Lighthouse Location Intelligence Map for UAE, KSA and QT
Become an Expert on Any Location
Lighthouse
A retail location intelligence platform. The first of its kind available in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Why use it?
Become an expert in any location
Unlock Prime Locations
Secure prime locations by leveraging data on total footfall and customer profiles to target the right locations.
Forecast Local Performance
Accurately forecast store performance by evaluating the health and growth potential of retail centres to avoid long-term risks.
Profile Markets
Identify high-potential locations by understanding where customers originate and their demographic profiles.
ME Sports Retail Case Study
A leading global sportswear and apparel company with a vast retail network across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa needed to optimise its retail strategy using Huq data.



A Multi-Tool for Retail Success
1Tn
The largest data set in the EU & ME, with over 1 Trillion data points on human movement, profiles and spending.
31M
Give you a detailed knowledge of human interaction points across world.
Footfall Analysis
Understand traffic patterns to identify high-growth opportunities.
Sales Correlation
Combine footfall insights with sales data to forecast revenues.
Customer Profiling
Access detailed demographics to align your product offerings.
Competitor Analysis
Pinpoint customer movement to uncover whitespace.
Unrivalled Coverage
Available in 3 Continents
Lighthouse ensures consistent data processing internationally for true like-for-like evaluation.



Best In Class EU Data
Huq provides standardised insights across key European markets.



In-Depth Insights in KSA & UAE
The most comprehensive location-based intelligence in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.



Robust USA Coverage
Huq offers extensive data insights across the United States.



Footfall Data
Delivers accurate measurements of real-world visitor trends, helping businesses understand movement patterns, site performance, and customer behaviour.
Spend Data
Provides detailed insights into consumer spending, enabling analysis of purchasing trends, market share, and economic activity across regions.
POI Data
Precise geolocation and contextual information about key places of interest, crucial for site selection, competitor benchmarking, and area profiling.
Make location intelligence your competitive advantage
Huq's easy-to-use platform is trusted by over 300 industry leaders, including the worlds largest retailers, real estate firms, consultancies, banks and government organisations.
Huq collects, processes and delivers actionable consumer location insights, enabling you to:
- Reveal any location's true performance, worldwide
- Optimise your existing locations
- Empower your expansion strategy
- Benchmark against anything, anywhere
Uncover the secrets of your visitor behaviour now.
Optimise your Existing Retail Network
— Make location your competitive advantage.
Track Store Performance
Track your store performance in real-time and benchmark it against market trends to identify growth opportunities.
Acquisitions & Exits
Inform asset exit & acquisition strategies by relying on insights that evaluate market demand, growth potential, and long-term profitability.
Get the Data You Need
Use detailed data to fine-tune tenant placement strategies and strengthen your position in lease negotiations.
Optimise Store Operations
Streamline operations, optimise staffing schedules, and align opening hours with peak footfall patterns.
"The data helps forecast demand and create more robust planning.”
Reuben Ayley
Head of Food Service Finance (International)
"Very pleased we have switched to Huq Industries for our footfall reporting.”
Lucilla Bathurst
BID Manager, Ripon BID
"Huq helps us to make smarter evidence-led decisions.”
Lesley Crisp
Principal Economic Development Officer, Hertsmere Borough Council
"Through our work we have established that Huq's UK mobility data set provides a robust accurate means to understand real world behaviours across the UK and their spatial economic impact.”
John Gathergood
Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham, Leader of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative (3DI)
"With Huq, I have access to mobility data every day of the year.”
Alberto Poltz Faggiani
Transport and Infrastructure Analyst, WSP
Lighthouse
New Platform
Lighthouse
An all in one tool kit for retail site selection, optimisation and benchmarking.
Why use it?
Become an expert in any location
Unlock Prime Locations
Secure prime locations by leveraging data on total footfall and customer profiles to target the right locations.
Forecast Local Performance
Accurately forecast store performance by evaluating the health and growth potential of retail centres to avoid long-term risks.
Profile Markets
Identify high-potential locations by understanding where customers originate and their demographic profiles.
JD Sports Case Study
JD Group (JD) uses Catchment Areas to better assess new store locations in international markets.


A Multi-Tool for Retail Success
1Tn
The largest data set in the EU & ME, with over 1 Trillion data points on human movement, profiles and spending.
31M
Give you a detailed knowledge of human interaction points across world.
Footfall Analysis
Understand traffic patterns to identify high-growth opportunities.
Sales Correlation
Combine footfall insights with sales data to forecast revenues.
Customer Profiling
Access detailed demographics to align your product offerings.
Competitor Analysis
Pinpoint customer movement to uncover whitespace.
Unrivalled Coverage
Available in 3 Continents
Lighthouse ensures consistent data processing internationally for true like-for-like evaluation.



Best In Class EU Data
Huq provides standardised insights across key European markets.



In-Depth Insights in KSA & UAE
The most comprehensive location-based intelligence in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.



Robust USA Coverage
Huq offers extensive data insights across the United States.



Footfall Data
Delivers accurate measurements of real-world visitor trends, helping businesses understand movement patterns, site performance, and customer behaviour.
Spend Data
Provides detailed insights into consumer spending, enabling analysis of purchasing trends, market share, and economic activity across regions.
POI Data
Precise geolocation and contextual information about key places of interest, crucial for site selection, competitor benchmarking, and area profiling.
Make location intelligence your competitive advantage
Huq's easy-to-use platform is trusted by over 300 industry leaders, including the worlds largest retailers, real estate firms, consultancies, banks and government organisations.
Huq collects, processes and delivers actionable consumer location insights, enabling you to:
- Reveal any location's true performance, worldwide
- Optimise your existing locations
- Empower your expansion strategy
- Benchmark against anything, anywhere
Uncover the secrets of your visitor behaviour now.
Optimise your Existing Retail Network
— Make location your competitive advantage.
Track Store Performance
Track your store performance in real-time and benchmark it against market trends to identify growth opportunities.
Acquisitions & Exits
Inform asset exit & acquisition strategies by relying on insights that evaluate market demand, growth potential, and long-term profitability.
Get the Data You Need
Use detailed data to fine-tune tenant placement strategies and strengthen your position in lease negotiations.
Optimise Store Operations
Streamline operations, optimise staffing schedules, and align opening hours with peak footfall patterns.
"The data helps forecast demand and create more robust planning.”
Reuben Ayley
Head of Food Service Finance (International)
"Very pleased we have switched to Huq Industries for our footfall reporting.”
Lucilla Bathurst
BID Manager, Ripon BID
"Huq helps us to make smarter evidence-led decisions.”
Lesley Crisp
Principal Economic Development Officer, Hertsmere Borough Council
"Through our work we have established that Huq's UK mobility data set provides a robust accurate means to understand real world behaviours across the UK and their spatial economic impact.”
John Gathergood
Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham, Leader of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative (3DI)
"With Huq, I have access to mobility data every day of the year.”
Alberto Poltz Faggiani
Transport and Infrastructure Analyst, WSP
Germany Retail Landing Page
Explore the changing patterns of consumer footfall behaviour with retail insights
Unlock the power of market insights with location data
Location Analytics Solutions & Consultancy
A snapshot into any location
Having a finger on the pulse of the consumer is critical. Knowing where consumers are going and how they are spending can give you the retail data insights you need to make effective decisions ahead of the market.
Huq’s retail analytics solutions offer:
- Unmatched Data across global markets.
- Speed-to-Insights to ensure your strategies are led by the latest data.
- High-Value Reporting with pricing available for single assets through to national markets and global coverage.







