GOOGLE - most popular travel video of 2015

Demonstrating the power of viral videos, four airlines have been recognised this year in YouTube’s Travel Top 5 for 2015 .

“YouTube has over a billion users – almost a third of all people on the Internet – and every day, people watch hundreds of millions of hours of YouTube videos and generate billions of views,” Google reports.

At the top of the list, Air France holds bragging rights for the most popular travel-related YouTube video of 2015, ‘France is in the Air’ which garnered more than 87.9 million hits.

The artistic promotional video with its catchy tune was part of the airline’s rebranding campaign, which aimed to express the lively and dreamy spirit of French culture.

Air France significantly out performed the second most popular video of the year, FUNnel Vision , celebrating the opening of the LEGOLAND HOTEL in Florida which had 16.7 million views.

Boeing was awarded the number three spot with its video ‘Boeing Prepares the 787-9 Dreamliner for the 2015 Paris Air Show’. It left over 12.7 million people breathless with a daring take-off followed by a series of extreme air manoeuvres which tested the limitations of the aircraft.

Delta Airlines won the number four spot with ‘The Internetest Safety video on the Internet,’ which delighted 9.3 million people by squeezing 22 Internet memes into a six-minute in-flight safety demonstration.

Turkish Airlines was recognised in the number 5 spot for its ‘Fly Africa’ video, which was viewed over 8.9 million times.