Carbay

Carbay is an online platform for auto-dealers to market their automobiles on social networks.

Carbay is a service designed to help auto-dealers advertise their cars on various social networks. For a base price of 57 Euro per month, companies can fill out a form with pictures and technical specs of the car and have ads placed on auto-sale sites like AUTO.AVITO, Yandex.Auto, Autorambler, Auto.Mail.ru, Cars.ru, and on social networks like Facebook, Vkontakte, Twitter, and Youtube. In addition to the base service including the aforementioned auto-sites, customers can have the profiles of their cars displayed for an extra fee on paid auto-sites like AM.ru, Auto.ru, Drom.ru, Auto.IRR.ru, aVtomarket, and Auto.dmir.ru (the price list for this section includes dozens of varying fees and in Russian, so difficult to paint a complete picture. Prices are often broken down by the time period or the region for which the ad will be placed. In this section, fees can range from about 52 Euro/month all the way up to 820 Euro/month for extensive ad-placements). In addition to their web service, Carbay offers an app for Android phones and intends to soon release apps for iOS and Android tablets. With this announcement, the press release states that Carbay has already attracted 15 Moscow auto-dealers as customers.