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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    D&B Hoovers

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AD&B Hoovers delivers sales intelligence data for millions of companies globally.N/A

    Metadata.io

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ABased in San Francisco, Metadata.io is a Demand Generation and ABM platform designed to execute thousands of B2B campaigns in a matter of hours, automatically optimizing campaigns for pipeline impact at a high velocity.

    $24,000

    per year

    Pricing
    D&B HooversMetadata.io
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    MetaMatch
    $295
    per month per installation
    Web Personalization
    $24,000
    per year
    Audience Targeting
    $24,000
    per year
    Metadata Base Platform
    $60,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    D&B HooversMetadata.io
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$2,500 one-time fee per installation
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    Community Pulse
    D&B HooversMetadata.io
    Considered Both Products
    Dun Bradstreet
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    Metadata, Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
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    86%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    89 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    103 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    62 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    70 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    D&B HooversMetadata.io
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of D&B Hoovers and Metadata.io
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    7.5
    121 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Metadata.io
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    Ratings
    Advanced search6.7115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identification of new leads7.7107 Ratings00 Ratings
    List quality6.5116 Ratings00 Ratings
    List upload/download7.2109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting7.5104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access9.3115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of D&B Hoovers and Metadata.io
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    8.8
    119 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Metadata.io
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    Contact information8.5109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information9.2119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information8.7116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of D&B Hoovers and Metadata.io
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    8.0
    114 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Metadata.io
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    Lead qualification process7.577 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations7.987 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration7.862 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles7.8109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders7.878 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene8.594 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh8.985 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tags7.970 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation7.992 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of D&B Hoovers and Metadata.io
    Feature
    D&B Hoovers
    9.7
    55 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Metadata.io
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    Sales email templates10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records9.555 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    D&B HooversMetadata.io
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (126 ratings)
    7.8
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (15 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    D&B HooversMetadata.io
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dun Bradstreet
    Prospecting corporate accounts near a hotel location. Our sales manager wants to generate a list of companies within a 5 mile radius that may need regular lodging for employees or contractors. D&B Hoovers will allow her to filer by geography, industry, company size and employee count. Then she can view detailed company profiles and contact decision-makers.
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    Metadata is well suited when you have a really large ad budget (>50k per month at least). This is because the power of metadata lies in the ability to quickly set up and run a large number of experiments (combinations of channel, audience, creative, and conversion assets). To evaluate these variations, all of them need a large number of impressions, clicks, and conversions to be statistically relevant. If your budget is smaller, you will either have a very small number of experiments (not fully utilizing the power of metadata), or your experiments will not have enough clicks to make informed decisions. We had expected a better explanation of this from metadata before signing up.
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    Pros
    Dun Bradstreet
    • The D&B Hoovers platform enables our team to customize, giving us the ability to fine-tune our searches
    • D&B Hoovers integrates very well Salesforce, our CRM system, streamlining the workflows of sales teams and ensuring the verified transfer of data between platforms
    • D&B Hoovers provides highly accurate and reliable business data
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    • Best paid ops tool I've ever used (and I've used a lot): we can launch a new LinkedIn & Facebook campaign in minutes.
    • Lead gen ops: no more dealing with broken zapier zaps, we are able to automate pushing native lead gen leads directly to our CRM.
    • Attribution: see influenced & triggered opportunities/CW deals
    • Multivariate testing: Metadata scales audience, ad, creative testing so you learn what performs much faster than manual process
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    Cons
    Dun Bradstreet
    • I think maybe if they vetted the contacts that they're providing for those companies, it would be beneficial because I do use other avenues to vet the contacts because a lot of times I found that it is outdated information in D&B Hoovers, so that would be beneficial to us.
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    • If you don't have a large budget and audience it's hard to meaningfully optimize. If I have 4 ad creatives, to 2 audience groups on FB and LinkedIn, that creates 16 experiments, each of which needs an ample enough budget, say $40/day, that's now $640 per day or $19K per month.
    • Limited ability to edit ads after they've been launched. You usually have to stop the ad, clone it, and launch a new campaign.
