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NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) released its 4th Annual Innovation Vitality Report on December 9, 2025, analyzing >70,000 manufacturers across 130 categories to identify drivers of multi‑year sales growth from innovation.

Key findings: true innovation (not line extensions) is 2x more likely to drive growth; only 9% of companies expanded innovation sales last year; SKU analysis of 300,000 items shows performance gaps by week 4; 67% of marketers wait 12–15 weeks to assess results; top innovators are 2.5x more likely to use cross‑functional collaboration. NIQ highlights early measurement, consumer‑led ideas, and cross‑functional alignment as drivers for lasting product vitality.

NIQ (NYSE: NIQ) announced a strategic collaboration with EURONICS on December 9, 2025 to provide Online Price Monitoring and pricing intelligence across EURONICS' Technical Consumer Goods cooperative network.

NIQ's solution combines automated item-level data capture, product matching, and human-led quality checks to deliver transparent, real-time pricing and market insights. EURONICS says the service will give members early indications of market shifts, enable faster responses, and support tailored online offerings during a critical seasonal period.

NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) released its APAC Consumer Outlook Guide to 2026, highlighting how trust, value, and technology will reshape shopping across Asia Pacific.

Key findings: consumers remain cautious despite easing inflation, prioritize essentials (food, health, education, home care), seek clear product information, and increasingly use AI tools to research and compare products. Trends include rising private label quality, omnichannel and social commerce growth, commodity-driven pricing shifts, and the possible influence of anti-obesity medications on food choices.

NIQ recommends brands focus on clear value cues, consistent omnichannel experiences, transparent claims, and rapid response to price and formulation changes for 2026.

NIQ (NIQ) earned a Media Mix Modeling (MMM) partner badge in TikTok’s Marketing Partners Program on November 24, 2025, validating NIQ’s measurement capabilities.

NIQ integrated TikTok’s new reporting API to enable automated TikTok data delivery, reduce manual errors, accelerate reporting, and support NIQ’s marketing mix model training. As a badged MMM partner, NIQ can measure full‑funnel impact on TikTok and TikTok Shop—looking beyond last‑click attribution—to help advertisers optimize media mix and campaign strategies.

NIQ (NIQ) and Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) announced a collaboration on November 21, 2025 to measure cross-platform ad effectiveness in Italy. The project links NIQ’s Sinottica® single-source linear TV panel with AMC data across Amazon DSP, Sponsored Ads (Products, Brands, Display), and Streaming TV (Prime Video, Twitch, Fire TV).

The study will analyze reach, audience composition, and purchase behavior to quantify incremental reach from digital versus linear TV and how ad exposure translates into purchases on Amazon’s ecommerce platforms.

NIQ (NYSE:NIQ) announced it is now a Google Meridian certified partner as of November 20, 2025, enabling use of Google’s open-source Marketing Mix Model (MMM) to measure marketing impact for advertisers.

The certification lets NIQ combine Google Meridian innovations—improved search measurement that accounts for organic search volume and enhanced video Reach & Frequency—with NIQ’s proprietary MMM to offer transparent, scalable outcome measurement across global markets.

NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) released its 2026 CMO Outlook on November 19, 2025, showing CMOs balancing brand equity and ROI under budget pressure.

Key findings: 83% of CMOs remain confident in brand equity; allocation to long‑term brand building fell to 55%; confidence in brand purpose dropped to 71%. Data fragmentation and ROI measurement are core challenges, with 54% naming data connectivity a major barrier and only 37% reporting a centralized data repository. Adoption of AI and retail media is high: generative AI for content 69%, RMNs seen critical by 69%, and 67% plan to raise RMN spending in the next year.

NIQ (NIQ) launched the Brand Traction Score, a metric that combines Consumer Panel and Retail Measurement data to show how effectively FMCG brands convert shelf presence into purchases in Western Europe.

Key findings for the year ending May 2025: Coca-Cola leads with a score of 4871, followed by Philadelphia (458) and Nutella (426). Some top brands saw 40% growth tied to expanded presence; >60% of unit growth came from households newly buying the brand, 18% from existing buyers increasing purchases, and about one-third from competitive steal.

NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) and Essity announced on November 17, 2025 that Essity selected NIQ as its primary provider of point-of-sale and consumer intelligence solutions across the U.S., making NIQ Essity's main North American data and insights supplier.

The partnership aligns Essity’s U.S. business with its global organization and establishes a unified, cloud-based relationship to deliver omnichannel data, shopper panels, eCommerce visibility, AI-driven insights and streamlined data integration to support strategy, growth, and product innovation in health and hygiene categories.