Data Gathering

Why you need proxies for data gathering

Marketing departments gather, analyze and disseminate information in big volumes that is relevant to a particular market segment. To collect this much data about products, customers and competitors marketers need to tool up. Research and analysis is a challenging task because competitors can detect unauthorized access from other corporate IP addresses and implement counter measures.

SEO and marketing agencies, travel companies, airlines, hotels, car sharing companies etc. turn to collecting stock market data for their clients. Data gathering processes include scraping, crawling, parsing which mean retrieving open data from websites. Scraping on a mass scale plays a big part in today’s era of Internet and digitech.

In these circumstances, the best way out is proxies. The use of proxy servers in collecting data is a must for businesses worldwide. Our clients use proxies in a distributed manner, to check their competitors’ prices, sale conditions, verify ads, aggregate travel fare, etc. — all done anonymously and discreetly. The result of Cosmodata proxy use is saving company resources to a large extent, getting precise information from their competitors and increased share in their market field.

Residential proxies use broadband ISPs and home Wi-Fi. They promise maximum disguise as a real user and an opportunity to avoid bans and restrictions. Mobile proxies use mobile data. They are real mobile IT users’ IP addresses; they are very trusted by websites.