Episode 377 - Hospitality Marketing Podcast

Hello everyone and welcome to Hospitality Marketing the podcast, I am your host Loren Gray and this is episode #377 ... so each week we spend around 20 to 30 minutes sharing the most interesting tools, news, and techniques being used in marketing for the hospitality industry. We also do a quick recap of our weekly Live TV show “This Week in Hospitality Marketing” which airs every Friday at 11:30 am Eastern US Time on the Hospitality Channel TV.. SO let's get started; 00:01 — Our tools for review this week are; https://speedppc.com/ https://www.ppcadeditor.com/ https://www.contextminds.com/ 00:09— Our Technique this week is; "AI Marketing is Here, Actually its Already Been Here" Shiny new tools: Google’s latest Performance Max additions focus on planning, customization, and evaluation: - The Performance Planner uses machine learning to “simulate” campaigns and forecast your potential ROI. Super useful, if accurate. - Asset group scheduling helps you schedule asset groups so you can pause or enable them when needed. Also, you can now add up to 15 headlines to your asset groups. - Explanations and insights show why campaigns may not work, perform diagnostics, and give recommendations. You can also add data segments as data signals in your campaigns, which may help you evaluate your first-party data. Google also suggests best practices for these new features, so check out their full description. It may give you an edge in the following weeks! Bumpers and trim: Also, you can now trim videos into 6-second shorts, which should make it easy to create bumper ads. The machine learning-powered tool finds “important scenes and brand assets from the original video” and adapts them to shorter formats… all by itself. Sweet. Why we care: Google seems to be using the upcoming holiday online shopping spree as a testing ground for their machine learning capabilities. Googles Performance Max Program -- https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10724817?hl=en 00:21— News and Show Review Topic -- "Why is Intent and Engagement Analytics the 'New Thing'?" Appsumo Link for tools discussed -- appsumo.8odi.net/hdm For an archive of all previous podcasts, you can go to hospitalitychannel.tv and don’t forget our live video talk show that you can join and participate in every Friday at 11:30 Eastern US time, called "this week in hospitality marketing The live show". simply go to hospitaliltychannel.tv Thank You for the privilege of your time.