Consumer Edge Research (CER) Announces Partnership with Prosper Insights & Analytics to Provide Consumer-Centric and Forward Looking Insights

September 14, 2017 - Consumer Edge Research LLC (CER) today announced a strategic partnership with Prosper Insights & Analytics™ (Prosper). Prosper provides unique, syndicated datasets of the US and Chinese consumer with highly accurate "forward-looking" insights and analytics that improve forecasting on both macro-economic and company specific trends. Prosper has held the longest ongoing conversation with consumers over the past fifteen years conducted monthly and free of bot fraud, noise, dirty data, and assumptions. The data is currently used by several leading industry associations, major corporations and frequently referenced in key media services. Prosper's data was recently cited a top 25 source for business intelligence and analytics.

Bill Pecoriello, Founder and CEO of CER, commented, "We are thrilled to announce this partnership with Prosper to bring these extremely unique, high quality and predictive data sets to our financial service clients. Much of 'Big Data' falls short in the realm of future plans or purchase intentions and what motivates consumers. Many of the data sources CER is rolling out on its platform could be holistically enhanced when integrated with the real human data variables in Prosper's data sets."

Prosper offers three unique data assets that include over two million respondents, fifteen years of U.S. and eight years of China data. These databases can be fused with other datasets to create insights that were previously unknown, Prosper's data assets include:

1. Monthly U.S. Consumer Survey – Over 7,000 US 18+ respondents tracks how consumers feel about the economy, shopping behavior, future purchase intentions and more. Over 290 public companies tracked by the survey. In addition, over 1200 brands tracked (~700 public, 500 private).

2. Annual Media Behaviors and Influence Study – 16,000+ US 18+ respondents monitoring how they are using and being influenced by over 30 different media channels including mobile, traditional and digital.

3. ProsperChina Quarterly Survey – Largest, continuous online consumer and media behavior in China. Conducted among Chines consumers ages 18-54 and covers everything from economic sentiment and shopping behavior to purchase influence and media usage. Over 40 Chinese companies and over 80 non-Chinese companies tracked.

"Even highly valued transaction data is still backward looking," said Gary Drenik, Prosper CEO. "Our relationship with CER is intended to bridge the gap between big data short comings and real human insight to enable new predictive analytics for the financial services industry."

Prosper will be available on the CER Data Portal and comes shortly after the announcement of several additional CER data offerings. To learn more, please contact Lucy Johnson at ljohnson@consumeredgeresearch.com.

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Consumer Edge Research is a preeminent independent equity research boutique focused on the global consumer sector, including consumer staples and consumer discretionary. We generate non-consensus ideas combining uniquely thorough, fact-based, primary research with rigorous valuation analysis and perspective from years of covering our sectors. Our team has over 100 years of combined experience in the consumer and financial services industries. Our data are gathered both from global syndicated sources as well as primary research surveys, industry insights and other proprietary data collection. To learn more: www.consumeredgeresearch.com

Prosper Insights & Analytics™ is a global leader in "consumer intent" data serving the financial services, marketing technology, and retail industries. We provide global authoritative market information on US and China consumers via curated insights and analytics. By integrating a variety of data including economic, behavioral and attitudinal data, Prosper helps companies accurately predict consumers' future behavior to help identify market behaviors, optimize marketing efforts, and improve the effectiveness of affiliate, mobile, email, print, and social-media demand generation campaigns. To learn more: www.ProsperInsights.com

Contact:
Prosper Insights & Analytics
Chrissy Wissinger, Director, Communications
chrissy@goProsper.com
Stacie Nelson, Director, Customer Success
stacie@goProsper.com
614-846-0146

Consumer Edge Research
Lucy Johnson
ljohnson@consumeredgeresearch.com
646-679-4144