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Research, awareness & brand tracking · Core

Penetration

Also called: buyer penetration

ELI5

The proportion of an eligible population buying or using a brand during a period.

Used in conversation

“The number is useful only if everyone calculates penetration the same way.”

Pitch context

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Sources & evidence · 5

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.