Addressable Geofencing: Household-Level Targeting Guide

Standard geofencing targets anyone who walks through a virtual boundary. Addressable geofencing works the other way around: you start with a list of specific households and build the campaign around those addresses. That distinction sounds small. The operational difference is not.

IP address targeting reaches 25–40% of your intended households. Addressable geofencing, using plat line data matched to device graphs, reaches roughly 90% of the households on your list. When you're running a campaign against a known CRM file or a direct mail list, that gap determines whether you're reaching your audience or spending budget on whoever happens to be on the same subnet.

This guide covers how the technology works, what attribution actually means (and what it doesn't), what you'll pay across formats, which use cases produce consistent results, and the regulatory landscape that most vendors skip past. The goal is a framework for evaluating campaigns and platforms, and for answering "did this actually work?"

What Addressable Geofencing Actually Means (And How It Differs From Standard Geofencing)

Standard geofencing defines a geographic boundary — a radius around a store, a neighborhood polygon, a city block — and serves ads to any device that enters it. You don't know who you're reaching before they show up.

Addressable geofencing reverses that logic. The audience is defined first, by a list of physical addresses. The geofence is built around each address individually, using property boundary data rather than a radius. Ads are served to devices associated with those specific households — not to anyone nearby.

	Standard Geofencing	Addressable Geofencing
Targeting basis	Geographic area	Individual household addresses
Coverage of intended audience	25–40% (IP-based)	~90% match rate (ceiling, not floor)
Audience definition	Post-location (whoever enters)	Pre-campaign (your list)
Scale	Unlimited within the boundary	Up to 1 million addresses per campaign
Attribution capability	Basic click and impression tracking	Foot traffic lift, conversion zone, Geo-Conversion Lift

Addressable geofencing is audience-first advertising delivered through location infrastructure — closer to programmatic audience buying than traditional geofencing.

Here's what that means in practice: it has a higher floor for what it requires from you. You need a usable address list, a measurement setup with properly defined parameters, and a realistic interpretation of what the attribution data can and cannot tell you. Campaigns that skip those requirements produce numbers that are hard to defend — and clients who remember that.

[INTERNAL LINK: geo-fencing attribution methodology deep-dive]

How Household-Level Targeting Works: The Technical Stack

The 90% match rate is real, but it depends on several technical layers working correctly.

Plat Line Data and Property Matching

Plat line data comes from tax records and land survey databases. Every U.S. parcel has a legal boundary on record. Addressable geofencing platforms use these boundaries to build geofences that match actual property lines, not radius approximations.

This matters most in dense environments. A 300-foot radius around a single-family suburban home is close enough. The same radius in a city block encompasses dozens of apartments, retail storefronts, and offices that have nothing to do with your target household. Plat line boundaries confine the geofence to the exact footprint of the property on your list.

List quality hits first here. Addresses geocoded to a building centroid rather than a specific unit — common with older CRM exports — sometimes generate geofences centered on the wrong point or spanning multiple parcels. Edge cases in dense urban markets are worth flagging with the platform before a campaign launches.

Device Graph and Cross-Device Matching: Deterministic vs. Probabilistic

Once plat line boundaries are defined, the platform observes device IDs from location-enabled apps appearing within those boundaries. Multiple observed visits — not just a single pass-through — are required before a device is matched to a household. This reduces false positives from pedestrians and delivery drivers.

Deterministic matching uses authenticated, directly observed signals — a user logging into a known app at a specific address, a device registered to a household via a first-party data relationship. Match confidence is high. The limitation: deterministic signals are less available at scale.

Probabilistic matching uses statistical inference — modeling household association based on visit frequency, dwell time patterns, time-of-day behavior, and device cluster analysis. Match rates are higher; match confidence varies by data density in the market.

Most platforms use a hybrid approach. The 90% headline match rate typically reflects this. When a vendor claims 90%+ using "deterministic only," ask what percentage of their match inventory is truly deterministic. The answer is usually lower than the headline implies.

