Cars.com Named Best Automotive Web Site in the Ninth Annual Webby Awards' People's Voice Awards

Cars.com Named Best Automotive Web Site in the Ninth Annual Webby
Awards' People's Voice Awards 


CHICAGO, May 4  /PRNewswire/ -- The Webby Awards, the leading international
honor for Web sites, announced that cars.com won The People's Voice Award for
Best Automotive Web Site.  The award is a tremendous honor indicating the
highest level of loyalty and commitment from the site's visitor base.  It is
the most recent in a series of accolades cars.com has received from consumers
and advertisers in 2005.

In a wide range of studies and awards programs, cars.com has received top
honors for consumer experience and consumer marketing initiatives.   The site's
advertisers have also ranked cars.com as an industry leader:

  -- People's Voice Award: As part of the ninth annual Webby Awards program,
     more than 200,000 Web users cast their votes for their favorite Web
     sites.  Cars.com ranked number one among all Automotive Web sites.
  -- Keynote Customer Experience Rankings for Third Party Auto Web Sites: A
     leader in Web site performance measurement, Keynote ranked cars.com and
     its partner Kelley Blue Book as the best sites in terms of online
     customer experience based on evaluation of more than 250 metrics.
  -- Ward's e-Dealer 100: Ward's Dealer Business, a world leader in
     automotive information, named cars.com as the 3rd-party automotive site
     of choice among the top 100 Internet dealers in the U.S.  More of these
     leading dealerships advertise on cars.com than on any other automotive
     destination.
  -- Auto Dealer Monthly's Dealers' Choice Awards: Dealers recognized
     cars.com with the Platinum Award for third-party lead providers, noting
     the fact that dealer ads compete on an equal basis on the site.
  -- US Ad Review:  The US Ad Review recently selected cars.com's consumer
     print creative as being among the best in the newspaper ad category.
     The creative runs across cars.com's network of newspaper partners to
     drive local car shoppers to the site.



"Recent recognition from our site visitors, advertising partners and industry
leaders is a testament to the cars.com business model and approach," said Mitch
Golub, president of cars.com.  "We have always kept the consumer experience at
the heart of our business, continually developing site content, resources and
technology to bring consumers the most comprehensive automotive destination
available.  That investment has been rewarded by consumers who have made
cars.com their number one source to research, buy and sell a car, and by
advertisers who recognize cars.com's ability to deliver a quality audience of
in-market automotive shoppers."

Hailed as the "online Oscars" by Time Magazine, The Webby Awards are determined
by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a global organization
with a membership that includes musician David Bowie, Virgin Group founder
Richard Branson, The Body Shop president Anita Roddick, "Simpsons" creator Matt
Groening, Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser, and fashion designer Max Azria. The
Ninth Annual Webby Awards received a record number of entries from over 40
countries and all 50 states. More then 200,000 fans cast their ballots to
decide their own personal favorites from among the nominees in each category.

About cars.com

Partnered with more than 200 leading metro newspapers, television stations and
their Web sites, cars.com is the most comprehensive destination for those
looking to buy or sell a new or used car. The site lists more than 1.4 million
vehicles from 10,000 dealer customers, classified advertisers and private-
parties to offer consumers the best selection of new and used cars online, as
well as the content, tools and advice to support their shopping experience.
Cars.com combines powerful inventory search tools and new-car configuration
with pricing information, photo galleries, buying guides, side-by-side
comparison tools, original editorial content and reviews to help millions of
consumers connect with sellers each month.

Launched in June 1998, cars.com is a division of Classified Ventures, LLC, (
http://www.classifiedventures.com/ ), which is owned by six leading media
companies including, Belo (NYSE:BLC), Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), Knight
Ridder (NYSE:KRI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI), Tribune Company (NYSE:
TRB) and The Washington Post Company. (NYSE:WPO). 

DATASOURCE: cars.com



CONTACT:  Media, Kerri McLaughlin, Communications Manager of cars.com,

[phone] (direct), [phone] (mobile),  



Web site:  http://www.cars.com/

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