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Facebook poses little threat to Google in travel advertising
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15 February 2017 (Edited )
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Investor's Business Daily has reported RBC Capital's take on the travel business, based in art on discussions with Skift researchers.

Key points:

  • Google parent Alphabet is unlikely to compete head-to-head with Expedia or Priceline.
  • Google accounted for about 90% of digital travel advertising in 2016, resulting in revenues of $12B.
  • Priceline, Expedia and TripAdvisor were the biggest buyers of ad space on Google.
  • RBC Capital doesn't believe Google will ever become an OTA.
  • Google will continue to dominate online travel advertising despite inroads by Facebook, because Facebook is unable to capture travel intent as Google can.
  • Google has owned Frommer's since 2012.
  • Amazon shuttered its Amazon Destinations travel business in 2015.


Takeaway: Google is smart to stick to its knitting, go on raking in ad dollars, and let others fight it out in the OTA space.



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