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  • Air Canada’s enRoute magazine named world’s best in-flight by CNNgo

    enRoute, Air Canada's award-winning in-flight magazine, can put another feather in its proverbial cap: world's best in-flight. The good folk at CNNgo surveyed the world's best in-flight magazines and said ...MORE

  • A Big Day for Spafax

    Spafax Canada celebrated May Day in its own fashion by announcing the release of an enhanced IFE selection on Air Canada (read the press release here) by doubling the amount ...MORE

  • Facebook and Instagram: Nothing but a content play

    There has been much gnashing and jawing over Facebook's recent purchase of Instagram. On one side, you have the Instagram loyalists who feel a bit betrayed by the whole matter. ...MORE

  • The Fine Art of the Inflight Entertainment Guide

    At our London headquarters, Spafax publishes inflight entertainment (IFE) guides for numerous airline brands, and it’s always good to receive positive feedback following market research. Despite increasingly sophisticated onscreen menus ...MORE

  • 2012 is Shaping Up as the Year of Consolidation

    This isn't a new idea. But it's something that is floating around in so many different places that it's starting to feel true. In the content business, I've always told ...MORE

  • Brand Truths for 2012

    Brand managers (or guardians – that’s a much grander sounding word, no?) are busier than ever. And sometimes they’re confused. They should be. Brand guardians are having a tough time ...MORE

  • In Flight Refresh Takes Wing Aboard British Airways: Spafax captains new content for British Airways In-Flight Entertainment

    As the provider of content for British Airways (BA), scheduling, promotion, brand and packaging for their in-flight entertainment services, Spafax is responsible for updating and rolling-out new content as they ...MORE

  • Lessons Gleaned from the International Content Summit

    We in the content industry tend to go to a lot of conferences. And there are a lot of conferences about content. With the vast changes in technology, everyone in ...MORE

  • The Content Hub

    Last week, I spoke to the Custom Content Council at their pre-Pearl Awards gathering in New York. (For the record, Spafax won 5 Pearl Awards for our work for Air ...MORE

  • The DJ as Curator: Custom Compilations Take Off

    You're on a quick flight. An hour to decompress before the start of the day. So you decide to relax with some new music. But you don't want to start ...MORE

  • Winning Big And For A Reason

    Spafax print and digital media properties recently won 4 Eddie and 1 Ozzie at the recent Folio: Awards, held in New York City. And while awards in custom media are ...MORE

  • The Power of Print in the Digital Age

    Q&A with enRoute Editor in Chief Ilana Weitzman, about the recent relaunch of Air Canada’s enRoute magazine Q: What’s the backstory on the relaunch? IW: In October, Air Canada’s enRoute magazine relaunched ...MORE

  • A Dining Guide for the Busy Traveler: Presenting enRoute Eats

    Spafax is pleased to announce the release of our new enRoute Eats app. A dining guide to Canada’s best restaurants, high and low, this app leverages the fantastic content amassed ...MORE

  • Sparksheet Up for Eight Magazine Awards

    Sparksheet, Spafax’s award-winning media and marketing magazine, has been nominated for eight more international awards – seven Canadian Online Publishing Awards and one Eddie Award. Sparksheet is a finalist in ...MORE

  • Sparksheet@APEX: Making Connections

    When the Sparksheet team lands in Seattle next week to cover the 2011 APEX Expo, it will be a “back to our roots” moment for us. Sparksheet launched in June ...MORE

  • Our new office in Frankfurt – welcome to the Spafax network!

    We’ve recently established an office in Frankfurt to service our Lufthansa Group business (in partnership with Spafax London and Spafax Orange County) and we’re now fully staffed... For now! So a ...MORE

  • enRoute Hotel Design Awards

    Working for Air Canada’s enRoute magazine, I get to see a lot of hotels. During a recent trip to New York, a friend of mine pointed out the cute little ...MORE

  • Spafax EVP IFE Sue Pinfold Awarded APEX Lifetime Achievement Award

    We’re proud of our role as innovators in the world of inflight entertainment and the people behind that reputation. That’s why we’re really pleased to announce that Sue Pinfold, Executive ...MORE

  • Sparksheet Launches an iPad App

    Sparksheet, our multiplatform media and marketing magazine has jumped to yet another platform. Sparksheet’s award-winning content can now be consumed in the form of an iPad app! The app was designed ...MORE

  • Spafax California Welcomes New Director of Operations

    I am happy to announce the arrival of Karen Mahmalji, as our new Director of Operations here in Orange, California. Karen will oversee our growing operational and technical teams in ...MORE

  • Congratulations to the Skytrax Top 10 Airlines!

