• International Busyness Index: Identify Activity Hot Spots across the world

      International Busyness Index: Identify Activity Hot Spots across the world

      11th September 2023

      Geolytix Busyness Index can be calculated worldwide and makes it easy to spot busyness trends.

    • Geolytix Footfall Tracker: Retail Place Daily Visitor Numbers

      Geolytix Footfall Tracker: Retail Place Daily Visitor Numbers

      26th April 2023

      Looking to identify high street or shopping centre decline, retail regeneration or seasonal uplifts? Footfall Tracker gives you a robust answer.

    • The Power of Geolytix Footfall: Daily Footfall Counts for over 15,000 Retail Places

      The Power of Geolytix Footfall: Daily Footfall Counts for over 15,000 Retail Places

      19th April 2023

      Why do we love using Geolytix Footfall? Remove the guesswork from micro site selection and immediately identify the busiest locations are.

    • Mobility Data - Behind the Scenes

      Mobility Data - Behind the Scenes

      28th February 2023

      "Sometimes the hype around a source of data can become so incessant and insistent that we don’t even question what’s underlying the enticing outputs." We go behind the scenes of mobility data.

    • Interaction Surfaces Explained - where do all the pings go?

      Interaction Surfaces Explained - where do all the pings go?

      25th August 2021

      Our data scientists are often supported and encouraged to go beyond the original use case of data to provide meaningful insights and inputs to improve our mathematical models and answer our clients' questions.

    • Mobility Data – A tale of two IKEA's in Bucharest

      Mobility Data – A tale of two IKEA's in Bucharest

      18th August 2021

      Using mobility data, we look at the catchment areas around two major shopping parks in Bucharest - anchored by IKEA stores.

    • Groundhog Day

      Groundhog Day

      27th January 2021

      2021 and the UK woke up in another lockdown. We're interested to see how the retail industry is handling a second lockdown; our data already indicates some similarities with last lockdown. Will a preparedness for lockdown have any impact this time round?

    • Life After Lockdown

      Life After Lockdown

      9th December 2020

      Anecdotally, town and city centres have been busy since England Lockdown 2 ended last Wednesday. We’ve been busy processing up mobility data from Saturday to see what it tells us about the 18,000 Retail Places we monitor.

    • Did Somebody Say…It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…

      Did Somebody Say…It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…

      4th December 2020

      Wednesday marked the end of England’s four-week Lockdown II. Many retailers will now be looking to salvage what they can following a tumultuous year. The run-up to Christmas is always a condensed & critical period but in 2020 this is exacerbated. So, what can we expect during these next three weeks?

    • Harnessing Mobility Data in Thailand

      Harnessing Mobility Data in Thailand

      27th November 2020

      While Thailand has been successful at managing the Coronavirus pandemic the economic toll has been high with a sharp decline in international tourist arrivals and falling private investment leading to a forecasted -7.3% contraction of GDP in 2020.

    • Barnsley – the future looks bright for a town with real heart and soul

      Barnsley – the future looks bright for a town with real heart and soul

      19th November 2020

      Across the country, 2020 has been challenging in a way that none of us expected it to be. Every village, town and city across the country has its own story of how the year has unfolded, and the impacts of COVID-19 have been felt.

    • The Wales Firebreak

      The Wales Firebreak

      4th November 2020

      The Wales Firebreak that came into effect on 23rd October attracted a great deal of media attention last week, with photographs of cordoned off ‘non-essential’ aisles a regular feature. But has the Wales Firebreak worked in terms of reducing activity?

    • PRESS RELEASE: Geolytix Retail Recovery Index

      PRESS RELEASE: Geolytix Retail Recovery Index

      8th July 2020

      There seems to be a broad consensus on top-level recovery rates in the UK as lockdown eases. But every city, town, village, shopping centre, retail park and local parade has its own story.

    • Retail Recovery - Que Sera Sera?

      Retail Recovery - Que Sera Sera?

      29th June 2020

      We’re often asked what a good level of forecast accuracy looks like. The answer is always: it depends. Some things are hard to forecast. Really hard. Even harder than convenience store turnover. Like, will things ever return to normal?