Jeff Glueck details Foursquare's B2B enterprise reach and the major tech companies licensing its location intelligence technology.
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Glueck: Foursquare check-in volume is higher than two or four years ago
“We do more check-ins today than we did two years ago, or four years ago.”
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Glueck: Foursquare sees about 7M daily check-ins and nearly 12B cumulative
“It's about seven million check-ins a day, and we're approaching twelve billion cumulative check-ins.”
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Glueck: TouchTunes sales rose 80% to 90% after integrating Pilgrim SDK
“In a matter of weeks by implementing technology, they saw sales go up 80 to 90%, because when you walked in and stopped, you'd get a notification on your iPhone or Android, and it would say, hey, are you at Joe's Dive Bar?”
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Glueck: Foursquare lost zero developers when switching to paid APIs
“We started making calls, and we didn't lose a single developer or publisher”
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Glueck: Foursquare Pilgrim tracks visits across 105M global venues
“Because it then enables us passively, to your point, to recognize now when a phone in your pocket or in your purse walks in and out of a hundred and five million venues in almost every country in the world.”
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Glueck: Samsung phones call Foursquare APIs hundreds of millions of times yearly
“There are developers like Samsung phones that literally call us, you know, hundreds of millions of times a year.”