    Inflight entertainment doesn’t just keep customers entertained, it contributes considerably to overall satisfaction and builds loyalty. The following airlines – many of them Spafax clients – are recipients of Skytrax ...MORE

  • Travel and Content Marketing: Spafax Media at Center of Growing Trend

    Spafax got its start in the Inflight Entertainment business and one can argue that IFE is, in many ways, the precursor of custom content. Long before “custom publishing” and “content ...MORE

  • Spafax Media Awarded 19 Magnum Opus Awards.

    I’m pleased to announce that Spafax publications and media produced for clients LAN Airlines, Air Canada, Bombardier Business Aviation and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts were awarded a record 19 awards ...MORE

  • Sparksheet celebrates its second birthday with bold structural changes and a redesign

    Way back in 2009 Niall McBain and the Spafax Board identified the need for a blog. From that request, Sparksheet was born as the online magazine about marketing to the ...MORE

  • Spafax: Now arriving in FRA (Frankfurt, Germany)!

    Spafax announces the opening of a brand new office in Frankfurt to service Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines & Austrian Airlines We’re pleased to announce the addition of a new Spafax ...MORE

  • Spafax Senior Management Appointments

    Niall McBain, CEO of Spafax, announces strategic changes to the Spafax senior management team in London ANN WILLIS appointed Managing Director, Spafax Specialized Networks and Development Ann Willis has been appointed to ...MORE

  • Tune in to Magazines Canada’s new video series: Innovate & Integrate – featuring Spafax’s Brandon Kirk

    Spafax Director of Sales and Marketing Solutions Brandon Kirk shares his thoughts on helping brands connect with audiences on multiple platforms - and how magazines are becoming “mega-brands” in this new video ...MORE

  • Spafax Digital and Print Media receive 14 nominations from Canada’s National Magazine Awards

    Sparksheet, enroute.aircanada.com and enRoute magazine head up a list of 14 nominations garnered by Spafax media for this year’s National Magazine Awards, Canada’s Academy Awards of the magazine ...MORE

  • Spafax Interactive creates Pam Ann’s Layover Guides to New York, Sydney and London

    File this under “and now for something completely different!”. For over 25 years we’ve worked for the best airline brands in the world, from British Airways to Air Canada to Singapore ...MORE

  • The many talents of Spafaxians worldwide: Guillaume Briere’s fashion illustration

    Spafax Luxury Brands Division (Montreal) graphic designer Guillaume Briere may spend his days helping put together award-winning layouts on magazines such as Fairmont, Mercedes and Bombardier Experience - but he’s ...MORE

  • Spafax Viewpoint

    I remember the excitement when I was younger when I made the awesome discovery in the pool, that by launching off my brother's shoulders I could achieve Flight! For me becoming part ...MORE

  • Arjun Basu appointed Content Director at Spafax

    The worlds of media, publishing and communications have changed immeasurably in just a few short years. And the consumers of media have changed too with  mobile devices altering the way ...MORE

  • Spafax Chile Welcomes Celfin Capital to its Ranks of Blue Chip Advertisers

    Deborah Mogelberg, Directora de Ventas, Spafax Medios y Publicidad Ltda. (Spafax Chile) Last week I talked about how Chile’s growing economy is creating “national champion brands” who are setting their sights ...MORE

  • Spafax Brings CultureCritic Content to British Airways

    In our quest to create the very best entertainment experiences for our clients and their customers, our London entertainment team have recently struck a deal between British Arts and Entertainment ...MORE

  • Spafax People and Places 2

    Promotions and changes at the Spafax Orange (California) Operation I’d like to introduce some exciting changes to the Spafax leadership in our Orange, CA office.   Dominic Green has been promoted to Senior ...MORE

  • Spafax People and Places

    Home on the range? Introducing the Spafax DirecTV team. The kind of rapid growth we’ve seen at our operation in Chile has created a bit of a space problem at ...MORE

  • The first edition of Access Magazine is out!