Leverage Location Insights in One Platform
Our comprehensive reports offer 7 unique location insights to enable government, retail, real estate, and finance sectors to make better decisions.
Footfall
See average visitor foot traffic for new and existing locations.
Granular Catchment
Discover where your visitors are travelling from.
Consumer Purchasing Power
Understand consumer purchasing power across target locations to align your brand to the right visitor profiles.







Spend Data
Compare the relative spend and footfall for any retail location.
Dwell Time
Find out how long visitors stay in a specific location.
Density
Discover footfall hotspots and prime pitches with density heat maps and see where your customers are and where you should be.
3400
Stores
38
Countries
$12.5Bn
Annual sales
Huq’s catchment insights allows JD to more accurately assess the impact of the wider retail catchment on the sales potential of new store opportunities
Alastair Browne, JD Group Head of Site Research & Strategic Insight










What are the benefits of location analysis?
Mitigate Risk
Gauge the economic health of a location by analysing consumer footfall trends over time to determine potential fluctuations in property value.
Investment Decisions
Review footfall and commercial activity in potential locations to understand the viability and potential revenue in retail and commercial spaces.
Retail Acquisition
Acquire retail businesses with the highest growth potential by leveraging consumer footfall and spend trends to ensure you only invest in high-growth locations.
New Market Entry
Expand your retail portfolio with confidence using geo-spend and footfall data to pinpoint high-potential locations and understand local market dynamics.
Optimising Tenant Mix
Optimise your tenant mix and attract the right brands by mapping consumer demographics and purchasing power with visitation data.
Granular location data in real-time
Measure and track leading indicators linked to footfall and spend across assets and national markets
FAQs
Footfall data tracks the number of people entering and moving through specific locations, such as a retail store or shopping centre. This data helps retailers understand customer traffic patterns, identify peak shopping times and assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or store locations. Footfall data is crucial for optimising staffing, enhancing customer experiences and improving store performance.
Location analytics is the process of analysing footfall data to identify trends and gain actionable insight. It involves reviewing rental and demographic data, to better understand consumer behaviour, improve operational efficiency and drive growth. Location analytics enables businesses to make data-driven decisions.
Huq collects and processes data solely for research purposes. Within its data asset, individual identities remain anonymised, safeguarding against the inclusion of any personally identifiable information. The acquisition of data from first-party partners operates on an ‘opt-in’ basis, ensuring that each user explicitly consents to the capture and sharing of their location data through the apps they utilise for data collation.
There are many use cases for conducting location analysis:
- Understand visitor profiles to ensure the right tenant mix for target customers.
- Benchmark performance of your assets against location to ensure maximum revenue.
- Optimise your site selection strategy to find location hotspots with the right footfall for your portfolio.
- Optimise your estate to ensure your assets are in the right locations as consumer behaviour shifts over time.
- Optimise opening hours and staffing rotas with time-of-day footfall splits to see when your customers are most active.
You can use retail insights to optimise your retail portfolio by identifying underperforming stores, understanding customer preferences and pinpointing high-potential markets. By analysing sales data, foot traffic and demographic insights, retailers can make informed decisions with confidence on where to open new sites and allocate resources or whether to shut down stores in low footfall areas. By combining demographic and catchment data, brands can also tailor marketing strategies to better meet local demand, attract high-value customers and maximise revenue.
You can view daily, monthly and yearly data with Huq location intelligence data. Our customisable time period options allow you to analyse trends over short and long durations, providing a comprehensive understanding of customer behaviour and helping you make informed decisions.
Huq’s location insights is available in three formats: Reports, Dashboard and the Data Feed. The Reports are available monthly, quarterly or annually for specific locations. The Dashboard is ideal if you’re managing multiple sites and reviewing different areas as you can compare and analyse multiple locations. You can also connect the Data Feed directly into your platform or BI dashboards to create your own reports for near real-time insights into consumer foot traffic, store performance and competitive positioning. See where visitors are coming from, where they’re going and how long they spend in each location.
Understanding the footfall profile of potential locations is essential to ensure you’re securing the right sites for your new stores. With retail data analysis, you can identify the areas that have the right footfall for your business model to ensure the footfall matches your target customer profile.
Global Reach: Location Intelligence Data for 190 Countries
We partner with apps globally to ensure consistent coverage across the world. Whether you want to benchmark location performance in Manchester, Dubai, or Sydney, our data is collected, processed, and anonymised the same way, giving you a standardised global data set.
190
Countries
2,500+
UK Retail Centres
1.5Bn
Daily Data Points
Why Huq Location Intelligence and Retail Analytics Is The Right Choice
Huq location intelligence data combines global coverage, privacy protection, reliability, and ethical data collection practices, making it the cost-effective choice for businesses seeking actionable insights into consumer behaviour and near real-time market trends.
Feature
1st Party Data
Huq is the only 1st party data provider globally.
Cost Effective
Comprehensive footfall reports at Low cost entry point.
Spend Data
Footfall enriched with Mastercard® geo-spend data.
Globally Consistent
One collection method for like for like comparison.
Accurate Counting
Measures the unique visitors without double counting.
GDPR Compliant
We comply with the highest standards in privacy.
Our Product
Third Party
Hardware
Why trust Huq for Retail Analytics?
Huq’s location intelligence data enables you to derive the most accurate and actionable insights for your organisation. With our comprehensive data solutions, you can confidently pinpoint customer behaviours for better investment decisions.
Quality of Data
Huq is the only first-party that collects data directly from end users through our SDK technology, ensuring the highest quality and reliability in the industry.
Speed to Insights
Get retail data insights after just 4 days. You can be confident in receiving timely and actionable insights to make informed decisions quickly.
Availability of Data
Our varied data panel captures a wide range of data points, including consumer movement and spending patterns for deeper analysis and understanding.







Maximise the Potential of your Portfolio
Assess the performance of your stores by benchmarking against location. Evaluate the footfall health of your retail sites to determine where to invest to ensure growth in thriving sites. Focus on areas with stability or growth to ensure long-term success.
Portugal Retail Landing Page
Explore the changing patterns of consumer footfall behaviour with retail insights
Unlock the power of market insights with location data
Location Analytics Solutions & Consultancy
A snapshot into any location
Having a finger on the pulse of the consumer is critical. Knowing where consumers are going and how they are spending can give you the retail data insights you need to make effective decisions ahead of the market.
Huq’s retail analytics solutions offer:
- Unmatched Data across global markets.
- Speed-to-Insights to ensure your strategies are led by the latest data.
- High-Value Reporting with pricing available for single assets through to national markets and global coverage.







Leverage Location Insights in One Platform
Our comprehensive reports offer 7 unique location insights to enable government, retail, real estate, and finance sectors to make better decisions.
Footfall
See average visitor foot traffic for new and existing locations.
Granular Catchment
Discover where your visitors are travelling from.
Consumer Purchasing Power
Understand consumer purchasing power across target locations to align your brand to the right visitor profiles.