Once a device is matched to a household, ad serving extends across devices for up to 30 days, regardless of location. Household identity graphs extend matching to desktops and CTV screens that don't generate GPS signals.

The data tells a different story than most vendors present it: the geofence is the identification mechanism, not the delivery mechanism. The ad impression happens wherever the matched device is, not just inside the fence.

Mailing List Onboarding and Data Providers

Addressable geofencing works with several address list types:

CRM lists: Your existing customer database, segmented by purchase history, account type, or lifecycle stage
Direct mail lists: Any list you'd put in the mail — the two channels are designed to work together
Demographic purchase lists: Third-party lists built using 1,500+ demographic and behavioral variables

The onboarding process strips PII before activation. Addresses are matched against the device graph and converted to anonymous device IDs — no personally identifiable data is transferred to the platform.

When you don't have a list, most platforms offer curated audience segments built on property and behavioral data. Precision decreases versus using your own first-party list, but targeting remains household-level rather than area-based.

The 90% figure is the ceiling under ideal conditions. Three variables reduce real-world match rates:

List recency. Addresses 18–24 months old carry more mobility events, vacancies, and ownership changes. The U.S. Census Bureau reports 12–15% of the population moves each year — an 18-month-old address file has already been partially invalidated.
Multi-family addresses. Apartment complexes are harder to resolve to individual households. Device graphs see many devices associated with a single building address.
Privacy-related signal loss. Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework (released 2021) materially reduced location signal availability on iOS — more pronounced in younger, tech-aware demographics.

Run your list against a data quality tool before onboarding if it hasn't been refreshed in the past year.

Attribution: The Part Everyone Gets Wrong

Attribution is where most "did this actually work?" conversations go sideways. The problem isn't that the technology doesn't measure anything — it's that what it measures is frequently misrepresented.

Conversion Zone Tracking — What It Is and How to Set It Up

A conversion zone is a separate geofence placed around the advertiser's physical location. When a device that received an impression subsequently enters the conversion zone, that's recorded as a conversion.

The setup parameters you define before launch determine whether those numbers mean anything:

Polygon precision. The conversion zone should match the actual business footprint — not a radius that includes the competitor's parking lot, and not so tight it misses people in your entryway.

Dwell time minimum. This is the most underused parameter in conversion zone setup. A device passing through in 45 seconds is almost certainly a delivery driver or pedestrian. A 5-minute minimum filters those out. Define what counts as a visit before the campaign starts, not after results come in.

Employee exclusion. Your staff generates conversion zone hits every shift. Most platforms allow device exclusion by geographic origin. Skip this and your foot traffic numbers are inflated from day one.

These are methodology choices that determine whether the results you present are defensible.

Geo-Conversion Lift: Measuring Incremental Impact

Foot traffic counts tell you how many ad-exposed devices visited your location. They don't tell you how many visits were caused by the ad.

Geo-Conversion Lift isolates the incremental effect. It compares the visit rate of the exposed group against a control group (matched devices that didn't receive impressions). The lift percentage represents visits attributable to the campaign above baseline.

What the numbers show: the Simpli.fi ice cream chain study produced a 68.89% Geo-Conversion Lift. More significantly, users who received both digital ads and direct mail converted 16 times faster than those who received direct mail alone. (Source: Simpli.fi published case studies.)

A NBCU Local QSR campaign attributed 186,000 store visits with a $3.52 cost per attributed visit and $2.4 million in measured sales revenue — a 4X ROAS. (Source: NBCU Local, published campaign results.) That figure is meaningful because it was measured against a control, not from total foot traffic counts.

This is how addressable geofencing should be measured. Not by total foot traffic. By incremental foot traffic relative to what would have happened without the campaign.

Attribution Limits — What You Can and Can't Claim

Here's the honest version that vendor presentations skip: attribution models estimate lift. They don't prove causation.

