M Motionworks Population Intelligence

Placecast

Measure activity at the places that matter to your business — by hour, by day, by month — and understand who's coming from where.

400M+
Qualified devices
210
DMAs active
2019
Monthly history
What it measures

Place-level activity, with provenance.

For any place — store, venue, transit hub, neighborhood — Placecast quantifies activity patterns and the populations that produce them.

Profiles

Current-week activity patterns at the place — visit volume, dwell, day-of-week and hour-of-day rhythm.

By Date

Monthly and annual time series. Compare seasons, year-over-year shifts, or before-and-after a campaign.

At Home

The home neighborhoods of visitors — where they live, what they look like, how far they travel to get there.

What you get

A measurement system for places.

Custom geometry

Define your own places — single locations, chains, trade areas, or arbitrary polygons.

Audience overlay

Segment visitors by 500+ audiences from the same population intelligence layer that powers Popcast and Viewcast.

Comparable across markets

One methodology, applied consistently across 210 DMAs. Roll up to a portfolio or drill into a single store.

Continuous history

Monthly measurement back to 2019 — enough history to separate signal from seasonality.

Who uses it

Place-aware teams.

Brands

Trade-area planning and competitive conquesting.

Operators

Quantify dwell and audience at venues and faces.

Agencies

Audience modeling for place-based campaigns.

Bureaus

Independent reference for venue activity.

Open Placecast in Citycast.

Citycast is the unified surface for all Motionworks measurement products.