ITV teams up with European car seller carwow in advertising tie-up
ITV has announced it is investing in a partnership with Europe’s biggest new car marketplace carwow, in return for advertising inventory across ITV’s channels and the ITV Hub.
Marking ITV’s first media for equity investment in 2022, the carwow deal follows four similar investments in 2021 via the programme.
As part of the deal, ITV is acquiring a minority stake in carwow, valued at £2.5m in return for ad inventory, with an option to invest a further £2.5m.
ITV joins the ranks of leading investors in carwow, including Vitruvian, Balderton, Accel, Hercules Capital and Daimler.
carwow is Europe’s biggest new car buying marketplace and offers the fastest growing consumer-to-trade car selling service which it launched in June 2021.
carwow is also one of the most influential brands in automotive consumer media owning the biggest automotive channel on YouTube. Fronted by Chief Content Officer, Mat Watson, the channel has 6.7 million subscribers and regularly attracts 85 million views per month.
In the audited accounts of carwow for the year ended 31 December 2020, it reported gross assets were £22.9m and the net loss was £6.7m.
Niko Waesche, Fund Manager of ITV AdVentures Invest, said: “We are delighted to be partnering with carwow. The team has demonstrated a deep understanding of both content and commerce, helping car buyers and sellers across the UK, Spain and Germany.”
“carwow is the go-to household brand for objective and entertaining car reviews and this guidance is essential for consumers, particularly as many people transition to electric vehicles.”
James Hind, CEO and Founder of carwow adds: “We look forward to deploying our first campaigns with ITV right away and building out our presence quickly over the months ahead. Any car owner can benefit from our offerings and given ITV’s unique reach to households across the country, they were an obvious partner for us.”