A device that received your ad and then visited your store may have been planning to visit anyway. Geo-Conversion Lift accounts for this using a control group, but the control group is modeled, not a true randomized controlled trial. The lift figure is a meaningful estimate, not a clinical measurement.

Geo-Conversion Lift tells you: "the exposed group visited more than the control group, by this margin." It doesn't tell you: "the ad was the specific reason each of those visits happened." The honest answer to "did this work?" is "probably, and here's the evidence" — not "definitively, here's the proof."

What makes attribution defensible in client presentations is a measurement framework that's transparent about methodology:

Exposure definition: What counts as a valid impression? Single view, or frequency threshold?
Visit definition: Conversion zone parameters and dwell time requirement?
Attribution window: How long after exposure does a visit count? (30 days is common; shorter windows are more conservative.)
Control methodology: How was the control group constructed?

When a client asks "did this actually work?" the right answer isn't "yes, we drove 4,200 store visits." It's "we drove 68% incremental foot traffic above baseline, measured against a control group, with a 5-minute dwell minimum." That answer is defensible. The first one is marketing.

ZIP+4 Reporting and Campaign Optimization

Most programmatic platforms report at the campaign or ad group level. Addressable geofencing can report at ZIP+4 — geographic granularity that identifies which specific address clusters are driving conversions.

This answers the question practitioners ask on every campaign: "Which pockets of my list are actually performing?" ZIP+4 breakdowns let you identify high-performing clusters and shift budget toward them in subsequent flights, rather than serving uniformly across a list with uneven performance.

When the same address clusters consistently convert across multiple flights, that pattern becomes evidence of campaign effectiveness that's harder to dismiss as coincidence or organic traffic.

What Addressable Geofencing Cannot Do

It can't replace brand-level reach campaigns. You can only target households you already know about or can identify from third-party data. For true awareness campaigns — reaching consumers not on any list — broader programmatic inventory at lower CPMs is more appropriate. Addressable geofencing at $8–$12 CPM for brand awareness against an unknown audience is overpaying.

It can't confirm individual-level attribution. The methodology matches device IDs to household IDs to visit events. It doesn't tell you which person in the household saw the ad, whether they were the decision-maker, or whether the ad was the deciding factor. The conversion event is at the device/household level, not the individual.

It can't reliably match low-quality lists. The 90% match rate depends on current, accurate residential addresses. Lists from survey opt-ins, sweepstakes entries, or aged B2C data have structural quality problems no matching technology fully compensates for. Garbage in, garbage out.

It can't guarantee attributed visits translate to revenue. A conversion zone visit is a visit — not a purchase. In categories with low visit-to-purchase rates, foot traffic attribution will consistently overstate actual revenue contribution. Evaluate campaigns against the right proxy metric for the category.

It can't substitute for compliance review in regulated categories. Healthcare geofencing restrictions exist independently of what any vendor's platform allows technically. No platform's compliance certifications transfer legal responsibility from the campaign operator.

Addressable Geofencing Pricing — What You Actually Pay

CPM Benchmarks by Format

Format	Typical CPM Range
Mobile + desktop display	$6–$15 (typical: $8–$12)
Video ads	$15–$25
CTV/OTT	$20–$60
Advanced behavioral targeting overlay	$20–$25

Setup fees range from $500 to $2,000. Monthly minimums range from $1,500 at entry-level platforms to $10,000+ for enterprise/managed platforms like GroundTruth.

The comparison that stops the "why is this so expensive" conversation: Google Display CPMs run $0.50–$2.00. Addressable geofencing at $8–$12 CPM is 5–10x higher. What you're buying is verified household-level identity, plat line precision, and attribution infrastructure that Google Display doesn't provide.

The ROI math supports the premium when the campaign is structured correctly. A QSR campaign (NBCU Local) attributed 186,000 store visits at $3.52 cost per attributed visit and $2.4M in revenue — a 4X ROAS. A Volvo dealership campaign (Propellant Media) drove 130+ showroom visitors at $21 per visit. The cost-per-visit framing makes the CPM premium legible to clients who think in outcomes, not impression costs.

