[April 21, 2015]

IRI Shopper Marketing Cloud™ Paves the Way for Top-Line Growth

Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), a global leader in innovative solutions and services for consumer, retail and over-the-counter health care companies, announced today the launch of IRI Shopper Marketing Cloud^™, expected to be the world's largest integrated consumer, purchase and media data set built inside IRI's leading Liquid Data^™ technology platform and powered by its recently announced Q-IRI™ prescriptive analytics engine for comprehensive planning, targeting, activating and measuring by fully linking media to store-level or online purchase.

"We are at the beginning of a consumer buying revolution, one that will change how consumers shop and make decisions in fundamental ways over the next decade," said Andrew Appel, president and chief executive officer, IRI. "IRI is focused on transforming the entire shopper journey by helping companies grow and by helping consumers make better buying choices. This integrated data, analytics and technology will help manufacturers and retailers unlock new pockets of growth and do it faster than ever before."

Arming CPG companies with an incredibly powerful platform for growth, IRI Shopper Marketing Cloud encompasses the whole portfolio of data sets and insights, focusing on media, social and purchase.

Media Data Sets

To ensure the most comprehensive media data, IRI has expanded its ongoing collaboration with Rentrak (News - Alert) and comScore to move beyond tracking ad exposure and include full integration of cross-media TV and digital campaign tracking powered by IRI's ProScores^b>™ purchase propensity models.

Social Data Sets

IRI also is expanding the ability to understand and leverage the impact of social sentiment on consumer activation and sales activities, and will be announcing an exclusive partnership that will guide CPG companies through targeting, activating and measuring campaign efforts.

Consumer and Media Consumption Data Sets

Leveraging valued relationships with retailers, IRI has continued to make huge investments to improve the ability to track purchases online and offline at a granular level. Working closely with retailers to help them connect with consumers, IRI Shopper Marketing Cloud offers enhanced performance by linking the same media and social data to retailers' frequent shopper databases for unique insights and in-store activation. It also tracks what media consumers have been exposed to and what products they have purchased.

"The development of the end-to-end Shopper Marketing Cloud begins with media exposure and social, is targeted using IRI's proprietary ProScores and then the actual purchases using IRI's proprietary purchase lift measurement platform," added Appel. "This unique combination creates a truly cross-media exposure data set tied to actual shopper purchases and is available within the IRI Liquid Data platform. It's game changing."

About the IRI Partner Ecosystem:

IRI fundamentally believes that delivering differentiated growth for clients requires deep, highly integrated partnering with a variety of best-of-breed companies. As such, IRI works closely with a broad range of industry leaders to create innovative joint solutions, services and access to capabilities to help its clients more effectively compete in their various markets and exceed their growth objectives. IRI is committed to its partnership philosophy and continues to actively enhance its ecosystem of partners through alliances, joint ventures, acquisitions and affiliations. The IRI Partner Ecosystem includes such companies as The Boston Consulting Group, comScore (News - Alert), Datalogix (an Oracle Co.), Experian, GfK, Intage, Ipsos, Kantar, MasterCard Advisors, MaxPoint, Millward Brown Digital, Oracle (News - Alert) Data Cloud, Rentrak, SPINS, Univision and others.

About IRI:

IRI is a leader in delivering powerful market, consumer and media exposure information, predictive analytics and the foresight that leads to action. We go beyond the data to ignite extraordinary growth for our clients in the CPG, retail and over-the-counter health care industries by pinpointing what matters and illuminating how it can impact their businesses. Move your business forward at www.iriworldwide.com.

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