Best Market Intelligence Software for The Trade Desk

Foursquare is the leading independent location intelligence platform, helping businesses unlock the power of location across marketing, analytics, and product development. With Foursquare Attribution, brands can measure how omnichannel campaigns drive real-world outcomes like store visits and sales across 550+ media partners. Foursquare Audience enables marketers to build high-intent, visitation-based segments, while Foursquare Proximity allows for real-time, privacy-first geofencing to reach consumers based on their current location—both available via self-serve or managed service. For analysts and geospatial teams, Foursquare Studio provides a powerful, browser-based platform to visualize and analyze large-scale spatial data. Developers can access the world’s most accurate and detailed POI database—over 100 million places across 200+ countries—through Foursquare Places and Foursquare Places API, enabling location search, tips, photos, and geotagging within apps. Foursquare Movement SDK powers real-time, location-aware experiences by capturing behavioral context to enrich apps, personalize content, and inform smarter decisions.

Affinity Solutions provides a platform for analyzing consumer purchase data to offer insights that help brands, media companies, retailers, banks, and financial institutions gain a comprehensive understanding of real consumer spending habits. This is accomplished by examining over 150 million opted-in credit and debit card accounts, which encompass more than 86 billion transactions and over $4 trillion in spending. Their advanced AI engine, known as Comet, processes raw transaction information, ensuring accuracy by filtering and normalizing data, while integrating various sources to create a cohesive view of consumers. Additionally, it prioritizes privacy through anonymization, enhances datasets with demographic and lifestyle information, categorizes purchases based on brand, channel, and location, and facilitates real-time activation and measurement of insights. The platform features several modules, including Consumer Purchase Insights, Consumer Purchase Lift, Consumer Purchase Audiences, and Card-Linked Engagement, empowering marketers to pinpoint market opportunities, construct prospect and buyer audiences, and connect media impressions to tangible purchase results. This comprehensive approach not only streamlines consumer understanding but also maximizes the effectiveness of marketing strategies.