    The first Spafax produced issue of DirecTV’s ACCESS magazine for South America is out and it’s already turning heads with a stunning cover featuring El Cisne Negro’s Mila ...MORE

  • Welcome to Chile

    Those who know me or follow me on twitter know that I’m a proponent of emerging markets in general and of Chile in particular. There’s an energy here that can ...MORE

  • Spafax Publication Win Six Awards at Folio Show

    IN magazine and digital media, and enRoute magazine won a total of 6 awards at the recently held Folio Awards in New York City. IN, produced by our Santiago office for ...MORE

  • Air Canada’s enRoute Online magazine is a finalist at the Min Online Best of the Web Awards

    What do enRoute.aircanada.com, Brides.com, Seventeen.com and Vogue.com have in common? They’re all finalists in Min Online’s Best of the Web Awards in the Best Relaunch: Consumer category. According to Spafax online ...MORE

  • Fashionably Great: a Q&A about winning the P&G Awards with Ilana Weitzman, enRoute editor-in-chief

    Two Spafax publications (Fairmont and enRoute) were nominated for P&G Awards and enRoute ended up doing quite well, winning two awards overall. The P&G Awards are normally dominated by fashion ...MORE

  • Happy Holidays from all of us at Spafax!

    We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all our friends, clients, partners, advertisers, readers and viewers Happy Holidays and a prosperous, peaceful new year. Check back in with us ...MORE

  • Aeromexico and Spafax Give Wings to Conductor Alondra de la Parra

    This December the Spafax-produced Aeromexico Clásica audio program will feature an exclusive interview with Alondra de la Parra, the young, modern classical superstar conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the ...MORE

  • Spafax Editorial Director Arjun Basu named President of Canada’s National Magazine Awards Foundation

    From guest lecturing at colleges and universities to volunteering on industry committees and boards, we believe it’s important to contribute to the development of a strong publishing industry in Canada ...MORE

  • Spafax to publish DirecTV’s ACCESS Magazine in 6 South American countries

    We’re proud to announce that we’ve been awarded the contract to publish ACCESS, DirecTV’s monthly entertainment magazine in Chile, Argentina, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Every month, we’ll be producing ...MORE

  • Spafax publications awarded top honours at the CCC’s Pearl Awards in New York City

    At a ceremony last night at The Water Club in New York attended by Spafax Publisher Lyne Farley, the Custom Content Council awarded 10 Pearl Awards for Excellence in Custom ...MORE

  • Spafax helps Royal Jordanian be the first to fly with Zodiac’s new AVOD platform

    We’re proud of our role in helping launch Royal Jordanian’s new SiT AVOD entertainment system from Zodiac Aerospace on their A340 aircraft operating to the United States. Our service included: creating ...MORE

  • Air Canada’s onAir wins Best Travel Feature at the Carribbean Tourism Media Awards

    onAir contributor Michele Peterson’s January 2009 article “On the French Caribbean Rum Trail” won the award for Best Travel Feature Article in English at the Carribbean Tourism Media Awards. ...MORE

  • Spafax publications finalists in the P&G Beauty and Grooming Awards

    Custom publications like Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts’ Fairmont Magazine aren’t just a good read – they’re also known for the excellence of their art direction, ...MORE

  • British Airways IFE Audio – Spoken Word

    Alongside an extensive music CD collection, British Airways also offer their passengers an impressive Spoken Word library as part of their Audio Inflight Entertainment. Spafax have exclusively secured bespoke BBC Radio ...MORE

  • Spafax Online Content for August

    So you think Spafax is all about movies on airplanes and award-winning custom publications? Well, we are – but our important portfolio of digital media products is growing by leaps ...MORE

  • Trying to find a restaurant in Canada?

    Look no further than Penfold’s Dining Guide app, brought to you by enRoute magazine. In partnership with Penfolds Wines of Australia, enRoute has extended the popular cross-Canada Dining Guide franchise into ...MORE

  • The Death of the Content Service Provider?

