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Pumpkin spice season
in QSRs is starting earlier

Are you team "too early" or "just in time"? 🎃 ☕

In 2022, just 2% of Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) consumers picked up something pumpkin-flavored in August. That doubled to 4% in 2023, and by 2024 it reached 8%.

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The power of NCSolutions (NCS) and Circana’s combined data means a larger pool of buyers and stronger media solutions for you. 

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Circana | NCSolutions

NCSolutions is now part of Circana

Together, we help brands connect with high-intent buyers, reach them across channels, and prove what’s working. By integrating NCS’s proven expertise in advertising effectiveness with our advanced solutions, clients gain a deeper understanding into what drives consumer behavior. Backed by real purchase data and faster insights, your media dollars go further – enabling smarter campaign planning, faster in-flight optimization, and a clearer view of incremental ROAS.

Amplify your next campaign with our proven data-rich insights and innovative solutions.

Grow, defend and conquest using purchase insights that reflect buying patterns to build your best audience.

Adjust your campaign in-flight using real-time insights to hit fast-moving KPIs.

Know your sales lift and maximize your return on ad spend (ROAS).

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Make an impact on your incremental sales outcomes. No matter where you are in your brand-growth journey, we deliver flexible and innovative approaches to campaign audience targeting, optimization and measurement.

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Our comprehensive purchase data combines with sophisticated machine learning models to fuel powerful advertising effectiveness solutions that make your growth strategies work.

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Brands tapping into purchase-based targeting are seeing up to 3x higher ROAS than traditional methods.

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Access to data isn’t the challenge, knowing what to do with it is. The CPG Insights Stream helps brands turn raw information into ready-to-use intelligence. Built to integrate with your clean rooms, data lakes, and platforms, this service delivers high-quality purchase insights that are structured, scalable, and immediately actionable.

Great campaigns don’t wait until the end to adjust. With our optimization capabilities, you gain the visibility to respond in real time, not after the fact. Understand what’s landing, what’s lagging, and where to shift your strategy mid-flight. It’s a smarter, faster way to improve performance while campaigns are still live, giving every dollar the chance to work harder.

Our targeting solutions are built on verified, real-world purchase behavior, not assumptions. By segmenting audiences based on what consumers buy, you can focus your advertising on the individuals most likely to take action. This level of precision not only increases efficiency but also drives better results by reducing wasted spend. When your message reaches the right buyer at the right time, your brand is positioned to grow with greater impact.

Knowing which components of your campaign drove the biggest incremental sales impact translates into more effective future campaigns. NCS Sales Effect studies not only help you understand what happened in your campaign, they help you see what’s next. Shed light on the ways you can improve — and drive incremental sales. 


Sales Effect gives you a new level of detail that drives actionability and a precision that delivers the intelligence on how the creative, audience, frequency and media impact your campaign outcomes. Whether you’re launching a new product, trying to understand the full sales performance of your retail media investment or examining the value of a cross media strategy–there is a Sales Effect for you.

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Lead What's Next

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Circana is transforming media effectiveness through the combined power of two acquisitions (NCSolutions and MMM). Together, we deliver a unified view of audiences, activation, and accountability.


Unmatched Coverage

Across 500+ retailers, 40 countries, and 1B consumer touchpoints, Circana gives you an accurate and complete view of your media performance you can trust, from shelf to screen. If you’re not working with us, you’re working with blind spots.

Sharper Precision and Prediction

By uniting Circana’s retail data, NCSolutions’ insights, and MMM’s predictive modeling, we help the media industry forecast outcomes before spend goes live. AI-ready data and machine learning power real-time recommendations that move you from hindsight to foresight.

Future-Ready Measurement

We now offer the most complete marketing mix solution suite available that blends proven benchmarks with real-time optimization. You can simulate ROI, adjust campaigns in flight, and compare performance globally. If your measurement can’t move as fast as your media, it’s time to catch up.

Lead What's Next

This is the era of intelligent media, where every dollar is measurable and every decision connected. Circana is helping brands see what’s next, act faster, and grow smarter.


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Beauty

NCS Targeting

When it comes to driving advertising results, CPG brands have options. There are multiple ways to meet goals, but, truth be told, only a few will help you exceed them. In listening to their client, streaming provider Roku intuited there might be a better way to drive higher than expected results for their client, a personal care brand.

Food and Beverage

NCS Targeting

Win new buyers from healthy snacking categories; measure how advertising impacts purchasing.

Beauty

NCS Measurement

Just as nourishing your skin is essential to self-care, nourishing a steady stream of new buyers is core to maintaining a healthy brand. So garnering newbies was an integral goal for one popular skincare label during the holidays (a.k.a. the start of peak dry-skin season). This beauty brand partnered with Pinterest, a go-to platform for discovering beauty products, to increase incremental sales across their line by running a campaign featuring a mix of creatives and formats. Ads showcased a range of their gentle, effective products. The Pinterest team tapped NCS to deliver quantitative answers to crucial performance questions like: Which ads translated to sales? Which audiences were most responsive? And, what insights can we apply going forward?

Food and Beverage

NCS Measurement

When it comes to driving advertising results, CPG brands have options. There are multiple ways to meet goals, but, truth be told, only a few will help you exceed them. In listening to their client, streaming provider Roku intuited there might be a better way to drive higher than expected results for their client, a personal care brand.

Food and Beverage

NCS Measurement

When it comes to driving advertising results, CPG brands have options. There are multiple ways to meet goals, but, truth be told, only a few will help you exceed them. In listening to their client, streaming provider Roku intuited there might be a better way to drive higher than expected results for their client, a personal care brand.
Vizio needed to help a beverage brand introduce a drink to a new audience and drive incremental sales from a CTV campaign.

Media

NCS Targeting

Baking up an impactful ad campaign strategy is a challenge enough, but how do you prove to your client that your strategy worked? You'll want the confirmation of a trusted, independent, third party.

Food and Beverage

NCS Targeting

The media environment looks a lot like a big party. Plenty of noise, plenty of entertainment, plenty of distractions. What can a brand do to stand out and drive awareness? Origin, a creative technology company, believes unique, dynamic ad formats are the answer. The company is a pioneer in helping clients place captivating connected TV ads. The agency Origin worked with is focused on building conviction for the brands they work with. Together, they delivered for a CPG brand. One of the brand’s biggest goals for 2024? Turn brand awareness into action. Origin and the agency knew the campaign strategy needed to both build awareness and increase sales. In addition, the client wanted to drive trials for infrequent or new users as well as repeat purchases for loyal buyers. The team worked with NCSolutions to develop a purchase-based targeting approach, which proved to be a smart strategy! Not only did it deliver a strong return on advertising spend (ROAS) but it drove incremental sales among loyal buyers.

Food and Beverage

NCS Targeting

TV streaming provides viewers with a robust selection of entertainment options right at their fingertips. Advertisers engage consumers as they binge the latest series or pile on the sofa for family movie night. Roku, an industry leading TV streaming platform, provides diversified ad experiences to drive full-funnel results for advertisers. Marketers want to know more than how their investments drive reach and awareness; they want an understanding of how partnering with Roku drives incremental sales lift and return on ad spend (ROAS). Roku regularly turns to NCS for independent, third-party validation of the sales impact of their consumer packaged goods (CPG) campaigns. NCS Sales Effect studies, which report on crucial topline metrics like return on ad spend (ROAS), incremental sales and sales lift, enables marketers to assess the bottom-line impact of their advertising. To highlight Roku campaigns’ impact on sales, Roku and NCS collaborated to analyze the results of several Sales Effect studies across multiple campaigns.

Media

NCS Targeting

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