time. Our team of SEO experts enhance website performance with comprehensive optimization techniques designed to improve site speed, navigation, and search engine performance, securing top organic search placements for increased visibility and engagement.
Link Building | Local Listing Distribution | Citation Building & Optimization
Dynamic Model Research Pages. Approximately 50% of consumers visiting your website have never purchased your brand. Wow shoppers with beautiful OEM images and comprehensive vehicle details to assist in the vehicle research process. Serving as virtual vehicle brochures, these pages highlight model features, showcase trim levels and paint options, and even include vehicle walk-through videos. They also feature exclusive Model Release pages for major new models before their official launch.
Actionable insights & reporting. Apollo Sites is integrated with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to monitor website performance, content engagement, traffic trends, and conversion metrics. As a founding member of the Automotive Standards Council (ASC), we ensure that your website is tagged and measured to the highest industry standards. Our detailed reporting provides insights that empower data-driven decisions for SEO strategy improvement.
OTT Advertising
Conquer streaming ads.
Reach potential customers anytime, anywhere. Advid creates compliant video advertisements at scale, enabling you to captivate in-market shoppers with relevant ads across streaming sessions, online articles and more.
Connect your advertising across multiple devices. With the dynamic combination of Advid and Apollo, we can automatically create OEM-compliant video ads that mirror your digital campaigns, ensuring uniform offers and messaging across all devices and platforms for every customer.
Maximize marketing spend with advanced targeting. While OTT helps you reach a wider audience, Apollo ensures you reach the right one. We use both first- and third-party data to provide a more sophisticated and efficient strategy that identifies your Perfect Market®, ensuring your spend is concentrated on in-market shoppers who are ready to buy. Plus, we cut out the middlemen, enabling us to secure lower CPMs – even on the most premium inventory.
Display & Remarketing
Re-engage your top prospects.
Stay top of mind across the web. Apollo automatically designs compliant display banners and targets online shoppers with model-specific ads while they browse the web, increasing brand visibility and boosting promotions.
Retarget website visitors with dynamic display remarketing. 92% of consumers visiting your website for the first time aren’t there to buy. Automatically retarget those shoppers with dynamic display ads for the exact vehicle they shopped for, down to the VIN level.
Reach new online shoppers with in-market display ads. Want to reach active shoppers who haven’t visited your website? Apollo targets in-market consumers with the vehicle they are shopping for based on their digital footprint, such as search patterns, website content visited, and thousands of other digital touchpoints, helping you conquest new customers with ease.
Paid Social
Captivate your audience.
Attract local shoppers with scroll-stopping vehicle ads. Embrace the power of social media with hyper-personalized ads delivered to interested shoppers. Apollo Ads utilizes Oracle data to target a broader in-market audience with personalized sales and service offers designed to re-engage shoppers with the exact vehicle or offer they are looking for.
Expand your pre-owned showroom on Facebook Marketplace. Increase the visibility of the pre-owned vehicles on your lot to customers who are looking to buy. Create compelling automotive inventory ads enriched with vehicle-specific information such as model details, price, mileage and more.
Save time and stress with automated ads. Apollo Ads automatically creates VIN-based ads for every vehicle on your lot. All ads are updated daily with OEM and dealer incentives, pricing, and inventory adjustments, keeping you 100% compliant 100% of the time.
Drive more transactions with connected advertising. Each ad directs customers to a landing page featuring a consistent offer, ensuring a seamless customer experience and increased transactions.
Advid®
Automate video advertising.
Capture shopper interest through dynamic video advertising. Engage potential buyers on YouTube with compliant, payment-based video ads powered by Apollo and video technology giant Advid®.
Automatically create video ads for every vehicle. Apollo Ads’ video technology automates the entire video creation, distribution, and management process, even allowing you to pick from our premium selection of voiceovers to find the perfect voice for your brand. This level of automation makes it easier than ever to advertise every new and used model in your inventory.
Keep your ads up-to-date without the hassle. Apollo’s advanced integration ensures that your offers remain consistent across your website, digital ads, and video ads, with automatic nightly updates reflecting the latest pricing, incentives, and inventory changes.
Drive more traffic to your store. Apollo’s video ads are optimized toward store visits, maximizing market performance. Plus, with Apollo’s advanced reporting capabilities, you can effortlessly monitor video performance, enabling accurate attribution.
Paid Search (PPC)
Capture more shoppers.
