London Marathon Charities Show How To Monitor Twitter
One of the roles we fulfil at Skipedia is monitoring social media for our clients. All companies should be monitoring for brand mentions, but sometimes it’s also worth following, or starting, a particular conversation. Today we came across a great example of this, following my own Tweet of disappointment at failing to get a place...
The Top 40 Ski Resorts on Facebook (Relatively)
We have previously looked on Skipedia at which ski resorts in France, Austria and Italy and across Europe have the most Facebook fans. But how useful are absolute figures? Surely you would expect a resort with more visitors to have more Facebook fans? We thought we’d look more closely at the figures to find out who is...
Was this the best Facebook post by a ski resort in winter 2013/14?
Firstly credit must go to Greg Blanchard at Slopefillers. He has been analysing North American ski resorts’ marketing activity closely for years. Last week he published a new blog post ‘The Top 100 Resort Facebook Posts Shared During the 2013/14 Ski Season‘. We highly recommend that all snowsports marketing professionals take a look at this...
19 Social Media and Digital Facts about Val Thorens
Val Thorens has had a remarkable year, winning a number of awards, most significantly ‘Ski Resort of the Year’ at the World Ski Awards. When we interviewed Gregory Guzzo director of the tourist office in December 2012 about their rebrand to ‘Val Thorens United’ it was evident that this was a resort with a plan....
Five Snowsports Videos of ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams
‘Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof” We all know the lyric, we all know the song. Pharrell Williams’ ‘Happy’ has been a phenomenal global success since it was released in November 2013. A massive improvement on the Harlem Shake No doubt inspired by the original collection of videos posted to...
Esprit Ski Hit The Spot With Great Video Content
With so much noise in social media to work your way through, it can be hard to make an impression. That’s why Esprit Ski has stood out for us this season for the quality and quantity of their video content. The best resource that most tour operators have is their staff that in resort. What...