About

Foursquare is a technology company that enriches consumer experiences and informs business decisions through a deep understanding of location intelligence.

Every month, more than 50 million people use the Foursquare City Guide app, Foursquare Swarm check-in app and websites to discover new places, explore the world and check in. Our community of explorers have left 91 million tips and checked in 12 billion times. Foursquare’s Places API powers location data for Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Twitter, Uber, Airbnb and 100,000 other developers. Foursquare’s business solutions also include Pinpoint, Attribution, Pilgrim SDK and Foursquare Analytics, which empower brands to understand and connect to targeted audiences as well as measure foot traffic and advertising success.

Foursquare has over 250 employees based in New York headquarters and offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, and Singapore. Foursquare is proud to be funded by Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, DFJ Growth, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners and more.

U.S. offices
New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles

International offices
London, Singapore

Capabilities
  • Desktop Display
    • Brand Integrations
      Yes No
    • Sponsored Posts
      Yes No
    • Native Ads
      Yes No
    • High-Impact (Takeovers, Billboards, Overlays, Sliders, Skins)
      Yes No
    • Rich Media (Expandable & Non-Expandable)
      Yes No
  • Mobile Display
    Platform Supported:
    • Android
    • iOS
    • Mobile Rich Media (Including Interstitials & Expandables)
      Yes No
    • Tablet Traffic
      Yes No
    • Native & Custom Mobile Executions
      Yes No
    • Requires SDK Integration
      Yes No
  • Native
  • Social
  • Desktop Display, Mobile Display, Native, Social
  • CPA, CPCV, CPM
  • Demand Side Platform, Mobile App Publisher, Other
  • Headline:
    1st Party Location Data
  • Self / Managed Service:
    Self-Service
  • Industries
    Education, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Sports, Technology, Travel & Leisure, Mobile App Installs
  • Key Differentiator
    Since our launch in 2009, we've created a deep and accurate map of the places people go. Today, advertisers, developers and analysts use us to reach audiences, engage users, and understand offline behavior. Now you too can link the digital world to the physical. Get the power of place with Foursquare Location Intelligence.
  • Targeting

    Recency, Frequency, New vs Lapsed, Conquesting, Loyalty, Chain Affinity, Category Affinity, Lifestyle

  • Data Partners
    LiveRamp
  • Ad Verification / Brand Safety / Measurement / Viewability Partners
    MOAT
  • Approved 3rd Party Ad Serving / Rich Media Vendors
    Sizmek - http://www.sizmek.com, DCM, Medialets
Site Traffic
  • 2300 Global Rank
  • 1672
    United States
  • 29 M Estimated Visits
Traffic Sources
  • Search
    85.61%
  • Direct
    10.06%
  • Social
    2.55%
  • Referrals
    1.60%
  • Mail
    0.14%
  • Display
    0.04%
Geography Breakdown
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Alexa Traffic Data
Global Rank 1,945
90
Japan Rank 2,341
311
Japan Page Views 18.6%
5.0%
Top Countries
Top Search Keywords
  • University of London
  • Colleges and Institutes
  • King's College London
Mobile App Data
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  • 10 M Downloads
  • 10 SDKs
  • 4.2 Avg. Rating
  • 0 Total reviews
  • App Url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joelapenna.foursquared
  • App Support: http://foursquare.com/devices/android
  • Genre: android_wear
  • Bundle ID: com.joelapenna.foursquared
  • App Size: 11.8 M
  • Version: 2017080422
  • Release Date: November 20th, 2012
  • Update Date: November 18th, 2020

Description:

Foursquare City Guide will lead you to the perfect spot -- anywhere in the world. Get helpful, positive tips from our trusted global community and keep track of where you you've been and where you want to go, all in one place.

Looking to check in or become Mayor of your local coffee shop? Download our sister app, Foursquare Swarm.

With Foursquare City Guide you can:
-Join a community of people just like you who love to explore and seek out hidden gems.
-Read short tips written by real people all over the world. (No negative rants or businesses paying for positive reviews.)
-Make lists for any occasion! Keep a running to-do of neighborhood hot spots, or places you want to try while traveling.
-Add tastes, rate places, and lifelog where you’ve been to get hyper-personalized recommendations.
-Follow friends, brands, and influencers and uncover the best experience possible with millions of tips about off-the-menu items, speakeasy entrances, wifi passwords, and much more.
-Keep a history of the places you’ve been. Never forget a memory, photo, or the name of that incredible pizza place you went to while visiting Rome.
-Find exactly what you’re looking for. Faster.

