After a brief appearance during 2018, the long-awaited and high-impact product from Google, Promoted Hotels, is back on the front pages of Google Hotel Search. Google continues to increase its efforts to move up the funnel across the travel industry and is now, once again, putting advertisers in the driver’s seat. Within the framework of the updated hotel search experience,...
Our team recently spotted a new element on Google Hotel Ad displays. This new feature is a blue booking button for the top-ranked property on Google’s hotel search. One of our analysts first spotted this new feature while searching Google on a desktop in the US. Although it initially seemed to be a trial aimed at certain subsets of consumers,...
As you may have heard, Google is migrating Hotel Ads from the Hotel Ads Center to Google Ads this summer. The migration to Google Ads makes it possible for hotel advertisers to manage all of their campaigns in a single platform and gain access to richer ad management, powerful analysis, and more granular targeting options. Download the Guide As a...
Changes could be coming soon to the layout of Google's hotel search, based on our recent findings here at Koddi. Our team noticed a new modification to the layout of the metasearch results and room booking module in Google’s hotel search. In the screenshot above, you can see the new test locations highlighted in blue. Currently, this experience appears to...
To help advertisers use Hotel Ads in a more robust and scaled manner, Google is excited to introduce a new Google Ads campaign type called Hotel Campaigns. Hotel campaigns help travel marketers work smarter - with richer ad management, powerful analysis, and more granular targeting options. Koddi has been working closely with Google to build support for Google Ads in...
All roads, or rather clicks, lead to Google’s Hotel Search page. Google continues to iterate on its hotel search interface and experience for destination searches. When it was released back in 2018, the hotel search interface was only accessible from a destination search by clicking on the bottom button of the local pack to view additional hotels (as shown below)....