Auto Trader | Insight blog
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Top tips for retailing vans
Discover how to maximise the impact of your commercial vehicle adverts and boost advert performance.
Insight Clinics explained...
These hands-on workshops are geared towards fine tuning your forecourt targets and strategy. Discover their benefits and what they can do for your business.
Winning in New Car with Halliwell Jones
Auto Trader's new car performance director, Bex Kennett, sits down with Halliwell Jones to hear how the brand is meeting its new car objectives.
An update from our CEO
Our CEO, Nathan Coe shares some exciting updates that are set to drive success for both new and used markets over the next few months.
Redefining the future of automotive retail through our major new partnership with What Car?
We’re delighted to announce a new multi-year partnership with What Car? that's set to revolutionise the new car buying experience.
Do Older, Cheaper Vehicles sell on Auto Trader?
Recent data from our platform highlights a compelling case for broadening the mix of vehicles on retailer forecourts, particularly by focusing on older, cheaper cars.
Brand New cars found on Auto Trader
This summer we are launching our biggest new car marketing campaign to date, with the aim of making Auto Trader as known for our new car offering as we are for used.
Dispelling the common myths around electric vehicles
There’s plenty of myths around electric vehicles. But which are true and which are fabrications to rival the tales from ancient Greece?
Tackling the challenges of vehicle prep
What can retailers do to ease the challenges of vehicle preparation? We spoke to some leading independent retailers to find out.
Retailers vote Auto Trader ‘Best online advertiser for new cars’
We’re thrilled to share that Auto Trader has been named ‘Best online advertiser for new cars’ at the Car Dealer Power Awards 2024 as voted for by Retailers.
Bentley’s global focus on sustainability
Bentley, winner of the Sustainability Initiative award at the Auto Trader New Car Awards 2024, showcases how the Bentley Environmental Foundation is helping to tackle the climate crisis.
The Drive Green Approach to Sustainability
Drive Green, winner of the Sustainability Initiative of the Year Award at the Auto Trader Retailer Awards 2023, shares how they are putting sustainability at the heart of their business.
An update from our CEO
In his latest update, our CEO shares the latest market performance, along with our outlook for H2 based on analysis from our strategy team.
How do we engage the early majority of EV buyers?
This year, we headed to the EV Summit to share our views, along with those of a panel made up of experts from VinFast, Tesla and Wink Car, on what needs to be done to engage the early majority of EV buyers.
Our 2024 Highly Rated retailers have been announced…
We’ve just announced our Highly Rated retailers for 2024. Read on to find out what it took to be Highly Rated along with details of this year’s Highly Rated competition.
The latest on used car prices
Our latest update on the used car prices which includes an analysis of what we’re seeing with demand, speed of sale and transaction volumes.
Show on the Road is back for series 2!
Series 2 of our podcast, Show On the Road launches today and we can’t wait for you to meet our new passengers.
We’re evolving the Auto Trader search experience.
Auto Trader are advancing the search experience to meet the evolving needs of consumers in an increasingly complex marketplace
The Chinese automotive industry: Challenger or partner?
We recently sent a team to China to uncover exactly what impact the burgeoning Chinese market is set to have on the UK industry. Discover what they found here.
The three things we learned at the Auto Trader New Car Awards 2024
Last week we announced the winners of the Auto Trader New Car Awards 2024 as determined by a survey of over 200,000 car owners. But what did we learn from this year’s survey?