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Sojern RevDirect

Score9 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Sojern RevDirect?

Sojern’s RevDirect™is a risk-free, pay-for-performance direct demand marketing solution for independent hotel marketers. Engaging with prospective guests as they quickly navigate across websites, digital channels, and devices to plan and book their travel is an increasingly complex challenge, which Sojern is aiming to solve with its RevDirect solution.

You can customize your display campaign to include Facebook, Instagram, Search, and more, and place your property in front of in-market travelers throughout their entire path to booking. Sojern only receives a commision once a guest has booked on your property website and fulfills their stay.


According to the vendor, key benefits & features include:


  • Increase Direct Bookings: Reach in-market travelers with an always-on campaign, building your brand and generating direct demand

  • Pay for Performance Model: With no upfront costs, you only pay a commission once the traveler has completed their stay.

  • Multi-Channel Advertising: Add Facebook, Instagram, Search, and more to Display, for greater reach and transparency across channels.

  • Real-Time Reporting & Insights: Access an easy to understand dashboard for campaign performance, self-service reconciliation, and actionable audience, market, and performance insights.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Ad dashboards

    Dashboards for analyzing and/or optimizing ads are clean, easy to use, and easy to understand.

    Category average: 6.1

  • Ad performance reports

    Allow users to generate reports comparing the performance of various ads or the performance of certain aspects of ads (like headlines, etc.)

    Category average: 6.4

  • Ad display and retargeting segmentation

    Allows users to display and retarget ads to audience segments based on demographics, location, account, role, or other profile aspects.

    Category average: 6.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Ad campaign creation

    Allows users to programmatically create ads and build new campaigns within the tool.

    Category average: 6.6

  • Ad deployment

    Allows users to quickly and easily deploy new ad campaigns from within the tool.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Display advertising

    Supports banner and rich media display ads, including video, audio, mobile, etc.

    Category average: 7

A Great Way To Drive Direct Bookings

Pros

  • Drives booking to our websites.
  • Helps us to better understand traveler profiles.

Cons

  • For those who don't analyze data on a daily basis it would be beneficial to have simple descriptions of the collected data.

Return on Investment

  • Sojern has had a positive impact on our impression share.
  • Sojern has had a positive impact on our ROI across the board.

Alternatives Considered

WordStream Advisor, Adobe Analytics, Google Ads (formerly AdWords) and Google Analytics