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Advan Research

Mobile location and foot-traffic data provider estimating store visits and consumer behaviour for investors.

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Advan Research is an alternative data provider whose underlying data is anonymized mobile device location data, licensed from apps and location-data aggregators, used to estimate real-world foot traffic to specific stores, malls and points of interest. Investors use these foot-traffic trends as a proxy for same-store sales and consumer demand ahead of a retailer's earnings, and to compare traffic across competing chains and locations. Advan structures the raw location pings into visit counts, dwell time and cross-visitation patterns (which other brands the same visitors go to), delivered through data feeds and a research platform under institutional licensing. It sits alongside RS Metrics (satellite-based) and Second Measure (card-panel-based) as a different underlying-data approach to estimating the same kind of consumer-activity signal.

At a glance

Vendor Advan Research
Pricing model Quote only
Free tier No
Deployment Cloud
Open source No
Best for Investors estimating retail foot traffic and same-store sales from mobile location data

Pricing

Custom institutional data licensing; not published on the website.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features

  • Anonymized mobile location foot-traffic data
  • Store and point-of-interest visit counts
  • Dwell-time analysis
  • Cross-visitation and brand loyalty patterns
  • Same-store sales proxy trends
  • Data feeds and research platform access
  • Competitor location comparison

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Head to head

Alternatives

RS Metrics Satellite and geospatial imagery data provider tracking physical assets like retail parking lots, mines and metal stockpiles. Bloomberg Second Measure Consumer credit and debit card transaction panel data for tracking company and sector-level spending trends. YipitData Alternative data provider selling web-scraped and transaction-panel data products for investment research on public and private companies.

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Terms to know

Predictive analytics Analytics that uses historical data and statistical models to estimate what is likely to happen next. Alternative data Non-traditional data sources, such as satellite imagery or card transactions, used to generate an investing edge. Same-store sales (comparable-store sales, comps) Revenue growth measured only at locations that were open throughout both the current and prior comparison periods.

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