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Insights, tips, and news about guest WiFi, analytics, marketing automation, and venue technology.

Navigating the Indoors: The Challenges of indoor positioning technology

Navigating the Indoors: The Challenges of indoor positioning technology

The Babylonian World Map is believed to be humanity's first attempt at depicting the known world. Etched into clay tablets and estimated to date as far back as

3 May 2023
Restaurant WiFi: The benefits and strategies to drive revenue

Restaurant WiFi: The benefits and strategies to drive revenue

Restaurant WiFi has become a powerful tool among the world's leading brands as a way to connect with customers and drive in-venue spending like never before.

29 March 2023
The road to increased revenue with the Purple Partner Programme

The road to increased revenue with the Purple Partner Programme

On 14th February 2023, Purple launched its new Purple Partner Programme. The rate of growth seen by Purple and the indoor location services market has clearly

3 March 2023
Purple announces the launch of the Purple Partner Programme

Purple announces the launch of the Purple Partner Programme

The new programme provides a market-leading opportunity for resellers and referral partners to generate additional revenue. By leveraging Purple's market knowledge

14 February 2023
CentraCare Partners with Purple to Implement a New Digital Wayfinding Solution to Support Patient Experience at St. Cloud Hospital

CentraCare Partners with Purple to Implement a New Digital Wayfinding Solution to Support Patient Experience at St. Cloud Hospital

CentraCare has selected Purple as an approved vendor for digital wayfinding at CentraCare – St. Cloud Hospital. The collaboration of these two innovative

9 February 2023
Arena WiFi: Understand your fans and drive superior engagement

Arena WiFi: Understand your fans and drive superior engagement

Arenas across the globe are continually looking to embrace the latest technologies that effectively provide visitors with memorable experiences while delivering

3 February 2023
Why big tech is backing Purple in a major way: An interview with Chris Dedicoat

Why big tech is backing Purple in a major way: An interview with Chris Dedicoat

After a 23-year stint in Silicon Valley - and working across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa - Cisco's former Executive Vice President (EVP), Chris Dedicoat

31 January 2023
Altitude Trampoline Park partners with Purple to enhance visitor experiences

Altitude Trampoline Park partners with Purple to enhance visitor experiences

Purple announced today that they have entered into a strategic partnership with Altitude Trampoline Park, a world-premier trampoline facility, with the aim

23 January 2023
The importance of collecting real-time passenger feedback

The importance of collecting real-time passenger feedback

Providing internet access to passengers is an essential part of the airport experience. However, it can also be a challenge for airports to provide a secure

20 January 2023
Why retailers should utilise reward programmes to enhance customer loyalty

Why retailers should utilise reward programmes to enhance customer loyalty

Customer loyalty is one of the most important variables for retailers to consider when forecasting revenue, but in this post-Covid environment where consumers a

20 December 2022
The world's strictest data protection laws and how the Purple Platform can enable you to comply

The world's strictest data protection laws and how the Purple Platform can enable you to comply

What is data protection and data privacy? The concept of the right to privacy emerged in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the

13 December 2022
Purple welcomes Palm Beach International Airport as a new business partner

Purple welcomes Palm Beach International Airport as a new business partner

Purple and Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) announced today their strategic partnership aimed at capturing feedback from travellers that will inform PBI of

9 November 2022
Purple launches partnership with Dallas Area Rapid Transit

Purple launches partnership with Dallas Area Rapid Transit

The strategic partnership aims to increase DART's customer record collection, and the quality of the data by implementing Purple's Guest WiFi solution, a brande

2 November 2022
What does successful promotional marketing look like? A Purple guide

What does successful promotional marketing look like? A Purple guide

Successful promotional marketing allows businesses to grow and scale over time creating brand loyalty and recognition. In this blog, we're going to cover how

2 November 2022
What is promotional marketing?: Defined, informed, and strategised

What is promotional marketing?: Defined, informed, and strategised

Promotional marketing is a collection of meaningful actions that drive knowledge about a brand, product, or service. Businesses use promotional marketing to

1 November 2022
Intelligent Healthcare: How real-time location services benefit patient experiences and boost hospital efficiency

Intelligent Healthcare: How real-time location services benefit patient experiences and boost hospital efficiency

95% of hospitals are planning to increase their utilisation of real-time locating technology. By implementing additional solutions, healthcare facilities will

3 October 2022
The power of customer surveys in fashion retail

The power of customer surveys in fashion retail

Customer surveys in all retail environments have been vital to the long-term success and survival of some of the world's leading brands, and yet they are not

8 September 2022
Unified commerce: Retail survival through complete personalisation

Unified commerce: Retail survival through complete personalisation

The future is not fully digital or purely physical, it will be a complex hybrid that retailers are witnessing as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely

4 August 2022