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Gamers are faced with a proliferation of options both in content acquisition and gaming platforms. The options continue to expand, fueled not only by the increasing number of devices on which video games can be played, but also by the many devices that allow consumers to acquire digital video game content.
In this increasingly complex market, companies require a variety of research options. Our combination of point-of-sale (POS) information, consumer insights, industry expertise, and market experience delivers the video game market research options necessary to help you make better business decisions.
Tracking Services
Monitor retail sales of PC games and video games hardware, software, and accessories in the US and Canada. The service covers all distribution channels, including online sales. No other market research company offers this level of detail in point-of-sale market information.
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Understand who is buying video games and PC games, and how, why, and where they shop. Based on consumer behavior information provided by our online panelists, the service delivers information on purchasing, usage, and attitudes. It delivers an unmatched view of the marketplace across all distribution channels.
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For an eagle-eye view of the market, this service covers the entire US games industry at the category level. Our new core product for all US games clients, it encompasses market size by segment, key market insights, and analysis of emerging trends. By integrating POS and consumer information, the service provides analysis of delivery method (physical, digital), hardware sales, accessories by type and platform, and gaming content. Its information on content includes new and used physical sales, digital downloads and add-on content, rentals, social network gaming, subscriptions, and mobile games.
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Track awareness, usage, and experiences with established and emerging gaming trends. This is the industry’s first service that measures consumers’ video game acquisition habits in all forms, across all platforms. This ongoing study is the only source for a complete view of how retail, digital, free gaming, and piracy factor into games acquisition.
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Look to these quarterly reports for indispensable information about the market for paid online subscriptions to MMO/PC games, casual gaming websites, and video game console services (Xbox Live Gold). Get the best view of this burgeoning market, with reliable consumer insight from thousands of US gamers age 13 and older who are members of our online consumer panel.
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Get access to insights on shopping, browsing, and buying visits across all channels, retailers, categories and demographics. View conversion rate and average spend measures and see how they vary by retailer, season, and demographic. Gain an understanding of where else your customer is shopping and buying.
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Analytic Solutions
For years, the packaged goods industry has benefited from category management practices which facilitate collaboration and drive category growth and profits for both retailers and manufacturers.Now, we are bringing the same advantage to the general merchandise industries by providing retailers and their approved vendors with Account Level Reports (ALRs), one data set to guide business decision making and improve results by:
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Identify what drives brand and category growth or decline. Profile your brand and gauge relative health compared to category and competition.
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Select the best product or support program and improve program execution. Understand performance of all marketing programs relative to each other.
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Making the right pricing decisions has never been more important – or more complex. It’s essential to understand price sensitivity and the impact of price changes relative to your portfolio and key competitors.
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Understand how future market size and growth will change the landscape in your business, generating both challenges and opportunities.
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Consumers have more choices than ever leading to changing buying habits and attitudes toward brands and products. Assess performance and brand composition relative to competition.
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Custom market research lets you go straight to consumers for answers to your product development, advertising, packaging, and other business questions. Many of our clients say the best part of doing custom research with us is that they
don’t need to spend money and time building a sample and doing the fieldwork – we do it for them.
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Liam Callahan Director, Games Industry Analyst
Liam Callahan is an industry analyst for Video and PC Games at NPD. Besides producing day-to-day analysis for clients and developing presentations, Liam is primarily responsible for the Games Market Dynamics reports which quantify consumer spending activities beyond new physical purchases at retail. Liam advises ongoing enhancements to the surveys and products along with producing the key finding for reports. Liam has worked at NPD for 8 years in a variety of roles covering new product launches, product management and consumer surveys.
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