The average advertising expenses per car dealership in the United States amounted to nearly *** thousand U.S. dollars in 2023. Each U.S. car dealer spent, on average, about ** thousand dollars on TV advertising. The largest expenditures were devoted to third-party listing sites, where an average dealership ad spending surpassed *** thousand dollars. In total, U.S. car dealers' collective ad spending reached *** billion dollars in 2023.
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