Video: Google Exec Says Hotel Ads Are the Big Moneymaker in Europe


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It doesn't surprise any soul who knows the travel industry that Google Hotel Ads is the breadwinner and Google Flights takes a back seat revenue-wise, but it's nice to hear Google finally say it.
Google doesn't talk about travel strategy very often but it's clear from a recent interview that Hotel Ads is the breadwinner in travel among Google's offerings while flights is the "upper- funnel product" that's less lucrative but the starting point for consumer research. "From our perspective, we see flight search as an upper-funnel product and hotels as a lower-funnel product and our rev