Dealer Authority
#1 in Automotive
Automotive-focused digital marketing agency delivering SEO, paid search, and social media strategies built for dealership competition.
- Founded
- 2015
- HQ
- Waynesville, Ohio
- Team
- 6-15
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Tyson Madliger
Founder & CEO
Tyson Madliger owns Dealer Authority, a digital marketing agency based in Ohio that serves automotive dealerships with social media, SEO, paid search, and inventory management solutions.
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Editor’s take
Dealer Authority positions itself as a boutique automotive marketing shop serving franchised dealerships with a niche focus on search, social, and paid advertising. The site emphasizes custom strategies tailored to individual dealership competitive positioning rather than OEM-approved cookie-cutter approaches, and cites multi-year client retention and partnerships with over half of franchised dealerships as proof points. The agency's service stack—SEO, Local Service Ads via Google Vehicle Listing Ads, social media, and its proprietary Octane platform—aligns with the channels that drive showroom traffic in automotive retail.
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Where Dealer Authority ranks
Dealer Authority is ranked #1 on our list of the top automotive marketing agencies, where every agency is scored against the same published criteria and re-reviewed annually. Compare Dealer Authority side by side with the other vetted automotive marketing companies, or read the scoring methodology behind the rankings.