In the past several years, established financial services firms have increasingly sought to partner with or even acquire fintech upstarts, many of which have been encroaching on territory they used to control.
Skyscanner’s chatbots (across a range of platforms) have already surpassed one million traveller interactions.
This is just one of the fascinating nuggets we learnt when we caught up with Filip Filipov, VP Product Management at Skyscanner, to ask him about his work.
Looking for a break on a mobile? Gosh your commute must be especially arduous today.
Here’s some help: a guide to the most convenient features available on mobile travel sites, which could possibly help you find your way to pleasant pastures a lot quicker and also highlight some great design for other mobile commerce designers.
Ben Davis gives excellent advice on features needed for great mobile commerce design in general, which I’ll be using here, but skewing it towards features more suited to travel sites.
For this feature I’ll be taking a look at a range of travel sites all optimised for mobiles: EasyJet, Ryanair, Booking.com, TripAdvisor, Secret Escapes, Voyage Prive, Expedia, Mr & Mrs Smith, Laterooms and Skyscanner.
Travel aggregator sites dominate airline brands for both natural and paid Google rankings, according to a new report looking at search visibility.
The analysis by Searchmetrics also found that brands achieving high natural search rankings are taking the opportunity to limit their investment in PPC.
The study is based on analysis of how airline brands performed on Google for the 1,439 most popular search terms relating to flights. It examines results for the US, France and Germany, but for this post I’ll focus on the UK results.
And for more information on this topic, check out the Econsultancy Paid Search Marketing Best Practice Guide or our UK Search Engine Marketing Benchmark Report.