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Optimize the path to purchase with customer journey analysis

Your product is the destination. The journey is your competitive edge. Understand and influence the customer journey, from awareness to purchase, with consumer panel data and path to purchase research.

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Map your customer journey with YouGov

Looking to drive conversion and brand loyalty? Understanding the drivers behind purchase decisions is crucial. You can’t do it with second-rate, patchy data.

The reality is, customer journeys don’t follow the same path. From browsing to buying, you need accurate, actionable insights into every stage of the path to purchase funnel to influence shopper behavior and maximize brand impact.

Stop imagining the journey and start tracking it. YouGov’s customer journey research covers real shopper journey mapping, touchpoint analysis, omnichannel insights, virtual simulations and cross-segment comparison.

What’s the entry point for shopper decisions? What drives a hero product? What are the product features striking real relevance?

Let YouGov data enlighten you. Discover more about the in-store and point of sale journey, understanding whether shoppers will return, and why.

Answer key business questions

with ad hoc research

Purchase decision trees

powered by virtual shelf environments

Ask real buyers

to uncover choice drivers

Why

Connect behavior to baskets with path to purchase research

How do you take control of your shopper strategy? By enhancing your knowledge of shopper behavior with the highest quality path to purchase research.

YouGov combines consumer behavior and purchase data with usage, attitudes, and needs segmented by target group – empowering you to improve your retail performance.

How

Intelligence into the why behind the buy

Unmatched data accuracy enables brands to optimize product development and features, POS, touchpoints, and promotions.

With the world’s most trusted market research provider by your side, you can leverage trends, perfect targeting approaches, and identify product strengths and weaknesses.

What

What’s bought and what’s thought?

This is where it gets really interesting. Observe customer journeys over time and identify patterns, switching, trends and predictions with 360-degree behavioral data.

We'll tailor data delivery to your needs; from customized research projects to an always-on view of customer journeys.

Path to purchase case studies

Explore how our research improves customer journeys for the best-of-the-best brands and helps them stay relevant and adapt swiftly.

Vion
Unilever
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"The data provided by YouGov plays an important role in our client presentations. It not only offers valuable support alongside market figures, but also provides real insight into consumer behavior. These insights truly make the difference and help identify growth opportunities."

Trade Marketeer at Vion

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Meet our experts

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Dominic Prince
Product Lead
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Linda van Rijn
Global Shopper Lead
Stefan Heremans
President, Consumer Panel & Media Measurement (CPS)
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Stefan Schemann
Product Director
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Lenneke Schils
Global Insight Director
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Martin Schlottmann
Global Business Development Director

From consideration to cart

Every step in the customer journey matters. In these articles, YouGov’s experts share thought-leadership and insights into how to influence decisions where they really happen and explore real-life customer journeys.

Path to purchase FAQs

How can you help discover what drives product choice and which criteria matter?

YouGov uses advanced conjoint analysis to reveal the preferences and decision-making hierarchy behind shopper choices. This approach enables us to simulate the impact of different pricing and assortment strategies on key outcomes like penetration, volume, and value. It also provides a clear view of price sensitivity, elasticity, and how much shoppers are willing to pay for specific product features, such as additional content or ethical labels.

How does research show how shoppers find and choose products in the category?

With customer journey mapping, YouGov can help outline how purchase criteria and decision hierarchies influence product choice. This method identifies clusters of products closely related in shoppers’ minds and tracks performance metrics such as penetration, frequency, and brand market share across these clusters. This insight helps uncover the most promising areas for strategic focus and planogram optimization.

Trust YouGov’s path to purchase research

You can depend on YouGov’s customer journey mapping services to really understand all stages of your path to purchase funnel. Unrivalled, unbiased data allows you to investigate what happens before purchases, including different occasions, journeys, hero features, and touchpoints.