In this podcast, Host Ryan Gerardi sits with Fair.com Co-Founder Georg Bauer and Partner Relations Manager Aida Takyrbasheva to discuss how a vehicle subscription model is customer-centric and gives everyone a win-win opportunity, and the fact that dealers don't need disruption but rather partnerships and innovation.

The term ‘disruption’ is increasingly being applied in conversations about what lies ahead for automotive. From buying cars online to autonomous driving features and subscribing to vehicles, players and pundits are referring to these things as disruptive. But are they really, or is the term being overused and misused?

For the last 100 or so years, five fundamental aspects of the industry have stayed relatively the same: Product, Manufacturers Distributors/Dealers, Buying Experience, Ownership Experience. But all signs point to change, serious change, and disruption. But when, and how. Who will be the winners? Who will be the losers?

The quest to determine how auto dealers are supposed to understand which of their advertising partners and traffic sources are benefitting them the most, alas Marketing Attribution, has led to a small movement that on the surface appears to tout standards and transparency. But how can dealers trust a consortium of companies that in the end are the ones competing for their ad dollars?  Find out in this extensive podcast.

This week 'On Air' we welcome first-time guest but long-time industry veteran Ralph Paglia for a candid discussion on the coming changes to Auto Retail and the "Tier 4" Marketing concept as a competitive differentiator. Ralph is the purveyor of the popular online community called 'Automotive Digital Marketing' which he formed in 2008, shortly after an unassuming phone call with host Ryan Gerardi.

Just in time for "May the Fourth" this news brief features Houston-based Orion Span Inc. hoping to launch the modular Aurora Station in late 2021 and welcome its first guests the following year. The platform would orbit 200 miles above Earth, offering six guests 384 sunrises and sunsets as they speed around the planet for 12 days. Read more on AutoConverse.com.

In this episode featuring fellow podcasters Jason Stum and Chris K Leslie we open up with a discussion about the proposed new franchise Bill AB 2107 in the California Legislature. We then get into a discussion about the new Amazon Key In-Car Delivery service being rolled out, along with a conversation about how businesses are failing on Twitter, and an update on Google's rollout of mobile sites in it's index.

The One and Only Frank Lopes is back 'On Air' to recap the 24th Digital Dealer Conference and Expo held last week in Orlando. This is Frank's second appearance on our Live Weekly Broadcast. During this episode, Frank and Ryan expand on the key takeaway from DD24 - the growing importance of consumer engagement and consumer-facing value in auto retail. The two also get into what makes these industry conferences so important to the career-minded professionals in this space.

How do all the algorithms around us learn to do their jobs? Well, apparently, nobody actually knows. Not the bots themselves, and not the people that create them. In fact, it's such a complicated subject that it's not even worth talking about. Which is why we don't recommend listening to this podcast if you're tired of hearing about Artificial Intelligence. However, you don't want to miss this episode.

In this episode, AutoConversion Founder Ryan Gerardi sits down for an extended interview with Patrick Block from Flexdrive, an enterprise technology and services platform built to empower dealerships to offer consumers flexibility instead of commitment through vehicle subscriptions.