Instagram Offers Brands a Better Snapshot of Organic Content Stats

  Another day and another social media platform has improved its analytics offering to businesses. Today I noticed that Instagram began to offer brands a better snapshot of their organic content campaign performance. Earlier this week, Instagram started sharing analytics for brands’ organic posts and “Stories” through the Instagram Platform API. This allows brands to[…]

LinkedIn’s New Website Demographics Tool

An article caught my attention this morning about LinkedIn offering businesses a new way to see what types of audiences they’re attracting with their marketing efforts. LinkedIn’s new Website Demographics is their first tool that layers the professional details of its members, such as job title, company and industry, and connects them to businesses. According[…]

How to Work With Major Hotel Brands as a Travel Blogger

Is it possible for travel bloggers to get free hotel stays from major hotel brands while on the road? Perhaps. I recently had the opportunity to speak with someone heavily involved in social media for a major hotel brand (and who wished to remain anonymous), in order to get a better idea of how things[…]

VisitEngland Launches Fan in the Van Project

In anticipation of a big summer, VisitEngland called on Brilliant Travel Media to redesign its travel blog and move it to the WordPress blog publishing application. In addition, we created a sub-blog for the Fan in a Van campaign which kicked off last week. Follow Rachel, VisitEngland’s “Fan in a Van,” this summer as she[…]

Johnny Jet To Become American Express Star Blogger

To showcase the benefits of the Starwood American Express card, money-saving travel blogger, Johnny Jet, has been selected by American Express as one of its star travel bloggers. American Express has teamed up with Johnny Jet to help people discover better ways to travel while saving money and getting the most out of their experience.[…]

Want to Know How Influential You are on Pinterest?

PinClout is a new website that brings analytics to Pinterest and assigns users a score from one to 100. As mentioned in an earlier post, Pinterest is a fun new platform that, if leveraged properly, can provide an upper hand for travel bloggers and travel brands. Given all the recent buzz surrounding Pinterest, it was[…]

Travel Inspiration and the Best Hotel Deals Guaranteed

Brilliant Travel Media has launched a new hotel comparison search engine that combines the best hotel deals from all the major travel websites into one free, quick and easy search. Whether you are looking for a luxury resort in Bora Bora or good value hotel deals in New York City, this is the resource to[…]

StumbleUpon Tells Bloggers to Bugger Off and Removes All Direct Links

Recently, StumbleUpon redesigned their site and changed just about everything, including direct links back to your blog. Are you a blogger who has experienced a time when one of your posts hit the StumbleUpon jackpot? If so, you know how good it feels to sit back and see those numbers tick up and up and[…]