    Spafax’s Al St. Germain was a featured speaker and session moderator at the 2010 Chinese Inflight Entertainment and Connectivity conference in Shanghai last month.  The conference was co-hosted by the ...MORE

  • Spafax Gives Royal Jordanian New (Royal) Wings!

    Our UK publishing team has re-launched Royal Wings, the inflight magazine for Royal Jordanian Airlines. The refreshed design approach is clean and sophisticated, while the revitalised editorial covers travel, lifestyle and ...MORE

  • Spafax publications win 11 Magnum Opus Awards

    Our publishing teams in Santiago, Chile, and Montreal, Canada have won 11 Magnum Opus Awards for the editorial and design excellence of enRoute magazine and IN magazine. We’re especially excited about ...MORE

  • Spafax digital content and web design

    Every month Spafax editors and designers produce reams of award-winning digital content – from stories to sites. Here’s a sampling of our most recent output. For Air Canada: enRoute (English) enRoute (français) OnAir newsletter Communiqué ...MORE

  • The Spafax Fleet: delivering end-to-end entertainment to an airport near you

    Not only does Spafax produce award-winning inflight entertainment content across print, video and digital platforms – we deliver it too! Our new digital IFE content provisioning and loading service for Air ...MORE

  • enRoute wins for Cover Photography at the Applied Arts Awards 2010

    Now here's something to crow about: enRoute's January 2010 cover, featuring a live rooster (yes, he's real), won the coveted award for Cover Photography at the recent Applied Arts Awards ...MORE

  • A New Magazine for the International Oenophile Launches on LAN Airlines

    Paula Fontaine and our Santiago publishing team have outdone themselves with in-Wines, the only magazine about the South American “wine lifestyle”. It’s distributed exclusively in Premium Business Class aboard LAN ...MORE

  • enRoute Magazine in Canada’s Top 10

    Masthead magazine,  Canada’s industry journal for all things magazine-related, recently released its annual Top 50 Magazines report in which Air Canada’s enRoute held its 8th place ranking among English language ...MORE

  • Welcome to the Spafax Stories

    It’s high time we launched a Spafax blog. Well, a second blog, actually. We’ve already got Sparksheet – good ideas about content, media and marketing. In less than a year, it’s ...MORE

  • South America’s LAN Airlines Launches in-Wines Magazine

    Building on the success of in magazine and its onboard media offerings, LAN Airlines has launched a publication all about wine and the wine lifestyle. The first edition of in-Wines includes ...MORE

  • Air Canada’s enRoute online relaunches

    enRoute online, the website for Air Canada’s inflight publication, is excited to announce a newly updated and redesigned website. Along with the new look enRoute online unveils several editorial changes, ...MORE

  • Spafax Creates New Unit for Luxury Brands

    Katrin Kopvillem, Managing Director and Publisher, is delighted to announce the creation of a new unit within Spafax as well as a new Editor to lead it. The newly formed ...MORE

  • Virgin America’s Innovative In-Flight Radio Options

    via Radio Survivor: Often music is thrust upon us in public places, from elevators, to telephone hold music, to restaurants. Sometimes it’s amazing and notable, but when it’s bad, it can ...MORE

  • Spafax Publications Win 4 Awards at North American Travel Journalists Association Awards

    Spafax publications won 4 awards at the recent NATJA awards. One of the world’s leading providers of custom media, Spafax has long distinguished itself for the quality of its publications. Photographer ...MORE

  • enRoute Magazine Announces New Hires

    enRoute announces two new additions to their staff. Nathalie Cusson has joined as Art Director of enRoute magazine. She is the former Art Director at Glow magazine. Prior to joining ...MORE

  • Spafax enters eBook fray with The Best of Sparksheet

    Sparksheet is coming to an iPad or Kindle near you. The international media and marketing blog, published by custom-content company Spafax, has launched its first eBook, The Best of Sparksheet. ...MORE

  • enRoute Announces Increase in Readership Numbers

    enRoute Air Canada’s award-winning inflight publication, recently announced readership numbers for 2008. Published by Spafax Canada, one of the world’s largest providers of custom media and inflight entertainment, enRoute (enroute.aircanada.com) ...MORE