    • Can't add new ads to existing campaigns which limits the ability to optimize. If I start an MD campaign with 4 ads, and in a few weeks we see that one is working well and the other 2 are not performing, I can pause those (or it can autopause by rules), but I can't add 2 more new creatives to the mix against the high performer. I'd have to either stop the high performer, and recreate it in a new campaign (losing likes and comments), OR - leave the high performer in the first campaign, and create. a second campaign with the new ones, which will only optimize against each other.
    • Limited to a single conversion event on a landing page. I'm not able to choose either a Demo Request OR a Sign-Up conversion, I can only choose one.
    • Google search ads are doable but aren't necessarily more feature-rich or easy-to use than native, so there's no value added to doing it through Metadata in my opinion aside from unifying ad reporting.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dun Bradstreet
    I use D&B Hoovers very frequently and could not do my job as efficiently without it. I think there is room for improvement, but it is effective enough that I feel as though I will continue renewing by subscription. I highly recommend D&B Hoovers and find it very accurate and easy to use.
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    Usability
    Dun Bradstreet
    Whenever I had to use D&B hoovers, I never had a hard time with getting what I need. Additionally, when I show the tool to others, they tend to understand the platform quite quickly. The tool itself is very good and straightforward when I use it to help me put analyses together.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dun Bradstreet
    The platform is generally reliable and accessible when needed, with minimal application errors or unplanned outages. There may be occasional maintenance or minor disruptions, but these are usually communicated in advance and handled efficiently. Overall, it offers a high level of availability, ensuring that you can count on it for your daily operations.
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    Performance
    Dun Bradstreet
    While the platform generally functions well, with pages loading in a reasonable time and reports completing within a satisfactory timeframe, there is room for improvement. Performance can sometimes lag with more complex queries or during peak usage times. Additionally, when integrated with other software or systems, there can be occasional slowdowns. Overall, while it performs adequately, optimizing speed and integration efficiency could enhance the user experience.
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    Support Rating
    Dun Bradstreet
    I think it could be better, easier and faster. Whenever I chat with someone it takes so long to get to an actual agent, and then when I finally get to one, they oftentimes don't have the answers for me or do not understand what I am asking, which is very frustrating.
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    Metadata's customer support is a difference-maker! They really do care how well your campaigns perform and will help you improve them.
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    Online Training
    Dun Bradstreet
    The training sessions were well-structured and covered the key functionalities of the platform, making it easy to get up to speed. The trainers were knowledgeable and responsive to questions, which added value to the learning experience. However, a bit more in-depth coverage of advanced features and use cases would have made the training even more beneficial.
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    Implementation Rating
    Dun Bradstreet
    for our use case, the implementation was minimal and we did not need a lot of help. The D&B Hoovers platform is pretty intuitive and our account manager was ready for any questions that came up when we use the D&B Hoovers platform
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dun Bradstreet
    Finance Analytics provides a more thorough company credit report and is more in-depth than Hoovers. However, I use Hoovers for instances where I do not need that information because it allows unlimited queries, whereas you pay for a limited number of reports from Finance Analytics. Hoovers provides a better link between corporate family trees and finance analytics.
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    We chose [Metadata.io] because it was a smaller company and could get more personalized attention. The price was better and they seemed more eager to support us. The feature set was what we were looking for and not more - it was exactly as robust as we needed it to be. Didn't want to pay for features we weren't going to use.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Dun Bradstreet
    The pricing model is generally clear and competitive, but there could be more flexibility in terms of unit pricing or billing frequency to better accommodate varying needs. While the contract terms are straightforward, exploring more options or customizable plans might enhance the overall value.
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    Scalability
    Dun Bradstreet
    D&B Hoovers is quite effective at adapting to the needs of different departments and locations, allowing for flexible deployment and integration across various parts of an organization. While it scales well and supports a broad range of users and functions, there might be some limitations depending on the size and complexity of the organization’s requirements. Overall, it provides a robust solution that can grow with your needs.4o mini
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    Professional Services
    Dun Bradstreet
    very professional
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    Return on Investment
    Dun Bradstreet
    • D&B Hoovers allows me to make the most of my time when searching for companies within specific industries. Once I find a company and examine their profile, I can then generate a list of employees in the purchasing and engineering departments. The profiles for each listed employee contain cell phone, Email address and LinkedIn profile. This information helps me to bypass the companies front desk and get directly to the people I need to speak with.
    • By knowing the specific job title for the people that I am contacting and then being able to click on their LinkedIn link to learn a little about them before I make the call, I come across as a sales professional instead of an impersonal cold-caller.
    • In cases where I do need to go through a front desk receptionist whose primary mission is to screen out sales people, I find that three out of four times the receptionist will connect me to the specific employee because I know their name, department, and job title. The Intel provided by D&B Hoovers makes it possible for me to get to the people I need to speak with.
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    • Huge decrease in CPLs, CPMQL and Cost Per Opportunity
    • Big improvement in MQL to SQL rates
    • 90%+ of our leads from paid social now have valid business emails, before it was like 30%
    • Saving us hundreds of hours over the course of the next year doing daily manual optimization and budget management tasks for us so we can focus on strategy and testing new things
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