NaviSavi Travel

NaviSavi operates a travel video platform that collects short-form video from travellers, creators, hotels and destinations and converts it into structured, commercially usable media. Each clip is enriched with metadata covering destination, atmosphere, experience type and commercial-use status, and usage rights, approvals and licensing states are recorded so that travel brands can deploy content with cleared permissions. The resulting library is delivered into customer websites, booking journeys, marketing campaigns, mobile apps and APIs.

The company runs a two-sided ecosystem across separate properties: a business platform (navisavitravel.com) where travel companies search pre-cleared clips, request API access, brief creator campaigns or use the MOATS capture flow to build a proprietary content library, and a consumer product (navi-savi.com) where travellers upload videos, discover destinations, earn rewards and find bookable experiences. The consumer app originated as a short-form video app for travel featuring unedited, verified clips of experiences that users recommend, with creators able to earn money from content they upload.

Four product use cases are marketed: a searchable licensing library for marketing and social teams, video placement at booking and comparison moments for e-commerce teams, the MOATS guest-and-visitor capture flow for hotels, tours and destinations, and API-based distribution for platforms, apps, maps and AI tools.

Founding story

Founder Sally Bunnell grew up in Oxford, Nebraska, moved to New York City for a David Letterman internship during college, and later travelled to 119 countries while living in New York, Denmark and London. After her job became fully remote she became a digital nomad, decided in 2019 to pursue a travel business, and in 2020 returned to Oxford as her base of operations, where she launched NaviSavi as sole founder. She announced the launch at the 2021 College World Series in Omaha.

Business model

NaviSavi aggregates traveller, creator, hotel and destination video, structures it with metadata and rights clearance, and makes it available to travel companies for licensing, embedding in booking flows and campaigns, and integration via API. A consumer-facing side of the platform sources content from travellers and creators, who are offered the ability to monetize the video they upload.

The platform is positioned around licensing of ready-to-use, rights-cleared travel clips, enterprise deployment of video into websites and booking journeys, creator campaign briefs, the MOATS content-capture offering, and API access for platforms and products.

Traction

The platform reports more than 250,000 authentic travel videos covering 180+ destinations/countries, over 5,500 creators, and more than 2,000 new video uploads per week. In 2022 Meta approached the company to use NaviSavi video content on Facebook Reels as it launched the product. NaviSavi won a Touristech Startup grant at the 2024 Tourism Innovation Global Summit in Seville, Spain, and cites recognition from the World Aviation Festival and Travel Massive.

Latest developments

As of 2025 the company presents a restructured, enterprise-oriented offering split between a business platform for travel companies and a consumer app for travellers, emphasizing rights-cleared licensing, the MOATS capture flow and API distribution, and reports commercial conversations across airlines, hospitality, travel distribution and agentic commerce.