Spend Data
Compare the relative spend and footfall for any retail location.
Dwell Time
Find out how long visitors stay in a specific location.
Density
Discover footfall hotspots and prime pitches with density heat maps and see where your customers are and where you should be.
3400
Stores
38
Countries
$12.5Bn
Annual sales
Huq’s catchment insights allows JD to more accurately assess the impact of the wider retail catchment on the sales potential of new store opportunities
Alastair Browne, JD Group Head of Site Research & Strategic Insight










What are the benefits of location analysis?
Mitigate Risk
Gauge the economic health of a location by analysing consumer footfall trends over time to determine potential fluctuations in property value.
Investment Decisions
Review footfall and commercial activity in potential locations to understand the viability and potential revenue in retail and commercial spaces.
Retail Acquisition
Acquire retail businesses with the highest growth potential by leveraging consumer footfall and spend trends to ensure you only invest in high-growth locations.
New Market Entry
Expand your retail portfolio with confidence using geo-spend and footfall data to pinpoint high-potential locations and understand local market dynamics.
Optimising Tenant Mix
Optimise your tenant mix and attract the right brands by mapping consumer demographics and purchasing power with visitation data.
Granular location data in real-time
Measure and track leading indicators linked to footfall and spend across assets and national markets
FAQs
Footfall data tracks the number of people entering and moving through specific locations, such as a retail store or shopping centre. This data helps retailers understand customer traffic patterns, identify peak shopping times and assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or store locations. Footfall data is crucial for optimising staffing, enhancing customer experiences and improving store performance.
Location analytics is the process of analysing footfall data to identify trends and gain actionable insight. It involves reviewing rental and demographic data, to better understand consumer behaviour, improve operational efficiency and drive growth. Location analytics enables businesses to make data-driven decisions.
Huq collects and processes data solely for research purposes. Within its data asset, individual identities remain anonymised, safeguarding against the inclusion of any personally identifiable information. The acquisition of data from first-party partners operates on an ‘opt-in’ basis, ensuring that each user explicitly consents to the capture and sharing of their location data through the apps they utilise for data collation.
There are many use cases for conducting location analysis:
- Understand visitor profiles to ensure the right tenant mix for target customers.
- Benchmark performance of your assets against location to ensure maximum revenue.
- Optimise your site selection strategy to find location hotspots with the right footfall for your portfolio.
- Optimise your estate to ensure your assets are in the right locations as consumer behaviour shifts over time.
- Optimise opening hours and staffing rotas with time-of-day footfall splits to see when your customers are most active.
You can use retail insights to optimise your retail portfolio by identifying underperforming stores, understanding customer preferences and pinpointing high-potential markets. By analysing sales data, foot traffic and demographic insights, retailers can make informed decisions with confidence on where to open new sites and allocate resources or whether to shut down stores in low footfall areas. By combining demographic and catchment data, brands can also tailor marketing strategies to better meet local demand, attract high-value customers and maximise revenue.
You can view daily, monthly and yearly data with Huq location intelligence data. Our customisable time period options allow you to analyse trends over short and long durations, providing a comprehensive understanding of customer behaviour and helping you make informed decisions.
Huq’s location insights is available in three formats: Reports, Dashboard and the Data Feed. The Reports are available monthly, quarterly or annually for specific locations. The Dashboard is ideal if you’re managing multiple sites and reviewing different areas as you can compare and analyse multiple locations. You can also connect the Data Feed directly into your platform or BI dashboards to create your own reports for near real-time insights into consumer foot traffic, store performance and competitive positioning. See where visitors are coming from, where they’re going and how long they spend in each location.
Understanding the footfall profile of potential locations is essential to ensure you’re securing the right sites for your new stores. With retail data analysis, you can identify the areas that have the right footfall for your business model to ensure the footfall matches your target customer profile.
Global Reach: Location Intelligence Data for 190 Countries
We partner with apps globally to ensure consistent coverage across the world. Whether you want to benchmark location performance in Manchester, Dubai, or Sydney, our data is collected, processed, and anonymised the same way, giving you a standardised global data set.
190
Countries
2,500+
UK Retail Centres
1.5Bn
Daily Data Points
Why Huq Location Intelligence and Retail Analytics Is The Right Choice
Huq location intelligence data combines global coverage, privacy protection, reliability, and ethical data collection practices, making it the cost-effective choice for businesses seeking actionable insights into consumer behaviour and near real-time market trends.
Feature
1st Party Data
Huq is the only 1st party data provider globally.
Cost Effective
Comprehensive footfall reports at Low cost entry point.
Spend Data
Footfall enriched with Mastercard® geo-spend data.
Globally Consistent
One collection method for like for like comparison.
Accurate Counting
Measures the unique visitors without double counting.
GDPR Compliant
We comply with the highest standards in privacy.
Our Product
Third Party
Hardware
Why trust Huq for Retail Analytics?
Huq’s location intelligence data enables you to derive the most accurate and actionable insights for your organisation. With our comprehensive data solutions, you can confidently pinpoint customer behaviours for better investment decisions.
Quality of Data
Huq is the only first-party that collects data directly from end users through our SDK technology, ensuring the highest quality and reliability in the industry.
Speed to Insights
Get retail data insights after just 4 days. You can be confident in receiving timely and actionable insights to make informed decisions quickly.
Availability of Data
Our varied data panel captures a wide range of data points, including consumer movement and spending patterns for deeper analysis and understanding.







Maximise the Potential of your Portfolio
Assess the performance of your stores by benchmarking against location. Evaluate the footfall health of your retail sites to determine where to invest to ensure growth in thriving sites. Focus on areas with stability or growth to ensure long-term success.
Middle East Landing Page
Download Data Sample
Mall of Arabia Footfall Report
We can provide custom reports or an interactive footfall map for any location in the UAE, Saudi Arabia or Qatar.




Why use it?
Become an expert in any location
Unlock Prime Locations
Secure prime locations by leveraging data on total footfall and customer profiles to target the right locations.
Forecast Local Performance
Accurately forecast store performance by evaluating the health and growth potential of retail centres to avoid long-term risks.
Profile Markets
Identify high-potential locations by understanding where customers originate and their demographic profiles.
Leverage Location Insights in One Report
Our comprehensive reports offer 7 unique location insights to enable government, retail, real estate, and finance sectors to make better decisions.
Footfall
See average visitor foot traffic for new and existing locations.
Granular Catchment
Discover where your visitors are travelling from.
Consumer Purchasing Power
Understand consumer purchasing power across target locations to align your brand to the right visitor profiles.




Spend Data
Compare the relative spend and footfall for any retail location.
Dwell Time
Find out how long visitors stay in a specific location.
Density
Discover footfall hotspots and prime pitches with density heat maps and see where your customers are and where you should be.
3400
Stores
38
Countries
$12.5Bn
Annual sales
Huq’s catchment insights allows JD to more accurately assess the impact of the wider retail catchment on the sales potential of new store opportunities
Alastair Browne, JD Group Head of Site Research & Strategic Insight










