Cars.com Inc., an audience-driven technology company, that provides solutions for the automotive industry in the United States. Its Cars Commerce platform connects car shoppers with sellers. The company, enable dealers and automotive manufacturers; connect sellers with ready-to-buy shoppers that provide financing tools with instant online loan screening and approvals; and empower shoppers with the resources and digital tools needed to make car buying decisions. It also offers marketplace products, such as marketplace subscription advertising packages to dealer customers; digital solutions, including website creation and platform hosting, vehicle acquisition and valuation, digital retailing, and review and reputation management; and media products comprising display advertising, social selling, digital advertising, and in-market video services, as well as non-subscription digital advertising services to dealer customers. The company serves dealer customers, which included franchise and independent dealers. Its customers are local dealers, OEMs, and other national advertisers and lenders. Cars.com Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.