Show up at the top of search pages. Apollo Ads generates the industry’s best-performing search ads for new, used, certified, and service departments targeted to your perfect market. Our ads are strategically crafted to match consumer intent, incorporating A/B testing with up to 5 variants per ad and 3 variants per price extension to deliver maximum impact.
Increase conversions with Vehicle Listing Ads (VLAs). VLAs play a critical role in engaging online shoppers at ready-to-buy moments, driving highly qualified leads to your website. Optimized for both online and offline conversions, these ads prominently display detailed vehicle information at the top of search results pages based on relevant queries, effectively moving shoppers closer to a transaction.
Give shoppers exactly what they’re searching for. Apollo writes every ad with the customer in mind, featuring to-the-penny lease and finance payments based on the latest OEM incentives, rebates, and preferred dealer pricing. Each ad includes feature-rich content like unique vehicle features, the number you have in stock, and even other models that the consumer is likely to purchase.
Optimize your ads for maximum ROI. Apollo conducts real-time market analysis to deliver geo-targeted ads in areas with the highest conversion potential based on your search activity and historical transaction patterns. Each ad is optimized for store visits, enabling you to track customers who visit your dealership and complete transactions, providing precise ROI attribution for your marketing strategies.
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Lynne Hudson
Marketing Director | Toyota of Tampa Bay and Sun Toyota, Morgan Auto Group
With 13 years of experience in the automotive industry, Lynne Hudson has built a successful career, progressing from car salesperson to sales manager and gaining a deep understanding of dealership operations and customer dynamics. For the past six years, she has served as the Marketing Director for two Morgan Auto Group dealerships—Toyota of Tampa Bay and Sun Toyota—where she oversees lead generation, team productivity, and process optimization, driving measurable results.
Brian Benstock’s career in the automotive industry began in May 1982. Under the guidance of his mentor, Paul Singer, Benstock absorbed the intricate nuances of the automotive world and the principles of running a successful dealership. This foundational experience set the stage for Benstock’s future success, as he quickly demonstrated a keen aptitude for sales and a profound understanding of customer relations.
Benstock’s forward-thinking vision centers on creating a “frictionless” customer experience. His dedication to continuous learning and process optimization has not only contributed to his success but has also cemented his role as a key partner within the organization. Beyond his professional achievements, Benstock is deeply passionate about his family, cherishing his roles as a proud father and husband.
Dean Stoneley
CEO | FordDirect
Dean Stoneley is chief executive officer at FordDirect. As CEO, he leads the team responsible for bringing together the worlds of digital, data, and technology to deliver best-in-class marketing and advertising solutions to Ford Dealers and Lincoln Retailers, consistent with the customer-focused Ford+ plan for growth and value creation.
An accomplished executive with an agile leadership approach, a strong customer focus, and a knack for modernizing marketing functions in roles around the world, Dean oversees the rich digital connections that help FordDirect connect the Ford and Lincoln brands with the consumers served by dealerships across the United States.
Prior to joining FordDirect in 2022, Dean built tremendous relationships within Ford Motor Company over a span of 30 years. He was most recently the general manager, North America Truck at Ford. In this role, he built a team with end-to-end responsibility for Ford’s successful pick-up truck portfolio. During his tenure, F-Series extended its streak as the best-selling truck in America to 45 consecutive years. Dean launched the all-new Ford Maverick, the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2022 North America Truck of the Year.
Previously, Dean was president and CEO of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, where Ford is the No. 1 brand in the market. During his tenure, he worked closely with the Canadian government and Unifor to secure Oakville Assembly Complex as a BEV manufacturing site for the company.
Dean’s background with Ford has been predominantly in the marketing space, where he has held key marketing leadership roles in the U.S., Canada, Southern Africa, and Asia-Pacific markets. While based in China, he was vice president and director of marketing for a new joint venture with ChangAn Ford, responsible for marketing, sales, and service of Ford vehicles in China.
Dean is a past chairperson of the Canadian Automotive Partnership Council and member of the board of the Canadian Marketing Association. He graduated from Western University with a bachelor’s degree. He is married with three children, enjoys music, photography, and fine arts, and is a car and motorcycle enthusiast.
Lindsay Lee
Sr. Manager, Dealer Digital & Relationship Marketing | Toyota Motor North America
During her 18-year career with Toyota Motor North America (TMNA), Lindsay Lee spent the first 10 years in the Toyota and Lexus field organizations, where she developed a deep understanding of dealer operations and built strong relationships in multiple markets across the country. Since 2017, Lindsay has been dedicated to marketing strategy, planning, and implementation where she has led several teams through the development of award-winning vehicle and brand campaigns.
