Gimbal has launched Trends, a new analytics tool that can track location and foot traffic to deliver comprehensive data of how people move in the physical world. The software will help marketers, business analysts, finance teams, municipal planners, and real estate developers make better business decisions.

The software aggregates visitation patterns of the top brands and retailers across nearly five million unique locations. The platform then identifies and highlights shifts in market share and consumer preferences within retail, grocery, finance, QSR, and other verticals in North America.

This is a new concept, according to Gimbal. Gathering location data has always been difficult, but 90% of all consumer activity takes place offline.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.