The premium isn't justified for awareness campaigns without a physical conversion point. Match the format to the measurement objective.

Mid-market buyers frequently encounter the access problem: enterprise platforms require minimums that price out smaller clients or single-location retailers. Geogrammatic is built for this segment — precision household targeting and attribution without the $10,000 monthly floor.

[INTERNAL LINK: geofencing CPM benchmarks and budget allocation guide]

Campaign Use Cases That Deliver the Best Results

Addressable geofencing performs best with a known audience list, a physical conversion point to measure, and a purchase cycle long enough that 30-day device tracking adds meaningful value.

Retail and Brick-and-Mortar

The most documented use case. Drive traffic from a known customer file (loyalty members, lapsed customers, high-value segments) or a conquest list. The primary KPI is cost per attributed visit, not CTR.

Documented benchmarks: $3.52 per attributed visit (QSR, NBCU Local), $21 per showroom visit (Volvo, Propellant Media).

The segments that consistently outperform are lapsed customers at 90–180 days of inactivity and loyalty members who haven't redeemed in 60+ days. Recency and purchase history beat demographic overlays when first-party data is strong.

Automotive Dealerships

Two distinct applications:

Lease renewal targeting. Addresses of customers approaching lease end are known from the CRM. Serving ads to those households in the 90 days before lease expiration — when they're actively considering options — is a natural application.

Competitor conquesting. Geofence a competing dealership's lot. Devices observed there during a defined window are matched and added to a retargeting audience. Serve that audience for 30 days following their competitor visit, when purchase intent is confirmed but the decision isn't finalized.

Long purchase cycles suit addressable geofencing. The Propellant Media Volvo campaign documented 130+ showroom visits at $21 per attributed visit — defensible for a category where the average transaction is $40,000+.

[INTERNAL LINK: geo-conquesting strategies for automotive dealerships]

Real Estate

Neighborhood farming. An agent's target territory defined by a list of homeowner addresses. Addressable geofencing delivers ads to those specific households across mobile, desktop, and CTV — reinforcing brand presence without spending budget on renters outside the farm area.

New mover targeting. Lists of households that recently completed a real estate transaction are commercially available. New owners who bought with another agent are potential future sellers; new renters may be future buyers. Both segments are addressable from the first week of residency.

The limitation in real estate: the purchase cycle extends well beyond 30 days, and the conversion event doesn't happen at a physical location that can be geofenced. Attribution typically requires CRM integration or custom event tracking rather than foot traffic lift measurement.

Healthcare and Pharma (with Compliance Caveats)

Patient retention campaigns — seasonal reminders, annual check-up prompts, prescription refill messaging — reduce wasted impressions on non-patients.

The regulatory picture here is materially different. See the compliance section before proceeding with any healthcare campaign.

Direct Mail Amplification

The most underutilized application. Any address list going into a direct mail campaign can simultaneously power an addressable geofencing campaign.

The data on this pairing is the strongest available: the Simpli.fi ice cream chain study produced a 68.89% Geo-Conversion Lift and a 16x faster conversion rate for households that received both mail and digital versus mail alone. (Source: Simpli.fi published case studies.)

Coordinate the mail drop date with the digital flight schedule. Start digital 3–5 days before mail drops; maintain it 7–10 days after. The mail piece and digital ads should look like the same campaign, because they are.

B2B and Trade Show Applications

Event geofencing captures device IDs from conference attendees during the event, then retargets those devices for 30 days — converting a single moment of intent into sustained follow-up.

Business district applications work similarly: geofence corporate campuses, industrial parks, or office corridors where target job titles are concentrated. Dwell time data filters actual employees from delivery traffic.

The practical limitation for B2B: professional targeting by job title or company is more precise through LinkedIn or ABM platforms using authenticated data. Addressable geofencing in B2B is most valuable as a supplement — reinforcing the same accounts across personal devices and CTV — not as the primary targeting mechanism.

