NIQ (NielsenIQ) and Google announce a broad collaboration to advance agentic commerce by combining NIQ’s retail and product intelligence with Google’s AI commerce ecosystem, including Google Cloud and Gemini for business.

NIQ tracks retail store locations and sales in more than 90 countries and maintains product intelligence for over 250 million products, enabling enriched data for availability and discovery insights.

Jim Peck, NIQ’s CEO, says the goal is to make agentic commerce more accurate, useful, and measurable with trusted outcomes for brands, retailers, and consumers.

The collaboration is announced via a press release and will include ongoing updates as the partnership develops.

The aim is to close the loop from discovery to conversion by providing a complete picture of what was recommended, what was bought, and what drove growth.

The integration enables real-world purchase data to feed Meridian models and supports location-based experiments with Meridian GeoX to optimize ad spend and close the loop from discovery to purchase.

NIQ will integrate Google’s Meridian open-source marketing mix modeling framework into its Cadence platform to combine retail sales data with Meridian’s measurement methodology for real-time spend optimization and experiments via Meridian GeoX.

The release contains forward-looking statements and standard disclaimers about potential risks and future outcomes.

NIQ operates in over 90 countries, spanning about 82% of the world’s population and more than $7.4 trillion in consumer spend, highlighting the scale of potential impact.

The partnership is designed to boost enterprise-scale operations, speed, and automation, including NIQ’s workflow automation and operational efficiency.

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