New from Paperkite  ·  Market Signal

Know exactly who your competitors are winning, and win them back.

Market Signal reads trillions of real-world mobility signals to show who actually stays with you, who stays down the road, where they come from, and what to do about it. Competitive intelligence and AI-powered recommendations, built for hotels, resorts, and lodging.

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Competitive Snapshot
Your property vs. the comp set
Median household income of overnight guests
Your property$92,638
Competitor A$78,234
Competitor B$104,317
210%
Top market affinity
50%
Hold a bachelor's+
5
Growth markets found

Most hotels still market on a hunch. Their competitors are counting on it.

You know your occupancy. You know your ADR. What you cannot see is who is actually walking through your doors versus the property down the road, where those guests live, and what would make them choose you instead. So media gets spread thin, the comp set stays a guessing game, and the highest-value travelers keep landing somewhere else.

A blurry guest

Brand averages and survey cards tell you who books direct, not who your real overnight audience is or how affluent they skew next to your rivals.

A guessed comp set

You compete on rate against properties you have never actually measured. Where you genuinely lead, and where you trail, stays invisible.

Wasted reach

Without a verified target, paid media defaults to broad geographies and broad interests. You pay to reach travelers who were never going to convert.

The shift

From guesswork to ground truth.

Real visitation data now makes it possible to see exactly who stays with you and your competitors, not who you hope is staying. Market Signal reads anonymized, real-world location signals and turns them into the one thing a marketing plan actually needs: a verified picture of your guest, and a map of where to find more of them.

What you see

Three views of your market. One AI-built plan.

Every Market Signal report runs on three connected layers of intelligence, then turns them into a ranked set of moves. Guest analytics, comp set analytics, and AI-powered recommendations.

Guest Analytics

Know your guest

A complete picture of your overnight guests: who they are, how they travel, and the brand qualities they value most. The foundation for retention and loyalty.

  • Target Market Overview
  • Drive Markets
  • Fly Market
  • Brand Affinity
Comp Set Analytics

Read the comp set

A deep profile of your competitors' guests and how you stack up, market by market. The basis for conquesting the travelers you should be winning.

  • Comp Guest Overview
  • Comp Drive Markets
  • Comp Fly Market
  • Comp Market Position
AI-Powered Recommendations

Know your next move

AI analysis that turns the data into a plan: the audiences to target, the markets to grow, and the positioning that wins. Core strengths and opportunities, ranked.

  • Audience Targets
  • Growth Markets
  • Positioning
  • Competitive Strategies
Inside every report

Eleven connected sections take you from a map of your market to a ranked set of moves.

Geospatial Overview Target Market Overview You vs. the Comp Set Top Drive Markets Top Fly Markets Areas & Segments to Target Brand & Category Affinity Market-Specific Demographics Targeting Overlays Competitor Comparison Key Insights
See it in action

A premium Northeast inn, read against its real comp set.

Here is what a finished Market Signal report reveals. Three properties, the same recreational market, three very different guests. Watch the plan write itself.

Illustrative sample · anonymized

Who stays with you

Overnight guest profile vs. the comp set
The Inn Competitor A Competitor B
Median household income
The Inn$92,638
Competitor A$78,234
Competitor B$104,317
Bachelor's degree or higher
The Inn50%
Competitor A36%
Competitor B45%
Earning $150K or more
The Inn23%
Competitor A17%
Competitor B29%

Where they come from

Top markets by affinity index
  • Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY210%
  • New York, NY178%
  • Boston, MA165%

100% equals the national market average. An index of 210% means this market over-indexes more than two to one.

Neighborhoods worth concentrating spend

Upper East and West Side, Brooklyn Heights and Westchester. Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Cambridge and Brookline. The Main Line and Chestnut Hill. Georgetown, the North Shore and Pacific Heights.

What else they love

For this inn, the brands and categories its guests over-indexed on

Strong positive affinity

Four SeasonsRitz-CarltonMarriott luxury portfolioHyatt upscaleMajor art museumsPerforming artsFine diningCraft beverage trails

Negative affinity

Economy brandsBudget motelsLimited service

This inn's guests skewed firmly toward premium service and culture, well away from price-led brands. In the report, that signal becomes the inn's creative and partnership direction.

Where the inn can win

The growth opportunities the report surfaced for this sample property

An underbuilt New York metro

Already a top booking source for the inn, with room to compound through targeted neighborhood spend.

An open Boston academic corridor

Nearly half of the inn's Boston guests held a degree, an audience it was barely programming for.

A shoulder-season opening

The inn's high-value audience skews cultural, a lever to pull demand into softer months.

An untapped wedding market

The affluent, educated couple profile pointed to destination weddings the inn wasn't yet courting.

From report to revenue

The report is the map. We drive the route.

A report on a shelf changes nothing. The value shows up when the insight becomes a media plan, and the media plan becomes bookings. That is the Paperkite difference: we do not just hand you the intelligence, we put it to work and keep tuning it.

Step 01

Insight

We deliver the competitive report and translate it into a verified target audience, priority markets and a creative direction your team can stand behind.

Step 02

Activation

We build and run the paid media against it: search, social, display and connected TV aimed at the exact neighborhoods and segments the data surfaced.

Step 03

Optimization

Each quarter the report refreshes, the comp set is re-measured, and the plan adjusts. Your targeting gets sharper while competitors stay still.

Why Paperkite

Data is the easy part. Knowing what to do with it is ours.

Plenty of vendors will sell a hotel a data feed. We are a tourism and destination marketing agency that has spent years turning audience signals into overnight stays.

We live in travel

Destinations, resorts and attractions are our specialty, not a side category. We know how seasonality, drive versus fly, and visitor mix actually behave.

No handoffs

The senior people in the pitch are the people on your account. You get direct access to the team doing the work, including leadership.

Strategy leads, then speed

We move fast without skipping the thinking. Alignment first, then media. That sequence is why the spend works harder.

Certified and accountable

A New York State certified Women-Owned Business, used to public funding, board oversight and reporting that holds up to scrutiny.

Packages

Start with the intelligence. Scale into the growth.

Most properties begin with a single report, then move to always-on once they see who they have been missing. Pricing below is a starting framework to tailor to each property.

The Report
A one-time competitive intelligence read for your property and comp set.
$1,000one-time
  • Up to three competitors measured
  • All three analytics layers, fully analyzed
  • Ranked growth opportunities
  • Live presentation of findings
Start here
Most popular
Report + Launch
The report, plus a built and launched paid media program aimed at the findings.
$XX,XXXreport + 90-day launch
  • Everything in The Report
  • Creative built for the audience
  • Search, social, display and CTV setup
  • Targeting down to neighborhood
  • Launch reporting and readout
Build my launch
Always-On
Ongoing intelligence, media and optimization as a managed monthly partnership.
$X,XXXper month
  • Quarterly report refresh
  • Comp set re-measured each quarter
  • Continuous media management
  • Monthly performance reporting
  • Direct line to your senior team
Go always-on

Media spend is billed separately from agency fees. Final pricing is set per property once the comp set and market scope are confirmed.

The track record

We turn the right audience into real movement.

The intelligence only matters if the media performs. Across travel and tourism clients, sharper targeting has meant numbers like these.

583%
year-over-year growth in bookings for a statewide recreation program
279%
above the platform average click-through rate on a sold-out cultural event launch
2.1M
display impressions delivered for a multi-destination tourism campaign

Trusted by travel and destination clients including The Otesaga Resort Hotel, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, 1000 Islands, and the NYS Canal Corporation.

Ready to see who you are really competing with?

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