Global Database Sales & Marketing Platform vs. Hitwise (discontinued)

I haven't tried all of their solutions. We use their sales and marketing platform and data enrichment and it is a great fit for our lead generation needs. We use their data to help our clients achieve their goals too and have been satisfied so far. The platform is easy to use, and filters are pretty straightforward. An example of how we use it is take a certain region, industry, number of employees, some other criteria based on the task and what we get is a list of companies. We either narrow down the results by adding more requirements or export that data to our automation tools to start our campaigns.

Hitwise is best suited for looking at overall traffic behavior or a site or industry. It will help you quickly identify the where and the what when it comes to consumer behavior (i.e. what are they doing before they visit your site, where are they going after). It tells you a lot about who they are and what sparks the initial trigger. Where it isn't super appropriate is when you need to look at a specific term like "are eggs healthy" and you can't identify where that specific term falls in the overall "egg" searches.

Incentivized

• Extensive company profiles.
• Efficient data enrichment.
• Information about companies that is hard to find manually.
• Great customer support and friendly team.
• We have not hit invalid emails so far.

• Up/down stream traffic
• Search term identification
• Geographic location
• Specific site data for small scale websites

Incentivized

• For some regions it takes a bit longer to find the required data, but I guess it's more of an availability issue rather then the company's fault. They tell us though how long it may take so we can make plans accordingly.

• Sometimes the insights seem a little bit basic
• Reporting function is hard to deal with sometimes
• Access to sales/purchase data

Incentivized

The platform and data proved to be useful for the goals we pursue, so data quality and lead generation is what I rate their usability for.

Selected Hitwise because it is much better for insights on small-scale websites

Incentivized

• We save a lot in costs and time.

• Media planning
• SEO

Incentivized