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DealerELITE Recognizes Digital Air Strike for Innovation

DealerELITE includes Digital Air Strike in its Top 10 list of Most Interesting and Innovative Auto Companies of 2013.

by Staff
July 25, 2013
1 min to read


SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Digital Air Strike, automotive social media, online reputation and lead-response company, was awarded as one of the “Top 10 Most Interesting and Innovative Automotive Companies of 2013” by DealerELITE, an online community of dealership and automotive industry professionals.  

Over 8,000 dealership owners, general managers and top level management members of the DealerELITE online community were asked to nominate companies they believed were the most innovative vendor companies in the automotive industry. After careful evaluation and review of over 75 nominated companies, DealerELITE selected 10 winners to receive this award.

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“We believe these 10 companies are growing and innovating in a way that has a significant impact on the way we do business and present excellent models for continued growth,” said Mike Myers, co-founder of DealerELITE. A full list of the Top 10 companies can be viewed here.

Digital Air Strike Co-Founder and CEO Alexi Venneri added, “We are honored to receive this award and would like to thank the dealers and automotive community for selecting us. This award is especially meaningful because it was based on direct dealer and peer feedback. Our team works hard to ensure our dealers and OEM partners have the most innovative lead response, social media and reputation management technology, and we are proud to be recognized as an industry leader.”

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