BidTheatre Advertising for Car Sales Leads

A self serve programmatic buying platform for smaller advertisers and agencies, buying display and video across the exchanges for your zone.

BidTheatre is a self serve demand side platform aimed at smaller advertisers and agencies, buying display, online video and native across the major exchanges with targeting by geography, audience, site and device, without the minimums and contracts of the enterprise platforms, and with reporting by campaign. It is European in origin with a global footprint, and its access for new advertisers goes through the platform's own onboarding, which is why it is listed as a channel to request.

For a dealership it is one of several routes to programmatic display and video in the zone without an enterprise contract, operated by the store's agency or by our team, with the ordinary exchange inventory and the ordinary programmatic controls. It does not carry the television data or the premium television deals of the larger platforms, and it does not need to for a display campaign.

A store spends through BidTheatre for programmatic display and video in its zone from a self serve console without enterprise minimums, when its agency wants to operate the buy directly at a small budget. It is an accessible console rather than a distinctive one.

The honest objection is that programmatic display reads through clicks and branded search over weeks, that a self serve DSP needs someone to operate it, and that BidTheatre's US inventory and data are thinner than the largest platforms'. Access goes through the platform's onboarding, which our team confirms at the time of the request.

For the broader case for this kind of channel, Programmatic Display Advertising for Dealers covers it without repeating what is here.

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BidTheatre fits agencies serving small dealerships that want their own console at small budgets, and stores with an agency willing to operate it. It fits less well for stores with nobody to run a console, which use our team, and for groups that need premium television deals.

BidTheatre works with advertisers on a partner basis rather than through an open self serve account, which usually means a conversation with their sales team, a minimum commitment and creative that meets their standards. LeadLocate handles that on request. Tell us from the Advertising Networks page in the CRM that you want BidTheatre, our team opens the conversation for your dealership, and once the placement is set the campaign is managed from Leads Manager alongside everything else you run with us. Where you already have a relationship with BidTheatre, we work inside it. The webXintel Ads Network, included with every plan, keeps running the whole time, so a partner placement is an addition to your lead flow rather than a replacement for it.

A BidTheatre bought lead reaches the CRM as a click from a display, video or native placement to a LeadLocate lead page or a vehicle page, a branded search, or a direct inquiry, attributed directly for the clicks and over weeks for the rest, with the campaign on the record.

Whichever way the shopper arrives, the record is the same. The lead carries its source, the campaign, and the answers to the pre screening questions you set in Leads Manager, and it goes to the salesperson or the rotation you chose in lead distribution. The first response can be automatic: a text, an email, a task on the calendar or a call from the BDC. If your store works leads in another CRM, turn on Instant Push and the lead is forwarded there by ADF the moment it arrives, at no change in price. What no channel can do is decide who submits the form. Some shoppers arrive with a VIN and a trade, some with a monthly budget and a rough idea, and both are real; what to expect from car sales leads covers that plainly.

Every channel LeadLocate runs shares one workflow. Campaigns are set up in Leads Manager from a zone, a campaign type and a set of pre screening questions. Leads arrive in one inbox, route by one set of distribution rules, and are worked with the CRM's own texting, calling, call transcription, email and voicemail drop. Reporting is one place, with activity, company and management views. BidTheatre slots into that as a source, nothing more, and that is the reason a store can afford to try it: the cost of adding a channel is the media, not another system. The advertising channels page lists every channel the CRM can run this way.

It also means a channel can be judged fairly. When every lead carries its source and every call, text and appointment is logged against it, the management report can show cost per lead and cost per appointment by channel over a quarter, which is the only honest way to compare a search campaign with a streaming flight or a mailing. A store that keeps its channels in separate systems never gets that comparison, and usually keeps paying for the one with the loudest sales rep.

For a small agency that wants its own programmatic console for dealership clients without enterprise minimums, BidTheatre is a candidate, and connecting each store's LeadLocate CRM shows the leads each rooftop's campaign produced.

Agencies are how most stores buy BidTheatre, and LeadLocate treats the agency as part of the store's team. An agency user can manage the campaigns in Leads Manager, hold the platform accounts in its own name and connect them, pull the same reporting the dealership sees, and use the webXintel Ads Network as a lead source for clients that want results before they want a media plan. What the agency gains is the piece it typically lacks: the CRM, the distribution rules, the texting and calling, the follow up processes, all of it visible so the agency can show the store what happened after the click. Agencies that bring dealerships onto the platform can enroll in the referral program. See automotive-media-buying-servicesL for how the agency side works.

Geography is the first setting on every LeadLocate campaign, and it is yours. Draw the zone you sell in with the zone editor in Leads Manager, a radius, a list of counties or a state, and BidTheatre placements are bought for that zone and nothing outside it. Brokers who sell to the whole country set the whole country; a group draws one zone per rooftop and the reporting comes back the same way, so a regional manager can see which store's market answered. Financing audiences stay inside fair lending rules on every channel: Leads Manager keeps them from being narrowed by age, gender, income, marital status, household size, education, language or ZIP, with locked controls, so a store is protected without thinking about it. Everything else, the vehicles, the message, the radius, is open.

The setup cost of BidTheatre, in your time, is a click. The Advertising Networks page in the CRM lists it beside every other channel; Request Connection opens a support request our team works, usually the same day. Stores that are new to LeadLocate choose a plan on the pricing page, month to month with no long term contract, and start with the webXintel Ads Network the same week. Media bought through a BidTheatre account in your name is billed by BidTheatre directly to you. Your existing CRM, if you have one, keeps receiving leads through Instant Push by ADF, and the price does not change for that.

From there it is a conversation, not a contract. Our team confirms the zone and the selections, says plainly what BidTheatre is likely to do for a store of your size, and agrees a review date. If the reporting shows BidTheatre earning its budget, it stays; if it does not, it is switched off from the same page, the store keeps every lead and record it produced, and the budget moves to a channel that did better in the same report.

Who is BidTheatre for?

Smaller advertisers and agencies that want a self serve programmatic console without enterprise minimums, buying display, video and native across the exchanges.

Is BidTheatre available to a dealership today?

Access goes through the platform's own onboarding. Request it from the Advertising Networks page and our team confirms what is available for the store at the time.

How is the campaign measured?

By clicks from placements to the lead page and vehicle pages, branded search lift in the zone during the flight and direct inquiries, reported in the CRM by week.

Does my dealership need its own relationship with BidTheatre?

Not to start. Request BidTheatre from the Advertising Networks page in the CRM and our team opens the conversation with BidTheatre for your store. If you or your agency already have a relationship there, tell us in the request and we work inside it.

Can BidTheatre leads go into the CRM we already use?

Yes. Instant Push forwards every lead to your existing CRM by ADF the moment it arrives, with its source attached, and the price of the subscription is unchanged.

What does LeadLocate charge for BidTheatre?

The platform subscription, month to month and priced on the pricing page, includes the webXintel Ads Network. A BidTheatre placement carries whatever commitment BidTheatre sets, billed for your dealership; we do not mark it up and we never tie our price to results.

Request BidTheatre from inside the CRM and our team sets it up, usually the same day. Not on LeadLocate yet? Pick a plan, month to month, and start with the included webXintel Ads Network this week.

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