“We named ourselves Booking.com, which is kind of lit if we're talking 'literal,'” Elba quips during the spot as his fellow sauna guests stifle eye rolls. Booking.com is 26 years old, which makes it a wizened elder of the online travel sector.

Booking.com has released a campaign in Australia, Booking. yeah, starring actor Idris Elba.

star Melissa McCarthy Booking.com is launching a new ad campaign to show that booking a trip is half the fun, starring Emmy and Academy award winning American actress and producer, Melissa McCarthy.

LONDON – 23rd June, 2022 – Booking.com, the digital travel leader with a mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world, is launching its new advertising campaign in the UK, Booking. yeah, starring SAG and Golden Globe winning actor, filmmaker and musician Idris Elba.

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lady Melissa McCarthy Booking.com announced a suite of new commercials featuring Emmy Award-winning funny lady Melissa McCarthy who is now the face of its "Booking. yeah" campaign.

The campaign features actors and comedians Sam Richardson (Ted Lasso, Detroiters) and Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent). The duo play hotel concierge employees at an anonymous hotel.

Elba's career break came on the HBO crime drama The Wire, in which for three seasons (2002–04) he played the financially savvy drug kingpin Russell (“Stringer”) Bell. He branched out into comedy on the American version of the sitcom The Office and into romance on the comedy-drama The Big C.

As of Oct 9, 2023, the average hourly pay for a Commercial Actor in the United States is $12.63 an hour.

In 2022, Procter & Gamble spent 746 million U.S. dollars on advertising on cable TV in the United States. The company ranked as the leading advertiser on cable TV networks in the country. The Walt Disney Company came second with ad expenditures of 485 million dollars.