FAQs
Footfall data tracks the number of people entering and moving through specific locations, such as a retail store or shopping centre. This data helps retailers understand customer traffic patterns, identify peak shopping times and assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or store locations. Footfall data is crucial for optimising staffing, enhancing customer experiences and improving store performance.
Location analytics is the process of analysing footfall data to identify trends and gain actionable insight. It involves reviewing rental and demographic data, to better understand consumer behaviour, improve operational efficiency and drive growth. Location analytics enables businesses to make data-driven decisions.
There are many use cases for conducting location analysis:
- Understand visitor profiles to ensure the right tenant mix for target customers.
- Benchmark performance of your assets against location to ensure maximum revenue.
- Optimise your site selection strategy to find location hotspots with the right footfall for your portfolio.
- Optimise your estate to ensure your assets are in the right locations as consumer behaviour shifts over time.
- Optimise opening hours and staffing rotas with time-of-day footfall splits to see when your customers are most active.
You can use retail insights to optimise your retail portfolio by identifying underperforming stores, understanding customer preferences and pinpointing high-potential markets. By analysing sales data, foot traffic and demographic insights, retailers can make informed decisions with confidence on where to open new sites and allocate resources or whether to shut down stores in low footfall areas. By combining demographic and catchment data, brands can also tailor marketing strategies to better meet local demand, attract high-value customers and maximise revenue.
You can view daily, monthly and yearly data with Huq location intelligence data. Our customisable time period options allow you to analyse trends over short and long durations, providing a comprehensive understanding of customer behaviour and helping you make informed decisions.
Huq’s location insights is available in three formats: Reports, Dashboard and the Data Feed. The Reports are available monthly, quarterly or annually for specific locations. The Dashboard is ideal if you’re managing multiple sites and reviewing different areas as you can compare and analyse multiple locations. You can also connect the Data Feed directly into your platform or BI dashboards to create your own reports for near real-time insights into consumer foot traffic, store performance and competitive positioning. See where visitors are coming from, where they’re going and how long they spend in each location.
Understanding the footfall profile of potential locations is essential to ensure you’re securing the right sites for your new stores. With retail data analysis, you can identify the areas that have the right footfall for your business model to ensure the footfall matches your target customer profile.
Why Huq Location Intelligence and Retail Analytics Is The Right Choice
Huq location intelligence data combines global coverage, privacy protection, reliability, and ethical data collection practices, making it the cost-effective choice for businesses seeking actionable insights into consumer behaviour and near real-time market trends.
Feature
1st Party Data
Huq is the only 1st party data provider globally.
Cost Effective
Comprehensive footfall reports at Low cost entry point.
Spend Data
Footfall enriched with Mastercard® geo-spend data.
Globally Consistent
One collection method for like for like comparison.
Accurate Counting
Measures the unique visitors without double counting.
GDPR Compliant
We comply with the highest standards in privacy.
Our Product
Third Party
Hardware
ME Sports Retail Case Study
A leading global sportswear and apparel company with a vast retail network across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa needed to optimise its retail strategy using Huq data.







Maximise the Potential of your Portfolio
Assess the performance of your stores by benchmarking against location. Evaluate the footfall health of your retail sites to determine where to invest to ensure growth in thriving sites. Focus on areas with stability or growth to ensure long-term success.
Unlock Prime Locations
Secure prime locations by leveraging data on total footfall and customer profiles to target the right locations.
Forecast Local Performance
Accurately forecast store performance by evaluating the health and growth potential of retail centres to avoid long-term risks.
Profile Markets
Identify high-potential locations by understanding where customers originate and their demographic profiles.
Germany Finance Landing Page
Explore the changing patterns of consumer footfall behaviour with retail insights
Unlock market insights with global location data
Location Analytics Solutions & Consultancy
A snapshot into any location
Having a finger on the pulse of the consumer is critical. Knowing where consumers are going and how they are spending can give you the retail data insights you need to make effective decisions ahead of the market.
Huq’s retail analytics solutions offer:
- Unmatched Data across global markets.
- Speed-to-Insights to ensure your strategies are led by the latest data.
- High-Value Reporting with pricing available for single assets through to national markets and global coverage.







Leverage Location Insights in One Platform
Our comprehensive reports offer 7 unique location insights to enable government, retail, real estate, and finance sectors to make better decisions.
Footfall
See average visitor foot traffic for new and existing locations.
Granular Catchment
Discover where your visitors are travelling from.
Consumer Purchasing Power
Understand consumer purchasing power across target locations to align your brand to the right visitor profiles.







Spend Data
Compare the relative spend and footfall for any retail location.
Dwell Time
Find out how long visitors stay in a specific location.
Density
Discover footfall hotspots and prime pitches with density heat maps and see where your customers are and where you should be.
3400
Stores
38
Countries
$12.5Bn
Annual sales
Huq’s catchment insights allows JD to more accurately assess the impact of the wider retail catchment on the sales potential of new store opportunities
Alastair Browne, JD Group Head of Site Research & Strategic Insight










What are the benefits of location analysis?
Mitigate Risk
Gauge the economic health of a location by analysing consumer footfall trends over time to determine potential fluctuations in property value.
Investment Decisions
Review footfall and commercial activity in potential locations to understand the viability and potential revenue in retail and commercial spaces.
Retail Acquisition
Acquire retail businesses with the highest growth potential by leveraging consumer footfall and spend trends to ensure you only invest in high-growth locations.
New Market Entry
Expand your retail portfolio with confidence using geo-spend and footfall data to pinpoint high-potential locations and understand local market dynamics.
Optimising Tenant Mix
Optimise your tenant mix and attract the right brands by mapping consumer demographics and purchasing power with visitation data.
Granular location data in real-time
Measure and track leading indicators linked to footfall and spend across assets and national markets
FAQs
Footfall data tracks the number of people entering and moving through specific locations, such as a retail store or shopping centre. This data helps retailers understand customer traffic patterns, identify peak shopping times and assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or store locations. Footfall data is crucial for optimising staffing, enhancing customer experiences and improving store performance.
Location analytics is the process of analysing footfall data to identify trends and gain actionable insight. It involves reviewing rental and demographic data, to better understand consumer behaviour, improve operational efficiency and drive growth. Location analytics enables businesses to make data-driven decisions.
Huq collects and processes data solely for research purposes. Within its data asset, individual identities remain anonymised, safeguarding against the inclusion of any personally identifiable information. The acquisition of data from first-party partners operates on an ‘opt-in’ basis, ensuring that each user explicitly consents to the capture and sharing of their location data through the apps they utilise for data collation.
There are many use cases for conducting location analysis:
- Understand visitor profiles to ensure the right tenant mix for target customers.
- Benchmark performance of your assets against location to ensure maximum revenue.
- Optimise your site selection strategy to find location hotspots with the right footfall for your portfolio.
- Optimise your estate to ensure your assets are in the right locations as consumer behaviour shifts over time.
- Optimise opening hours and staffing rotas with time-of-day footfall splits to see when your customers are most active.
You can use retail insights to optimise your retail portfolio by identifying underperforming stores, understanding customer preferences and pinpointing high-potential markets. By analysing sales data, foot traffic and demographic insights, retailers can make informed decisions with confidence on where to open new sites and allocate resources or whether to shut down stores in low footfall areas. By combining demographic and catchment data, brands can also tailor marketing strategies to better meet local demand, attract high-value customers and maximise revenue.
You can view daily, monthly and yearly data with Huq location intelligence data. Our customisable time period options allow you to analyse trends over short and long durations, providing a comprehensive understanding of customer behaviour and helping you make informed decisions.
Huq’s location insights is available in three formats: Reports, Dashboard and the Data Feed. The Reports are available monthly, quarterly or annually for specific locations. The Dashboard is ideal if you’re managing multiple sites and reviewing different areas as you can compare and analyse multiple locations. You can also connect the Data Feed directly into your platform or BI dashboards to create your own reports for near real-time insights into consumer foot traffic, store performance and competitive positioning. See where visitors are coming from, where they’re going and how long they spend in each location.
Understanding the footfall profile of potential locations is essential to ensure you’re securing the right sites for your new stores. With retail data analysis, you can identify the areas that have the right footfall for your business model to ensure the footfall matches your target customer profile.
Global Reach: Location Intelligence Data for 190 Countries
We partner with apps globally to ensure consistent coverage across the world. Whether you want to benchmark location performance in Manchester, Dubai, or Sydney, our data is collected, processed, and anonymised the same way, giving you a standardised global data set.
190
Countries
2,500+
UK Retail Centres
1.5Bn
Daily Data Points
Why Huq Location Intelligence and Retail Analytics Is The Right Choice
Huq location intelligence data combines global coverage, privacy protection, reliability, and ethical data collection practices, making it the cost-effective choice for businesses seeking actionable insights into consumer behaviour and near real-time market trends.
Feature
1st Party Data
Huq is the only 1st party data provider globally.
Cost Effective
Comprehensive footfall reports at Low cost entry point.
Spend Data
Footfall enriched with Mastercard® geo-spend data.
Globally Consistent
One collection method for like for like comparison.
Accurate Counting
Measures the unique visitors without double counting.
GDPR Compliant
We comply with the highest standards in privacy.
Our Product
Third Party
Hardware
Why trust Huq for Retail Analytics?
Huq’s location intelligence data enables you to derive the most accurate and actionable insights for your organisation. With our comprehensive data solutions, you can confidently pinpoint customer behaviours for better investment decisions.
Quality of Data
Huq is the only first-party that collects data directly from end users through our SDK technology, ensuring the highest quality and reliability in the industry.
Speed to Insights
Get retail data insights after just 4 days. You can be confident in receiving timely and actionable insights to make informed decisions quickly.
Availability of Data
Our varied data panel captures a wide range of data points, including consumer movement and spending patterns for deeper analysis and understanding.







