The Year-Over-Year Pet Category Trend Bundle
What’s next in pet category trends? Compare year-over-year pet trends in the attitudes, behaviors, and motivations of U.S. pet parents with revelatory research encompassing our 2023, 2024, and 2025 (dog edition + cat edition) consumer research. Get immediate access to 2023 and 2024 pet trend data, and receive 2025 research as soon as it's published.* Each of Nextin’s four pet category surveys includes a sample size of more than 750 respondents for a representative sample of U.S. pet owners, plus several subgroups.
Explore the benefits that motivate pet product purchases, from skin and coat to cognitive health. Nextin pet market research explores pet trends emerging in 2025, alongside rich insights from a year-over-year retrospective. With Nextin Research, you can tap into the attributes that pet parents prize and get species-specific insights regarding pet owners’ distinct wants and needs for their dogs and cats.
Includes: Nextin Insights report (PDF), ready-to-use charts and tables for each question (PowerPoint, PDF), raw and normalized data (Excel) for each of the following:
- Pet Consumer Trends 2023 -– immediately accessible
- Pet Consumer Trends 2024 -– immediately accessible
- Pet Consumer Trends 2025: Dog Edition*
- Pet Consumer Trends 2025: Cat Edition*
*Look ahead. Stay ahead. 2025 pet category research is slated for completion in Q2 and will be delivered via email at that time.
- Dog-Specific Insights
- Cat-Specific Insights
- Pet Supplement Trends
- Pet Food Trends
- Pet Treat Trends
- Demand-Driving Need-States
- Attitudes about Specific Ingredients
- Sources of Information and Influence
- The Path to Purchase
- Shopping Behaviors and Preferences
- Pet Parent Demographics
- Nextin Insights: In addition to the four individual insights reports, this 3-year series includes a complementary year-over-year review for a comprehensive view that connects the dots. These insights reports are informed by consumer data, nutrition science innovation, and supply chain dynamics to help you anticipate what’s next in pet supplement, pet food, and pet treat segments.
- Year-over-year data from our survey of U.S. pet parents, including insights from our analysis of 2025, 2024, and 2023 data
- Hot Topic Spotlights dive into consumer insights from the latest pet market trends and topics, from digestive health to cognitive health, ecommerce insights to the impact of price on brand loyalty
- Ready-to-use Charts provided in PowerPoint with embedded Excel data; also provided in PDF
- Normalized Data (.XLSX): an individual Excel tab containing a table and chart representative of each question included in this data set
- Raw Data (.XLSX): a single spreadsheet that provides access to thousands of individual data points, offering an opportunity for hundreds of unique data slices
Custom Data Slice +$2,500
Additional data analysis based on a single set of criteria; includes a customized Executive Summary. Get in touch to learn more.
Strategy Consulting +$5,000
Up to 12 hours of consulting from an experienced Strategist in your category. Discuss the possibilities specific to your ingredient, product, or brand. Includes a documented Executive Summary. Learn more about Strategy Consulting.
3 Protocept Renderings +$7,500
Illuminate the possibilities with three (3) digital Protocept Mockups that demonstrate how innovation might come to life in a packaged good. Ideal for use in presentations. Includes a discovery call to identify Protocept direction, with each of the 3 protocepts delivered in .PNG and .JPG formats. See protocept examples or get in touch to learn more.



