February 2009
Expedia Media Solutions, the advertising sales division of Expedia, Inc., has introduced a new behavioral marketing product called ‘PassportAds,’ which gives advertisers an effective way to reach in-market travel consumers throughout the trip purchasing lifecycle.
Expedia.com reaches 50 per cent of all online travel shoppers, allowing ‘PassportAds’ to deliver unparalleled reach to this highly qualified audience across the Internet using anonymous visitor data.
The first program of its kind in travel advertising, ‘PassportAds’ anonymously identifies in-market travelers through "explicit" search behaviors, such as a search for hotels in Hawaii. ‘PassportAds’ then uses this anonymous search data to build segments of highly qualified travel shoppers, and targets them with controlled frequency throughout their decision-making lifecycle. Unlike typical contextual buys, advertisers can appear in front of these audience segments anywhere online.
"’PassportAds’ offers unrivaled reach to consumers actively in-market for travel. Now advertisers can create highly tailored messages that target travelers during the entire vacation planning and booking process and throughout the entire online experience - from reading the news to checking their weather forecast or shopping for clothes," said Doug Miller, Vice President of Global Media Solutions, Expedia.
"We're focused on offering clients the ability to deliver behaviorally and contextually relevant advertising to the largest and most valuable audience of in-market travel consumers in the world."
‘PassportAds’ builds on the success of Expedia's bid for placement product, ‘TravelAds.’ ‘TravelAds’ uses shopper search behavior to deliver highly targeted advertising at the point-of-sale.
Introduced in 2008, ‘TravelAds’ offers hotel partners the ability to differentiate their property by bidding for premium placement within hotel search results on Expedia.com and Hotels.com. Both ‘TravelAds’ and ‘PassportAds’ allow advertisers to capitalize on the rich data generated by users when they search for travel.
Expedia Media Solutions helps advertisers reach a significant share of the online travel market, providing advertisers access to the 23.3 million monthly unique users that visit Expedia, Inc. Web sites and offering solutions that harness the power of these consumers' search and shopping behaviors.
‘PassportAds’ and ‘TravelAds’ are two key products in Expedia's Media Solutions portfolio. They represent the company's efforts to help travel and non-travel brand advertisers tap the unmatched value of Expedia's global online travel marketplace.
In addition to ‘PassportAds’ and ‘TravelAds,’ Expedia Media Solutions offers myriad opportunities to reach shoppers with a demonstrated interest in travel, including banner ads, sponsorship opportunities, promotional activities, placement in theme stores and more, helping companies get the most value out of their marketing dollar.
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