HG Insights Platform vs. Hitwise (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HG Insights Platform
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
The HG Insights platform provides a view into global industries, markets, and companies allowing users to identify the most valuable opportunities and build strategies to maximize revenue and accelerate growth.N/A
Hitwise (discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Hitwise was a competitor comparison intelligence and audience intelligence platform from Connexity in Santa Monica (who acquired Hitwise and its technology in 2015 from Experian), which allowed users to discover characteristics unique to their audience vis-a-vis the customers of a competitor to to fine tune and improve future marketing efforts and outreach to new customers. Hitwise was discontinued in 2020.N/A
Pricing
HG Insights PlatformHitwise (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HG Insights PlatformHitwise (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
HG Insights PlatformHitwise (discontinued)
Features
HG Insights PlatformHitwise (discontinued)
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
HG Insights Platform
9.1
36 Ratings
5% below category average
Hitwise (discontinued)
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Ratings
Company information8.336 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Research
Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
HG Insights Platform
8.3
34 Ratings
0% below category average
Hitwise (discontinued)
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Ratings
Industry-Specific Information8.529 Ratings00 Ratings
Search Tools8.130 Ratings00 Ratings
Market Research
Comparison of Market Research features of Product A and Product B
HG Insights Platform
8.1
36 Ratings
0% below category average
Hitwise (discontinued)
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Ratings
Competitor Research7.933 Ratings00 Ratings
Market Insights and Reports8.334 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Enterprises
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Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
HG Insights PlatformHitwise (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(38 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(36 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HG Insights PlatformHitwise (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
HG Insights
If you're trying to find or build prompts for your team to get the data they need to make them go ahead. For example, we use it to find our accounts and prospects who are using voice agents. It was very valuable to get that information. So yeah, definitely you can use that.
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Discontinued Products
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.
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Pros
HG Insights
  • It works great for seeing if the site or app for a company is hosted on AWS.
  • Intricately uses a different approach (vs the other tools we use) - which helps confirm from another angle.
  • It has a great google chrome plug-in.
  • UI/UX is modern and clean.
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  • Up/down stream traffic
  • Search term identification
  • Geographic location
  • Specific site data for small scale websites
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Cons
HG Insights
  • integration with SFDC could be better
  • Sometime provides back an incorrect/no match when a better is available from an uploaded file, though this is getting slightly better
  • A way to gauge how many hits you will get off an intent topic before selecting them so you don't feel like one is going to waste could be useful.
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  • Sometimes the insights seem a little bit basic
  • Reporting function is hard to deal with sometimes
  • Access to sales/purchase data
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Usability
HG Insights
It’s very easy to use, and the team is very responsive and friendly to work with. The information is unique and usable and can complement some of the data we get from call recordings. The integration with Salesforce is easy to implement and offers good insights into our database.
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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
HG Insights
- Sales Intel seems to be more of a direct competition. Their human research seems to be something interesting. Also the claim to focus on firmographics - We went with Bombora for intent technology in the past - We did not move forward with 6sense
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Discontinued Products
Selected Hitwise because it is much better for insights on small-scale websites
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Return on Investment
HG Insights
  • It has a big, big impact, a huge impact, because we were able to identify that it resolved the problems where we were trying to sell our voice and see how it can beat other customers. So finding our competitors, which helped us a lot.
  • It definitely helped a lot because, since we introduced a new product, we are trying to find our competitors. So it was like this was a bottleneck, not able to know which customers are using voice support. So we were able to get that and to be able to not only extract and bring that information in front of the users so that we can identify the accounts and they can start working on it, save time, save money, and get the business done.
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Discontinued Products
  • Media planning
  • SEO
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ScreenShots

HG Insights Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of the welcome screen.Screenshot of the HG Insights Opportunity Generator.Screenshot of HG Insights' Market Analyzer, used to interactively explore and act on your total addressable market, competitive dynamics, and whitespace with speed and confidence.