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Connected Economy. B2B Payments. Gilt sold at a loss. And Tumblr, recently sold by Yahoo for less than 1 percent of what it originally paid, has become a cautionary tale. When Foursquare launched at SXSW in , it grew quickly thanks to a dedicated contingent of super-users eager to earn mostly meaningless badges and mayorships. In its first two years, millions of users download the app and cheerleaders predicted Foursquare was on track to be the next Facebook — a billion-dollar valuation was not out of the question.
Where could the company turn? Like many technology companies at the time, Foursquare was collecting vast tranches of data that many other companies — stores, brands, and consumer-technology companies — would pay for. By , Foursquare made the decision to focus on providing software tools and data to app developers, advertisers, and brands. Foursquare began charging developers for the use of its location technology in their own apps it has worked with more than , to date and selling its data to brands, marketers, advertisers, and data-hungry investors.
Soon, Foursquare began brandishing its power with public market predictions. It also used its data to show that foot traffic to Trump properties began declining after he announced his presidential campaign, and that traffic to Nike stores increased after the Colin Kaepernick ad. Co-founder and executive chairman Dennis Crowley says the human check-ins gave Foursquare engineers and data scientists the ability to verify and adjust location readings from other sources, like GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.
As it turns out, the goofy badges for Uncle Tony that made Foursquare easy to dismiss as a lates fad were an incredibly powerful tool.
The Foursquare database now includes million places and 14 billion check-ins. The Pilgrim technology , according to Foursquare, is more accurate than your average location tech because of its 10 years of check-in data.
The tech understands the difference between a fifth-story location and a ground-floor location. It knows the difference between the coffee shop and the bar next door in a densely packed city like New York. Because of this, Foursquare is able to give brands the ability to serve these hyper-contextual experiences in the right place at the right time.
Factual, for its part, also launched in as a repository for open data, but over time it has become increasingly focused on using its location data to improve advertising. The company offered brands the ability to track the success of their marketing campaigns, measuring whether a campaign actually got people to visit stores physically — so you can see why it might be a good fit with Foursquare.
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