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Competitor monitoring: stay ahead with smart insights

Benchmark your brand and track the competition to uncover hidden opportunities and refine your market positioning. Using connected data, you’ll get the inside track on how you stack up and what your audience thinks.

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Competitor monitoring: track, benchmark, and analyze

You know what they say: “Keep your friends close and your competitors closer!”

Monitor the competition to gain market intelligence, spot opportunities, and pinpoint any threats in your industry. Understand how loyal your customers really are and the relationship they have with your competitors using YouGov's competitor monitoring software and services.

Stay one step ahead. From always-on, accurate data that shows your brand health over time to surveying your target audience on their opinions, YouGov market research is the fastest route to understanding the competition.

27,000+

brands tracked

30 million+

registered panel members

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brand health metrics for benchmarks

Why

Inside tracking on competitors

Competitor momentum builds fast. By the time your sales dip, they’ve already captured share you won’t easily recover. Robust competitor data can quickly turn this around.

YouGov’s pioneering daily competitor tracking helps you measure brand loyalty, retention and loss – revealing what product development or strategic marketing moves will close the gap.

How

The real competitive edge

Millions of verified consumer opinions and precise behavior patterns are your fast track to understanding the market. You need YouGov's unparalleled intelligence.

Ask the ‘why’ behind perceptions of your brand vs competitors to support you in delivering completely optimized and accurate messaging, positioning and marketing that resonates and converts.

What

Market realities to market advantages

Rise above your competitors with a comprehensive view of how your industry is evolving daily and over time.

When you know where the market’s moving, you can lead it instead of reacting to it. With over 27,000 brands tracked, YouGov’s globally trusted market research will help you track brand visibility, perception, and health against competitors in your category and beyond.

Competitor tracking case studies

We’ve got a great track-record when it comes to tracking. Discover our proven results and find out how leading brands are outmaneuvering rivals with accurate, impartial intelligence.

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"We aspire to be the leading European telecommunications provider. YouGov's brand tracking provides essential insights for making the right decisions for expanding the brand.”

Ulrich Klenke, Chief Brand Officer at Deutsche Telekom

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Meet our experts

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Angel Wong
Data Planning & Strategy Director
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Johannes Nau
Senior Product Manager - Data Products

The secret to success

Really understanding your competition is the key to staying agile and responsive in market. Learn some best-practice tips from our latest research.

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FAQs

How can I monitor competitor perception shifts over time?

YouGov BrandIndex tracks competitor brand perceptions over time by capturing daily measurement of their brand health metrics, revealing when competitor brands gain or lose ground on key metrics. With up to 15+ years of historical data, BrandIndex also allows users to place current movements in context, identify longer-term shifts in competitor perceptions, and understand how brands have responded to market changes over time. This unlocks a continuous, longitudinal view of shifts in competitors’ perceptions over time. Our competitive intelligence shows the impact of competitor activities on their brand health, helping you understand competitive threats and opportunities with confidence.

Trust YouGov’s competitor tracking software

Make impactful decisions that help you outperform competitors. We’re trusted to deliver leading-edge, real-world research. YouGov experts, product development teams, pioneering technology and AI tools, deliver rich intelligence – without the noise.