Direct Booking Diagnostic

Find exactly where your ad budget is leaking, and what it is costing you in lost revenue.

Why it matters

Most hotel ad accounts quietly bleed budget.

Campaigns serving the wrong geographies. Brand budget targeting users who already booked. Remarketing that never reaches qualified abandoners. OTAs undercutting your direct rate while you pay more to compete. The Direct Booking Diagnostic finds every leak, quantifies it in dollars, and hands you the fix.

How it works

The Question

What is your paid media really costing you in lost revenue?

The Evidence

Read-only AI audits every campaign, keyword, geo, and bid setting in your account.

The Finding

A senior media buyer verifies each leak and determines the opportunity cost.

The Direction

A prioritized fix list: what to change to recover the most revenue.

What we audit

Six audit areas, each tied to recovered spend.

Geo and location targeting

Whether campaigns actually serve their intended market.

Creative and ad strength

Ad strength, RSA coverage, extensions, and unused ad units.

Bidding and conversion tracking

Bid-strategy fit, target calibration, and clean conversion data.

Audience and first-party data

Remarketing, Customer Match, converter exclusions, and booking data feeding bids.

Account structure and overlap

Internal auction competition, and whether growth is capped by ad rank or by budget.

Keyword and query strategy

Match-type discipline, brand vs. non-brand split, and cross-campaign leakage.

Cross-channel scope

The leak is rarely in one channel.

Paid search

The six areas above, audited in depth. Most direct-response budget lives here, and so do most of the leaks.

Paid social (Meta)

The same AI-driven diagnostic, run on your Meta account.

Metasearch and rate parity

Where OTAs undercut your direct rate, by how much, on which lead times and devices.

*Rate parity and metasearch analysis requires Hotel Center linking to a Google Hotel Ads account.

Recent findings

Anonymized, from real accounts.

~$40k

Ad spend inefficiency

Surfaced over 90 days from geo and tracking fixes alone.

56%

Budget spent on unrelated terms

Brand budget leaking into non-brand and unrelated terms.

Figures are from individual client accounts and are not a projection of your results.

Starting from

$2,500

Scoped per account. We can start as soon as we have read-only access.

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