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InfoBase® Purchase Transactions

InfoBase® Purchase Transactions

Boost market share & revenue with enhanced insights

InfoBase Purchase Transactions merges the transactional spend data from over 10 million UK cardholders with Acxiom’s InfoBase, delivering a layer of unique, market-specific insights. This fusion creates a comprehensive view of actual user spending across brands, categories, and channels, enabling brands to precisely identify and engage prospective audiences within the marketing ecosystem. 

Our collaboration with Affinity Solutions marks a significant advancement in customer data analysis, offering full coverage insights that are actionable, enhancing competitive advantage, and driving marketing effectiveness. For the first time, brands can access detailed knowledge of purchase patterns, opening new opportunities for customer engagement and relationship building. 

“Brands are searching for ways to make their advertising more personal and relevant whilst honouring consumer privacy. Acxiom, like Affinity, has adopted a leadership position in committing only to handle anonymized data in the UK and Europe. Like us, they believe that this is the safest and best way to protect consumers and safeguard the future of marketing. We’re layering our granular purchase data, spanning 15% of UK households, on top of Acxiom’s microcells to create the deepest insights available on the UK consumer economy. Brands will be able to attain unparalleled precision in targeting, create strategies based on what people are actually spending, and measure the effectiveness of their campaigns in near-real-time. We’re thrilled to bring these solutions to market together and look forward to driving success for our clients.” 

InfoBase Purchase Transactions underpinned by

Full spend information including transaction date, amount, purchase channel and cardholder location.

Real statement level purchase data based on completed transactions vs. proxy metrics in the form of survey or small panel.

3000+ tracked brands providing merchant information for including category and merchant location.

Key advantages & unique value propositions of InfoBase Purchase Transactions

  • Scale: Access to over 1.5 billion transactions in the last year across 4 million cardholders for robust, market-reflective insights. 
  • Accuracy: Insights are underpinned by known purchasing activities, offering a higher fidelity than modelled or proxy data. 
  • Comprehensive coverage: Utilising InfoBase, our Purchase Transaction insights provide full market coverage, actionable across the entire UK marketing ecosystem. 
  • Flexibility: Delve into transaction-level data, research spending behaviours, and develop customised insights and audiences tailored to specific needs. 

This service includes a range of Pre-built Audiences, ready for enhancement and activation, to cater to your marketing needs.  

Travellers
  • Low-cost Airline flyers
  • Airline high spenders
  • Frequent flyers
  • British Airways flyers
  • EasyJet flyers
  • Ryanair flyers
  • Emirates flyers
Technology & applicances
  • Tech Hungry households
  • Appliance Store shoppers
  • Electrical Goods regular shoppers
  • Gaming regular shoppers
  • Currys PC World shoppers
  • AO.com shoppers
  • Apple Store shoppers
Food & drink
  • Coffee Shop frequent spenders
  • Restaurant high spenders
  • Restaurant frequent diners
  • Traditional Fast Food frequent spenders
  • Healthy Fast Food frequent spenders
  • Takeaway Delivery Services frequent spenders
  • McDonalds regular customers
  • Greggs regular customers
  • KFC regular customers
  • Dominos regular users
  • Just Eat regular users
  • Uber Eats regular users
  • Deliveroo regular users  
  • Wine Club members
  • Craft Beer Club members
Streaming services
  • Streaming subscription high spenders
  • TV Streaming subscribers
  • Multi TV Streaming service subscribers
  • Music Streaming subscribers
  • Prime Video subscribers
  • Netflix subscribers
  • Now TV subscribers
  • Disney+ subscribers
Fashion retail
  • Fast Fashion lovers
  • Luxury and Premium Brand lovers
  • Contemporary Brands preferred
  • Traditional, Classic and Heritage Brands preferred
  • Preloved Fashion buyers (Vinted, Depop etc.)
  • Sportswear, Activewear, Athleisure super fans
  • Outdoor Retail high spenders
  • Children’s clothing frequent shoppers
  • Baby and Toddler Brand shoppers
  • Accessible Luxury Jewellery lovers
  • Luxury Accessory and Leather Goods lovers
  • Prefer to Shop Online
Specialist grocery
  • Organic Grocery buyers
  • Meal Kit subscribers
  • Wine Club members
  • Craft Beer Club members
Days out & events
  • Family Fun Days Out
  • Day Trip regulars
  • Regular Live Show and Event goers 
Health & beauty
  • Health and Beauty Retail Chain high spenders
  • Cosmetics and Beauty high spenders
  • Cosmetics and Beauty high-end stores preferred
  • Perfume and Fragrance high spenders
  • High spenders at online beauty retailers
  • High spenders at online beauty stores
Household retail
  • Discount and Budget Store regular shoppers
  • Home Improvement and DIY spenders
  • Home Furnishing and Furniture regular shoppers
Eyewear
  • Optician high spenders
  • Online Eyewear store users
  • Specsavers customers
  • Boots Optician customers
  • Vision Express customers
  • Vision Direct customers
Buy on TikTok
Electric Vehicle Charging
  • EV Charging Point users

Check out our InfoBase Purchase Transactions factsheet

for more information about our Pre-Built Audiences

Create custom audiences tailored to specific client needs

This is achieved by analysing transactional behaviour, incorporating merchant and brand information, and considering factors like recency, frequency, and value of spending.  

Identify competitor brands and target known market buyers

Insight beyond known buyers including those unknown. And brand loyal vs agnostic.

Recency/frequency analysis to identify purchase intervals and when attrition can be validated.

Patterns in the data that can help identify a change in overall buying behaviours.

Particularly useful for subscription and repeat purchases items/goods.

Real-world applications

InfoBase Purchase Transactions caters to a broad spectrum of use cases, underpinning strategies in: 

Empower your brand with enhanced customer insights for market analysis, profiling, and segmentation, leading to more relevant, personalised marketing communications.

  • Design & execute effective marketing strategies
  • Understand key segments to optimise loyalty
  • Create personalised messages & content
  • Predict customers’ wants & needs

Utilise full coverage data integrated across our network of publishing partners to identify and engage with customers and prospects fitting your brand profile through optimal media channels.

  • Identify prospective customers
  • Create & distribute tailor-made offers
  • Deliver consistent omnichannel experiences
  • Reach high-value customer audiences

Technical excellence and data integrity 

Our partnership with Affinity Solutions ensures the highest data quality, derived from permissioned sources via financial partners and shared only as anonymised data. This commitment to security by design and precision sets our data apart, offering deterministic, real-time insights collected from billions of transactions and daily updates from all merchants. 

Security by design and integration 

We prioritise user data protection, adhering to strict policies and ensuring data is shared anonymously at a cohort level. The integration of InfoBase Purchase Transactions with existing systems is seamless, supporting your brand’s marketing strategy without compromising data security. 

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