Marty Padgett's Inside Scoop on Auto News and Car Publications (Page 4)

TheCarConnection and Yahoo! Get In Gear

By TheCarConnection TeamMarty Padgett, January 9th, 2009

Just before the 2009 Detroit auto show gets underway, TheCarConnection.com and High Gear Media have a nice bit of news to share: a new content distribution agreement we've done with the good folks at Yahoo! Starting today, our unique "meta" reviews are now available on Yahoo! Autos.

We're excited because that brings our team’s work to one of the automotive industry's most trafficked properties, to the tune of about 5 million unique visitors every month. This new relationship also expands on our already growing list of syndication partners, which includes agreements with AutoTrader.com. Oodle.com and Glam Media. (Trust us, there’s more...

Just before the 2009 Detroit auto show gets underway, TheCarConnection.com and High Gear Media have a nice bit of news to share: a new content distribution agreement we've done with the good folks at Yahoo! Starting today, our unique "meta" reviews are now available on Yahoo! Autos. We're excited because that brings our team’s work to one of the automotive industry's most trafficked properties, to the tune of about 5 million unique visitors every month. This new relationship also expands on our already growing list of syndication partners, which includes agreements with AutoTrader.com. Oodle.com and Glam Media. (Trust us, there’s more... Read More

Tags: Car Publications

WWSD? CAR Asks Automakers to Design St. Nick's Sleigh

By Colin MathewsColin Mathews, December 18th, 2008

Now Dasher! Now Datsun, now Peugeot and Vauxhall! On Comet! On Cooper! On Kia and Bristol! Thanks, CAR magazine, for providing a bit of levity and some smiles despite a dreary economy, layoffs, and plant closures galore. CAR tapped automakers' design studios to create interpretations of what "Father Christmas" would drive on the night before Christmas. Bentley, Ford, Rolls, and Nissan obliged, turning out some pretty fantastic (and phantasmagorical) designs. Head over to CAR, peruse, and vote for your favorite. The oh-so-British Bentley is tempting if a bit blinged-out with its Continental GT headlights, but I found the Rolls' wintry scene... Now Dasher! Now Datsun, now Peugeot and Vauxhall! On Comet! On Cooper! On Kia and Bristol! Thanks, CAR magazine, for providing a bit of levity and some smiles despite a dreary economy, layoffs, and plant closures galore. CAR tapped automakers' design studios to create interpretations of what "Father Christmas" would drive on the night before Christmas. Bentley, Ford, Rolls, and Nissan obliged, turning out some pretty fantastic (and phantasmagorical) designs. Head over to CAR, peruse, and vote for your favorite. The oh-so-British Bentley is tempting if a bit blinged-out with its Continental GT headlights, but I found the Rolls' wintry scene... Read More

Tags: Fun, Contests, Styling, Car Publications

Posted in: 2008, Ford, Nissan, Bentley, Rolls-Royce

"Death to the Embargo:" TechCrunch Draws Line in Sand

By Colin MathewsColin Mathews, December 18th, 2008

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, fed up with the press release embargo game of hot and cold played between PR folks and journalists (especially online journalists), is taking the bold stance of completely ignoring embargoes altogether. His post excoriates a system that encourages media outlets to break embargoes repeatedly. If a blog or journal actually waits for the embargo release date, more than likely someone else will have already broken the embargo date and gotten the first jump on the story. Punishments for breaking an embargo are mild to nil, according to Arrington, in effect encouraging news channels to ignore disseminators'... Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, fed up with the press release embargo game of hot and cold played between PR folks and journalists (especially online journalists), is taking the bold stance of completely ignoring embargoes altogether. His post excoriates a system that encourages media outlets to break embargoes repeatedly. If a blog or journal actually waits for the embargo release date, more than likely someone else will have already broken the embargo date and gotten the first jump on the story. Punishments for breaking an embargo are mild to nil, according to Arrington, in effect encouraging news channels to ignore disseminators'... Read More

Tags: Marketing, Industry, Politics, Car Publications

Posted in: 2008, Chrysler