Regulatory Compliance — What Household Targeting Requires Now

Ninety-five percent of U.S. advertising and data decision-makers expect continued legislation and signal loss, per the IAB State of Data 2024 report. The regulatory picture for location data is tightening. The healthcare sector has moved from guidance to enforcement.

CCPA (California)

CCPA defines "personal information" to include data linked to a particular consumer or household. Household-level geofencing data falls within this definition. CCPA also prohibits profiling consumers based on presence at "sensitive locations" — healthcare facilities, pharmacies, domestic violence shelters, food pantries, educational institutions, political offices, legal services offices, union offices, and places of worship.

Data minimization — collecting only what's required for the specific campaign objective — has been the California AG's primary enforcement focus.

Washington State — My Health My Data Act

Washington's MHMD Act bans geofencing within 2,000 feet of any entity that provides in-person health care services when used to identify or track consumers seeking health care, collect health data, or send related notifications. Legal analysts at Benesch Law (2024 recap) characterize this as an effective "outright ban" given the 2,000-foot radius and the absence of a consent exception.

MHMD includes a private right of action. Individuals can sue — not just the state AG. That changes the risk calculus for any campaign near healthcare facilities in Washington.

Nevada and Connecticut

Nevada's 2024 health privacy law (SB 370, analyzed by Miller Nash) prohibits geofencing healthcare facilities within 1,750 feet for tracking, data collection, or ad targeting. Connecticut prohibits geofencing within 1,750 feet of mental health facilities and reproductive or sexual health facilities. Both restrictions apply regardless of whether the advertiser is a healthcare company — the restriction is on proximity to the facility, not the nature of the advertiser.

California AB-45 (Effective 2026)

California AB-45 prohibits collection, use, sale, or sharing of personal information derived from geolocation data within 1,850 feet of covered family-planning facilities, enforceable in 2026. (Source: Goodwin Law analysis of AB-45.)

Compliance Framework for Practitioners

Before any campaign adjacent to healthcare or other sensitive location categories:

Map the campaign geography against sensitive location databases. Verify fence boundaries stay outside state-required buffers before activating near any medical district, hospital, or clinic.
Audit the conversion zone for healthcare facility proximity. A retail client whose store is near a pharmacy may inadvertently capture data from consumers entering the pharmacy.
Check whether the target address list was sourced from health-related data. Lists built using health condition flags or pharmacy data have separate compliance requirements under HIPAA and state laws.
Document data minimization practices. Collect location data necessary for campaign delivery and attribution. Do not retain it beyond what was disclosed.

Healthcare restrictions are operational today. Financial and political sensitive location rules are under active development in multiple states. Building compliance review into campaign setup is significantly less expensive than addressing enforcement later.

No platform's privacy certification removes the campaign operator's compliance obligation.

Platform Selection — Matching the Tool to the Campaign

The vendor landscape has a fragmentation problem. No single platform does everything well.

Platform	Core Strength	Best For
Simpli.fi	GPS + plat line addressable targeting; full DSP/DMP/SSP stack	Household-level precision, direct mail pairing campaigns
GroundTruth	"Verified Visits" foot traffic methodology, Blueprints location mapping	Retail brands with foot traffic lift as primary KPI
Foursquare	Location intelligence, 100M+ POI database, 550+ media partner integrations	Attribution measurement layer across multiple channels
Vistar Media	Programmatic digital out-of-home	DOOH delivery alongside mobile/CTV

Simpli.fi pioneered the format. Its plat line data and GPS-based matching infrastructure make it the strongest choice when household-level precision and direct mail amplification are the objectives.

GroundTruth is the strongest choice when foot traffic verification is the primary deliverable. Managed contracts typically run $10,000 or more per campaign.

Foursquare is best as the measurement and intelligence layer rather than the primary buy platform. Its POI database and cross-channel attribution infrastructure serve campaigns that need to measure across channels beyond geofencing inventory.

