The pricelines, orbitz, and travelocities of the world are all out to sell tickets. They are online travel agencies.
But Kayak.com is fundamentally different and we need to help YOU, the online traveler, to look at Kayak.com in a completely different way.
The major hurdle is confronting this unawareness issue. The issue that travelers assume Kayak is no different from the rest.
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UNAWARE OF DIFFERENCE and therefore assume they all do the same thing
However, this is far from the truth. Unlike the online travel agencies that sell stock travel inventory and earn commissions...
no selling no hidden agenda r e a l r e a l
t i m e t i m e
p r i c e s
a v a i l a b i l i t y
search engine
SEARCH ENGINE PHILOSOPHY
Much like Google, Kayak embodies the same spirit that we coined the search engine philosophy.
Allows t h e user to be king
Believes the more we know the better we are.
There’s always more out there.
Provides countless ways to achieving that.
Opportunity: to take an holistic stance on travel
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OUR CHALLENGE A significantly smaller marketing budget compared to our competitors
$30M v $300M
TARGET: The Bubble-Breakers
Their World
87M
9-5 monotony Global citizen
The Rest
of the World
Seek experience Relatively flexible
“For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle. In that regard, even a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet (in Beijing) can be both novelty and revelation.�
Travelers not tourists
work
doubt want to leave their bubble but have a few restrictions.
time
money
ideas
waste
curiosity driven
James Toepel 23 years old After finally "officially" graduating from the University of Washington, I knew the process of de-educating myself was not going to be easy. So with a one-way ticket to Buenos Aires, and a full backpack in hand, I set out with no particular goal in mind, other than to explore as I want, at the pace I want, with as few restraints as possible.
Video of James
Adrienne Nothnagel 26 years old I’m about to finish my first year of work in the “real world” and I have to tell ya the 9-5 day is something I’m going to have to get used to. I’ve never been one to settle and the monotony of the daily routine is getting kind of stale. I guess the reason I love to travel is to get out of my comfort zone and experience the world for everything it has to offer.
Kayak encourages the world to travel
Bringing Kayak.com to the World
TOP 10 CITIES FOR BUBBLE-BREAKERS MINNEAPOLIS, MN
DENVER, CO AUSTIN, TX
NEW YORK CITY
WASHINGTON D.C. CHICAGO, IL
HOUSTON, TX
SAN FRANCISCO
BOSTON, MA
OOH
Oversized posters placed on construction site barrier walls, sidewalk covers and bus shelters throughout major metropolitan cities. The “FROM” rectangle is an actual die-cut window framing your current city’s busy surroundings.
KAYAK.COM OOH
Subway riders can get inspired to travel and use their mobile phone to get real-time fares using semicodes.
KAYAK.COM
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User sets computer desktop background with pictures of destinations they wish to travel to one day. Fare rates in the bottom right corner are updated as the pictures loop.
Partner with cooliris, a photo search engine. The special kayak utility allows you to tag real-time fare to photos.
Real-time Desktop Application
Partnership
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Facebook Application Anywhere a location is specified on facebook, kayak would provide real-time fare.