Karl Brauer is Senior Director of Content and Executive Publisher at Cox Automotive.

He oversees AutoTrader.com and Kelly Blue Book.

Karl is also a media auto industry analyst and regularly contributes to Forbes, CNBC, and other publications.

Previously, he served as director of automotive industry insights for Kelley Blue Book.

Prior to his tenure with Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, Brauer was the editor in chief and chief executive officer of Total Car Score, a new-car research site.

Before joining Total Car Score, he was the editor in chief of Edmunds.com for more than a decade after stints at Hot Rod and Super Street magazines.

Under his leadership, he helped grow Edmunds.com traffic from one million monthly visitors to 14 million monthly visitors.

Brauer also was the first internet-based automotive journalist invited to join the 50-person jury for the North American Car and Truck of the Year (NACTOY) in 2003, and he continues to serve on NACTOY’s six-person organizing committee today.

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Brauer holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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In 2016, Karl voiced his disappointment that manual transmission models were disappearing from the automotive industry.

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