Currently, Lindsay is the Senior Manager responsible for Toyota Dealer Digital and Relationship Marketing. Lindsay’s application of her extensive research on the dealer website experience led to a complete overhaul of the Toyota Dealer Digital Solutions (TDDS) certified website program. With the goal of a uniquely-Toyota, customer-centric experience, she successfully brought to life a program that has simplified homepage designs, reduced pop-ups, and improved quality and overall site speed on Toyota dealer websites. Lindsay continues to lead her team to develop program enhancements that exemplify Toyota’s commitment to the customer experience. Outside of Toyota, Lindsay loves to travel with her husband and two young girls.
Patricia Muyshondt
CMO | Sames Auto Group
Patricia Muyshondt is a seasoned marketing executive with extensive expertise in the automotive industry. As the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Sames Auto Group, the oldest dealership in Texas, she spearheads all marketing and advertising initiatives, driving brand growth, enhancing customer engagement, and increasing revenue. Previously, Patricia served as the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Grupo Q Central America, where she oversaw multi-country marketing operations. She skillfully managed budgets, implemented innovative eCommerce strategies, and elevated branding efforts across highly competitive and dynamic markets. With a passion for innovation and a customer-centric approach, Patricia thrives on helping companies navigate the complexities of the ever-evolving auto industry. Her focus has always been on understanding and improving the customer journey—analyzing every touchpoint to create seamless, impactful brand experiences. Beyond her professional achievements, Patricia’s love for cars inspires her work and fuels her drive to push boundaries in automotive marketing.
JJ Jackintelle
COO | Coral Springs Automall
Jack Jackintelle (JJ) is a visionary leader and renowned automotive executive with a storied career spanning almost 4 decades. His journey is marked by an unwavering commitment to excellence, an unrelenting drive for results and a proven track record of success.
JJ’s entry into the automotive industry began in 1985 in Houston, Texas, where he quickly rose through the ranks from salesman to sales manager and general manager. In 1994, he purchased his first Toyota dealership in Ohio and a second Toyota dealership in Pittsburg in 1998. In 2002, JJ sold his dealerships and left the Midwest to relocate to Florida with his family, where he joined Group 1 as Platform President for 5 years. JJ later served as the President and Chief Operating Officer at Rick Case Automotive for 10 years and currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer at Page Automotive Group since 2018.
Throughout his distinguished career, JJ has remained steadfast in his belief of a merit-based culture, emphasizing clearly defined KPI’s and non-negotiables. His influence has inspired countless professionals, and his legacy continues to shape the automotive industry.
David Boice
Co-Founder & CEO | Team Velocity
Self-made and innovative, David is a pioneer in auto industry technology. Throughout his impressive career, he has owned numerous companies in the automotive, tech, RV, marine and real estate sectors. Boice co-founded two of the largest tech and consulting companies (AutoMark and CyberCar) in the automotive trade, with an enterprise value of $200 million. He co-founded his first technology company, AutoMark, with his father at 22, selling in 2000 as part of one of the largest technology transactions in the automotive industry. In 2008, he broke through a challenging economy and co-founded Team Velocity, a leading marketing technology provider serving the automotive industry.
Yossi J. Levi
Founder & CEO | Car Dealership Guy
Yossi J. Levi is the founder of Car Dealership Guy, the leading media platform in automotive retail, sharing content, news, and insights to help dealers and industry professionals stay informed and ahead.
His journey in the car business started at 14, working at his dad’s small used car lot in Philly, where he saw a clear need for more transparency in the industry.
In 2018, he launched Gettacar, a fully online auto retailer that sold over 3,000 cars a year nationwide, backed by $50M in funding from investors like 3L Capital, Luxor Capital, Headline, and Torch. By 2021, sales had grown 270% year-over-year, reaching $80M annually. But, as life would have it, the market shifted, competition became brutal, and by 2023, he had to shut it down.
But Yossi J. Levi is not one to sit around, and he knew his job was not yet done. So he quickly got back up and started Car Dealership Guy later that year, leveraging his then-anonymous social media persona. Today, it’s recognized as a trusted source for industry professionals, reaching over 30 million impressions monthly and earning features in Apple News, the NY Post, and Forbes.
Along the way, he’s been honored with awards like EY Entrepreneur of the Year and recognition as one of Goldman Sachs’ Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.