What to evaluate when selecting a platform:

Match rate methodology: deterministic matches, probabilistic matches, or both — and in what proportion?
Attribution transparency: can the platform show you control group construction, not just the lift figure?
Minimum spend requirements: do they match your client's budget?
Privacy compliance certifications: particularly relevant for healthcare, retail pharmacy, and financial services.
Data retention policies: how long is location data held after campaign end?

Most campaigns end up using multiple platforms for different functions. Managing campaigns across those environments is where reporting becomes a full-time job. Platforms designed to span that gap — precision targeting, delivery, and attribution in a unified environment — address the pain point that most specialized tools create. Geogrammatic is built on exactly that premise: the attribution chain from ad impression to store visit, not just impression delivery.

How to Set Up an Addressable Geofencing Campaign

Step 1: Audit and prepare your address list.

Run your list through a data quality check before onboarding. Remove addresses older than 18–24 months. Flag multi-family and apartment addresses — they'll match, but at lower confidence. Evaluate list append options if your list is older or thin.

Step 2: Define the campaign objective and primary KPI before choosing a platform.

Foot traffic lift, cost per attributed visit, and incremental store visits imply different measurement setups. Decide which one you're measuring before the campaign starts. Platform selection follows from the KPI.

Step 3: Select creative formats based on budget.

Mobile display is appropriate for tighter budgets. Adding CTV extends reach to the same household across screens — GroundTruth data shows a 61% increase in store visits from CTV + mobile combined versus mobile alone.

Step 4: Set up conversion zones with proper parameters.

Define the polygon to match the actual business footprint. Set a dwell time minimum (5 minutes is a reasonable default for retail). Enable employee exclusion if the platform supports it. Document these parameters before launch so the results conversation starts from a shared definition of what counts as a visit.

Step 5: Define your measurement framework.

Before the campaign goes live, write down: the exposure definition, the attribution window, and the control methodology. Clients who receive this framework before the campaign starts ask better questions during it and accept results more readily at the end.

Step 6: Establish ZIP+4 reporting baseline.

Request ZIP+4 breakdowns from campaign start, not just at the end. Midcampaign optimization — shifting impressions toward high-performing address clusters — is where ROI improves between flights.

Step 7: Set the client's attribution expectations before results come in.

It's the step that gets skipped most often. When a client knows that foot traffic lift is an estimate based on a control methodology — not a GPS-confirmed count of customers — the "did this actually work?" conversation starts from the right place.

Common Mistakes That Make Addressable Geofencing Campaigns Fail

Treating vendor match rate claims as guaranteed outcomes. The 90% figure reflects a fresh, high-quality residential list. A 3-year-old CRM file with 30% apartment addresses in a privacy-restrictive market will match at a meaningfully lower rate. Set expectations based on your actual list characteristics.

Setting conversion zones without dwell time minimums. Without a dwell minimum, you're counting delivery drivers and pedestrians as conversions. Default to 5 minutes and document it.

Skipping the control group. Without a control, you can't separate organic foot traffic from ad-driven foot traffic. Total foot traffic is not attribution. If the platform doesn't offer control group methodology, that should factor into your platform selection.

Conflating foot traffic lift with revenue attribution. Foot traffic lift measures visits above baseline — not purchases, average order value, or customer lifetime value. In categories with high browse-to-buy ratios, foot traffic attribution will overstate revenue contribution without an additional measurement step.

Ignoring CPM tier decisions. A mobile-dominant audience doesn't need CTV spend. A brand awareness campaign without a physical conversion point is buying at the wrong CPM tier. Match the format to the objective.

Not preparing the client for the attribution conversation before the campaign runs. Present the methodology upfront. Let the client push back on parameters before the campaign launches, not after the numbers disappoint.

Using addressable geofencing for healthcare campaigns without auditing state-level regulations first. The restrictions are specific about distances, specific about enforcement mechanisms, and not uniformly understood by practitioners. Compliance review before activation, not after.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between geofencing and addressable geofencing?

