We decided to turn Cheapflights online display media into a simple flights search, and created an innovative, contextual web banner that allows you to search flights for the articles you’re reading, simply by dragging the article image into the web banner.

As a world’s first the web banner then combines image search API’s, Location API’s, ticket platform API’s such as Ticketmaster and songkick, with Cheapflights flight search API to serve the user a flight price for the next upcoming concert, sport- or art event. And everything happens within just a few seconds.

The solution inspires people to travel by focusing on the experience rather than the qualities of the destination, which is linked to something they are already passionate about creating a relevant point of contact between the brand, its users and their passions.

The campaign launched with a contextual targeting setup to ensure that our banners was shown on relevant sites and articles (within music-, arts- and sports categories), to enhance users experience with our campaign. The banner was designed with a simple, slick animation to inform about it’s simple search function and encouraging people to drop article images in it. Unique API’s was developed to cover certain point of interests such as Rugby, Cricket and those alike where fx. data on individual team players weren't accessible.

The campaign was aired on various major news websites such as independent.co.uk, mirror.co.uk, nme.com, telegraph.co.uk, theguardian.co.uk, bbc.com, ticketmaster.co.uk & skyspots.com to mention a few. The campaign aired first time on the 3rd December 2016 and finished almost 3 weeks after on the 19th December 2016.

The Drag Drop and Go was a successful campaign as it not only demonstrated ‘Smart Search Made Simple’, but created an engagement beyond normal with a staggering engagement rate 145% higher than the industry benchmark for any other digital campaigns. The campaign contributed to an 8.5% YoY increase in visits to Cheapflights.co.uk, and a 16.5% YoY rise in revenue. The banner is now Cheapflights new platform for online paid media, which they’re planning to expand to cover more points of interests.

With Drag Drop and Go Cheapflights have revolutionised digital display media as they turned their web banner into a simple utility putting their flight search service right in the hands of the users when they’re the most incentivised to travel. The campaign was launched to promote Cheapflights dedication to taking the complexity out of finding the best value flights through the application of innovative, intuitive technologies. The campaign ultimately built a ongoing customer relationship as it proved that Cheapflights live and breathe their mantra; ‘Smart Search. Made Simple’.

Event tourism is a growing market. No doubt. Millions of people travel across the world to experience something live. According to a recent UK report, 45% of live music audiences were music tourists and there were 9.5 million music tourists in the UK alone (source: https://goo.gl/OiYLJF). And that’s just music. Sports- and art events are key motivational drivers within the event tourism as well. That’s why for the initial launch we used a contextual media buying strategy to focus the campaign on articles for sports-, arts- and music events.

Event tourism is a growing market, and a massive opportunity as people are more than ever willing to travel around the world to experience major sports events, music gigs and art exhibitions live. According to recent UK report, 45% of live music audiences were music tourists, which is almost 10 million people in the UK alone. The brief was to create a web banner campaign engaging and incentivizing people to travel and book with Cheapflights, by showcasing Cheapflights dedication to taking the complexity out of finding the best value flights through the application of innovative, intuitive technologies by focusing on their core message; ‘Smart Search. Made Simple’. Cheapflights wanted to prove that this is not just a pay-off, but a promise they live and breathe every day. It was paramount that the idea could create interaction, engagement, and thereby click through to their website to experience Cheapflights extraordinary search tool.