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Automotive News Widgets, Reviews, and More – Get Them While They’re Hot
Our good friends over at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are the first newspaper to integrate our newly released, brand spanking new automotive headline widget which sits on the front page of their business and autos sections. See an example screen below — that’s us right next to Steve Jobs. Yes, the thought did occur to us: Apple’s iPad, and High Gear Media’s auto news widget — two big announcements on the same day. Thanks.
Now, here’s the thing. YOU can get one of these widgets for your site. It’s all part of a full menu of tasty automotive items we offer up to newspapers and other media sites around the Web. The menu:
1. All-new headline widget. Example above — almost as good as the sushi we keep getting here in downtown Palo Alto. Get your auto news widget here now.
2. Unique on the Web “Meta Reviews” and Feature content. We currently syndicate these to a variety of sources, including: Yahoo! Autos, Fox News, NASCAR.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (we said they were friends) and more. Our Meta Reviews blend editorial expertise from our staff of automotive gurus that have over 50 years of combined auto journalism experience with a snapshot of what the rest of the Web is saying about any one car. You can read more about how we create our unique reviews here.
3. If you’re still hungry — we can also create an entire automotive site for you. We’ve done that for folks like NASCAR and NBC with more on the way. This is made possible by our technology platform we like to refer to simply as “the magic platform.” (Rumors that our platform also makes sushi are unfortunately unfounded.)
Congrats to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on their shiny new widget. And, if you or anyone you know should be talking to us about getting your hands on any of the above, contact us. We may throw in a sushi dinner.
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Top Gear Fans: Write About Cars and Win Seasons 11 & 12 on DVD Plus Gift Pack
Fresh off the excitement of our 2010 Tesla Roadster Roadtest contest, High Gear Media is announcing a new contest: write about cars and win a chance to win a bunch of seriously cool DVDs and schwag from the popular car show Top Gear.
Here’s the deal: write an article about cars using our open blogging platform between now and midnight PST on Friday, February 5th and earn a chance to win the following:
- Top Gear Seasons 11 & 12 on DVD
- 2010 Top Gear Calendar
- Top Gear mug
- $15 iTunes gift certificate (to buy Season 13 episode downloads!)If you’re passionate about cars and have opinions, we want to hear from you. Here’s what you do next:
- You submit articles using our open blogging platform that publishes to our 75+ automotive sites between now and February 5th at midnight PST.
- On February 8th, our team will randomly select a published entry as the winner. Simply get your article published and have a chance to win. The more articles you publish between now and 2/5, the more chances you earn to win.
- We ship you the prize winnings, and you camp out in your den to celebrate whilst binging out on Top Gear season box sets.What kind of articles are we looking for? Here are some tips:
- Write a review of a car you own or an article about how you decided what car to buy
- Give us your take on a new or coming model.
- Compare two cars and give pros and cons
- Write a “How to” or “Tip” article that relates to cars. Example: “How to Find the Best Truck”
- Create Lists. Example: “The Five Best Cars for Families”
All article submissions will be moderated for overall quality as we normally do. When an article is published, you’ll get an email telling you what site it has been published to.
For more tips on what to write about, check out this blog post from our recent Win a Chance to Drive a Tesla Writing Contest.
Here’s the trailer for Top Gear, Season 13:
If you’re a car fan and a latecomer to Top Gear, here’s what it’s about:
“Top Gear” takes extraordinary and ordinary cars to the limit and beyond to find out if they’re half as good as manufacturers claim. Full of extreme stunts, challenges, celebrity appearances and weekly features, “Top Gear” is far more than a car show; you’ll find no boring stats or impenetrable conversations about camshafts here. It’s the sharp wit of hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May that make it more than just a motor show.
Season 13 of Top Gear premieres on BBC AMERICA Monday, January 25th at 8/7C. All episodes will be available for iTunes download on Tuesdays, day after broadcast.
And here’s a preview of the coming season:
The world’s biggest car show is back for a 13th series. Hot on the heels of their epic challenge in Vietnam, which saw Jeremy, Richard and James travel the entire length of the country in just eight days, the boys are no less ambitious.. Richard goes to Abu Dhabi to test the new Lambo Murcielago LP640-4 SV; the boys buy three £1,500 rear-drive sports cars and somehow find themselves entered in a terrifying French ice race; film star Sienna Miller, King of Twitter Stephen Fry and chat show host Jay Leno are among the stars taking part in ‘Star in a Reasonably Priced Car’ and in a television-first, the mysterious Stig takes off his helmet to reveal just who he really is…
Also for some fun, check out this interactive map showing all the places in America where Top Gear has done cool stunts in past seasons.
So get going now!
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High Gear Media’s “2010 Tesla Roadster Roadtest” Contest Winner Announced
Recently, High Gear Media posed a challenge to its community of automotive contributors and enthusiasts from around the world: write a story about cars, and we’ll pick the best one, fly the winning writer out to California to test drive a 2010 Tesla Roadster, and provide an exclusive opportunity to interview a Tesla designer.
The winner, Bruce Richter, was more than up for the challenge and contest winnings (check out Bruce’s winning entry here)!
From High Gear Media Editorial Director Marty Padget’s coverage:
Richter came to us in the new way of the media world–not from another magazine or TV channel, but through our High Gear Media homepage. An advertising writer and creative director from New York, Bruce definitely has some pro-sumer writing chops. He’s worked on ad campaigns for Jaguar, Volvo, American Express and Fortune Magazine. There’s enthusiasm in his system, too: he’s currently on his third used BMW M3 and sometimes favors an “ugly Duc” Ducati Multistrada–and somewhere in his past there’s a dark chapter involving a VW GTI, Lime Rock, and what his wife calls the car’s “total nervous breakdown” at the track.
Bruce flew out to Menlo Park, California on Wednesday and joined Padget and the High Gear Media team to check out the Tesla Motors facility, interview Tesla designer Franz von Holzhausen, and take a 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport out on a test drive along Silicon Valley’s famous Sand Hill Road and into gorgeous Bay Area peninsula hills.
Here’s Bruce hanging out with Ricardo Reyes, VP Communications at Tesla, before the test drive:
Bruce and Tesla, together:
We have approval:
On the road:
Look for Bruce Richter’s coverage of the day’s events and interview with Franz von Holzhausen soon!
If you’d like to write for High Gear Media, you can get going within a minute or two by going here.