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Instacart Launches Consumer Insights Portal to Power Faster, Smarter Decisions for Brands

1. Instacart launches Consumer Insights Portal for real-time grocery trend data. 2. Portal provides actionable SKU-level and promotional insights for partner brands. 3. Access to first-party data enhances marketing strategies and decision-making. 4. Brands can track consumer behavior and optimize promotional effectiveness. 5. CIP supports proactive decision-making, improving efficiency across channels.

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Why Bullish?

The Consumer Insights Portal enhances Instacart’s service offerings significantly. Similar platforms have historically led to revenue growth for companies leveraging real-time data.

How important is it?

CIP provides a competitive edge, enhancing Instacart’s attractiveness to existing and new partners, likely boosting market momentum.

Why Short Term?

Increased brand partnerships and usage of CIP can yield immediate revenue impacts. Companies that react quickly tend to benefit swiftly from such initiatives.

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New self-serve platform gives partners like Applegate, Coca-Cola Bottling Canada, and Advantage Solutions access to real-time grocery shopping trends across 1,800+ retail partners, /PRNewswire/ -- Instacart (NASDAQ: CART) today introduced the Consumer Insights Portal (CIP), a new software platform for brands to access Instacart's first-party grocery shopping data in real time. Built on daily activity from nearly 100,000 stores and more than 1,800 retail banners, CIP gives marketing, sales, and insights teams self-serve access to SKU-level performance, search behavior, substitution patterns, and promotion impact – all based on actual transactions, not modeled data or survey panels. Instacart is introducing the Consumer Insights Portal (CIP), a new software platform for brands to access its first-party grocery shopping data in real time. The offering gives brands a faster, clearer picture of what's driving trial, loyalty, and basket-building across channels, and helps marketers refine promotions, product placement, and media strategies week to week. "Over the last few years, we've been focused on harnessing Instacart's first-party data to deliver advanced measurement and metrics to our partners," said Ali Miller, General Manager of Advertising at Instacart. "What we've heard from brands and agency partners is that they're eager to use our data to inform broader decision-making. We built the Consumer Insights Portal to surface actionable patterns in consumer behavior - information like brand switching, trial drivers, and repeat rates - in a way that's timely and directly useful." By productizing its first-party purchase data, Instacart is allowing brands to subscribe to actionable insights that can influence sales-driving Instacart Ads strategies while also informing broader decision-making across omnichannel consumer touchpoints.A Ground-Level View of Real Consumer BehaviorThe Consumer Insights Portal surfaces real-time trends and performance data. Core capabilities include: Daily product-level sales data by category, brand, and retailer Path-to-purchase insights showing what consumers search, click, and consider before buying Substitution behavior analysis, revealing which products get swapped and why Promotion performance, measuring impact on trial, habituation, and incrementality Launch and campaign tracking to evaluate week-over-week performance Brands are already using the Consumer Insights Portal to sharpen decision-making across the board by: Tracking trial and repeat rates for new product launches in near real time Evaluating promotional ROI across retail partners Comparing regional and national performance to guide display and distribution strategies Identifying top-converting keywords and placements to fine-tune Instacart Ads campaigns With always-on access, brands no longer have to wait for lagging reports or rely on modeled assumptions. CIP enables proactive decision-making and iterative campaign management.Early Partner Feedback"Having access to timely, real purchase data through the Consumer Insights Portal has been incredibly helpful for our team," said Tara Scott, Chief New Growth Officer & VP Alternative Revenue Streams at Coca-Cola Bottling Canada. "It's given us a clearer view into how consumers are discovering and choosing our products across customer channels and helped us move faster on decisions around promotion strategy and retail planning. We're excited to keep building on these insights as we aim to advance our role as valued customer partners.""One of the ways we're driving optimized sales is by leveraging data and analytics to deliver fast, more actionable insights for our clients," said Nico Cattaneo, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Analytics and Insights at Advantage Solutions. "Our team leverages the Consumer Insights Portal to provide clients with a deeper understanding of what shapes omni behavior, identifying paths to improve promotional effectiveness at scale across retailers and channels. With our exclusive brokerage access as a build partner to first party, closed-loop purchase behavior analytics powered by Instacart we can better connect shoppers with brands and products that enrich their lives."Bringing First-Party Insights Into Everyday Decision-MakingWith the Consumer Insights Portal, Instacart is expanding how brands can leverage its data, with a direct line to the consumer behavior signals that shape category performance. From marketing and sales to product and retail execution, the tool is designed to help brands move faster, act on real-time trends, and make decisions grounded in what consumers are doing right now.About InstacartInstacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,800 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from nearly 100,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule. The Instacart Platform offers retailers a suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands – from category leaders to emerging brands – partner with the company to connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of purchase. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company, and to start shopping, visit www.instacart.com. Maplebear Inc. is the registered corporate name of Instacart.SOURCE Maplebear Inc. dba Instacart WANT YOUR COMPANY'S NEWS FEATURED ON PRNEWSWIRE.COM? 440k+ Newsrooms & Influencers 9k+ Digital Media Outlets 270k+ Journalists Opted In

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