News

Press releases, product announcements, and company updates from Advan Research.

Press Releases

February 25, 2025

Advan Research Corporation Appoints Thomas Paulson as Head of Market Insights

November 14, 2024

Advan Acquires Real Estate Intelligence

February 14, 2023

Advan Research Corporation Promotes Grigorios Reppas to Chief Executive Officer; Yiannis Tsiounis to Become Executive Chairman

November 3, 2022

Advan Acquires SafeGraph’s Patterns Business, Expanding Leadership in Location Intelligence and Foot Traffic Analytics

October 28, 2021

Advan Launches REPerspectives Portal for a Comprehensive View of US Mobility Trends

Advan Upgrades its “REveal” Platform as demand for Real Estate Geolocation-Sourced Visitation Data surges

February 25, 2021

Advan Research announces CMBS (Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities) foot traffic data

January 19, 2021

Advan Research Enhances Stores and Company Coverage

September 21, 2020

Advan Wins Best Alternative Data Provider at Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards 2020

Advan Research Enhances Foot Traffic Coverage and Analytics

Advan Adds Demographic Data to its Geolocation Platform for Advanced Insights into Migration Patterns

Advan Research Launches Interactive Map of Global Foot-Traffic Hot Spots

February 19, 2020

Advan Simplifies Foot Traffic Comparison Between Properties with New Point-and-Click Functionality on REveal

December 10, 2019

Advan adds 150 million locations, cross-traffic and demographics to REveal, its Self-Service Real Estate platform

October 15, 2019

Advan announces REveal, a Real Estate Traffic and True Trade Area visualizer

Advan Research foot traffic covers 2,000 tickers of which 1,365 publicly traded

Advan Research releases Truck dataset, monitoring 50% of all trucks in the US

November 5, 2018

Advan Research and Consumer Edge combine foot traffic and transaction data

October 22, 2018

Advan Research releases Weather dataset with 20 years coverage over 1,700 companies

Advan Research releases AlphaLoc: AI-powered revenue forecasts with 98% accuracy

Advan Research adds Dwell Times, Employee counts for 1,390 tickers

December 6, 2017

Advan Research covers 1,261 tickers

September 20, 2017

Advan Research appoints Grigorios Reppas as its Chief Operating Officer

In the Press

The Food Institute

Restaurant Visitation: Are Higher Gas Prices Having a Meaningful Impact? Not Really

Commuter loss and retention in US employment centers during COVID-19 and its aftermath

Bartosz Bonczak, Shlomo Angel & Constantine E. Kontokosta

Trade Wars Have Kept Canadian Tourists Away and Cost Americans Jobs

André Kurmann, Etienne Lalé and Julien Martin

Economists warned California not to raise the minimum wage to $20. They were wrong in almost every way so far, another economist says

Sasha Rogelberg

Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs

The Wall Street Journal

From L.L. Bean to JFK Jr.: Brands Are Milking a Catalog Model’s Hit Role

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

THE IMPACT OF CELLPHONE BANS IN SCHOOLS ON STUDENT OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM FLORIDA

David N. Figlio, Umut Özek

Fincancial Times

September 28, 2025

The rise of drive-through US coffee chains with a need for speed

By Gregory Meyer

August 25, 2025

Time Profile of U.S. Neighborhoods: Datasets of Time Use at Social Infrastructure

By Yan Wang & Ziyi Guo

TWIN CITIES BUSINESS

August 11, 2025

Off the Mark: What’s Gone Wrong With Target?

By Erik Tormoen

Financial Times

Starbucks takes aim at Chinese rival Luckin in Manhattan coffee showdown

By Gregory Meyer

Immigration Raids Empty LA Shopping Districts, Cut Into Crucial Cash Flow

By Bianca Barragán

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Substitutes or complements? The effect of opening a food store on customer visits to neighborhood food stores

By Modhurima Dey Amin...

Incorporating Trip-Chaining to Measuring Canadians’ Access to Cash

Heng Chen, Hong Yu Xiao

Taylor & Francis Online

How After-Hours Population Composition Affects Crime: Analyzing Resident-Visitor Ratios in Urban Neighborhoods Throughout the Day

By Stan Korotchenko...

Integrating human mobility and animal movement data reveals complex space-use between humans and white-tailed deer in urban environments

By Szandra A. Péter...

Double Dose Of Tax Increases Hits Upper Darby Amid Vacancy Rise, Footfall Drop And Search For Answers

February 3, 2025

A Pittsburgh Macy’s Redevelopment Could Offer A Road Map For The Wanamaker And Market East

Solar eclipse chasers scattered across the US map. This town in Kentucky hosted the most

By Jim Sergent...

GEOSPATIAL WORLD

Evolving Supply Chain Management in Retail

by Sarah Hisham

August 25, 2022

More Traffic At Dallas Office Buildings Could Be A Thread In The Silver Lining Of A Recession

By Olivia Lueckemeyer

San Francisco Lags U.S. In RTO, Pins Hopes On Tech To Fill Looming Vacancy

By Joseph Gordon

December 20, 2021

Happy Holidays Are In-Store for Retailers

By Aaron Cheris

October 25, 2021

With Downtown Office Workers Still Remote, Retailers Surviving But Not Thriving

By Bianca Barragan

August 23, 2021

Restaurant Migration Creates Dire Shortage Of Eatery-Ready South Florida Space

By Deirdra Funcheon

Was The Great Pandemic Migration To Miami Overhyped?

By Deirdra Funcheon

Office Workers Are Coming Back To Downtown Houston, Boosting Other Sectors

By Christie Moffat

Foot traffic data and what it tells us about the retail recovery

Fed’s Bond Purchases Won’t Save all Mall CMBS from Defaulting

The Wall Street Journal

February 14, 2021

Lower-Income Covid-19 Aid Recipients Seen Boosting Consumer Spending

By Harriet Torry

January 25, 2021

Ten Resolutions to Ring in the Future of Retail

By Aaron Cheris...

The Advan Research Episode

November 24, 2020

The Alternative Data Podcast

By Mark Fleming-Williams

November 18, 2020

Amazon Primes for Another Happy Holiday and Prosperous New Year

By Darrell Rigby...

November 5, 2020

Datos Insights 2026 Top Trends for Financial Services & Insurance

By David O'Connell

October 14, 2020

The Alternative Data Podcast with Mark Flemming

By Darrell Rigby, Aaron Cheris, Suzanne Tager, Michelle Paratore, and Stephanie Koszyk

Waters Technology

September 21, 2020

IMD & IRD Awards 2020: Best Alternative Data Provider—Advan Research Corporation

By Helen Allingham

Grand View Research, Inc.

September 15, 2020

Alternative Data Market Worth 17.35 billion by 2027

Greenwich Associates

FISD Alternative Data Council: A Guide to Alternative Data

By Brad Tingley

Waters Technology

Advan Research Adds GPS-Based Business Closure, Road Traffic Data

GARP Risk Intelligence

COVID-19 and the New Surge in Alternative Data

By Katherine Heires

How alternative data spread through finance

Retail Stores Create The New Normal As Businesses Begin To Open Up

By Shelley Kohan

Wall Street Journal

Airport Shops Suffer ‘Crisis’ as Coronavirus Upends Travel

January 29, 2020

Coronavirus will hit airport retailers, GlobalData says

By Tonya Garcia

January 29, 2020

Technology is Helping the Finance Industry Understand Real Estate

By Saidat Giwa-Osagie