Maximise the Potential of your Portfolio
Assess the performance of your stores by benchmarking against location. Evaluate the footfall health of your retail sites to determine where to invest to ensure growth in thriving sites. Focus on areas with stability or growth to ensure long-term success.
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Unlock the power of market insights with location data
Location Analytics Solutions & Consultancy
A snapshot into any location
Having a finger on the pulse of the consumer is critical. Knowing where consumers are going and how they are spending can give you the retail data insights you need to make effective decisions ahead of the market.
Huq’s retail analytics solutions offer:
- Unmatched Data across global markets.
- Speed-to-Insights to ensure your strategies are led by the latest data.
- High-Value Reporting with pricing available for single assets through to national markets and global coverage.







Leverage Location Insights in One Platform
Our comprehensive reports offer 7 unique location insights to enable government, retail, real estate, and finance sectors to make better decisions.
Footfall
See average visitor foot traffic for new and existing locations.
Granular Catchment
Discover where your visitors are travelling from.
Consumer Purchasing Power
Understand consumer purchasing power across target locations to align your brand to the right visitor profiles.







Spend Data
Compare the relative spend and footfall for any retail location.
Dwell Time
Find out how long visitors stay in a specific location.
Density
Discover footfall hotspots and prime pitches with density heat maps and see where your customers are and where you should be.
3400
Stores
38
Countries
$12.5Bn
Annual sales
Huq’s catchment insights allows JD to more accurately assess the impact of the wider retail catchment on the sales potential of new store opportunities
Alastair Browne, JD Group Head of Site Research & Strategic Insight










What are the benefits of location analysis?
Mitigate Risk
Gauge the economic health of a location by analysing consumer footfall trends over time to determine potential fluctuations in property value.
Investment Decisions
Review footfall and commercial activity in potential locations to understand the viability and potential revenue in retail and commercial spaces.
Retail Acquisition
Acquire retail businesses with the highest growth potential by leveraging consumer footfall and spend trends to ensure you only invest in high-growth locations.
New Market Entry
Expand your retail portfolio with confidence using geo-spend and footfall data to pinpoint high-potential locations and understand local market dynamics.
Optimising Tenant Mix
Optimise your tenant mix and attract the right brands by mapping consumer demographics and purchasing power with visitation data.
Granular location data in real-time
Measure and track leading indicators linked to footfall and spend across assets and national markets
FAQs
Footfall data tracks the number of people entering and moving through specific locations, such as a retail store or shopping centre. This data helps retailers understand customer traffic patterns, identify peak shopping times and assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or store locations. Footfall data is crucial for optimising staffing, enhancing customer experiences and improving store performance.
Location analytics is the process of analysing footfall data to identify trends and gain actionable insight. It involves reviewing rental and demographic data, to better understand consumer behaviour, improve operational efficiency and drive growth. Location analytics enables businesses to make data-driven decisions.
Huq collects and processes data solely for research purposes. Within its data asset, individual identities remain anonymised, safeguarding against the inclusion of any personally identifiable information. The acquisition of data from first-party partners operates on an ‘opt-in’ basis, ensuring that each user explicitly consents to the capture and sharing of their location data through the apps they utilise for data collation.
There are many use cases for conducting location analysis:
- Understand visitor profiles to ensure the right tenant mix for target customers.
- Benchmark performance of your assets against location to ensure maximum revenue.
- Optimise your site selection strategy to find location hotspots with the right footfall for your portfolio.
- Optimise your estate to ensure your assets are in the right locations as consumer behaviour shifts over time.
- Optimise opening hours and staffing rotas with time-of-day footfall splits to see when your customers are most active.
You can use retail insights to optimise your retail portfolio by identifying underperforming stores, understanding customer preferences and pinpointing high-potential markets. By analysing sales data, foot traffic and demographic insights, retailers can make informed decisions with confidence on where to open new sites and allocate resources or whether to shut down stores in low footfall areas. By combining demographic and catchment data, brands can also tailor marketing strategies to better meet local demand, attract high-value customers and maximise revenue.
You can view daily, monthly and yearly data with Huq location intelligence data. Our customisable time period options allow you to analyse trends over short and long durations, providing a comprehensive understanding of customer behaviour and helping you make informed decisions.
Huq’s location insights is available in three formats: Reports, Dashboard and the Data Feed. The Reports are available monthly, quarterly or annually for specific locations. The Dashboard is ideal if you’re managing multiple sites and reviewing different areas as you can compare and analyse multiple locations. You can also connect the Data Feed directly into your platform or BI dashboards to create your own reports for near real-time insights into consumer foot traffic, store performance and competitive positioning. See where visitors are coming from, where they’re going and how long they spend in each location.
Understanding the footfall profile of potential locations is essential to ensure you’re securing the right sites for your new stores. With retail data analysis, you can identify the areas that have the right footfall for your business model to ensure the footfall matches your target customer profile.
Global Reach: Location Intelligence Data for 190 Countries
We partner with apps globally to ensure consistent coverage across the world. Whether you want to benchmark location performance in Manchester, Dubai, or Sydney, our data is collected, processed, and anonymised the same way, giving you a standardised global data set.
190
Countries
2,500+
UK Retail Centres
1.5Bn
Daily Data Points
Why Huq Location Intelligence and Retail Analytics Is The Right Choice
Huq location intelligence data combines global coverage, privacy protection, reliability, and ethical data collection practices, making it the cost-effective choice for businesses seeking actionable insights into consumer behaviour and near real-time market trends.
Feature
1st Party Data
Huq is the only 1st party data provider globally.
Cost Effective
Comprehensive footfall reports at Low cost entry point.
Spend Data
Footfall enriched with Mastercard® geo-spend data.
Globally Consistent
One collection method for like for like comparison.
Accurate Counting
Measures the unique visitors without double counting.
GDPR Compliant
We comply with the highest standards in privacy.
Our Product
Third Party
Hardware
Why trust Huq for Retail Analytics?
Huq’s location intelligence data enables you to derive the most accurate and actionable insights for your organisation. With our comprehensive data solutions, you can confidently pinpoint customer behaviours for better investment decisions.
Quality of Data
Huq is the only first-party that collects data directly from end users through our SDK technology, ensuring the highest quality and reliability in the industry.
Speed to Insights
Get retail data insights after just 4 days. You can be confident in receiving timely and actionable insights to make informed decisions quickly.
Availability of Data
Our varied data panel captures a wide range of data points, including consumer movement and spending patterns for deeper analysis and understanding.







