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CloudTheory’s Cutting-Edge Technology for Automotive Marketing

Horizon by CloudTheory is a data-driven platform designed to transform automotive marketing. With real-time, AI-powered insights, Horizon enables manufacturers, agencies, and affiliates to make smarter, faster decisions.

Empowering OEMs, Agencies, Dealer Groups, and Finance

Cloud Theory supports key players in the automotive industry with tailored solutions. With our data and insights, OEMs inform business decisions, agencies inform their marketing strategies, dealer groups scale their marketing efforts, and financial institutions assess the automotive market.

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Tools, Guides, and Insights for Automotive Marketing

Access a wealth of resources designed to help you optimize your automotive marketing strategies. From in-depth guides and case studies to industry reports and best practices, our resources provide valuable insights to drive smarter decisions, improve performance, and stay ahead in a competitive market.

Rick Wainschel

Rick has spent his entire career, including 25 years in the automotive industry, leading teams to develop analytics capabilities that address key strategic business challenges. He has a passion for finding narratives in the numbers that make analytics come to life in an accessible, understandable, and most importantly actionable way. Outside of work, Rick spends most of his time running or golfing.

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Elegant Simplicity: An Inventory Efficiency Index Opportunity Case Study​

Cloud Theory’s Horizon insights platform organizes and visualizes an enormous amount of information regarding the real-time supply and demand dynamics of the automotive marketplace, but no metric contained within it is more revealing and...

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Ford F150 Truck

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The Fight For Model Supremacy

Why RAV4 and CR-V Have An Advantage Over F-150 Going Forward A recent article in Forbes highlighted a key inflection point in the automotive...

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The New Economics of Auto Affordability: Vehicle Sales Under $35k

Vehicle Movement Stalling as Inventories Ramp Up It’s no secret that automotive prices are at a high level and have been elevated for more than three...

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Tariffs and Trade Tensions Threaten Automotive Market Stability

At Cloud Theory, we have a unique view of real-time supply and demand in the automotive marketplace, and we comment regularly about the impact that...

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