The summer travel season is in full swing and two of the three major summer holiday weekends have passed. In our recent 4th of July outlook blog, we discussed at a high-level the emerging destination trends and renewed interest in urban travel. To provide further insight, we’ve added a new and deeper dive into the top 50 U.S. destinations by...
July 4th is more than the United States’ Independence Day; it’s one of the most popular American holidays to travel to spend time with friends and family. With so many people hitting the road, hoteliers and travel marketers need to know the latest industry trends to help optimize July 4th marketing strategies and boost advertisers’ revenue. Demand & Destinations...
Google is testing a new user experience (UX) that is designed to elevate consumers’ hotel searches when booking travel. In this new UX, some users are served a destination-level search, complete with Property Promotion Ads – even when searching for and clicking into a specific property’s availability page. Standard Hotel Ads Experience In the standard metasearch experience, after a...
Last quarter, Google introduced intraday bidding for metasearch on Google Hotel Ads, adding to their already expansive arsenal of bid multipliers. Intraday bidding, also referred to as dayparting or ad scheduling, is a campaign-level bid multiplier and has been a valuable digital marketing tool for quite some time. However, its recent release on Google Hotel Ads marks the first time...
by Nicole Cama The e-commerce market is booming with tremendous growth and opportunities. Nowadays, everything is just a click away for the 3+ billion people using the internet – and spread across numerous languages. In recent years, the most popular languages used on the internet were English, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese. Multilingual online traffic is higher than ever,...
by Kaylie Breslin and Hudson Byorick With our roots firmly planted in the travel industry, Koddi is monitoring holiday travel demand and seasonal trends for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve 2021 to see how they compare to previous years. Demand data indicates that travel over the 2021 holiday season will surpass both 2019 and 2020 demand. What...