  • Spafax Publications Win 14 Awards at 2008 North American Travel Journalists Association Awards

    Spafax publications won an astounding 14 awards at the recent NATJA awards. One of the world’s leading providers of custom media, Spafax has long distinguished itself for the quality of ...MORE

  • The Movie Network and Movie Central Partner with Air Canada to Preview New Original Series

    Canadian original series ZOS: Zone of Separation, co-executive produced by Paul Gross, to debut on Air Canada flights (December 10, 2008 – Toronto, Canada) – Astral Media’s The Movie Network (eastern ...MORE

  • Spafax Canada mines 9 Pearl Awards at ceremony in New York City

    On November 17, Spafax Canada publications won an unprecedented nine Pearl Awards honouring excellence in custom publishing in North America. Awarded every year by the Custom Publishing Council (CPC), the ...MORE

  • Youmna Tannous has Joined Spafax as IFE Manager

    Youmna Tannous has joined Spafax as IFE Manager, Dubai.  Youmna’s career has encompassed various aspects of inflight entertainment over the last 5 years, and she has also worked in front ...MORE

  • Spafax Lands Long-term IFE Contract with Royal Jordanian

    Spafax has been awarded a new long-term contract with Royal Jordanian Airlines to provide all Western IFE content. Previously servicing the airline with video content, media sales and the publishing ...MORE

  • End of Year 2006

    2006 was a golden year for Spafax. Its publications and products won 38 major international awards for editorial, artistic and IFE excellence. Awards were won by Air Canada’s in-flight publication ...MORE

  • Spafax Airline Network Awarded Publishing Contract for Thomas Cook

    Thomas Cook and Spafax have entered into a broad partnership to publish Air, Thomas Cook’s inflight magazine. The magazine will be re-launched from April 2006 with a complete re-design and ...MORE

  • Qantas appoints Spafax for Feature Film Programming Services

    Qantas has appointed Spafax to provide IFE Feature Film Programming Acquisition Support Services following a competitive bid. Spafax will provide support services for movie programming including recommendations, negotiation and operational ...MORE

  • Spafax Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary at WAEA

    Spafax said thank you to all its clients, friends, staff and colleagues in the industry at the WAEA this year. The Side Hotel in Hamburg was the venue for the ...MORE

  • Spafax Awarded Qatar Airways Programming Contract

    Qatar Airways has appointed inflight entertainment specialist Spafax to supply all of its on-board video content. Spafax will provide a service which includes programming, strategy, movie and TV acquisition, scheduling ...MORE

  • Spafax Airline Network Awarded Movie and Television Programming Services for Qatar Airways

    Qatar Airways has appointed Spafax to supply and schedule its on-board movie and television content, starting in January 2005.  Spafax will provide a turnkey service which includes acquisition, scheduling, production ...MORE

  • LAN’s Magazine Honored in New York

    LAN’s in-flight magazine, in, recently won a Gold medal at the 2004 Ozzie Awards, known as the Oscars of the magazine design industry. The 2004 Ozzie Awards ceremony was recently held ...MORE

  • Spafax Awarded China Airlines Movies

    China Airlines has re-appointed Spafax to supply all its movies following a competitive bid. Spafax will provide a full programming service for movies including strategy, scheduling and operational fulfilment across ...MORE

  • Spafax Airline Network Awarded Television Programming Services for Singapore Airlines

    Singapore Airlines has appointed Spafax to supply and schedule its on-board television content, starting in January 2005.  Spafax has a long history of serving Singapore Airlines in the areas of ...MORE

  • ABC Announces Exclusive Deal to Provide News Programming for Delta Airlines

    ABC News today announced an agreement with Delta Air Lines to provide news programming for Delta Air Lines’ millions of domestic and international passengers.  Spafax Inflight Entertainment negotiated the agreement ...MORE

  • Spafax and LAN Embark on New Inflight Entertainment

    Spafax is proud to announce its new media partnership with Lan, South America’s fastest growing and most dynamic airline. This multi-year agreement is based on Spafax’s branded “Total Media” service ...MORE

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