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Checking In Or Checking Out? Predicting The Future Of The Check-In Industry

by Anvil on April 22, 2011Local SearchMobile

Checking In Or Checking Out? Predicting The Future Of The Check-In Industry

by Anvil on April 22, 2011Local Search

When was the last time you had a friend check in somewhere on one of the social media location-based properties?  No, really.  Can you remember the last time?  I have about 160 friends on Facebook, a little over the average of 130, and I maybe have had 1 or 2 friends in the last month check in somewhere.  Even the few friends that I do have on Foursquare, few are still checking in.  This is bad news for Foursquare and all of their competitors, especially given how hot checking-in was only 12 months ago.

But what’s going to happen to these companies?  And where is the industry headed (besides off a cliff)?  To help answer that, I tapped the collective wisdom off the staff at Anvil Media and our sister company, Formic Media to help predict where the check-in industry is headed over the next couple years.

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