How can Autovia help you?
Autovia houses the most extensive portfolio of automotive media brands in the UK, reaching over 15m car owners, buyers and enthusiasts every month.
The breadth of our titles and content, specialising in everything from performance and classic cars, to commercial and electric vehicles, gives us unparalleled access to customers across the entire automotive spectrum.
Through the trusted authority of our household brands, we’re able to help advertisers reach their target audiences to educate and influence at scale, using a range of traditional and innovative media solutions.
At the heart of everything we do is our customer-first, data-led approach ensuring conversations can be had with the right audiences, in the right places, at the right times.
Digital and social
Through our vast digital and social platforms, Autovia’s brands reach more dedicated automotive consumers than any other media company in the UK.
Our access to in-market car buyers is unrivalled, with reviews and buying advice on Auto Express and CarBuyer helping millions of customers buy cars each year. Our opinion pieces and video content across evo, much of it socially led, engage and entertain masses of the most informed auto enthusiasts.
Much of our content is digital first, and we continue to innovate in this space, launching new digital-first brands such as DrivingElectric.co.uk, developing podcasts, and new, agile platforms for all of our websites to optimise the customer experience.
Whether you’re looking to influence audiences within their car buying journeys or reach and educate auto influencers at scale, Autovia’s digital portfolio is a must for any marketing plan.
How we help our clients and partners
- Engage with a huge automotive audience across various digital and social environments
- Impactful display ad campaigns, utilising our Polaris digital platform to deliver high viewability and acquisition metrics for brands
- Bespoke audience targeting using our real-time Data Management Platform
- Branded articles, video, podcasts, and immersive digital content, harnessing our editorial expertise to improve brand perception across multiple channels
Contact
steve_machin@autovia.co.uk
Branded content and partnerships
Branded content allows our partners to benefit from what we do best – creating hugely engaging and carefully crafted written and video content, produced by the UK’s leading journalists.
At Autovia, we believe every piece of content should be created using the very highest production standards. That’s why our core editorial team creates our branded content for clients, ensuring it is equally engaging and valued by our audiences, whilst retaining the tone and quality expected.
We also offer clients the opportunity to create more integrated partnerships, harnessing the power of our brands and services in multiple other ways.
Brand extensions such as our podcasts, awards and events, allow a deeper relationship and engagement with our audiences to effect sustained change over a longer period of time.
How we help our clients and partners
- Product or brand-focused advertorials, benefiting from a trusted editorial voice to speak to magazine readers and digital audiences in a tone they recognise and trust
- Branded videos and articles covering bespoke topics, developed with clients, written and presented by our award-winning journalists, that help to impact brand perception
- Series sponsorships, allowing brands to badge and gain recognition around topics and content they are most closely associated with
- Cross-platform integrated partnerships, allowing clients to engage with our customers across a range of executions, including podcasts, awards, and other bespoke events
Contact
sarah_perks@autovia.co.uk
Automotive magazines remain a hugely important media channel for our customers to access the latest news, reviews, opinion, features and debate from the UK’s leading experts and opinion formers.
Autovia houses the biggest portfolio of automotive magazines in the UK – including the best-selling weekly title in Auto Express and the only dedicated performance car magazine in evo.
Each brand benefits from a high volume of influential subscribers, reflecting their passion for cars, and demonstrating the importance that these readers hold within the world of automotive.
How we help our clients and partners
- Gain the highest rate of attention from a dedicated and powerful automotive audience
- Impact and influence car owners, buyers and enthusiasts in the environment they love
- Benefit from the unrivalled trust and integrity of our journalism to help grow your brand
- A range of creative integrations available, including display advertising, branded content, classified and essentials, plus specialist cover wraps and editions.
Contact
sarah_perks@autovia.co.uk
Demand generation
Our demand and lead-generation solutions enable Autovia’s clients to identify and then engage with known consumers throughout their vehicle-buying journeys. By combining the editorial trust and credibility of our brands with deep and rich data on our users, we’re able to actively influence people to move them further along their buying journeys to purchase. As we do this, we can nurture individuals (or companies) who are in-market, and then introduce them to clients with permissions to contact.
How we help our clients and partners
- Identifying specific prospective customers at different stages as they move through their buying journeys, from initial research, through selecting a shortlist, to qualifying their final purchase decisions
- Gathering required permissions for clients to be able to directly contact prospective customers, together with any supporting information needed to qualify customers for sales readiness
- Providing further insights on customers’ interests, needs and concerns as they research their vehicle purchases
- Actively nurturing prospective customers along their buying journeys by informing and educating them around client offerings
Contact
steve_machin@autovia.co.uk
Data, insights and research
Through the Autovia suite of brands, we have an unparalleled view of the UK automotive audience. Our extensive reach and rich user experiences give us a broad and deep understanding of vehicle owners, buyers, and enthusiasts that we’re able to share with our clients and partners. From macro-level trends in the automotive space such as the electrification of vehicles, to customer sentiment towards brands, models or features, our data, insights and research capabilities provide a full-service offering for clients and partners to enrich their knowledge of prospects and customers.
As part of this solution, our Driver Power brand represents the UK’s most comprehensive and trusted car owner satisfaction and insight study. This always-on survey deep dives into consumer sentiments and perceptions around their vehicle buying experiences and all aspects of ownership including performance, maintenance, and dealer support. We provide the data and insights from Driver Power to clients, agencies and the wider automotive ecosystem as aggregate insight reports, data drops/feeds, and unique consultation in conjunction with our expert journalists and contributors.
How we help our clients and partners
- Combining user entered/declared, behavioural, and transactional data to offer a 360° view of prospect, buyer and customer interests, behaviours, needs, and concerns
- Sharing aggregate insights on industry/audience trends with expert interpretation and analysis from our team of journalists and contributors
- Providing bespoke data mining and research to answer client-specific questions and investigate areas of exploration
- Reporting analysis of advertising performance both on and outside of Autovia brands
Contact
steve_machin@autovia.co.uk
