Expedia Is Stealing Market Share from Priceline’s Name Your Own Price Through Steep Discounts
Skift Take
Priceline's Booking.com has been conquering the world, often at Expedia's expense, but let's score one for Expedia. Its Expedia Unpublished Rates product has been kicking butt, and stealing share from Priceline's Name Your Own Price since last 2011.
Much has been written about how Expedia Inc.'s Hotwire business has suffered at the hands of Priceline's knock-off product, Express Deals, but as it turns out Expedia has been hitting Priceline right back on another front.
While Priceline has made gains in its semi-opaque business -- you know the hotel price up-front but not the hotel name -- Expedia has been taking share from Priceline's bidd
