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Are These 3 Hidden Revenue Leaks Costing Your Short-Term Rental Portfolio?
Your dynamic pricing strategy might be flawless—but bad listing photos, inflexible cleaning fees, and over-promised owner estimates are silently destroying your short-term rental revenue. 🛑💸 In this…
How Airbnb’s New AI Algorithm Decides Who Gets Booked
Airbnb's 2026 Summer Release just rewrote the rules of how guests discover, evaluate, and book your property. 🛑📉With this update, Airbnb hasn't just rolled out new features—the platform has…
Airbnb May Soon Guarantee the Lowest Price, But Only on Hotels
If Airbnb guarantees the lowest price on hotels, how will your short-term rentals compete? 🛑📉On May 20th, Brian Chesky is dropping the Summer 2026 Release, and the platform's priorities are shifting.…
Will Europe's Fuel Crisis Send a Wave of Guests to Your Holiday Let?
✈️ Jet Fuel Crisis, 20,000 Cancelled Flights, and a Domestic Travel Boom — Which Side of the Line Is Your Portfolio On?Jet fuel prices have doubled and airlines are cutting 20,000 summer flights. ⛽📉…
S3E14 Airbnb Summer Release 2026: 7 Predictions for Hosts and Property Managers
Airbnb’s Summer Release 2026 is almost here. What could Airbnb announce — and what should hosts and property managers be watching?In this episode, Thibault Masson, industry analyst, founder of RSU by…
S3E13 Airbnb's AI Strategy: What's Hidden in the April 20th Terms Update
In February 2026, Airbnb quietly updated its privacy policy. On April 20th, every host and guest will be asked to accept it — or lose access to the platform.In this episode, RSU Editor Uvika Wahi…
S3E12 Why Your Revenue Manager Can't Do It Alone Anymore
Revenue management isn't broken — the model around it is.For years, dynamic pricing was the answer. But when your owner relations team is stuck in email, your BD team is pitching with outdated…
S3E11 Beyond the Bed: What Airbnb's Car Service and Dinner Party Reveal About the Platform's Future
Airbnb made two announcements this week that didn't make many headlines — but together, they reveal exactly how the platform's lifestyle ambitions are materializing in practice.In this episode, Uvika…
S3E10 Surviving The May 2026 EU Short-Term Rental Regulation Deadline
May 20, 2026, is circled on every European property manager's calendar. It's the official deadline for EU Regulation 2024/1028—the law that forces booking platforms to verify registration numbers and…
S3E9 Vrbo’s Reliability Playbook: Building the Ultimate Airbnb Alternative
Are Airbnb and Vrbo becoming the exact same platform? If you look deeper than the recent launches, the answer is a resounding no. While Airbnb is prioritizing pure booking volume by removing checkout…
S1E107 How AI Is Changing the Way Guests Plan & Book Travel
AI is becoming the new front door to travel discovery.In this episode, Thibault Masson (Founder of Rental Scale-Up / RSU by PriceLabs) is joined by David Ciccarelli (Co-Founder & CEO of Lake.com)…
S1E106 Airbnb’s Pay-to-Play Visibility: The Start of a Loyalty Program?
Is Airbnb quietly testing its own loyalty program?Some hosts are now seeing an offer:Provide a 20% discount, and Airbnb will boost your visibility and promote your listing to “top rated guests.”But…
S1E105 10 Takeaways from Airbnb’s Q4 2025 That Could Impact Your Revenue
In this episode, we break down the 10 biggest takeaways from Airbnb's Q4 2025 earnings call and what they really mean for professional short-term rental managers.From the likely end of the 3% split…
S1E104 How to Break the 200-Unit Bottleneck: Lessons from GuestReady’s Spain Deal
Many property managers don’t fail — they stall.And for a lot of STR operators, that stall happens around 100–200 units.In this episode, we go inside GuestReady’s latest acquisition in Spain, its 12th…
S1E102 How to Get More Bookings on Airbnb by Optimizing Listing Quality, Not Cutting Prices
In this episode, we break down how Airbnb actually rewards quality listings — and why many professional operators lose bookings even in strong markets.Thibault Masson dives into PriceLabs’ new…
S1E101 Before You Drop Prices: How Listing Quality is Costing You Airbnb Revenue
Register for fee workshop: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1317691874899/WN_T9XsB0s0TUSk2tQA4c50wwIf your Airbnb bookings are slowing down, your first instinct is probably to drop prices.But…
S3E2 The Death of Search: Does Google UCP Make Booking Platforms Redundant?
Is the "click-through" era of travel over? For twenty years, platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com have been the indispensable gatekeepers of the industry. But with the launch of the Universal…
S3E1 2026 Vacation Rental Trends: How Travel Is Becoming More Selective
Vacation Rental Trends 2026 didn’t start in 2026.In this episode, Uvika Wahi of RSU by PriceLabs breaks down the most important vacation rental and trends shaping 2026, using guidance from what…
S1E98 The 2025 Short-Term Rental Year in Review (Top Stories That Matters for 2026)
Across articles, podcasts, webinars, and industry conversations throughout the year, the same topics kept resurfacing. And when that happens, it usually means something structural is changing.In this…
S1E97 World Cup 2026: How Demand Is Showing Up Early Across Host Cities
World Cup 2026 demand is already showing up in the data ⚽📈 — but not evenly.Some host cities are seeing early booking spikes, others are moving slowly, and regulation + supply constraints are shaping…
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