How AI and Marketing
Automation Are
Reorganizing the
Automotive Industry

Competitive Headwinds. Tighter Budgets. More Impact.

Marketing Is No Longer Competing on Creativity Alone

European OEMs are facing an uncomfortable reality.

Pressure

Budgets are shrinking while content demand is exploding

Speed

Smaller, faster players are outpacing established brands — not through spend, but through speed and automation

Discovery

Customer discovery is shifting from search and websites to AI-mediated journeys

Customer discovery is shifting from search and sites to AI-mediated journeys.
Smaller, faster players are outpacing established brands—not through spend, but through speed and automation.

Most marketing organizations are still built for a pre-AI world: fragmented structures, slow campaign cycles, manual production, and limited visibility into how AI systems perceive their brand. The result: OEMs risk losing relevance and efficiency at the same time.

What you’ll learn – OEMs need to move from spend to sales impact

The critical requirements across relevance, efficiency, and organizational enablement
— How marketing evolves into a self-optimizing system, not a campaign factory
— What changes in roles, governance, sourcing, and measurement are unavoidable.

This white paper is grounded in real OEM constraints—not theory. It combines strategy consulting depth with AI-native implementation expertise, bridging the gap between ambition and execution.

This framework is the result of joint work between strategy consulting and AI-native execution—developed for real OEM operating environments.

Authored by

Michaela Wallner,
Partner, Berylls by AlixPartners

Henry Lundt,
Partner, Berylls by AlixPartners

Axel Averdung

Axel Averdung,
Managing Director, OH-SO Digital

Philipp Kafkoulas

Philipp Kafkoulas,
Managing Director, OH-SO Digital

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