What makes Nepa’s Brand Tracking different from traditional solutions?

Unlike traditional trackers that deliver data weeks later, Nepa provides real-time brand health insights powered by AI-enhanced analysis. This means you can act faster, spot risks earlier, and make smarter marketing decisions—without waiting for static reports.

How does AI improve my brand tracking?

Our AI models continuously scan your brand data to detect trends, highlight risks and opportunities, and link campaigns to brand outcomes. You’ll see changes as they happen—not weeks later—so you can adapt strategy in real time.

What kind of brand metrics can I track with Nepa?

You can track brand awareness, perception, loyalty, and campaign impact. Add-ons like Category Entry Points, BrandPremium, and Brand Touch let you go even deeper—quantifying brand equity, mental availability, and emotional positioning.

Can I customize what I see in the dashboards?

Yes. From onboarding, we tailor your dashboards around your KPIs, filters, and audiences. You’ll get clear, easy-to-use views that deliver clarity, not clutter, and support faster decision-making.

What kind of support will I get after going live?

You’ll have a dedicated team of experts monitoring your data, flagging important shifts, and guiding actions—no ticket system needed. We also hold regular insight meetings to turn data into strategy and help you prove ROI.

Who is Nepa’s Brand Tracking best suited for?

It’s ideal for marketing leaders who need to prove brand impact quickly, optimize spend, and connect efforts directly to growth. Especially valuable for brands seeking to move faster and stay ahead of shifting markets.

How do I get started?

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Finance & Insurance Marketing 2026: How Nordic CMOs will turn AI, trust and journeys into growth

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Executive summary for CMOs, CCOs & Insight Leaders: What will define 2026

Nordic finance and insurance enter 2026 in the middle of a major behavioural and technological reset. Customers expect seamless digital journeys, contextual offers and full transparency, while boards demand provable ROI and regulators tighten privacy and data‑use rules. AI accelerates everything – but it is marketing strategy, not tools, that will decide who wins.

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#1. Changing consumer expectations

Nordic customers now expect finance and insurance to show up naturally in their real lives, not as disconnected advertising. They want:

Financial offers embedded in real journeys (for example insurance when booking travel, mortgage protection inside mortgage flows, savings nudges as salary lands).
Clear, human, jargon‑free explanations in all communication.
Personalised experiences that feel helpful rather than intrusive or manipulative.
Human reassurance for high‑stakes decisions such as mortgages, retirement, life cover and claims.

What it means:
Trust, timing and clarity now drive conversion more than traditional above‑the‑line advertising

#2. Tech & channels: AI, data & the cookieless reality

2026 is the year when marketing technology becomes the operational backbone of Nordic finance and insurance marketing:

AI scales content, personalisation and analytics – but requires strong human and compliance oversight.
First‑party data becomes the strategic moat; server‑side tracking and robust consent are baseline hygiene, not “innovation”.
Omnichannel journeys replace siloed channel planning, linking app, web, branches, call centres and partners.
Search and social are reshaped by platform volatility and AI‑generated answers, demanding constant test‑and‑learn.

What it means:
Brands must build resilient first‑party data foundations and orchestrate journeys across platforms, not just optimise single channels.

#3. From campaigns to context

Finance and insurance marketing is shifting from calendar‑driven bursts to context‑driven systems:

Relevance becomes the new performance driver: triggers, timing and consumer context consistently outperform scheduled, one‑size‑fits‑all campaigns.
Creative diversity matters: multiple on‑brand versions allow algorithms to find the right match for different audiences, moments and platforms.
Brand‑building and performance must run in parallel, reinforcing each other rather than competing for budget.

What it means:
“Always‑on, context‑first” systems beat occasional “big burst” campaigns.

#4. Evolving measurement & ROI

Marketing is expected to behave like a financial discipline:

Boards demand provable financial impact, not just media and click metrics.
Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM) resurges as a core planning tool, capturing both short‑term sales and long‑term baseline effects.
New KPIs dominate leadership dashboards: CLV, retention, churn, conversion quality, cross‑sell and trust/fairness metrics.
Continuous brand tracking becomes mandatory as an early‑warning system for trust and reputation.

What it means:
Marketing shifts from “communications cost” to a managed investment in customer economics and long‑term equity.

#5. Organisational shifts

Winning in 2026 requires marketing, data and product to operate as one system:

Cross‑functional pods (Marketing + Data + Product + CX + Compliance + Sales) replace function‑based silos.
Real‑time dashboards support continuous optimisation of spend, journeys and creative.
AI‑enabled content studios scale production while brand and compliance teams maintain control.
Data and attribution governance move onto the C‑suite agenda as strategic topics.

What it means:
Speed, insight and collaboration – not just media budget – will define the high performers.

What Nordic CMOs should do next

Build a first‑party data engine with strong governance
Put consent, server‑side tracking, CDPs and clean rooms at the heart of your marketing architecture.

Embed financial products into real consumer journeys
Design contextual, trigger‑based experiences across travel, shopping, property and life‑event flows.

Protect brand investment with MMM‑backed evidence
Use MMM and incrementality tests to defend the brand‑building budgets that create trust and long‑term value.

Scale creative diversity through AI – with human oversight
Use AI to generate and adapt variants, while human teams guard emotional resonance, fairness and compliance.

Organise around insight, agility and cross‑functional collaboration
Create pods for key journeys and feed them with weekly dashboards, tracking and MMM insights so they can act in weeks, not quarters.

2026 will not reward banks and insurers that simply add more digital campaigns or more AI tools on top of old ways of working. It will reward Nordic CMOs who redesign finance and insurance marketing as a connected system: embedded in real journeys, powered by first‑party data and AI, measured with financial rigour and run by cross‑functional teams that can move fast without losing control.

If you want to benchmark your current set‑up, refine your 2026 plan or explore how CEPs, brand tracking and MMM can work together for your categories, Nepa can help.

LOOKING AHEAD

Executive summary for CMOs, CCOs & Insight Leaders: What will define 2026

Nordic finance and insurance enter 2026 in the middle of a major behavioural and technological reset. Customers expect seamless digital journeys, contextual offers and full transparency, while boards demand provable ROI and regulators tighten privacy and data‑use rules. AI accelerates everything – but it is marketing strategy, not tools, that will decide who wins.

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