What media air travelers choose to inform their friends and relatives about their flights, provided with a choice between SMS, email and social media? See our latest stats on that topic.

ArrivedOK is the service that notifies your designated recipients about your arrival to airports worldwide. ArrivedOK doesn’t do this by tracking flights, it does it by tracking your cell phone when you switch it on in your destination. Once it has been detected as on in the visiting mobile network the arrival notifications are sent out automatically. Users can choose how to send those alerts – by SMS, email, or via social media/networks.

And here comes the interesting part – what media air travelers choose to deliver their arrival alerts? Our latest stats say that despite all that social media buzz, people still prefer SMS and good old email. Perhaps because email notifications are free of charge at ArrivedOK, one might say, but that’s not the case: ArrivedOK provides all social media alerts for free too but they show dramatically lower popularity.

Here is the percentage of all ArrivedOK arrival notifications by media channels (March 2009 – January 2010):

LinkedIn is not included in the stats as we just integrated recently.

One thing could explain the popularity of SMS among our users – ArrivedOK text alerts are remarkably cheaper than roaming text tariffs, but that does not explain the lower usage of social media services, which are completely free.

We would say that Twitter is doing fine, Facebook is overrated, and Blogspot and LiveJournal numbers reflect the decline of blogging.

This is basically European stats as we don’t currently provide the service in the United States and China (though we’re working on it).

ArrivedOK website – http://www.arrivedok.mobi
ArrivedOK Partnership – http://partners.arrivedok.mobi

ArrivedOK introduces invites and badges.

Invite your friends and earn free credits when they subscribe to ArrivedOK and make a purchase. Got a blog or webpage? Place our badge on your website and earn free credits too.

If you’re a registered user of ArrivedOK, you can now earn bonus credits and use the service for free. You don’t even have to purchase a service package to make it happen – if any user comes to ArrivedOK from your webpage or via your invitation and buys a package, you receive free credits. Its as simple as that. The more users you attract, the more credits you get.

We are giving away 3 credits for a package purchase. This is worth 3 arrivals tracking, or 3 SMS alerts, or 1 arrival with 2 alerts, and so on. The formula is simple: 3=1+1+1.

Choose, whichever work best for you: invites or badges. If you’re a prominent blogger with a large following and heavy traffic, we would recommend badges as your best option. If you just want to share info about ArrivedOK with your fellow travelers, we recommend using the invites.

If anyone buys our (competitively priced) Economy Class or Frequent Flyer package, you get your free credits, which you can use to notify your friends and family about your arrivals anywhere. This is particularly good news for those of you who were not too pleased when ArrivedOK went commercial (yes we do read your emails and feedback).

And one more thing (attention Twitter and Facebook users!). All badges are linked to ArrivedOK with your user ID in the URL so we know which users come from you. You can actually use your unique URL wherever you like (even without a badge – in your tweets, emails, posts, etc.) to attract more subscribers and earn your free credits.

Not subscribed to ArrivedOK yet? You can do it here.

So, share and enjoy. Merry Xmas and…
Happy Landings!