🆚 Foursquare vs. Microsoft Invest
- 📈 Microsoft Invest is much more popular than Foursquare.
- 🌎 Microsoft Invest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
- 🌍 Foursquare is more popular in Greece, Vietnam, and Serbia.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Legacy technology
Legacy technology
About
The Foursquare City Guide was a location-based social networking app that allowed users to discover and review local businesses and attractions. It was discontinued in 2025.
Microsoft Invest was a demand-side ad management platform created after Microsoft's acquisition of Xandr to facilitate programmatic media buying.
Microsoft later retired the standalone platform to consolidate its advertising technologies and integrate buy-side capabilities directly into 
Microsoft Advertising.
Headquarters
New York, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️ Community user
Enterprise Custom
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Microsoft Invest legacy technology is 8 times more popular than Foursquare.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Microsoft Invest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, while Foursquare is more popular in Greece, Vietnam, and Serbia.
United States
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Turkey
Australia
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
Canada
Awards
- ⬆️ 41st most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Norway in the Advertising category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Finland in the Advertising category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Norway in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Mexico in the Advertising category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in France in the Advertising category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Microsoft Invest is more popular than Foursquare in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
General News
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Finance/Banking
Travel
Health
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.