Maximise the Potential of your Portfolio
Assess the performance of your stores by benchmarking against location. Evaluate the footfall health of your retail sites to determine where to invest to ensure growth in thriving sites. Focus on areas with stability or growth to ensure long-term success.
Location Intelligence PPC Landing Page
Keep track of consumer footfall and spend dynamics with location intelligence
Location Intelligence & Retail Analytics Solutions
Location Intelligence Solutions & Consultancy
A snapshot into any location
Having a finger on the pulse of the consumer is critical. Knowing where consumers are going and how they are spending can give you the retail data insights you need to make effective decisions ahead of the market.
Huq’s location intelligence platform offers:
- Unmatched Data across the UK and international markets.
- Speed-to-Insights to ensure your strategies are led by the latest data.
- High-Value Reporting with pricing available for single assets through to national markets and global coverage.







Location Intelligence in One Platform
Our comprehensive reports offer 7 unique location insights to enable government, retail, real estate, and finance sectors to make better decisions.
Footfall
See average visitor foot traffic for new and existing locations.
Granular Catchment
Discover where your visitors are travelling from.
Consumer Purchasing Power
Understand consumer purchasing power across target locations to align your brand to the right visitor profiles.







Spend Data
Compare the relative spend and footfall for any retail location.
Dwell Time
Find out how long visitors stay in a specific location.
Density
Discover footfall hotspots and prime pitches with density heat maps and see where your customers are and where you should be.
3400
Stores
38
Countries
$12.5Bn
Annual sales
Huq’s catchment insights allows JD to more accurately assess the impact of the wider retail catchment on the sales potential of new store opportunities
Alastair Browne, JD Group Head of Site Research & Strategic Insight










Global Reach: Location Intelligence Data for 190 Countries
We partner with apps globally to ensure consistent coverage across the world. Whether you want to benchmark location performance in Manchester, Dubai, or Sydney, our data is collected, processed, and anonymised the same way, giving you a standardised global data set.
190
Countries
2,500+
UK Retail Centres
1.5Bn
Daily Data Points
FAQs
Location intelligence involves analysing location, consumer and sales data to guide and improve decision making. By integrating geographic information with commercial data and visitor profiles, organisations can identify key patterns and trends. Location intelligence is used across industries, including retail, local gov and BIDs, finance and real estate. It empowers brands, organisations and governments to make data-driven decisions based on spatial information.
Location intelligence is a powerful tool for retailers. By integrating geographic data with business analytics, retailers can make informed decisions about store locations, customer demographics and market trends. Here’s how you can effectively use location intelligence in retail planning:
- Competitor Benchmarking: review the distribution of competing chains and find gaps in the market to open new stores.
- Customer Segmentation and Targeting: Understanding visitor profiles for targeted marketing strategy.
- Market Penetration and Expansion Strategies: identify potential markets for expansion in underserved areas where there is potential for high demand.
- Identify Optimal Store Locations for Site Selection: analyse foot traffic patterns to ensure new stores are located in areas with the most customer exposure.
Location intelligence can significantly improve public services by enabling government agencies, municipalities, and public organisations to make data-driven decisions that enhance efficiency, optimise resource allocation, and improve citizen well-being. Here’s how to use location intelligence for public services across various sectors:
- Gain true visibility of your town centres and high streets
- Enhance public spaces
- Improve accessibility
- Enhance Visitor Experience
- Project Validation
When considering which location intelligence software to opt for for your organisation, consider key factors like security and data sourcing, analytics capabilities, user interface and reporting options. Huq’s location intelligence is available in three formats: Reports, Dashboard or through the Data Feed. The Reports are available monthly, quarterly or annually for specific locations. The Dashboard is ideal if you’re managing multiple sites and reviewing different areas as you can compare and analyse multiple locations. You can also connect the Data Feed directly into your platform or BI dashboards to create your own reports for near real-time insights into consumer foot traffic, store performance and competitive positioning. See where visitors are coming from, where they’re going and how long they spend in each location.
The difference between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and location intelligence lies in their scope and application. GIS is a technical system for collecting, analysing and visualising geographic data, often used by professionals working within environmental studies. Location intelligence, focuses on turning geospatial data into actionable insights by integrating it with business or demographic data, to improve decision-making in marketing, operations and real estate. While GIS is more specialised, location intelligence is broader, applying geospatial analysis to business contexts for strategic insights.
In the dynamic world of portfolio management, having a deep understanding of the nuances and performance of your assets across your portfolio is crucial. Huq’s location offers detailed asset-level location intelligence, providing you with actionable insights to guide space utilisation/ tenant mix/ marketing strategies.
Geolocation Intelligence focuses on real-time, precise tracking of the exact location of an object or person using GPS or mobile devices. It provides granular, moment-specific data like coordinates.
Location analytics is much broader and integrates geolocation data with other sources, such as demographic, business or environmental information, to derive strategic insights. While geolocation intelligence is used for real-time applications like fleet tracking and navigation, location intelligence data supports decision-making in areas like retail site selection, market analysis and urban planning. Essentially, geolocation intelligence is a subset of location analytics. Location intelligence offers a much more comprehensive location spatial analysis.
Location analytics software covers:
- Primary focus: Business and consumer data-driven decisions
- Data Sources: Mobile devices, transactions and IoT
- Use Case: Retail planning, investment strategy, portfolio optimisation, asset management and consumer behaviour
- Technology: Business intelligence tools and data visualisation platforms
- Applications: Site selection, urban planning and marketing
Stay ahead of market trends and make proactive investment decisions by tracking consumer engagement in target trading locations. Guide informed investment decisions are key to maximising asset returns. Huq’s location insights can provide the precision you need to manage your portfolio with confidence.
Location intelligence is widely used in real estate to improve decision-making, optimise asset performance and investment strategies and track market trends. Here are key use cases:
- Property Valuation and Investment Analysis: find locations hotspots with high footfall for acquisitions.
- Market Analysis: optimise your existing portfolio and ensure your assets are still in high footfall, high use areas.
- Risk Management: identify any assets that are underperforming against location for relocation or divestment.
Why Huq's Location Intelligence Is The Right Choice
Huq location intelligence data combines global coverage, privacy protection, reliability, and ethical data collection practices, making it the cost-effective choice for businesses seeking actionable insights into consumer behaviour and near real-time market trends.
Feature
1st Party Data
Huq is the only 1st party data provider globally.
Cost Effective
Comprehensive footfall reports at Low cost entry point.
Spend Data
Footfall enriched with Mastercard® geo-spend data.
Globally Consistent
One collection method for like for like comparison.
Accurate Counting
Measures the unique visitors without double counting.
GDPR Compliant
We comply with the highest standards in privacy.
Our Product
Third Party
Hardware
Why trust Huq for Retail Analytics?
Huq’s location intelligence data enables you to derive the most accurate and actionable insights for your organisation. With our comprehensive data solutions, you can confidently pinpoint customer behaviours for better investment decisions.
Quality of Data
Huq is the only first-party that collects data directly from end users through our SDK technology, ensuring the highest quality and reliability in the industry.
Speed to Insights
Get retail data insights after just 4 days. You can be confident in receiving timely and actionable insights to make informed decisions quickly.
Availability of Data
Our varied data panel captures a wide range of data points, including consumer movement and spending patterns for deeper analysis and understanding.







