NEW VYPR Score: Statistically Proven Link To Predicting Future Product Sales
We’re delighted to announce that early tests of the new VYPR Score have proven a direct link between Steer responses (the questions we ask our panel) and future rates of sale.
Ben Davies, CEO and Founder: “In testing, our modelling teams analysed Steer responses from clients participating in the study and mapped them to live sales data. As you can see from the graph, the data clearly shows that the higher the VYPR score, the more products were sold. Simple. We believe that the VYPR score will very soon become the industry standard for manufacturers and retailers throughout the UK, as we can show what that score means for future product commercial performance and our platform can help you to test and iterate your way to better EPD and NPD over time”.
Each dot on the chart represents a product that was tested on VYPR and released in store. We’ve plotted products in terms of the score they received and the rate of sale achieved. The score is calculated with reference to other products tested on the platform. Rate of sale is measured in terms of sales per store and has been indexed using the category average as a base.
As you can see from the blue line of best fit, there’s a clear positive relationship between the two. This gives us reassurance that our score prototype may be used to predict sales in future. We’ve plotted the confidence interval for the sales estimates in grey. At this early prototype stage, the confidence interval is quite large, particularly at the extremes. We need more data on sales in order to add more data points, shrink the confidence intervals, and make more accurate estimates.
If you’re interested in receiving volumetric estimates from the steers we get from consumers, please get in touch.
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From initial concepts, product names, branding and packaging to ingredients, colourways, pricing and marketing messages, the anatomy of every product is different and it can be difficult to decipher what is truly driving success and purchase behaviour in store. Every week, we test 1000s of variables that make up every product with consumers, providing fast, statistically robust and consumer-led intelligence to enhance, accelerate and predict existing/new product performance.
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