Holiday meta search and travel deals platform icelolly.com has announced a series of new sales hires to support its continued growth as the UK’s fastest growing holiday comparison site.
The new team is headed by Stuart Barrett who joins as Sales Director from deals publisher Travelzoo. With over 20 years experience in advertising and media sales, Stuart brings a wealth of experience to the holiday comparison site. He will drive growth across icelolly.com’s search, deals and media solutions.
Kieran Shew, formerly of Kayak and Cheapflights, joins as Commercial Manager adding further metasearch and performance advertising expertise to the sales team. Completing the new additions is Georgie Lamden who joins as Media Sales Manager from a London media agency to develop travel advertiser campaigns.
Stuart Barrett commented, “I’m delighted that I’ll shortly be joining icelolly.com at such an exciting time of growth. The business already has a strong team and with Kieran and Georgie joining we’re really well positioned to supercharge growth for our advertiser partners”.
Richard Singer, CEO icelolly.com, also commented, “In the last 12 months, our offering to both customers and advertisers has been transformed. I am thrilled that Stuart, Georgie and Kieran, who bring vast experience in travel, deals and media are joining icelolly.com at such an exciting time in our development. Our product has improved dramatically on all fronts and now we have the team to match that progress”.
The changes follow a busy period for icelolly.com who relaunched their core holiday comparison marketplace in late 2017. They most recently announced the launch of a new media solutions arm for travel advertisers.
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Founded in 2005, icelolly.com is now the UK’s fastest growing holiday comparison website according to Hitwise data Q1 2018. It attracts more than 20 million visitors each year generating over 40m search queries annually.
Users of icelolly.com can compare millions of great deals on package holidays, cruises and UK breaks from the UK’s leading travel companies. All holidays advertised in the icelolly.com marketplace are ATOL protected.
Being able to compare deals from more than 30 different travel companies, who add their best offers daily, allows customers to save time researching their holiday and save money. Therefore, icelolly.com a firm favourite with British holidaymakers