Search volumes for this topic, though, are on the lighter side. Searches for a “corporate” photo booth rental are up almost 30%.Searches for “portable” or “mobile” photo booths are up almost 25%.Searches for birthday party photo booths are up 25%.Everything related to wedding photo booths is up 14%.The 19% above is comparing the whole year). Please note: this 22% comes from comparing a 3 month period.

Searches for “photo booth rental” are up 22% (this phrase often averages close to 50,000 searches per month.

What’s Up – Which Photo Booth Trends are GrowingĬompared to 3 years ago, the following searches are up right now in Google searches across the United States and Canada:

We chose to use three month groups like this to reduce the impact of occasional monthly spikes that can occur in the data. Below are the high level summary results comparing the three month period of September, October, and November 2018 (November was the last month they provided data for) to the same period in 2015. We then sorted and grouped the results into themes so we could make sense of it all. To really dig into what’s happening in the photo booth industry, we mined Google search data in the US and Canada using their Google Ads keyword research tool called “Keyword Planner.” We asked it to go back as far as it could – which happens to be to December 2014 – and give us all keyword phrases that people search for that relate to photo booth rentals. But if you’re paying attention to this industry, at times you probably wonder what’s changing? What trends are fading and what aspects of the industry are strengthening? These are big questions, and we definitely don’t have all the answers, but we’ve recently done some research and we’re happy to share what we’ve discovered. If anyone was still wondering, the photo booth industry is clearly here to stay. Searches on Google for “photo booth rental,” one of the biggest search terms in the industry, have increased 19% over the past 3 years.

Google photo search