Beating the Market with Alternative Web Data

Beating the Market with Alternative Web Data

Learn how web data from news articles, blogs, discussions and forums is an important alternative data resource.

How Can Knowledge About Competitors Help?

How Can Knowledge About Competitors Help?

Stay on top of the competition with continuous monitoring of online discussions data feeds and social media discussions data.

How is the Open Web API Different From the Google Search API?

How is the Open Web API Different From the Google Search API?

An open web API delivers data from the open or clearnet. It can include data from news sources, blogs, discussions, and reviews.

Why is it Important to Get Information About Competitors?

Why is it Important to Get Information About Competitors?

In a fast-paced online world, it’s critical for brands to get the information they need about the competition with an online reviews API.

How Web Data Can Help Predict Disease and a Rise in Prices

How Web Data Can Help Predict Disease and a Rise in Prices

Discover how web data can help predict a rise in prices.

New Feature: Filter Content by Exact Location

New Feature: Filter Content by Exact Location

Leverage Image-Embedded Metadata to Derive Richer Data Insights When smartphone users click the shutter button when taking a picture, they’re often capturing far more than just images. Embedded image metadata can reveal…

A World of High-Quality Accessible News for All

A World of High-Quality Accessible News for All

Today if you rely on the internet for your news, you’re probably one of many who refuse to pay for it. And although that puts you in good company, it may also…

Avoid Biased Data Analysis with Clean and Structured Data

Avoid Biased Data Analysis with Clean and Structured Data

I want to share with you an unfortunate truth: All data is biased. Here at Webz, we’ve written about this at length in our posts that explained how surveys are biased and…

Auritus: Open-Source, Public Relations Monitoring Platform

Auritus: Open-Source, Public Relations Monitoring Platform

The reason I started Webz.io is because I experienced the difficulties in collecting web data at scale when I worked on a previous project named PRTrack.it. At PRTrack.it we wanted to create…

Webz.io Mentioned By Forrester as the Top Data Provider

Webz.io Mentioned By Forrester as the Top Data Provider

We are very excited to be mentioned by Forrester as one of the top third-party web data providers in Forrester’s recent report on social listening platforms!  The report describes the social marketing…

Track Your News with RSS Instead of Social Media

Track Your News with RSS Instead of Social Media

One of the first popular sites to ever offer RSS, Rich Site Summary (or Really Simple Syndication) was the New York Times in early 2002. These feeds brought the advantage of learning…

How Alternative Data is Reshaping Finance

How Alternative Data is Reshaping Finance

According to a report recently featured on the Financial Times (PDF), hedge funds are expected to spend upwards of $600m on digital datasets this year, and up to $1bn by 2020. What’s…