Standard geofencing defines a geographic area and reaches any device that enters it. Addressable geofencing starts with a list of specific household addresses and targets only devices associated with those households, using property boundary data (plat lines) rather than a radius. The result is audience-first targeting that reaches roughly 90% of your intended list, versus IP-based methods that reach 25–40%.

How does addressable geofencing match devices to specific households?

Platforms observe device IDs from location-enabled apps appearing within plat line boundaries over time. Multiple observed visits establish the household association. Platforms use deterministic matching (authenticated signals) and probabilistic matching (statistical inference from visit behavior) in combination. Once matched, the relationship extends across additional devices — smartphones, desktops, CTV — via an identity graph. No PII is transferred; matching happens within the platform's data environment.

What is a realistic match rate for addressable geofencing?

Vendor benchmarks of 90% represent ceiling performance with a fresh, high-quality residential list. Real-world rates depend on list recency, the proportion of multi-family addresses, and privacy-related signal loss. Lists older than 18–24 months with significant apartment address representation will match at lower rates. Run a list quality audit before campaign launch.

What CPM should I expect to pay for addressable geofencing?

Mobile and desktop display runs $6–$15 CPM (typical: $8–$12). Video runs $15–$25 CPM. CTV and OTT run $20–$60 CPM. Advanced behavioral targeting overlays add $20–$25 CPM. Setup fees are $500–$2,000; monthly minimums range from $1,500 at entry-level platforms to $10,000+ for managed enterprise platforms.

Can I use addressable geofencing for healthcare campaigns?

With significant restrictions. Washington State's My Health My Data Act bans geofencing within 2,000 feet of healthcare facilities and includes a private right of action. Nevada restricts geofencing within 1,750 feet of healthcare facilities; Connecticut restricts within 1,750 feet of mental health and reproductive health facilities. California AB-45 (effective 2026) restricts geofencing within 1,850 feet of family planning facilities. Any healthcare-adjacent campaign requires a state-by-state compliance review before activation.

Location data practices and the regulatory landscape described in this article are subject to change as state legislation continues to evolve. This article reflects the regulatory environment as of early 2026. Practitioners should conduct their own compliance review for any campaign involving healthcare, financial services, or other regulated categories — the information here is for reference, not legal advice.

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Facts to Verify:

IP address targeting coverage: 25–40% (cited from GetGeofencing, geofencing.com)
Addressable geofencing match rate: 90% ceiling (cited from multiple vendors)
Geofencing market size: $2.65B in 2024, projected $12.23B by 2032 (Fortune Business Insights)
Geofencing CTR: 7.5% average vs. Facebook 0.9% (Reveal Mobile)
Simpli.fi ice cream chain: 68.89% Geo-Conversion Lift, 16x faster conversion (Simpli.fi case study)
QSR Chicken Brand: 186K attributed store visits, $3.52 CPA, 4X ROAS (NBCU Local)
GroundTruth: 61% store visit increase from CTV + mobile combined vs. mobile alone
Volvo dealership: 130+ showroom visitors at $21 per visit (Propellant Media)
Washington MHMD: outright geofencing ban + private right of action (Benesch Law 2024 recap)
Nevada: 1,750-foot healthcare restriction (Miller Nash / SB 370)
Connecticut: 1,750-foot healthcare facility restriction (confirmed)
NOTE: Colorado 2,000-foot claim REMOVED — no Colorado-specific healthcare geofencing distance restriction confirmed. Washington's 2,000-foot restriction was misattributed to Colorado.
California AB-45: 1,850-foot family planning facility restriction, effective 2026 (Goodwin Law)
GroundTruth managed minimums: ~$10K+ per campaign (TrustRadius)
IAB: 95% of ad/data decision-makers expect continued legislation (IAB State of Data 2024)
U.S. annual mobility rate: 12–15% per year (U.S. Census Bureau) — added for list recency context
Apple ATT framework launched 2021 — added for iOS signal loss context

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