Articles tagged “social”

Online Travel

Snap’s New Feature for Hotels and Destinations Shows the Promise of Visual Search

The messaging app bets it can leap into becoming a platform for discovering places and hotels. Odds are against the company. But odds are in favor of visual-first search becoming widespread.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago
Snap’s New Feature for Hotels and Destinations Shows the Promise of Visual Search

Online Travel

Interview: Facebook’s Head of Travel Reveals How Brands Are Winning on the Platform

What a year it has been for Facebook and the travel industry and it's not over yet. For a company with the unparalleled size and reach of Facebook to say that travel is the industry it's putting some of its most significant investment towards in the next year should tell you something about the state of the industry. We can't wait to see what's in store for 2017.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 6 years ago
Interview: Facebook’s Head of Travel Reveals How Brands Are Winning on the Platform

Media and PR

New Skift Trends Report: How to Harness the Facebook Ecosystem in 2016

In a world of fly-by-night apps and social media bubbles, Facebook has matured as one of the more important communications platforms.

Todd Wasserman, Skift | 7 years ago
New Skift Trends Report: How to Harness the Facebook Ecosystem in 2016

Hotels

The Future of Social Media and Content Marketing for All-Inclusive Resorts

Digital brand communications, social media and the rise of digital bookings are impacting the industry at a rising rate year over year, in ways big and small.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago
The Future of Social Media and Content Marketing for All-Inclusive Resorts

Airlines

American Airlines Ditches the Muzak for Indie Rock During Boarding

American Airlines' musical tastes are apparently more in tune these days with its Twitter following after dumping the old stuff for hipper music during boarding and after landing.

Dan Frommer, Quartz | 8 years ago
American Airlines Ditches the Muzak for Indie Rock During Boarding

Media and PR

What Travel Brands Need to Know About Meerkat, the Hottest Social App Right Now

Meerkat is one of the hottest social apps right now and by right now we mean the last two weeks. It has the early promise to make live video broadcasting dead-simple, using Twitter's social graph as the distribution vehicle. We see tons of uses in various travel sectors.

John McDermott, Digiday | 8 years ago
What Travel Brands Need to Know About Meerkat, the Hottest Social App Right Now

Media and PR

Instagram Brings Brands One Tap Closer to Customers With New Ad Product

The carousel is visually appealing, but clicking through to a mobile branded site for travel brands may still not be enough.

Joyce Manalo, Skift | 8 years ago
Instagram Brings Brands One Tap Closer to Customers With New Ad Product

Media and PR

Megatrends 2015: Travel Brands Look to Instagram for the Influencer Bump

We’re still in the early days of the Instagram Influencer, but the one thing we do know is that great visuals will catch on no matter who’s doing the sharing.

Joyce Manalo, Skift | 8 years ago
Megatrends 2015: Travel Brands Look to Instagram for the Influencer Bump

Media and PR

South African Booking Site Acquires Social Startup Satisfly

With so many startups focusing on specific niches of the travel market, we will continue to see more acquisitions of small companies by small companies as competition consolidates.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 8 years ago
South African Booking Site Acquires Social Startup Satisfly

Media and PR

How Travel Tech Companies Humanize Their Brands on Social

B2B travel companies are taking advantage of social media's inherent function of connecting with real people.

Joyce Manalo, Skift | 8 years ago
How Travel Tech Companies Humanize Their Brands on Social