Autobytel Expands Relationship With Yahoo! Autos.Business Editors/Automotive Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2003 Automotive Information Center (AIC AIC Association des Infermières Canadiennes. ) Provides Yahoo!(R) Autos Consumers with Comprehensive Vehicle Images, Specs and Maintenance Information Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq:ABTL ABTL Association Belge des Technologues de Laboratoire ) has expanded its relationship with Yahoo! Autos by providing a range of new automotive images and research information for the site's newly enhanced make and model pages. The new automotive data, provided by Autobytel's Automotive Information Center (AIC), deepens Autobytel's long-standing relationship with Yahoo! Autos and provides their consumers with an even more enjoyable, information-rich vehicle research experience. Yahoo! Autos' consumers will benefit from AIC's comprehensive vehicle information and images -- providing a faster, easier and more complete research and shopping process. Specifically, Yahoo! Autos will now feature AIC's AutoSpecs Database, which provides access to hundreds of data points on the majority of new cars and trucks sold in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. -- including rebates and incentives, vehicle specifications, options, features, pricing, warranty information, safety and performance information, and vehicle color swatches. Autobytel is also providing a customized version of AIC's AutoGallery(TM) vehicle-viewing tool, which enables shoppers to view up to 19 interior and exterior digital photos of every new car and truck on the market, as well as an A-to-Z Maintenance and Repair Guide. "We're proud of our ongoing relationship with Yahoo!, and look forward to continuing to work together to maintain Yahoo! Autos' position as a premier automotive research destination," said Andrew Donchak, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Autobytel Inc. "Our goal is to provide our consumers with the most sophisticated content and research capabilities that we know are critical to the overall new vehicle researching and buying process," said Travis Bowie Bowie (b  `ē), city (1990 pop. 37,589), Prince Georges co., W central Md.; inc. 1916. It is mainly a residential community. Points of interest include the Woodward Mansion (c. , senior producer of Yahoo! Autos. "The expansion of our relationship with Autobytel will improve the breadth, depth and quality of the new car information on Yahoo! Autos, and is a testament to our unwavering commitment to provide consumers with the very best new car research experience online." About Autobytel Inc. Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq:ABTL), a leading Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the automotive marketing services company, helps retailers sell cars and manufacturers build brands through marketing, advertising and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. (customer relationship management) tools and programs. The company owns and operates the automotive websites Autobytel.com, Autoweb.com, CarSmart.com and popular automotive research center AutoSite autosite /au·to·site/ (aw´to-sit) the larger, more normal member of asymmetrical conjoined twin fetuses, to which the parasite is attached. au·to·site n. .com, as well as AIC (Automotive Information Center), a leading provider of automotive marketing data and technology. Seventy-five percent of the major manufacturers currently utilize AIC vehicle data -- which includes over 500 data points on every new car or truck sold in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. -- or AIC research tools on their web sites. Autobytel Inc. is the Internet's largest new-car buying service and, in 2002, generated over a billion dollars a month in car sales for dealers through its services. Autobytel Inc. is also among the largest syndicated car-buying content networks, reaching millions of unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. as they are making their vehicle buying decisions. Autobytel Inc. content and technology has potential exposure to over 94 percent of the active Digital Media Universe.(a) (a) Nielsen/NetRatings Q4 2002 Digital Media Universe Report (Autobytel Inc. is the unduplicated audience of the Autobytel, Autoweb.com, CarSmart and AutoSite.com brands. Autobytel Inc. provides content to the Yahoo!, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. and MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). portals and various automotive manufacturers' sites. The unduplicated audience of these Brands has an active reach of over 94 percent of the Digital Media Universe.) Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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