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Anticipate Market Trends

Make informed data-driven business decisions with SpendingPulse™

Improve performance by providing near real-time estimates and insights on retail sales activity at national, regional and local levels.

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Near real-time customer spend insights at your fingertips

Frequency

Get access to daily metrics, refreshed weekly with only a five-to-seven-day lag from week’s end, compared to monthly government updates released two to three weeks after months’ close and later revised. Use near real-time updates to make short-term operational decisions, such as marketing promotion shifts and regions to focus on based on seasonal factors.

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Accuracy

Tap into advanced modeling to accurately estimate retail spend based on near real-time, anonymized aggregate sales activity in the Mastercard payments network and survey-based estimates for other payment forms. Apply these insights to long-term strategic decisions, such as real estate and ordering strategy.

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Granularity

View granular insights at the national, regional, state, market, county, and sector levels. Use detailed data insights to inform big decisions.

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SpendingPulse helps us identify who’s outperforming the benchmark or our internal benchmark and then focus on what they’re doing better. This helps us develop best practices and strengthen our partnerships

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Delivering unmatched market intelligence

SpendingPulse™ provides a comprehensive view of retail sales, offering superior data accuracy, low data latency and rich data granularity

Sourced directly from anonymized aggregate sales activity in the Mastercard payments network and modeled to reflect total sales across all payment types.

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Geographic granularity and global reach with the ability to segment by country, state, metro area and county (varies by country).

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Sector-level forecast available for the next 18 months with broad coverage of key discretionary and non-discretionary sectors.

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SpendingPulse™ powers decisions across various industries with detailed historical and near real-time spend insights and accurate sales forecasts.

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Reply on our data

Gain insights on macroeconomic trends and consumer behavior to inform strategy and contextualize business performance.

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Prioritize what is next

Anticipate and develop an understanding of consumer spend behaviors and major events impacting the micro and macro economy to expand decision-making.

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CASE STUDY

How Hershey used new tools to understand nationwide trends

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