Alliance Creative Group has added a new, automated marketing and customer engagement solution that uses AI characters to assist dealership website visitors. +

Lotlinx is set to launch Revive, a new solution designed to help dealership sales team nurture, identify and reengage “closed-lost” shoppers, at the upcoming 2026 NADA Show. +

Insider Monkey ranks Cerence AI at No. 8 on its list of “10 AI Stocks Under $20 to Buy Now” ahead of the company’s planned debut of new dealer- and customer-facing agents at CES 2026. +

A successful test run at a Texas Hyundai store preceded the nationwide launch of D.A.I.V.E., a new AI agent designed to connect with and assist car shoppers walking dealership lots. +

Ford and Lincoln dealers using the factory’s FordDirect customer engagement platform now have a new employee in “Jerry,” Podium’s AI-powered, inbound lead-handling virtual sales assistant. +

A Foureyes analysis of more than 1 billion visits to more than 22,500 dealership websites found 43.2% of all sales leads were mishandled in 2024, including nearly 48% of all website-originated calls.+