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Location Intelligence & Foot Traffic Data for Real World Decisions

Analyze any store, property, or market, from site selection to retail analytics to commercial real estate data.

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Location Intelligence for Your Industry

Leverage Placer’s foot traffic data and location analytics to unlock deep insights into locations, brands, and enterprises. Select your industry to learn more.

Retail

Retail analytics platform for store benchmarking, site selection, and brick-and-mortar growth

Commercial Real Estate

Commercial real estate data for leasing and acquisitions across retail, office, industrial, and multifamily properties

Civic

Drive economic success with insights into any city, district, or region

CPG

Understand your audience, reveal offline performance, and maximize reach

Entertainment

Analyze performance and drive visit growth with location analytics

Advertising

Captivate prospective clients with trusted data and win new business

Finance

Foot traffic alternative data to contextualize industry trends and make informed investment decisions

Restaurants

Develop site selection and growth strategies as a competitive advantage

Healthcare

Healthcare market analysis and site selection for providers

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You’re in Good Company

With accurate foot traffic data and actionable insights, we empower our customers to better understand the physical world and gain a competitive advantage.

Mary Beyer Lell
Principal, Head of Leasing
Crawford Square

Getting a retailer interested in and visiting a smaller market like Montgomery, AL isn’t easy, but with Placer’s True Trade Area and competitive tracking we were able to prove the strength of our center and execute on our initiatives to upgrade The Shoppes at Eastchase.

Mark A. Kufka
Assistant Vice President, Market Research and Leasing Technology
Peterson Companies

Silver Diner had such specific concerns for us to address that we would not have been successful without Placer’s insights. Placer helped us demonstrate that a new location would fill a trade area void and be a win-win for both of us, making them confident to open at National Harbor.

Darren Bovard
VP of Leasing
NewMark Merrill

If I can use Placer in its most simple form and sign leases with it, then that says a lot for the rest of the product, where I can utilize void analysis and more. But at its most simple form, if I can convince one little tenant to lease 1,500 feet, that’s a great thing.

Jerry Hoffman
Founder & Partner
Hoffman Strategy Group

As an economist, I spend a lot of time in various datasets, and I can tell you that Placer’s near real-time data is second to none.

Donovan Day
Community & Economic Development Director
Village of Fox Lake

After decades with no new development here in Fox Lake, Placer changed the game. We would not have won the development deals we did without its incredible data; it’s paid for itself thousands of times over.

Cristina Binkley
Tourism & Economic Initiatives Coordinator
City of Prescott

With Placer, we market events more efficiently than ever before, see clear ways to better serve our residents, and have helped our partners land multiple grants to help put on the Christmas City event. Placer has been a wonderful asset to the Office of Tourism and our community partners.

Kevin Crowder
Founder
BusinessFlare

There’s no guessing with Placer, just data, empowering them in situations where they would otherwise have no idea of potential impact to their cities or ways to mitigate it.

Cynthia Lee
CCIM, TACS, GRI National Executive Leader
KW Commercial

Without Placer we wouldn't be able to do what we're doing with the level of insights that we are now. It's absolutely incredible what we can do for our customers with Placer data as a guide.

JJ Perino
Founder & President
TwoTen

I tell my customers all the time: there is no better way for a retailer to make high quality, informed decisions at scale than with Placer.ai. There’s no tool, no GIS system that can tell you what Placer does; it’s true trade area gives us true apples to apples comparisons and helps us make decisions with confidence.

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Powerful Insights
Built on Reliable Foot Traffic Data

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+92% accuracy
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Powerful insights into places, markets, and consumer trends
Sales Estimation, Demographics, Business counts, Planned Development, Crime, Psychographics, Social Media /  online, Consumer Expenditures, Climate
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Seamless Business Integration
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Explore property, chain, and industry-level reports and create custom reports in our location intelligence platform
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Query PAPI, Placer’s robust API, to programmatically ingest our location data into your own tech stack
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Export Placer.ai’s proprietary foot traffic data automatically
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What teams want to know about Placer.ai

How Placer.ai’s location intelligence and foot traffic data support site selection, retail analytics, and commercial real estate decisions.

What is location intelligence?

Location intelligence is the analysis of where people go, when, and who they are, used to make decisions about physical places. Placer.ai is a location intelligence platform built on foot traffic data. It shows visits, trade areas, audiences, and rankings for virtually any US property, chain, industry category, or regional market.

What is foot traffic data, and where does Placer.ai’s come from?

Foot traffic data estimates how many people visit a location, when they visit, how long they stay, and where they come from. Placer.ai’s foot traffic data comes from a panel of tens of millions of mobile devices, sourced from vetted mobile app providers. Identifiers are removed, and the data is aggregated and extrapolated with machine learning to estimate visits. It refreshes daily. Details are on the Our Data page.

How do teams use Placer.ai for site selection?

Placer.ai’s site selection software ranks candidate sites by real visit volume, True Trade Area, and the demographics and psychographics of the people who already spend time nearby. Teams use trade area analysis to size cannibalization risk and void analysis to find the tenants or categories a location is missing.

How do retail and commercial real estate teams use Placer.ai?

Retailers use Placer.ai as a retail analytics platform to benchmark stores against competitors, understand shoppers, and track retail foot traffic without installing in-store counters. Commercial real estate owners, developers, and brokers use its commercial real estate data to support leasing, acquisitions, and due diligence. Restaurants, CPG brands, investors, health systems, and civic organizations also use Placer.ai.

Can Placer.ai show who visits a location?

Yes. Placer.ai shows the demographic and psychographic profile of a location’s visitors, including income, household makeup, and interests, along with the neighborhoods they come from. All data is aggregated, so teams see audiences, never individuals.

How is Placer.ai different from other location data providers?

Many location data providers sell raw mobility or POI data that teams must clean and model themselves. Placer.ai delivers finished foot traffic analytics, including visits, trade areas, audiences, and rankings, in a ready-to-use platform. Investors also use it as alternative data to track company and sector performance.

Can I bring Placer.ai data into my own tools?

Yes. Placer.ai data is available in the core platform, through the API for programmatic access, and as custom data feeds for delivery at scale. GIS teams can also work with Placer.ai data in Esri ArcGIS for geospatial analytics alongside their own map layers.

How can I get started with Placer.ai?

Request a demo to review the locations, chains, and markets that matter to you. Paid plans are customized subscriptions scoped to each organization, and every customer gets a dedicated Customer Success Manager at no extra fee. Free tools such as Chain Analysis, Industry Trends, and the Placer 100 are also available without a sales call.