Advertise with CarGurus

Reach your customers in the best way possible by marketing to the industry’s most engaged audience on the most visited marketplace. Join dealers who are already putting their vehicles in front of more shoppers, on more channels, and connecting with buyers who are ready to purchase.

Audience

Reach the industry’s most engaged audience on the most-visited marketplace on the channel that’s right for them.

Dealers

CarGurus Real-time Performance Marketing. Drive more high-quality shoppers to your website.

  • Omnichannel Campaigns
  • Customized Ads
  • Dynamic Targeting
  • Branded CarGurus VDPs

Manufacturers (OEMs)

Choose from a variety of advertising and sponsored content to reach your desired audience.

  • Branded Landing Pages
  • Custom and Native Ad Units
  • Sponsorship
  • Retargeting
  • In-Market Audiences

All Others

Choose from a variety of advertising and sponsored content to reach your desired audience.

  • Custom and Native Ad Units
  • Sponsorship
  • Segment Targeting
  • Social Audience Targeting
  • In-Market Audience Targeting

Brand

CarGurus offers several advertising options to engage with our high-value shoppers, such as standard display, native, custom, and sponsored opportunities.

Standard Display Advertising

CarGurus offers a variety of standard display advertising units in different sizes across various devices. Fine tune your campaign based on the available options below.

Medium Rectangle
Desktop/Tablet/Mobile/In-app
300x250
Half Page
Desktop/Tablet
300x600
Leaderboard
Desktop/Tablet
728x90
Billboard
Desktop/Tablet
970x250
Static wide banner
Mobile/In-app
320x50
Small Rectangle
Mobile/In-app
320x100
Standard display asset & tagging requirements

HTML5 or third party served only (unless otherwise noted). All assets compromising the ad being served (tags, images, tracking pixels, etc.) must be SSL compliant, make secure calls, and use secure URLs.

Native & custom display advertising

CarGurus offers a variety of different ad placements and sizes across various devices. Fine tune your campaign based on the available custom and native ad unit options below.

Shopping links unit
Desktop/Tablet
728x90
Shopping links unit
Desktop/Tablet
300x250
Shopping links unit
Mobile
320x50
Certified co-branded promo unit
Desktop/Tablet
728x90
Inventory filter
Desktop/Tablet
728x90
Native filter unit
Desktop/Tablet
728x90
Native and custom display asset & tagging requirements

HTML5 or third party served only (unless otherwise noted). All assets compromising the ad being served (tags, images, tracking pixels, etc.) must be SSL compliant, make secure calls, and use secure URLs. All custom units built by CarGurus unless otherwise noted. Requires assets and copy.

Branded and sponsored content

Want to drive your CarGurus display advertising or sponsored content to brand specific pages on site? Choose from different native sponsorships and integrated pages to grab your audience's attention.

Homepage Awareness Takeover
CarGurus + Autolist
Used/CPO shopper homepage sponsorship
CarGurus
Autolist app awareness sponsorship
Autolist

Programmatic

Additional advertiser opportunities include PMP deals which provides engagement with our quality audience of high-value shoppers.

PMP (Private Marketplace Deals)

Partner with CarGurus to access our exclusive digital marketplace and purchase programmatic ad inventory directly.

Segment targeting
Desktop/Tablet/Mobile
728x90
300x600
300x250
320x50
Social audience targeting
Desktop/Tablet/Mobile
Custom
Video in-market audience targeting
Desktop/Tablet/Mobile
Custom

ABS (Anti Bot System)

Putting the breaks on invalid traffic

CarGurus leverages a multi-layer security solution to monitor, reduce, and eliminate known sources of invalid traffic. Combined with added protection from our ad partners, the team at CarGurus uses automated internal technology and human review to guard against identifiable sources of low-quality interactions. Advertising with CarGurus means you will never be charged for impressions or clicks that have been identified by CarGurus as invalid traffic.

Traffic Source Filtering and Blocking

Filtering/Blocking based on IP, domain, region, and more.

Human Detection and Manual Review

Ad Operations department highly trained in identifying sources of IVT.

Research and Proactive Bot Hunting

Staying up to date on recent trends and implementing preventative measures designed to reduce the incidence and impact of issues.

Integrated Internal and Third-Party Technology

IVT solutions from major ad partners and industry leaders.

Ready to advertise with us?