Skift Take

It's likely that Airbnb would introduce sponsored listings in the next few years. But higher host fees? Nah.

Dennis Schaal

Is Airbnb leaving money on the table, and could it generate more revenue by hiking host fees and introducing sponsored listings?

A BTIG research report published earlier this week runs through these Airbnb "bull" scenarios.

"A key plank to an ABNB bull case is the potential for take-rate to move higher and one way to do that would be to step-up host fees," says the report, which was written by Jake Fuller and Kevin Dolan.

Host Fees at 3%

The report notes that Airbnb collects around 13% in fees on average, with around 3% from hosts and 10% from guests. The bulls, according to the report, argue that Airbnb could raise those host fees from approx