B2C Marketing Research

Brand and CX must become a cohesive force to help you stay ahead of the market and deliver standout buyer experiences. Forrester’s B2C marketing research provides strategic guidance on how to focus strategies, operations, and budget on the customer across your organization.

Lead Customer Obsession

Improve The Value Of The Brand

Improve brand value and differentiation with insight on what CX drivers and innovations will raise customer perception.

Generate Customer Loyalty And Retention

Deliver hyper-relevant, emotionally resonant brand experiences that foster loyalty across the journey and keep customers connected.

Stay Ahead Of Market Change

Lead response to changing demands with investments, partner relationships, and creative strategies oriented around the customer of the future even as media, technology, and markets continuously change.

Signature Research

Forrester analysts watch the markets to help guide you, as a B2C marketing leader, to success. Put this expertise to work for you with analyst access and signature marketing research such as:

  • Consumer Energy Index: Track the underlying forces that compel consumers toward or away from a brand experience.
  • ForecastView market forecasts: See quantitative market forecasts with expert analysis to guide strategic planning for retail, digital marketing, device adoption, and spending in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
  • eBusiness and channel strategy playbooks: Use a repeatable formula to discover, plan, act, and optimize programs to maximize your digital strategy and investments.
  • Marketing measurement and insights: Embrace a unified marketing measurement standard to measure performance, strengthen planning, and shift to a continuous optimization process.
  • Omnichannel advertising: Invest advertising funds efficiently and effectively based on data and best practices.
  • Predictions: See what’s coming and understand the consumer, market, and social dynamics that will affect your business over the next 12 months.

Time With Experts: Inquiry

Forrester analysts are past practitioners and experts in their field. Each analyst brings this unique knowledge and background to help you vet ideas, validate direction, and put research into practice. Each analyst inquiry includes:

  • 30-minute discussion
  • Personalized advice
  • Actionable next steps

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Research Spotlight

Brand Convergence

You create financial value when you align employee experience and customer experience to shape brand perception. Actively develop a convergence to energize your brand for all, focusing on two distinct employee roles: ​

  1. Internal contributors. When brand marketing is done right, the brand guides an individual through candidacy, growth, advocacy, and transition.
  2. External ambassadors. To be effective ambassadors, employees must be steeped in the brand and deliver experiences that match the brand promise. ​

Featured Insights

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When Fixing Security Vulnerabilities Breaks Your Customer Email Program

Shar VanBoskirk March 2, 2026
In January 2026, Salesforce changed how its Marketing Cloud Engagement platform encrypts tracked email links. The fix addressed a vulnerability that could have exposed CloudPages content, such as landing pages, microsites, forms, subscriber data from preference and unsubscribe centers, and email content via web view links. But the fix created a new problem: All tracked […]
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It’s “Grow-Time” For Omnicom Group And Its Customers

Jay Pattisall February 18, 2026
Omnicom enters its first earnings cycle after the IPG acquisition with scale, momentum, and unresolved operational challenges. CMOs should ignore Wall Street’s fixation on quarterly performance and instead evaluate how Omnicom plans to convert its expanded capabilities into customer growth. Despite its new size, the company still faces the same structural barriers constraining the broader […]
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Build The Experience AI Can’t: Announcing Forrester’s 2026 CX Events

Keith Johnston February 17, 2026
As every brand races to deploy the same AI tools, the differentiating factors will be the people using those tools and the experiences they create. Our 2026 CX events will equip you to build experiences that win trust and lasting loyalty.
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What Consumers Actually Think About Ads In ChatGPT

Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf February 10, 2026
Anthropic is betting that ads in ChatGPT specifically will ignite a change in consumer behavior. Consumers, for their part, think differently.

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