Maximise the Potential of your Portfolio
Assess the performance of your stores by benchmarking against location. Evaluate the footfall health of your retail sites to determine where to invest to ensure growth in thriving sites. Focus on areas with stability or growth to ensure long-term success.
Retail Analytics PPC Landing Page
Explore the changing patterns of consumer footfall behaviour with retail insights
Retail Analytics & Insights Solution
Retail Analytics Solutions & Consultancy
A snapshot into any location
Having a finger on the pulse of the consumer is critical. Knowing where consumers are going and how they are spending can give you the retail data insights you need to make effective decisions ahead of the market.
Huq’s retail analytics solutions offer:
- Unmatched Data across the UK and international markets.
- Speed-to-Insights to ensure your strategies are led by the latest data.
- High-Value Reporting with pricing available for single assets through to national markets and global coverage.







Location Insights and Retail Analytics
in one platform
Our comprehensive reports offer 7 unique location insights to enable government, retail, real estate, and finance sectors to make better decisions.
Footfall
See average visitor foot traffic for new and existing locations.
Granular Catchment
Discover where your visitors are travelling from.
Consumer Purchasing Power
Understand consumer purchasing power across target locations to align your brand to the right visitor profiles.







Spend Data
Compare the relative spend and footfall for any retail location.
Dwell Time
Find out how long visitors stay in a specific location.
Density
Discover footfall hotspots and prime pitches with density heat maps and see where your customers are and where you should be.
3400
Stores
38
Countries
$12.5Bn
Annual sales
Huq’s catchment insights allows JD to more accurately assess the impact of the wider retail catchment on the sales potential of new store opportunities
Alastair Browne, JD Group Head of Site Research & Strategic Insight










Global Reach: Retail Analytics Data for 190 Countries
We partner with apps globally to ensure consistent coverage across the world. Whether you want to benchmark location performance in Manchester, Dubai, or Sydney, our data is collected, processed, and anonymised the same way, giving you a standardised global data set.
190
Countries
2,500+
UK Retail Centres
1.5Bn
Daily Data Points
FAQs
Retail analytics is the process of analysing retail data to identify trends and gain actionable insight. It involves reviewing sales, location and demographic data, to better understand consumer behaviour, improve operational efficiency and drive growth. Retail analytics enables businesses to make data-driven decisions.
There are many use cases for conducting retail analysis for your brand:
- Optimise site selection to find location hotspots with the right footfall for your brand.
- Optimise your estate to ensure your stores are in the right locations as consumer behaviour shifts over time.
- Understand visitor profiles with demographic data to ensure you’re attracting your target customers.
- Benchmarking performance against location to ensure maximum revenue.
- Optimise opening hours and staffing rotas with time-of-day footfall splits to see when your customers are most active.
You can use retail insights to optimise your retail portfolio by identifying underperforming stores, understanding customer preferences and pinpointing high-potential markets. By analysing sales data, foot traffic and demographic insights, retailers can make informed decisions with confidence on where to open new sites and allocate resources or whether to shut down stores in low footfall areas. By combining demographic and catchment data, brands can also tailor marketing strategies to better meet local demand, attract high-value customers and maximise revenue.
Footfall data tracks the number of people entering and moving through specific locations, such as a retail store or shopping centre. This data helps retailers understand customer traffic patterns, identify peak shopping times and assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or store locations. Footfall data is crucial for optimising staffing, enhancing customer experiences and improving store performance.
Huq’s location insights is available in three formats: Reports, Dashboard and the Data Feed. The Reports are available monthly, quarterly or annually for specific locations. The Dashboard is ideal if you’re managing multiple sites and reviewing different areas as you can compare and analyse multiple locations. You can also connect the Data Feed directly into your platform or BI dashboards to create your own reports for near real-time insights into consumer foot traffic, store performance and competitive positioning. See where visitors are coming from, where they’re going and how long they spend in each location.
Understanding the footfall profile of potential locations is essential to ensure you’re securing the right sites for your new stores. With retail data analysis, you can identify the areas that have the right footfall for your business model to ensure the footfall matches your target customer profile.
Huq collects and processes data solely for research purposes. Within its data asset, individual identities remain anonymised, safeguarding against the inclusion of any personally identifiable information. The acquisition of data from first-party partners operates on an ‘opt-in’ basis, ensuring that each user explicitly consents to the capture and sharing of their location data through the apps they utilise for data collation.
You can view daily, monthly and yearly data with Huq retail analytics data. Our customisable time period options allow you to analyse trends over short and long durations, providing a comprehensive understanding of customer behaviour and helping you make informed decisions.
Huq footfall location insights are available through our Reports, Dashboard or Data Feed. Our reports are available monthly, quarterly or yearly so you can track improvements over time. The Dashboard is refreshed with footfall data every 4 days.
Why Huq Location Intelligence and Retail Analytics Is The Right Choice
Huq’s retail analytics data combines global coverage, privacy protection, reliability, and ethical data collection practices, making it the cost-effective choice for businesses seeking actionable insights into consumer behaviour and near real-time market trends.
Feature
1st Party Data
Huq is the only 1st party data provider globally.
Cost Effective
Comprehensive footfall reports at Low cost entry point.
Spend Data
Footfall enriched with Mastercard® geo-spend data.
Globally Consistent
One collection method for like for like comparison.
Accurate Counting
Measures the unique visitors without double counting.
GDPR Compliant
We comply with the highest standards in privacy.
Our Product
Third Party
Hardware
Why trust Huq for Retail Analytics?
Huq’s location insights enables you to derive the most accurate and actionable insights for your organisation. With our comprehensive data solutions, you can confidently pinpoint customer behaviours for better investment decisions.
Quality of Data
Huq is the only first-party that collects data directly from end users through our SDK technology, ensuring the highest quality and reliability in the industry.
Speed to Insights
Get retail data insights after just 4 days. You can be confident in receiving timely and actionable insights to make informed decisions quickly.
Availability of Data
Our varied data panel captures a wide range of data points, including consumer movement and spending patterns for deeper analysis and understanding.







