Thomas Bangert

Vidi Guides is an audio-guide platform that provides immersive & independent self-guided podcast tours of cities, regions, countries, and cultural sites.

THE BANGERT CONSULTANCY IS THE NEW AD SALES HOUSE FOR eDreams ODIGEO IN D-A-CH eDreams ODIGEO is Europe's largest OTA with Europe's most important travel audience. These include 5 market-leading brands in DACH, Spain, France, Italy and the UK: Opodo, eDreams, GoVoyages, Travellink and liligo. Media Figures: - 20 million monthly unique visitors - 1 billion monthly searches that - Generate 235 million page views - 35 million newsletter subscribers - 1.4 million fans and followers in social media.

Midnightdeal.com – Your Holiday, Your Price At MidnightDeal, the users decide how much they want to pay for a hotel room. Currently present in the Austrian market, this Viennese tourism tech company is looking to scale on both the supply and the demand side. Creating a German market entry strategy by building out a strong hotel supply and connecting it with a 3rd party distribution network whilst also increasing direct demand on midnightdeal.com from a German audience.

Dynamo.video – Personalising millions of videos in real time dynamically Scaling this Spanish ad tech business and opening new markets internationally with a focus on UK, Germany and France. Building long-lasting partnerships with both clients and brands directly as well as media agencies across Europe.

We are an independent agency with focus on start-ups, online travel, ad tech, travel tech and SaaS. We work with a multitude of highly experienced and professional associates, consultants and advisors. Since its start in March 2017, The Bangert Consultancy partnered with some amazing brands and companies and to work on numerous exciting projects: Midnightdeal.com, eDreams ODIGEO, Dynamo.video, Vidi Guides, Oveit, Sojern, travel audience/Amadeus, PerfectStay ... www.thebangertconsultancy.com

PerfectStay - THE HOLIDAY DEALS COMPANY WE CREATE AND OPERATE EXCLUSIVE HOLIDAY DEALS FOR TOP BRANDS GENERATING INCREMENTAL SALES AND MARGIN TO THEIR BOTTOM LINE! 1. BEST-IN-MARKET AND EXCLUSIVE HOLIDAY FLASH DEALS 2. TOP USER EXPERIENCE, FAST & MOBILE OPTIMISED 3. HIGHEST QUALITY STANDARDS AS MERCHANT OF RECORD Some of our current Partner Brands: Air France, Emirates, VeePee, HolidayPirates, SecretEscapes, Urlaubsguru, etc

Finished Consultancy Assignment. Hotel Vertical Audit: Auditing, analyzing, scoping out opportunities within the hotel sector. Derived a hotel marketing strategy from it as well as developed a hotel-specific value proposition for Sojern's potential hotel partners. Focus markets: UK and Spain. DACH Audit: Analyzed business and market development opportunities for the DACH markets. Developed a specific DACH market entry strategy as well as development plan and potential client and vertical analysis.

Project: Re-structure and re-strategise the Sales & Marketing Organisation (Sales Team, Ad Ops, Data and Inventory Supply as well as Marketing). Deliver a new business plan, implement the new structure and strategy and set the company up to reach profitability within 3 years. The project is now successfully finished.

Managing 7 direct reports remotely. Working with media agencies, trading desks + clients directly on both branding + ROI campaigns for travel + non-travel advertisers generating 13m+ USD annually from desktop + mobile ad sales. Budget + strategy planning, new product development. Introduced Global Programmatic Strategy. Designed Audience Segmentation Project to increase programmatic revenue. Created new Audience Targeting Product. Built out Audience Extension Product to maximize reach beyond TripAdvisor.

Director of Media Sales Teams of France, Germany and the Nordics (12 individuals in total) - responsible for generating more than 4 million Euros in media revenue (display advertising on lastminute.com and travelocity.com and new media revenue from CPC models. Identification and implementation of new media revenue generators, analyzing performance of both media and site and ensuring that there is no negative impact on user experience, site conversion and ultimately shopping conversion.

Marketing & Entrepreneurship

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