Criteo Report

Criteo Report

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  Skift + CriteoPresent: special report Cross-Device Tracking: Hyperbole Vs. Reality If you have any questions about the report please contact trends@skift.com. + www.skift.com www.criteo.com Building a cross-device audience picture in the travel industry is tougher than it seems. Currently, the ability to create a comprehensive user picture is an uphill technical battle. This trend report brings visibility into the market, shedding insight into the best practices and opportunities for innovation.
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  Learn more atCriteo.com/products/universal-match Relevance that Drives Results.
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  Cross-Device Tracking: HyperboleVs. Reality SKIFT REPORT 2016 3 About Us Criteo delivers personalized performance marketing at an extensive scale. Measuring return on post-click sales, Criteo makes ROI transparent and easy to measure. Criteo has over 2,000 employees in 31 offices across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, serving over 11,000 advertisers worldwide with direct relationships with 16,000+ publishers. Criteo ads reach over 1.1 billion unique Internet users (comScore, September 2015). For more information, please visit www.criteo.com.
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  Cross-Device Tracking: HyperboleVs. Reality SKIFT REPORT 2016 4 Hospitality is the heart and soul of the travel industry. Whether you’re a marketer for an airline, hotel, car rental company, or Online Travel Aggregator (OTA), your success is proportional to the happiness of your customer base—and with a wealth of digital marketing resources at your fingertips, you have what appears to be an infinite number of options to reach and engage travelers. The opportunity for building in-depth buyer relationships has never been greater. There’s one challenge standing in the way: there is no universal way to track people across their many devices. That being said, solutions exist in piecemeal. Known colloquially in the digital advertising industry as “walled gardens,” companies like Facebook and Google are able to track user behavior across their own apps, products, and platforms. Other publishers and ad networks are creating cookie-based solutions to create rough buyer journey maps. But there’s an elephant in the room: no matter how close companies get towards their own solutions, they will still be many steps away from a true audience and prospect picture. Despite these challenges, leading companies in the travel industry can’t wait. With a rich background in hospitality, they need to deliver cohesive and streamlined audience experiences. Your customers can’t wait for technology to catch up and fully meet their needs. As a result, marketers can’t either. That’s why travel companies are engineering their own creative solutions through loyalty programs, mobile apps, and strategic campaign planning. Even though technology lags behind, companies like these are finding solutions and forging their own paths toward a closer relationship with their buyers. Now more than ever, it’s critical that leaders in their travel industry put their minds together to share ideas for solutions, collaborating on building a complete customer view. Step one of this process is education. How do you make sure that you're investing in the right initiatives today, as you build a path forward towards a future Internet? How far away is the travel sector from a true cross-device picture? What's considered innovative? What isn’t? This trend report features interviews and real-life case studies from travel marketing leaders like Hyatt and Hotwire, in addition to technical visionaries from leading advertising technology companies to explore these tough-to-answer questions. Read on to learn what it means to reach, engage, and track the cross-device traveler, today. Executive Summary
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  Cross-Device Tracking: HyperboleVs. Reality SKIFT REPORT 2016 5 About Us 3 Executive Summary 4 Table of Contents 5 Introduction: Travel Industry Challenges, in Summary 6 Why Is Cross-Device So Important, Anyway? 7 Marketers Journey to a Complete Customer Picture 12 Exploring the Cross-Device Chasm 17 Major Moves in the Market 18 Cross-Device Action Plan 20 The Marketer's Perspective 20 The Solution Provider's Perspective 22 How to Prepare for an Uncertain Future 23 Final Thoughts 24 Table of Contents Skift is a business information company focused on travel intelligence and offers news, data, and services to professionals in travel and professional travelers, to help them make smart decisions about travel. Founded in 2012 by media entrepreneur Rafat Ali, Skift is based in New York City and backed by Lerer Ventures, Advancit Capital and other marquee media-tech investors. Visit skift.com for more. About Skift