Maximise the Potential of your Portfolio
Assess the performance of your stores by benchmarking against location. Evaluate the footfall health of your retail sites to determine where to invest to ensure growth in thriving sites. Focus on areas with stability or growth to ensure long-term success.
FAQs & Support Documentation
FAQs & Support Documentation
Introduction to Huq and the Customer Success Team
Welcome to Huq! Your Customer Success Team at Huq are here to make sure you maximise the value of our partnership by achieving your agreed business outcomes with geo-location data.
Your Customer Success Manager can be reached directly or contact the whole team at [email protected].
Contents
Theme | Topic |
---|---|
Collection | How does Huq collect its data? |
Collection | What data does Huq collect? |
Collection | What’s Huq’s data collection methodology? |
Huq Insights | Footfall |
Huq Insights | Density |
Huq Insights | Dwell |
Huq Insights | Average Dwell (Weekday) |
Huq Insights | Granular Catchment |
Huq Insights | Visit Frequency |
Huq Insights | Demographics |
Huq Insights | Day-part |
Verification | How does Huq verify its data for accuracy? |
Introduction to Geo-Location Data
How do we collect our data?
At Huq, we have direct relationships with our app publishers whereby we collect aggregated and anonymised data through our proprietary Software Development Kit (SDK).
With the appropriate user permissions, our software runs in the background of popular mobile apps to collect data. Importantly, we do not collect any identifiable information. Our partner apps are required by us to employ strict privacy measures and are subject to regular privacy audits. At a minimum, we require the provision of clear, intelligible disclosures and consent requests to users. This effort is aided by strict Google Play and Apple Appstore regulations on publishers wishing to collect consent and permissions for specific data access. This allows us to be confident that the data we collect is compliant, accurate and of high quality.
What data do we collect?
We collect information from those who have downloaded one of our partner apps and explicitly consent to the collection and sharing of their data. To create our products we collect a limited number of statistics and measurements that typically fall into two categories: device information and location data.
Huq’s Data Collection Methodology
It’s important to remember that with our methodology, in the underlying data, we are monitoring a subsection of the population. This data is then processed against the number of observed devices we collect to reflect an estimate of actual footfall for a given day.
To position your baseline level of data (and adjust for regional bias), we will analyse the home location of each device in your boundary, the coverage of the population we have at the home location for each device (i.e. how many people that device represents in that area) and identify the volume of visitors for each device according to their home location. This methodology ensures we yield dynamic results over time that reflect representation according to the home location of each visitor.
Overall, due to our data collection methodology, when we view trends in the data across long periods the data is very statistically robust, essentially there is a high level of confidence in whether the footfall is trending upwards or downwards over time and how this fluctuates. Random behaviour or isolated shifts in our panel size on individual days will not have a big impact on overall trends unless it is a continuous pattern of behaviour, in which case it will become a trend and impact the overall trend-line.
Huq Insights
Footfall
When we measure footfall, we are measuring the number of unique people observed within an area on a day. Therefore, if a person were to exit and re-enter your area on the same day, they would only be counted once.
In addition, we are able to isolate elements of the observed footfall within an area, for example, home residents, to ensure we meet a stricter definition of footfall. It is also important to consider that we are unable to administer a systematic removal of all traffic data. However, we do exclude a large number of driving and transport apps which could distort a signal.
Within your Signals dashboard, you can compare any number of locations which you’re subscribed to at one point, giving a comprehensive view of your chosen landscape. There are two ways to visualise footfall in your dashboard:
1. Estimated Actual Footfall -The Estimated Actual figure represents the number of visitors we believe to have observed in your area for a given day. As our data is derived from a panel that is representative of the population, it is most valuable to report trends over longer periods of time.
2. Estimated Rolling Footfall -The Estimated Rolling figure is the average number of visitors we believe to have observed in your area for a given day. This is visualised as a weekly cadence. For example, the figure for a chosen day will be an average of the previous 6 values for the same day of the week. This visualisation gives a smoother version of footfall trends over time.


Time period Comparisons
Within your dashboard, you can compare the performance of your location with previous time periods to understand more about how your footfall changes over time.
We have pre-selected shortcuts for comparison modes (month, quarter, year) and you can also select your own. Please note that the comparison mode selected is big enough to accommodate the originally chosen date range.
Once chosen, the bold line in your graph will be your original selected time period, and the faded line will be your comparative period. Where the range is suitable, the graph will populate the percentage changes against the time comparisons underneath your graph.
Please note, there is a 2-3 day time lag to the data updating in your platform. Recommended Parameters: Minimum one month.
Density
The Density module enables you to look at the locations that users visit in more detail. The more devices that visit a particular point on the map, the greater the density that will be visualised at that point.
This calculation works on a relative scale (between 0-1), therefore an area with a value of 1 is two times more densely populated than an area of 0.5.
The range used to calculate Density will always be relative, which means that a ‘1’ in Location A area will be different to a ‘1’ in Location B.
The colour scheme aligns with the scale in that those hexagons closer to 0 will be green, 0.5 orange, and those closer to 1 will be red. A hexagon is triggered by a single device visiting that area at any given hour.


Dwell
The Dwell metric allows you to understand how long visitors are spending in your area, broken down into several time buckets. This allows you to understand what percentage of your visitors are spending 10-30 minutes in your area, compared with those spending 120-15 minutes for example.
This is intended to to help you understand or infer what the motivation or purpose might be for your visitors.
Recommended Parameters: Minimum one month


Average Dwell
The Average Dwell metric is similar in you can understand how long visitors are spending in your area. However, this time you are looking at the average number of minutes people are spending in your area across each day of the week. Recommended Parameters: Minimum one month


Granular Catchment
When we are measuring Granular Catchment, we are analysing where the visitors to an area live at a postcode district level.


In order to calculate each visitors home location, we will analyse where each device has resided over night the most in a 30 day period, and assign that location as the devices home location. The percentage against postcode district represents what share of the total unique visitors come from that particular postcode.
The higher percentages are coloured red and proceed through to amber and green, which denotes a lower share. Please note that unshaded areas do not mean that no visitors came from those area. Instead it means that the volumes are below Huq’s minimum reporting threshold.
Recommended Parameters: Minimum one month
Visit Frequency
The Visit Frequency insight allows you to see how often unique visitors return to your area on a monthly basis. The methodology works by counting the number of different days on which a unique visitor is observed within your area over a month, and is then summarised across all unique visitors using the mean average. Therefore, the correct way to read the Vist Frequency graph is that “on average, visitors to this area returned X times during [the month]
.” Recommended Parameters: Minimum one month


Demographics
The demographic data of your visitors consists of three key metrics; Age Group, Gender & Purchasing Power. Huq’s Age Group , Income and Gender information is collected via Census.
Purchasing Power
The Purchasing Power metric is comprised of income data, derived from the census which can then be associated to a device via it’s known home location. Purchasing Power also incorporates housing prices and the cost of living in the home location of visitors. We believe this gives a comprehensive signal to the ‘purchasing power’ of a visitor.
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For example, a visitor living in London may earn a higher wage, however, the cost of living is also higher, therefore the purchasing power metric will be able to accommodate for disposable income considerations.


Daypart
The Daypart footfall analysis allows you to understand how your footfall levels are broken up across a 24 hour period.


How Does Huq Verify its Data Accuracy?
We carry out extensive reviews of our data quality and compare it continually against external sources and ‘known truths’ in order to ensure that our methodology is providing accurate outputs.
However, it is important to consider that there is no definitive method for measuring the entire population of any given area, and there are caveats and drawbacks to every footfall or comparison dataset that you come across.
Please see below a handful of methods we have taken to verify our data:
US Big Box Retailer Data
Tthe below graphs illustrate a Pearson coefficient of more than 0.8 against Signals data and retail sales. (i.e. 80%+ correlation)






Football Stadium Attendance
Evaluating Signals data against recorded attendance. The below graph illustrates this comparison:


Academic Validation
Testing of our underlying data by the UBDC/University of Glasgow to confirm the data is representative at a population coverage level. Below is an excerpt from that study:

