May 17, 2022

The Placewise Marketplace Performance Cloud (MPC), a digital operating system developed for retail real estate, will be integrated at 45 shopping centers to provide the most advanced modern shopping experience to NEPI’s combined annual 244 million shoppers.

April 15, 2022

It's become evident data is key to the future of e-commerce, but it's also key to the future of physical retail. Traditionally, tenants and landlords had little data beyond traffic counts for physical locations. But, with malls now building apps and providing wifi, the opportunity is significant.

March 26, 2022

Placewise helps mall owners and operators get in on the e-commerce bonanza that’s rapidly transforming the way their tenants do business.

February 1, 2022

We know from our work with more than 1,100 shopping centers in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific that the store is making a comeback. The difference this time is that landlords and shopping center operators know they need to have a direct relationship with consumers so they can better serve them.

January 31, 2022

As larger department stores innovate with content and change how the function of their retail space, traditional shopping malls are beginning to catch up with technology-led solutions.

December 22, 2021

Malls came into existence in the early 20th-century, but the concept took off after WWII when suburban life took hold, and the demand for a local shopping destination increased.

November 29, 2021

From transforming internal communications in shopping centres to taking the entire inventory of physical malls online, there are plenty of reasons for retail real estate landlords to embrace the potential of proptech today.

November 23, 2021

In a recent survey of nearly 600 American consumers, we found that 87% of the respondents are interested in a digital marketplace offering from their shopping center on which they can browse the center’s complete content, make several purchases with one transaction, and pick up the entire order in one location or have it delivered.

November 11, 2021

6 in 10 Say They'd Buy Mall Merchandise Online

November 8, 2021

A digital marketplace is an indispensable integration element for shopping centers.

October 21, 2021

Will Inventory Challenges be the ‘Grinch’ of 2021?

September 8, 2021

During the pandemic, technology and digital innovations helped save much of the brick-and-mortar shopping center industry from a dire demise. But what will the digital property platform look like in a post-pandemic world?

September 7, 2021

One company is working towards a vision where all products in a given shopping center will be available for purchase online, with multi-retailer payment, delivery/pick-up and returns. Tyler Kern asks the CEO of Placewise, Peter Tonstad; How he envisions the future of shopping centers to be one ecosystem instead of individual parts?

August 11, 2021

Annual Awards Program Recognizes Innovation in the Global Real Estate Technology Industry

August 2, 2021

The company is piloting a marketplace platform that curates inventory at malls.

June 30, 2021

Operating as a “Marketplace Performance Cloud” for more than 1,050 shopping centers across the U.S., Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Placewise provides technology to shopping centers so that all products in a given location, across its slate of retail stores, will be available for purchase in a central, integrated online marketplace that includes multi-retailer payment, in-store pick up and returns.

April 22, 2021

From interactive wayfinding kiosks to curbside pickup, from same-day delivery to centralized merchandise returns and varying degrees of online shopping, retail landlords are stepping up investment in shopping center-wide technologies.

August 31, 2020

Peter Tonstad, CEO of Placewise (formerly Boostcom), announced today the company's name change, complete rebranding and the launch of its new website.

June 23, 2020

“It is evident that digital reach for malls will be more important than ever before as the world emerges from Covid-19.”

April 26, 2020

“If history is an indication of the future, consumers, having been in home isolation, will enthusiastically return to the mall to shop, dine, and be entertained.”

April 7, 2020

No one believes this will last forever and most believe that the underlying economy will bounce back once an all clear is sounded.

February 27, 2020

The ACROSS Advisory Board is happy to announce its latest addition and welcomes Peter Tonstad as its new member.

January 29, 2020

The Infinity platform for shopping centres reaches an engagement of more than 50% between its users every month

December 11, 2019

As digital transformation opens new opportunities, more shopping center operators look to Boostcom for digital solutions.

October 22, 2019

PlaceWise Digital and Boostcom announced today the merger of the two companies, bringing together the world’s most comprehensive suite of digital solutions available to the global shopping center industry. The strategic focus for both companies has been and will remain - connecting the physical and digital shopping experiences to the benefit of consumers and shopping centers alike.

June 13, 2019

With court rulings now extending ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) accessibility requirements to the digital space, savvy shopping center operators are embracing the opportunities compliance opens...

March 20, 2019

Boostcom, the world’s leading proptech supplier for shopping malls, has acquired iColumn in Asia. The companies help increase shopping centre revenues, both instore and online.

June 28, 2018

“The Infinity platform will allow us to perfectly know 60% of the shopping center visitors in 5 years’ time”

February 1, 2018

Boostcom strengthens global market-leading position by asset purchase deal with Mall-Connect in the Netherlands