Raffles

Free t-shirts were offered at the IF UK launch party last night (which was a good event, full credit to the team). Not sure what the take up was ... Tommy probably realised his work was cut out when he saw the majority of the male audience in suits or at least 'jacket and trousers' and the women predominantly in expensive dresses.

I assume Tommy brought them over from Chicago as well ....!

notquiteaff

Lots of launch parties (and presumably espensable / tax deductible travel expenses), but was there any indication of how they plan to drive traffic or who they are targeting with the sites? Quite frankly, the U.S. version has boring articles, a news ticker that shows month-old "news" and lots of tumbleweeds blowing through the forum.

Markie

They were all taken!

GUWonder

The men, the women, the T-shirts, or all of them?

I really can't imagine myself wearing such a T-shirt, even when neither expecting visitors nor to be out and about.

Where was my invite?

Kagehitokiri

a little different than US i expect

bthotugigem05

It is.

notquiteaff

(incidentally insideflyer.com seems to not be responding a the moment)

It would be my guess that, with the exception of the "teh box" chat thread, the entire U.S. IF site has about as much traffic as this very forum on FT. The old Milepoint was pretty low traffic in its final weeks, and it's only gone downhill since then. The news/blog posts each attract a few hundred views (they have recently removed the view and comment counts, but there is no reason to believe it has increased). Even the co-founders have, for the most part, faded into the woodwork. My guess is there is more money to be made elsewhere, "thoughtleadering" and writing credit card pitches.

It's a bit sad; I actually liked MilePoint when it had a reasonable amount of traffic.

Kagehitokiri

was not overnight on FT, most posts were first day

but sure, blogs get traffic from lots of places

84fiero

Yeah the Marriott/SPG subject has only a mere scattering of posts on IF.

- Most apparently are in "teh penalty box"
- About 12 posts in a thread on the SPG forum (several of those posts are explaining that most of the discussion is actually in "teh penalty box"
- About 12 posts in a thread on the Marriott forum and I think a separate thread in that forum with 2 posts.

I don't get why on the IF front page many of the article "tumbnails" (or whatever they are called) are repeated two or three times. Well, I guess due to lack of enough content but you'd think they would find some more elegant way to fill up the space.

SkiAdcock

I haven't been on MP for several months since a) I only have so much time to give to IBBs & FT eats up most of that time; b) the content really isn't on MP compared to FT. Just went on IF & have to say it's similar to what it was like w/ MP - aka, tumbleweeds (at least in the Marriott forum).

So will just stick w/ FT. BTW - I don't dislike Randy, Tommy, etc. It's just if I've only got x amount of time I'm going to spend it where I get the most info/return on my time.

Cheers. Sharon

84fiero

I didn't click on the details but IF seems to be running another purchase LifeMiles promotion.

Kagehitokiri

half of last promotion was public, and other half was barely better than public
public as in direct from lifemiles for anyone, nothing to do with IF as IF (implied?)

kokonutz

Randy recently announced that BoardingArea / InsideFlyer had 101,978,302 total visits in 2015.

Is that a lot?

Looking at the IF IBB (nee MilePoint) it's business as usual: tumbleweeds and dust bunnies....

Raffles

My little UK site got 4.2m visits if that helps contextualise. 100m is pretty chunky.

kokonutz

I wonder how many visitors FlyerTalk had in 2015....