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Bright Data in practice

Zachary Keyser | Global Communications Manager

Sidestepping supply chain challenges using public web data

We sat down with David Amézquita, product manager at Container xChange – a rapidly growing company in the supply chain space – to gain a bit of perspective on how his organization uses public web data to help companies be more successful in navigating the supply chain and minimizing the impact disruptions have on operations.

Amit Elia | Control Panel Product Manager

What is an SSL proxy and how does it work?

SSL proxies offer increased encryption, and anonymity as well as better visibility on potential threats. This post offers a deep dive into SSL-based use cases powering safer financial data transfers, preventative cybersecurity strategies, and blockchain technology safeguards

Bright Data in practice

Daniel Shashko | Master of SEO

Leveraging proxies for SEO: Residential and Mobile proxies

Learn how Residential and Mobile proxies are being used to enhance competitive keyword monitoring/research using data to perform localization, and laser-focused geotargeting

Bright Data in practice

Nadav Roiter | Data Collection Expert

How an effective ‘Data Flywheel’ can enhance your revenue, marketing, and Product-Led Growth

Learn to strategically leverage a data flywheel in order to increase momentum on your product/service driving Return on Investment (ROI), as well as acquisition/retention

Boaz Weltman | Junior product manager

Forward proxy vs. reverse proxy: What is the difference?

Learn how reverse proxies can be utilized as a load-balancing tool while simultaneously contributing to a network security architecture that helps isolate, and protect internal data assets, while also discovering reverse proxy alternatives that use end-to-end encryption enabling unlimited concurrent requests

Bright Data in practice

Nadav Roiter | Data Collection Expert

What is data extraction? Useful techniques & tools

Learn the data extraction basics including how data extraction can help your business as well as a step-by-step guide on how to extract structured /unstructured data either using Python or with a fully automated tool

Bright Data in practice

Noah Kalson | Director of Brand Marketing

The ultimate guide to using social media data collection for marketing

This article will present you with the types of data points which can benefit businesses most when looking to perform data-driven marketing on social media. It will also introduce you to collection tools that can help you get a real-time feed of social media data without the need for coding, complex infrastructure or data scientists

How Tos

Amitai Richman | Product Marketing Manager

The 4 Challenges of Data Scraping and How to Overcome Them

Do you want to scrape content from a website but are unsure how to go about it? Data scraping, which used to be relatively straightforward to accomplish, has become increasingly challenging and difficult to scale.