- Type
- not stated
- Format
- Mixed — identity/CRM records (structured person rows with consent metadata, streamed out to dotdigital, Mailchimp, Placewise or 400+ other connectors) plus high-frequency device-presence event streams aggregated into zone dwell/flow series, heatmaps and white-label tenant reports
- Volume
- Very large passive layer over a modest identity layer — est. hundreds of millions to billions of WiFi detection/association events per year (a flagship centre at 270,000 visitors/week, each presenting one or more probe-able devices across multiple visits and zones, generates well over 10M presence events/year per centre), against roughly 75K identifiable CRM records/year at that same centre (6,362/month observed). Identity records across the estate are therefore low millions; presence events are two to three orders larger.
- Users
- Large and quantified per venue — St James Quarter alone sees 270,000 visitors a week and produced 16,743 WiFi sign-ins in a single July month, of which 6,362 became new CRM records; Highcross Leicester opts in 80% of shoppers. Across the named estate of flagship centres plus Purple's wider venue base, the consented shopper database is plausibly in the low millions of identifiable records, with a far larger population of passively detected (non-consented) devices.
- History
- 10 years
- Update frequency
- not stated
- Growth
- Active and established — a venture-backed 180-person company with ~$31.7M revenue, a current product page with a live client roster of flagship assets, and expansion across both UK and US locales plus 400+ integration connectors. Growth is tied to venue onboarding and to WiFi's mature (some would say declining as a signal source) installed base.
- Launched
- ~2012-2014 (est.: Purple established itself in Manchester as a venue-WiFi marketing company well before the current purple.ai rebrand and is now a 180-person venture-backed firm — a maturity that implies a decade-plus operating history)
- Delivery
- not stated
- Entity mapping
- not stated
- Sample
- not stated
- Point-in-time
- not stated
- Licence
- not stated