Mobile devices also can be a way for brands to connect with travelers who spend time with streaming media during different stages of a trip.
Younger consumers are most likely to watch short videos for ideas on what to do while traveling.
Consumer attention shifts from retail to travel bookings during certain periods such as mid-summer.
Some say generative AI will never replace traditional search engines, but the change could come sooner than expected - especially if consumers show a willingness to take the leap.
Google Ad Lead Vidhya Srinivasan provides insights about the future of advertising as advertisers and publishers wonder how Google will add advertising units to AI-supported products.
New research from Saks finds that well-heeled shoppers are increasingly upbeat about their finances, ready to splurge again on both fashion and travel.
A survey of consumers of automotive, entertainment, fashion, beauty, retail, and travel shows they are excited about AR, as it helps them make faster decisions and persuades them to make more
purchases.
Still, survey also shows determination to celebrate, with Deloitte forecasting that overall spending will reach $1,455 per consumer, even with last year.
Adtaxi's 2022 Economy Concerns Survey finds that 9 out of 10 Americans shop online at least once a month vs. 71% in 2017, and 60% of Americans shop online weekly -- up from 27% five years ago.
Nearly all consumers said they would not use an airline or hotel they already had one negative interaction with, Mitto reports.
Rakuten Advertising's recent travel research shows 44% of travelers plan to spend more on vacations this year, rather than downgrade the trip. Three-quarters plan to stay in the U.S. when traveling
during the next six months, with the remainder traveling internationally.
The ad marketplace contracted 12.7% in July vs. the same month a year ago, marking its first double-digit rate of decline since July 2020.
Horizon Media finds concern about the riskiness of travel has declined alongside concern over COVID-19.
Ad trends data from AdTheorent found 57% of U.S travelers consider themselves "revenge travelers" -- making up for lost time due to the pandemic. Some 83% plan to splurge on travel expenses this year,
beginning with summer vacations.
IBM launched an initiative as part of the Cannes Lions festival, bringing together agencies and rands to generate awareness and action to mitigate bias in advertising and marketing technologies.
Full-year data also reveals an erratic recovery in terms of various media and key advertising categories.
How do you grow your brand in an extremely fragmented market? For GetYourGuide [GYG], it took consumer data, timing and making a spectacular splash. Already a market leader in Europe, the travel
booking site wanted to boost their brand awareness in the United States, so they turned to out-of-home media to help. In early 2021, with news that domestic travel in the U.S. was expected to open
before Europe and the U.K., they knew it was the optimal time to strike. After collecting data on American's newly acquired habits during lock down, GYG created specific messaging on how consumers
could experience those interests in real life. Zip-code lookalike technology determined GYG's target geographic areas for the OOH placements; which included billboards to maximize reach and transit
and place-based screens to drive website traffic. The campaign cut through the clutter, resulting in a 500% lift in unaided brand awareness, while driving over 42k online conversions - - exceeding
GYG's direct response goals.
Rapid and accurate audience measurement is the gold standard of accountability for any medium or media owner -- but how possible is it?
Consumers plan to spend an average of $442 on themselves this holiday season, up 48% from 2020, PwC finds. Call it the year of pampering.
Shifts include a transformed hotel business, as many have begun to focus on subscriptions versus nightly rates.
Baird Equity Research is tracking search trends as students go back to school this fall. The search data skewed flat to lower for most keywords, with 22 of 60 terms declining more than 5%, according
to the data.
Ad spending in the major English-speaking markets -- the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- expanded 25% during the first half, including a 52% spurt during Q2, the first quarter to
reflect year-over-year comparisons with the COVID-19 ad recession of 2020, which began in March and lasted through July (based on U.S. data).
"We're on the verge of having platforms and companies so powerful and so influential in the political process that they're ungovernable," Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer told Bloomberg. He
expects Congress to pass legislation to rein in big tech companies.
Cruise and airline spending is down 58% in 2021 compared to 2019, per MediaRadar.
Business travel, which declined 69% in 2020 from the previous year, is not projected to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024.
The index ranks national brands according to their environmental, social and governance impact and was developed in partnership with consumer research firm Swayable.
With 87% of the nation's biggest advertisers now vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, the ad industry's travel plans have improved dramatically from just three months ago, according to a new study
of executive travel fielded in May by the Association of National Advertisers.
Over half (54%) of all U.S. respondents earning more than $50,000 are considering domestic air travel for their next trip.
Professionally produced ads were found to be more effective in driving travel-related actions than UGC in a survey from SSP Magnite.
How does a global brand like the Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts oversee media buys for 100+ properties, yet still manage to increase website bookings, boost revenue, and drive incrementality to channels
like SEO and direct for each hotel? Very strategically. Traditionally, the luxury hotel chain's media budgets were fixed and held at property level. That is until their agency, Acronym,
realized it was limiting their advertising reach. Instead, after a successful test pilot, Acronym unified Four Seasons' media buys, and the corporate office essentially gave them what amounts to a
"blank check," which enabled them to provide a more strategic and aggressive media investment.