Industries / Automotive

Close the online-to-offline automotive dealership gap.

Plan against real footfall, reach in-market buyers, shift budget toward the media driving showroom traffic, and prove the visits you caused.

Automotive brands and agencies working with Adsquare

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The retail problem

Digital-only measurement is distorting results for retailers.

The path to purchase now runs across social discovery, mobile research in your own aisles, a competitor's shop floor, click-and-collect and a desktop checkout.

Clicks and conversions cannot tell you which of those touch-points convinced the shopper to convert. So, inevitably, credit lands wherever the last measurable event happened.

That is an expensive way to plan in a sector this margin-sensitive. A campaign optimized on click-through is optimizing to a proxy. Store visits and incremental in-store spend are the numbers that matter when it comes to P&L.

Adsquare supplies the missing half: verified store visits, attributed to the exposure that caused them, inside 24 hours, and pushed back into the platform you already buy through.

Closing the Online-to-Offline Gap for Automotive Campaigns

The Automotive Marketing Playbook

Everything you need to know about offline automotive outcomes, in one document.

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THE OUTCOMES LOOP FOR AUTOMOTIVE

Plan. Target. Optimize. Validate.

Here is what each stage does for an automotive campaign.

  1. 01

    Planning

    Understand your audience before you spend.

    Map catchment areas around every dealership, benchmark footfall against competitor sites, and see who actually walks the lot. Plan the buy around real movement instead of assumed demographics.

    Store IntelligenceOOH Intelligence
  2. 02

    Targeting

    Reach the right people at the right moment.

    Reach in-market buyers where behavior gives them away. EV drivers at charging stations. Luxury seekers in premium postcodes. Conquest audiences who visited a rival dealership in the last 14 days, reached while another badge is still top-of-mind.

    ID-Precise AudiencesGeo-Contextual Audiences
  3. 03

    Optimization

    Shift spend towards offline conversions.

    Move budget mid-flight toward the screens, channels and creative driving lot traffic. Visits are matched against 2D building footprints, so the forecourt counts and the road outside does not.

    Visit Data Feed
  4. 04

    Validation

    Prove the campaign worked in the real world.

    Independent proof, not platform self-reporting. Visit uplift, cost per dealership visit, incremental visits, and the profile of who showed up. Then the result feeds next quarter's plan and the loop closes.

    Attribution Report