Cars.com

Cars.com is a website which was launched in June 1998. It is the second largest automotive classified site, second to only Autotrader.com. It is a division of Classified Ventures, which is in turn a joint venture by major media companies including the Gannett Company, the McClatchy Company, the Washington Post Company, the Tribune Company, and A.H. Belo. Its headquarters are located in Chicago, Illinois. The editor-in-chief is Patrick Olsen and the President is Mitch Golub. From 2000 to 2002 Cars.com originally had a commercial featuring elevator music.

In October 2007, it announced plans for its largest marketing campaign ever in early 2008. In the same month, Yahoo! announced plans to receive listings from Cars.com for their Yahoo! Autos service. The deal would allow Cars.com listings to appear as advertisements targeted at consumers based on information they are looking at on Yahoo services.

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