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Introducing Skyscanner
Ads Platform

The world's leading travel AdTech offering

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December 10, 2024
Prabh Walia, Head, Product Marketing

Reach a global monthly audience of 110m+ in-market travellers in a targeted and privacy-centric way.

As the world’s most-visited air travel site, Skyscanner’s been at the forefront of travel and technology for over 20 years. Every day, we help our travel provider and advertising partners grow their business by connecting them with millions of people around the world. All looking for flights, hotels and car rental.

We’re also a global leader in travel advertising, and we’re continuing to lead innovative travel ad tech by launching our proprietary Skyscanner Ads Platform.

Skyscanner Ads Platform combines our first-party data and popular ads suite with an advanced Ads server and a new Ads manager for partners to use how they wish – to help them reach travel audiences with targeted ads in a privacy-centric way.  

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Drive growth in a changing digital ads ecosystem

The digital ads ecosystem is changing. People want more privacy, and new regulations are shifting the industry away from tracking consumers across websites, devices and apps, forcing businesses to rethink their digital marketing strategies.

It’s a significant shift that impacts all areas of advertising. Many major ad platforms and advertisers will have less granular data about their audiences, making it more challenging to identify in-market consumers, reach them in a targeted way and accurately measure and attribute advertising impact. For travel advertisers, it means finding and selling to people interested in travel is becoming trickier.

So, we put our heads together... 

Introducing Skyscanner Ads Platform 

Our ads offering has made us a global leader in travel advertising for years. The launch of Skyscanner Ads Platform continues our commitment to being a trusted strategic advisor to our partners.

“Partnering with Skyscanner has transformed our ads strategy. Their innovative products, highly collaborative approach and deep audience insights drive exceptional engagement and measurable results. Access to high quality first party data is becoming increasingly important and Skyscanner’s ability to harness this data sets them apart in the advertising world.”

Kyle Nimmo
Head of Media Investment, easyJet

With Skyscanner Ads Platform, you get access to: 

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Our popular suite of native ads on Skyscanner.

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An advanced proprietary ads server that uses machine learning to deliver the right ads to the right travellers at the right time, ensuring you get the best results.

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Skyscanner Ads Manager, a strategic tool to help you plan and manage campaigns, see performance trends, and discover market insights and growth opportunities. 

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Exclusive first-party data from 110m+ global users who visit Skyscanner every month. 

Reach in-market travellers in a privacy-centric way

Skyscanner Ads Platform brings together clever tools, first-party data and a suite of native ads to help you reach in-market travellers with targeted messages.

1. Find high-intent, in-market audiences interested in travel 

Privacy changes have impacted how many ad platforms and advertisers build user profiles and identify in-market consumers, affecting ad performance in a significant way.

Since Skyscanner has the world’s largest air traffic audience, advertisers can find in-market audiences most relevant to them and drive maximum performance.

2. Reach them with targeted ads in a privacy-centric way  

Amid growing global regulatory focus on consent and tracking practices, it's becoming harder to reach relevant audiences using targeted ads, reducing the consumer pool even further. Major ad platforms, traditionally reliant on these cookies and other technologies to serve targeted ads, are grappling with the effects of these privacy changes.

Our first-party ecosystem allows you to serve native ads contextually, based on how people are using Skyscanner to explore – without needing to rely on third-party cookies or similar tracking technology. Helping you reach all your relevant audiences with targeted ads in a privacy-centric manner. 

3. Understand user journeys, optimise performance 

As it becomes more difficult for advertisers to get detailed, granular data on their audiences, so does mapping end-to-end consumer journeys and accurately attributing conversions.

Skyscanner Ads Platform enables you to reliably share and link your conversion data with our first-party data. So you can understand customer journeys through Skyscanner, optimise your ad campaigns and improve return on spend.

Manage campaigns and get actionable insights with Skyscanner Ads Manager

1. Manage campaigns with ease, whatever your goals

Skyscanner Ads Manager has the flexibility to work for you. You can create campaigns from scratch and edit them all in one place, or simply use it to stay on top of the things that matter the most to you, like seeing the overall performance of your campaigns and knowing what’s working and what should change.

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2. Discover actionable consumer insights to make smarter advertising decisions

Many advertisers rely solely on internal data and ad performance metrics to inform their ad strategies. With Skyscanner Ads Manager, a key component of Skyscanner Ads Platform, you get all the data insights you need to sharpen your ad strategy.

  • Understand travellers with insights into their motivations, preferences and search behaviour, powered by our exclusive first-party data.
  • Use historical search and booking data to predict travel trends, so you can respond better to evolving markets and traveller demands.
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3. Get recommendations for new growth opportunities

We work alongside partners to develop products that suit their needs. In doing so, we realised many partners spend a lot of time gathering and interpreting data which is often infrequent and outdated. Coupled with too little time, this prevents teams from confidently making decisions about budget allocation, targeting and optimisation.

We discovered an untapped opportunity to bring together our advertising data with the latest insights on developing market trends, to give partners actionable recommendations to help them overcome challenges and drive growth, all while saving them time.

That's why we’re excited to unveil a new ads recommendations tool that helps you:

  • Uncover untapped opportunities and hidden potential across different routes, cities and countries, so you can strategically allocate your budget and maximise your advertising impact.
  • Understand the share of voice of your ads, direct bookings and more, while identifying areas of opportunity, helping you strategise, compete and accelerate your growth.

This will start rolling out to select partners beginning Q1 next year. For access, get in touch with your Skyscanner account manager today.

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Already advertising with Skyscanner? Find out how Skyscanner Ads Platform can help grow your business by contacting your Commercial Manager.  

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