NIQ and Google Partner to Advance Agentic Commerce

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Postmedia has not reviewed the content. by Business Wire NIQ and Google Partner to Advance Agentic CommerceAuthor of the article:Built with Google Cloud and Gemini for business, NIQ and Google commit to transforming AI-driven product discovery, availability, and measurementTHIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLYSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman, and others.Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication.Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword.SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLESSubscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada.Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman and others.Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication.Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on.Daily puzzles, including the New York Times Crossword.REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLESCreate an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one account.Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments.Enjoy additional articles per month.Get email updates from your favourite authors.THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK.Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience.Access articles from across Canada with one accountShare your thoughts and join the conversation in the commentsEnjoy additional articles per monthGet email updates from your favourite authorsSign In or Create an AccountCHICAGO & SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Today, NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) and Google announced a broad collaboration to advance agentic commerce, aiming to bring NIQ’s global retail and product intelligence together with Google’s AI commerce ecosystem to improve product discovery and local availability. NIQ and Google are looking to complement Google’s extensive Shopping Graph of more than 60 billion product listings with NIQ’s Commerce Intelligence. NIQ is also naming Google Cloud as a primary AI and cloud services provider, and plans to deploy Gemini for business across its global workforce.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.As AI evolves from helping consumers discover products to recommending and purchasing them, brands and retailers increasingly rely on trusted product information, real-world availability, and measurement. The partnership is designed to help make agentic commerce even more reliable and measurable, combining NIQ’s The Full View™ of consumer and retail intelligence with the scale and AI capabilities of Google Cloud and Gemini for business.Get the latest headlines, breaking news and columns.By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.The next issue of Top Stories will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try againThe partnership spans three areas:Enterprise scale and speed: Under the agreement, NIQ is expanding its use of Google Cloud and Gemini for business across its global workforce to accelerate internal operations. By integrating this technology at an enterprise scale, NIQ will drive workflow automation, operational efficiency, and faster development across the business. This upgraded infrastructure will ultimately help NIQ build and scale its own next-generation, AI-powered retail intelligence products and experiences for its clients.NIQ and Google have agreed to partner on agentic commerce with the goal of strengthening product discovery and local availability. NIQ looks to bring its Commerce Intelligence capabilities to the partnership, combining Product Intelligence for more than 250 million products with Store Intelligence supported by NIQ’s tracking of retail store locations and sales across 90 countries. The collaboration is focused on supplementing AI commerce systems with additional information to identify relevant products and assess local availability, helping consumers find what they’re looking for and supporting agentic shopping experiences.Measurement and return-on-investment:NIQ is integrating Google’s open-source marketing model mix (MMM) framework, Meridian, into NIQ Cadence platform, its AI-native marketing measurement platform. By bringing together NIQ’s rich retail sales data with Meridian’s open-sourced methodology, brands get an always-on solution for measurement, testing, and spend optimization. Brands can feed real-world purchase data into their Meridian models and run location-based experiments with Meridian GeoX to best determine how to optimize their additional spend. This allows advertisers to better understand the consumer purchase journey, test which channels deliver the best results, and optimize ad spend in real time—closing the loop from discovery to conversion with a complete picture of what was recommended, what was bought, and what truly drove growth.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“Agentic commerce is changing how consumers discover and buy products, but for it to work at scale, we have to work together as an industry,” said Jim Peck, executive chairman and chief executive officer of NIQ. “NIQ’s Commerce Intelligence connects what consumers want with what’s available and what ultimately gets purchased. This extensive partnership looks to make agentic commerce even more accurate, useful and measurable, with trusted outcomes for brands, retailers and consumers.”“While every brand is pursuing AI-driven growth, autonomous agents are only as reliable as the data behind them,” said Ashish Gupta, VP/GM Merchant Shopping at Google. “Part of our partnership with NIQ helps us examine how their rich catalog and availability data can best support new agentic commerce experiences.”The partnership builds on recent momentum from both companies, including NIQ’s ConnectAI Suite and Product Intelligence / Connected Content launches.Additional details regarding specific initiatives and milestones will be shared as the partnership progresses.NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) is a leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior. Combining an unmatched global data footprint, granular consumer and retail measurement, and decades of AI modeling expertise, NIQ helps companies turn complex data into confident action. With operations in more than 90 countries covering approximately 82% of the world’s population and more than $7.4 trillion in consumer spend, NIQ delivers The Full View™ — helping brands and retailers understand what consumers buy, why they buy it, and what to do next. For more information, visit www.niq.com.This advertisement has not loaded yet.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Google Cloud offers a powerful, optimized AI stack—including AI infrastructure, leading models like Gemini, data management capabilities, multicloud security solutions, developer tools and platform, as well as agents and applications—that enables organizations to transform their business for the Agentic Era. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.Forward-Looking StatementThis press release regarding NIQ and Google Partner to Advance Agentic Commerce may contain forward-looking statements regarding planned capabilities, anticipated timelines, expected benefits, and product availability relating to NIQ’s collaboration with Google and Google Cloud, as well as anticipated consumer behaviors, market trends, and industry developments. These statements reflect current expectations and projections based on available data, historical patterns, and various assumptions. Words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “projects,” “believes,” “forecasts,” “plans,” “will,” “designed to,” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. 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