Hi @Susan10,
I'm not upset 🙂 I was just wondering what made you think they were owned by Airbnb.
But as you explained, I now understand your reasoning 🙂
As it would be very strange for a company to go through the hassle of really cumbersome extraction of data from it's own website. In order to get the data, they already have nicely formatted underneath their fingertips 🙂
Airbnb does however have systems in place that analyze trends and that sort of things - on basis of their operational data. Smart pricing for instance is a result of this. They even gave it a name, but I've forgotten it. I can find it, but it might take me some time.
An example: As you may have noticed yourself, Airbnb is no longer displaying the individual nightprices in the calendar of a listing + all the latest introduced discount facilities.
Even these relative 'small' changes are causing companies such as Airdna, really big headaches and extremely big technical challenges!
As they will have to change their software drastically, in order to produce the same results - as before (and they will not even be able to achieve the same)!
They might want to analyze other companies as well (Booking.Com/VRBO/TripAdvisor/Etc). But this is a tremendous and huge amount of work!
So they concentrated on Airbnb. That's why they are called: Air...
And yes, they are living like a parasite on the success of Airbnb.
So no hard feelings. I'm just simply a direct Dutch guy 🙂