Free intelligence report2025 edition · US

The pizza universe, mapped.

Every month, Skydeo tracks where America eats pizza. This is the full 2025 picture—from foot traffic and brand power to the audiences behind every visit.

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US pizza signal142,241,980visits observed
142Mtracked pizza visits
72Munique consumers
78K+pizza locations

The big picture

Pizza isn’t one market. It’s millions of local decisions.

The category looks universal from a distance. Up close, it is sharply regional, stubbornly loyal and highly seasonal. Location intelligence turns those patterns into something marketers can act on.

01 · Foot traffic

Where the country actually eats pizza

California and Texas lead total observed traffic, but the signal is nationwide. Each bar represents tracked 2025 visits.

  1. CA
    California
    7.27M
  2. TX
    Texas
    7.07M
  3. NY
    New York
    6.58M
  4. PA
    Pennsylvania
    5.66M
  5. FL
    Florida
    5.08M
  6. OH
    Ohio
    4.82M

02 · Brand power

The pizza foot-traffic leaderboard

Independent restaurants collectively dominate. Among named chains, Hunt Brothers’ convenience-store footprint creates an outsized national signal.

Brand2025 tracked visitsLocations
01Independent restaurants
89.2M
44,618
02Hunt Brothers Pizza
15.4M
8,983
03Domino’s
9.3M
6,747
04Pizza Hut
6.6M
5,151
05Little Caesars
5.5M
3,353
06Papa Johns
4.5M
2,466

03 · Seasonality

When America reaches for a slice

Demand surges early in the year and again in fall. October reached the highest observed volume in this reporting window.

Peak month16.82MOctober tracked visits
Monthly visitsMillions
Monthly tracked pizza visits in 2025Visits start at 15.71 million in January, fall to 3.47 million in June, and peak at 16.82 million in October.
Jan15.7Feb16.7Mar15.2Apr15.5May10.1Jun3.5Jul9.2Aug9.7Sep15.3Oct16.8Nov14.5

Behavior

Pizza is a loyalty business.

95.6%visited one pizza brand
Loyal · one brand68.94M
Switchers · two brands3.01M
Multi-brand · three+187K

04 · Geography

The local markets driving volume

Market-level patterns expose opportunities a national average can’t: store gaps, competitive strongholds and neighborhood-level demand.

01

Kansas City

MO

1.69M visits
02

New York

NY

1.11M visits
03

Gilbertsville

PA

918K visits
04

Bronx

NY

879K visits
05

Brooklyn

NY

769K visits
06

Philadelphia

PA

696K visits

05 · Audience OS

Know the people behind the places.

Foot traffic tells you what happened. Skydeo’s audience graph connects those visits to affinities, purchase signals and media-ready segments—so insight can become a campaign.

01

QSR loyalists

Frequent convenience seekers

High-frequency visitors reveal where routine, proximity and value turn a meal into a habit.
02

Family households

The weeknight decision-makers

Household composition and shopping behavior expose the audiences most likely to convert on bundles.
03

Competitive overlap

Customers already in-market

Cross-visitation identifies conquest audiences without relying on broad demographic assumptions.
28,000+comparison audiences scored against each pizza segmentExplore Audience OS

From insight to campaign

Signals built to move.

Conquest competitors+38%

average conversion lift

Reach verified visitors to competing locations across programmatic, social and CTV.
Find the next store3M+

locations analyzed

Compare demand, visitor origin and competitive overlap before choosing a market.
Time seasonal pushes2.1×

engagement boost

Align creative and spend with real demand windows instead of calendar assumptions.

Illustrative outcomes based on Skydeo campaign benchmarks. Results vary by audience, channel and campaign.

Methodology

The data behind the report

Aggregated, privacy-conscious location signals are analyzed against Skydeo’s identity and audience graphs. The result is deterministic place visitation, behavioral overlap and activation-ready insight.

85 TB+queried per analysis
800Mmobile IDs
3MUS locations
35Kstandard segments

Ready when you are

Your audiences are waiting.
Go activate them.