A note on battery:
We've spent years developing the location technology that powers Foursquare City Guide, making it extremely power efficient. But, as with all apps of this type, please note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

By using Foursquare you agree to the Terms of Service (http://foursquare.com/legal/terms), Privacy Policy (http://foursquare.com/legal/privacy) and Cookie Policy (http://foursquare.com/legal/cookiepolicy).

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Firebase
Firebase is a platform developed by Google for creating mobile and web applications
Google Sign-In SDK
Google Sign-In is a secure authentication system that reduces the burden of login for your users, by enabling them to sign in with their Google Account—the same account they already use with Gmail, Play, Google+, and other Google services. Google Sign-In is also your gateway to connecting with Google’s users and services in a secure manner. You can give your users the opportunity to pay with Google Pay, share with their Google-wide contacts, save a file to Drive, add an event to Calendar, and more. Integrate Google’s user-centric APIs and services inside your app to help your users take action and convert.
Google Authorization
Google Play services offers a standard authorization flow for all Google APIs and all components of Google Play services. In addition, you can leverage the authorization portion of the Google Play services SDK to gain authorization to services that are not yet supported in the Google Play services platform by using the access token to manually make API requests or using a client library provided by the service provider.
Google Mobile Ads
Ad Manager uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK which helps app developers gain insights about their users and maximize ad revenue. To do so, the default integration of the Mobile Ads SDK collects information such as device information. iOS setup Android setup.
Google Play Location APIs
The location APIs make it easy for you to build location-aware applications, without needing to focus on the details of the underlying location technology. They also let you minimize power consumption by using all of the capabilities of the device hardware.
Google Play Game Services
Make your games social with Google Play game services. Add achievements, leaderboards, real-time multiplayer, and other popular features using the Google Play game services SDK. Let players sign in using their Google+ identities and share their gaming experience with friends. Visit developers.google.com/games/services for more information about integrating game services into your app.
Google Play Maps
Allow your users explore the world with rich maps provided by Google. Identify locations with custom markers, augment the map data with image overlays, embed one or more maps as fragments, and much more.
Android API
The Android platform provides a framework API that applications can use to interact with the underlying Android system. The framework API consists of: A core set of packages and classes. A set of permissions that applications can request, as well as permission enforcements included in the system
Google Play Services
Google Play services powers a broad set of SDKs on Android to help you build your app, enhance privacy and security, engage users, and grow your business. These SDKs are unique in that they only require a thin client library to be included in your app, as shown in figure 1. At runtime, the client library communicates with the bulk of the SDK's implementation and footprint in Google Play services.
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Ads.txt
Ad Exchange
Type
Publisher ID
Certification ID
indexexchange.com
reseller
183697
50b1c356f2c5c8fc
rubiconproject.com
reseller
15886
appnexus.com
reseller
1548
openx.com
reseller
537149552
google.com
direct
pub-5787354175090646
f08c47fec0942fa0
Foursquare advertising reaches 29M visitors across desktop and mobile web, in countries such as United States, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, United Kingdom. Pricing models they offer are CPA, CPCV, CPM on channels such as Display, Mobile, Native, Social Advertising on Foursquare will allow you to reach consumers in industries or verticals such as Food & Beverage, Sports, Mobile App Installs, Education, Entertainment, Technology, Travel & Leisure; you can target them with parameters such as: Recency, Frequency, New vs Lapsed, Conquesting, Loyalty, Chain Affinity, Category Affinity, Lifestyle.

They are headquartered at New York, NY, United States, and have 69 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava. According to their Ads.txt, Foursquare inventory partners include: indexexchange.com, rubiconproject.com, appnexus.com, openx.com, google.com.

Foursquare works with Advertising technology companies such as DoubleClick.Net, Turn, Drawbridge, RadiumOne, AppNexus, Google Publisher Tag, Beeswax, Rocket Fuel, Google Direct, OpenX Reseller, AppNexus Reseller, Ads.txt, RubiconProject Reseller, IndexExchange Reseller, LinkedIn Ads, Bizo, AdRoll, Google Remarketing, Twitter Ads, Facebook Custom Audiences, Google Adsense, Google Adsense Asynchronous, Clickagy.