Insider Perks was founded in January of 2009 by Brian Searl, a former travel agent and television news editor. Brian saw a unique opportunity to combine his talents of both video editing and photography with his travel expertise and launched InsiderPerks.com in its current form in March of 2009. Since then Brian has hired 2 additional staff members who work closely with him and still visits each location personally to oversee the production of all of the videos that Insider Perks produces. His video production experience includes 1 year of internship with The Cleveland Indians baseball team as well as 4 years of experience as a video editor at WOIO-TV in Cleveland, OH. Since leaving CBS in 2006, Brian has done a variety of freelance work all around the world as well as successfully launching his own online travel agency.
The site currently features over 500 travel videos produced by our staff, licensed by the company or produced by local visitor's bureaus. We also feature hundreds of additional videos on destinations all over the world produced by Travel Channel. All of our videos that we have produced are now available in HD quality and to our knowledge we are the first travel website to launch with a focus on HD video content.
We offer maximum online exposure to all the attractions, restaurants and/or hotels that we film by utilizing multiple distribution points. In addition to InsiderPerks.com, you can find our videos on YouTube, TripAdvisor and as a podcast for iPhone & iPod Touch users on iTunes. Best of all these videos are completely unbiased and our services are provided for free to attractions in the cities we visit. The videos are all shot in HD so as to preserve our high quality standards for years to come as the internet begins to shift toward higher resolution video.
We also offer local maps, weather and news for each completed destination so a visitor has all the information they need right at their fingertips without ever leaving the site.
We also attempt to work closely with local Convention & Visitor's Bureaus in each city we film in to make sure of videos are factual and remain up to date.
Insider Perks encourages participation from its users at the deepest levels and we are always searching for new content that is relevant, well-presented and informative. If you would like to contribute to the site please visit our Submit Content section.
If you are a hotel, airline, car rental agency, tourism office or involved in another official capacity within the travel industry and would like to see your property, restaurant, city, state, country or company featured on our site please visit our Get Listed page for details on this FREE service.
If you would like to advertise with Insider Perks we are a member of the Travel Channel FlightDeck advertising network. If you seek customized advertising on certain pages only then please Contact Us with information on what you would like to advertise and where you would like to place it on our site and we will provide you with a rate quote if your company is qualified. We do not advertise for adult-oriented sites or any other company that does not offer a product or service that compliments our offerings.
We also are accepting applications for a limited number of partnerships that will enable us to spread the word about the valuable services we offer. Please Contact Us if you are interested in cross-promotional opportunities with Insider Perks but keep in mind your content must be relevant or compliment our existing offerings in order to be considered.
For all other questions, concerns or suggestions please Contact Us.
