Highlights from the most recent updates to the Plaace platform:
We'd love to hear from you! Our roadmap is based on feedback and user testing to make sure we're building the right product for our customers. Use the Feedback button in the Plaace platform to submit a request, chat with us, or email at contact@plaace.co
Apr 19, 2024
New features
π Commercial Hubs live in Denmark (BETA) π©π°
Commercial Hubs are areas identified by Plaace with high density of retail, restaurants and services. They allow you to quickly get a feel for where the commercial activity is concentrated, both within big cities, but also in smaller areas.
Improvements and bug fixes
π¨ We no longer distinguish between tenants and property managers
We used to tailor the product experience to whether someone was a tenant or property manager. As weβve gotten more and more customers, we see that many of them donβt fit in either of the two categories, and that the insights we offer are relevant to everyone in the industry.
The short term effect of this is that all users have access to both sides of the marketplace. If you have any questions related to this, donβt hesitate to contact us in the chat.
π¨ Favourite lists are no longer supported
The ability to store something in a favourite list was one of the early features we introduced at Plaace, and it was a quick way to help users get back to something they had been looking at.
However, weβve learned that our usersβ needs are also linked to sharing a story about the insights with others, and with that, storing charts with specific settings. Thatβs why we introduced Dashboards π a while back.
The last 6 months, there has almost been no use of Favourites, and it was time to let it go. Affected users have gotten a direct email, and weβve also had a banner up in the product lately.
π Areas outside of Norway were shown in Similar Areas
There was a bug in Similar Areas where areas outside of Norway would show up in the list, this has now been fixed. We don't (yet) have Similar areas within other countries, or across countries.
Apr 4, 2024
New features
π New Demographics insights in Norway
- Demographics insights updated to better reflect where in an area people are living. This makes the insights more precise, especially for custom areas based on walk or drive time.
- All insights updated with 2022 data. In addition we show an estimate for the population in 2023. The remaining 2023 numbers will be updated as soon as they are available closer to the summer.
- Income distribution for all areas in Norway
- New insights like housing types and number of cabins. Weβre launching a first version of this insight. Feel free to reach out in the product chat or use the feedback form to share how you want to use this insight in e.g. dashboards.
- Dashboards will update automatically to reflect new insights. You can also change the setting of any chart in a dashboard to show data for more recent years.
- Insights from Geodata and SSB. The updated demographics data is launched in collaboration with our vendor Geodata, providing the estimates based on SSB numbers and where people are actually living with in area.
π Total Movement in a period
The footfall data has so far been provided as daily averages within a period. Now we also launch the option to see the total footfall for a period. The total visits is reflected in the key stats and available for all charts.
π Q1 2024 Movement data is available
March, 2024
New features
π Competitive Situation live in Sweden and Denmark (BETA)
Competitive Situation is live with Points-of-Interests (POI) in Sweden and Denmark.
- Concept Mix of Retailers, Restaurants, and Services in an area
- Compare the Concept Mix in an area relative to the overall municipality mix
- See the share of chains vs independent concepts
- Compare with other areas in Sweden and Denmark
- Filter to just see the locations for a certain category, like Book stores, CafΓ©s or Hairdressers
π Commercial Hubs live in Sweden (BETA)
Commercial Hubs are areas identified by Plaace with high density of retail, restaurants and services. They allow you to quickly get a feel for where the commercial activity is concentrated, both within big cities, but also in smaller areas.
π Chain profiles (BETA) in Sweden and Denmark
For chains of retailers, restaurants and services, see all locations and key insights in a chain profile. Easily compare area insights across several locations.
π Property ownership (Matrikkel) in Norway
Get access to property ownership, parcel outlines++. This is an add-on feature to the paid subscription.
Improvements and bug fixes
π¨ Create Dashboards from Templates is now available on mobile
February, 2024
New features
π Dashboard Templates
Get a ready-made Dashboard in less than a minute! Introducing Dashboard templates to help you quickly make an analysis based on best practice from Plaace.
Evaluating locations has never been quicker with Plaace. First out is a Dashboard to evaluate up to 4 locations - including 10 charts with relevant insights like movement, demographics and retail development.
Here's how you do it:
1. Go toΒ Dashboards, and select "Create Dashboard" in top-right corner.
2. Pick template "Compare Areas"
3. Select the Areas you want to evaluate and click "Create Dashboard"
π‘ Tip: You can also add more charts to the Dashboard, or edit titles and charts settings as you'd like.
π Pick and combine multiple Urban Areas
Make custom areas by choosing the exact spending areas you want to include. This gives you precise control over the analysis area, ensuring that the Spending insights align perfectly with your selected area.
Here's how to use it:
1. Select 'Urban Areas' in the Area type dropdown underΒ Area Insights.
2. Click the checkmark icon that appears to the right of the dropdown βοΈ.
3. Click each Urban Areas on the map you wish to include π©.
4. Name your combined area and click 'Confirm'.
π‘ Tip: Save the new area to a Dashboard for easy access later.
π Total Spending in Area
For areas like hubs and custom areas, you will automatically get the combined card transactions from the overlapping data source areas. This also works for any spending charts saved to dashboards.
January 2024
New features
π Demographics live in Denmark
π Duplicate a Dashboard and quickly swap any area as wanted
Improvements and bug fixes
π¨ Same look and feel for Spending charts
Weβve now upgraded the Spending charts to have the same look, feel and functionality as the rest of the charts. This makes it even easier to use in Dashboards, and you get some more powerful features like zoom within a chart, turn on or off a legend, etc.
π¨ New Municipality definitions in Norway for Spending
π¨ Map stays with the location youβve selected
December, 2023
New features
π Movement live in Denmark
π Demographics live in Sweden
π Christmas Dashboard
For the Christmas shopping period, we launched a live dashboard with daily updates of the spending in Norway. The Dashboard was accompanied by a visual report with key insights.
π 5-20min visits available
The Movement pattern chart now has the option to show visits lasting 5-20 minutes (not just 20min+ visits that was available before). This allows for a more detailed understanding of the visit patterns in an area.
Combine all Visits of 5min+: There is also the option to see the combined visits, i.e. to see all visits of 5min+.
Daily, Weekly or Monthly views of Visit patterns: For customers with paid access to daily Movement, the 5min+ visits are also available per day, week or month.
YEAR 2023
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YEAR 2022
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YEAR 2021
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YEAR 2020
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