Product Update: Koddi Now Providing Facebook DAT Support for Vacation Packages

Koddi is proud to announce that we are expanding our support for Facebook DAT.  Koddi partners can now leverage Dynamic Ads for Travel (DAT) as a sales channel for not only hotels but also vacation packages. Ameropa-Reisen has been the pilot customer for this expansion and has already begun to display travel package ads via DAT on Facebook.

Ameropa-Reisen originally partnered with Koddi in order to facilitate programmatic DAT bidding and general campaign management for hotels. Joining numerous other US and European based enterprise travel brands who have leveraged the Koddi platform to maximize performance on Facebook, Google, Trivago, TripAdvisor and other metasearch publishers.

The expansion into package advertising was made possible via cooperation with Peakwork. Leading international tour operators and service providers rely on the Peakwork solutions for dynamic packaging with connectivity to worldwide hotel and flight providers. Peakwork’s Player Hub network can now be distributed to Facebook via API. Enabling advertisers to utilize DAT for hotels, vacation packages, and flights.

 

Facebook and Instagram have over 1.8 billion active users according to Statista. A significant number of the messages and posts in social networks relate directly to travel. Users can now be targeted with relevant travel offers directly from the Peakwork Player-Hub network.

For the Ameropa-Reisen Pilot, all necessary data has been made available to Facebook via the Peakwork integration including prices, availability, geographic parameters, photos, and descriptions. Ameropa-Reisen is delivering more than 20,000 hotel offers and rail package holidays to Facebook and Instagram to be displayed in Germany. Peakwork has developed a Facebook adapter, which delivers high-quality data from the tour operator’s Players to Facebook. 

Ameropa-Reisen can control who sees its offers through a variety of targeting parameters including families, adults, destinations, display time, among others. This allows Ameropa-Reisen to accurately directly target its’ ads to achieve higher conversion rates. The Facebook user will be forwarded directly to the booking page of the corresponding offer on the Ameropa-Reisen website, where the user will receive further details and can easily complete the booking.

What People Are Saying

Dirk Meyer, Head of E-Commerce at Ameropa-Reisen, said: “As the market leader for rail travel, we constantly pursuing new innovations. We are the first tour operator in Europe to launch the new Dynamic Ads for Travel on Facebook. Last year, we introduced the first white label booking path for Hotel+Rail and were a Koddi pilot partner for the launch of Google HotelAds. With more than 20,000 hotels and train fares starting at 19 Euro, we offer our customers the perfect range of services for a first-class short holiday in Germany and Europe.”

Nicholas Ward, President, and Co-Founder of Koddi said: “Facebook’s user-oriented approach brings a unique set of challenges for the travel advertiser to analyze and optimize hundreds of thousand possible permutations, requiring industry leading technology and expertise to manage the complexity. This is at the core of Koddi’s expertise and we are proud to be able to offer these services to the world’s leading travel brands. Facebook’s native environment and highly engaged user base combined with Koddi’s advanced bid automation and reporting suite have proven to provide returns for travel marketers and simultaneously build brand equity in a way that we haven’t seen before. Peakwork enables us to work with high performing offer data.”

Ralf Usbeck, CEO of Peakwork, explains: “Enormous traffic travels across social networks daily, especially regarding travel. These applications are becoming more and more extensive and will serve their users more and more with all desired content. We are pleased to offer our customers the opportunity to leverage highly qualified users and travel potential through connectivity to Facebook.”

About Ameropa

With over 500,000 customers, Ameropa-Reisen is a leading specialist for city and vacation travel as well as the largest German provider of worldwide rail travel experiences. The Deutsche Bahn subsidiary offers over 20,000 hotels across Germany and Europe with accompanying rail tickets starting at 19 Euro.

About Peakwork

Peakwork AG, founded in 2009, is the software specialist for the travel industry. With its unique Player Hub Technology®, Peakwork has created a leisure travel network that brings together global supply and demand of travel products.

Leading international tour operators and service providers rely on the Peakwork solutions for dynamic packaging with connectivity to global hotel and flight providers. The flexible and internationally scalable travel distribution solutions are designed to cope with large traffic demands and benefit from the connection to worldwide metasearch partners. Strategic alliances with leading companies like Google and IBM result in pioneering solutions for dynamic travel production, sales and yield management.

The Player Hub technology is successfully used in 29 markets around the world. Peakwork employs approximately 200 people at six locations in Germany, the UK, USA and Singapore.

About Koddi

Founded in 2013 with the goal of addressing the challenges advertisers face in the metasearch space, Koddi is an advanced reporting and bid automation platform creating technical solutions that drive maximum efficiencies for travel brands. Koddi offers leading technology and industry recognized client service solutions providing a single platform that automates optimization on all biddable metasearch platforms.

By consuming data from the client, publishers, and analytics providers, Koddi automates reporting, accelerates analysis, and exposes opportunities that might otherwise be missed. Koddi delivers unmatched campaign scale and performance by enabling travel advertisers through expert support, property level optimization, in-depth reporting, and proprietary bid signals.

Koddi’s clients include many of the world’s top travel brands and Koddi enjoys preferred partner status with leading metasearch companies, including Google and Facebook. Koddi is based in Fort Worth, Texas with an office in Düsseldorf, Germany.

 

 

 

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