Internship - Media Buying

When travelers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! By comparing prices from major booking sites, we're making it easy for people to find hotels they want at a price they'll love. In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn everyday, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. A career at trivago is a journey designed for people who crave continuous development and want to thrive in a high-performing team. Here you will find those who aren't afraid of change but rather embrace it, turning every challenge into a pathway for growth. Join trivago, work with a great team, and grow with us! ### **Join us in making a difference** Our TV Marketing team negotiates, executes, and optimises multi-media campaigns worldwide, driving travelers to our platforms as efficiently as possible. As a Media Buying Intern, you'll sit at the heart of making the trivago brand known and loved — supporting the planning and monitoring of TV campaigns across markets, and learning the craft alongside people who do this at scale every day. This is a chance to work on real campaigns from day one: reading performance data, using data and AI tools to support optimisations, and seeing how strategic advertising reaches millions of travelers — with the occasional trip to agency or market meetings. You'll build foundational media buying skills, grow your network across marketing, and get honest feedback along the way — trivago sets high standards and invests genuinely in the people meeting them. Ready to see how big brand campaigns come together? Apply now! ### **How you'll make an impact:** * Monitor trivago's TV campaigns daily and flag the actions needed to maximise their impact. * Analyse campaign performance and support the implementation of ongoing optimisations that improve our topline results. * Support the planning and execution of multi-media campaigns across different markets, working closely with the wider marketing teams. * Prepare and maintain reporting that gives the team a clear, current view of how campaigns are performing. * Balance daily campaign monitoring with ad-hoc analysis requests, adjusting your priorities as campaign needs shift. * Contribute fresh ideas to campaign planning discussions — your perspective counts. ### **What you'll need to thrive:** * Analytical skills for interpreting campaign data, with solid Excel skills a plus — paired with an open, curious mindset toward AI tools and how they can sharpen analysis, forecasting, and optimisation. * Confidence in building collaborative relationships internally and externally, and a genuine interest in learning how media negotiations secure the best possible conditions for trivago. * A genuine learning mindset — you ask questions, seek out feedback, and pick things up quickly in a fast-changing environment. * A performance mindset — you set ambitious goals for yourself and have the determination to follow through, even as priorities