SimpliTrends: Airline Marketing focusing on Producing increasingly Innovative Experiential Campaigns

Editor’s Note: SimpliTrends is a new series of articles that will elucidate, to our readers, the latest trends in airline and airport marketing. Humanising the Airline Brand Faced with ever more experienced consumers, who routinely ignore the commercials and ads thrown at them, airlines are finding new ways to break through the advertising clutter and are … Read more

SimpliTrends: Why Brand Advocates are increasingly important for effective Airport Marketing

Editor’s Note: SimpliTrends is a new series of articles that will elucidate, to our readers, the latest trends in airline and airport marketing. So what exactly is Advocacy? The idea of getting people to tell people they know about your products is about as old as business itself. Advocacy, by those who have experienced a product … Read more

A Statistical Analysis of How Airlines in South East Asia Perform on Social Media

Editor’s Note: Here’s a guest post by Vikas Bysani of Unmetric, an exclusive aviation partner of SimpliFlying. Unmetric is a social media benchmarking company that helps brands analyse how well they’re doing on social media by including in-depth insights into numerous metrics as well as information on what kind of content “works” and how competitors are faring. Among … Read more

[Whitepaper] Airline Loyalty in the Age of the Connected Traveller — Supercharged by Facebook Custom Audiences

Consider a hypothetical airline marketer called Emma. She is frustrated. As a star airline marketer – keenly tuned into the latest social technologies and trends – she is eager to find a way to drive engagement with existing customers. Instead of engaging everyone with an opinion about the airline on Facebook, she would like to engage … Read more

Airport Marketing SimpliRecap: Brisbane Airport’s SMS-sharing screens, Changi Airport’s Social Tree, LAX’s new terminal gets interactive & more!

Editor’s Note: While SimpliFlying’s aviation marketing thought leadership goes far and wide, we know there is some great content out there on the web that leaves us in awe. SimpliRecap is a weekly section that ensures that our readers don’t miss the latest in airline or airport marketing, along with some of our own takes … Read more

EXCLUSIVE: An Analysis of How Airlines are Engaging Travellers on Instagram — Part 2

On Tuesday  we published An Analysis of how Airlines are performing on Instagram — the first part of our in-depth look at the world of airlines on Instagram, in which we analysed about 150 airline brands on Instagram to identify the nature of their presence (if any) and the behaviours they exhibited on this social … Read more

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Flight Tracker Program aims to rebuild brand trust (and has some neat features!)

What would you do if your latest product release gets a recall due to safety reasons, and you then need to restore trust after fixing things up? Well, if you’re Boeing, and the product that you need to build more brand trust around is the 787 Dreamliner, you’d launch a real-time flight tracker of all … Read more

EXCLUSIVE: An Analysis of how Airlines are Performing on Instagram — Part 1

A lot has been said about Instagram in the past few weeks, especially after its surprise addition of a video feature that caused quite a stir, as well as a lot of excitement in the social media world. Given this renewed interest, we decided to take a look at what airlines have been up to … Read more

Asiana Airlines Crash Crisis Management 2.0 — Case Study and Analysis

My wife is a big fan of Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook COO. As she was browsing Facebook on her mobile yesterday, she exclaimed to me that Sheryl had almost boarded an Asiana flight that crashed in San Francisco. Upon hearing this, I quickly logged on to Twitter, and instinctively searched #SFOcrash. And there it was, … Read more

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