EWDCI News and Updates
Here you will find the latest updates from the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI)—from member spotlights to policy positions.
EWDCI Member Spotlight Q&A: Nimble
Founded in 2021, Nimble empowers its clients to use real-time public web data to build AI and business intelligence applications. We connected with Oshrit Aviv, founder and CEO of Enterio.io and compliance advisor to Nimble, to talk about artificial intelligence,...
EWDCI Member Spotlight Q&A: Proxyrack
Proxyrack has been supplying reliable, affordable, and easy-to-deploy residential and datacenter proxies since 2014. With over 100,000 users and more than a billion page requests, they focus on a humans-first work culture that then carries forward to their clients. We...
EWDCI Member Spotlight Q&A: ProxyEmpire
Launched in 2020, ProxyEmpire has dedicated itself to simplicity and transparency in delivering the sorts of data that change a company’s trajectory. ProxyEmpire offers proxies with granular targeting in over 170 countries, providing its clients with access to over 9...
EWDCI Member Spotlight Q&A: Coresignal
Founded in 2016, Coresignal specializes in “always fresh” business data records from multiple public web sources with hundreds of data points. Their datasets cover all essential aspects of information about companies, professionals, and jobs. Think farm to table, but...
EWDCI Member Spotlight Q&A: Rayobyte
Founded in 2015 as Blazing SEO, Rayobyte is now the largest U.S.-based proxy provider. “Rayo” refers to the largest conceivable finite number, while “byte” refers to a single unit of data storage. (We hope our readers already knew the second part.) We spoke with...
EWDCI Member Spotlight Q&A: Zyte
Launched in 2010, Zyte specializes in ethical data extraction and web scraping. Passionate about education around web data collection, Zyte also runs the annual Web Data Extract Summit. We spoke with Sanaea Daruwalla, Chief Legal & People Officer at Zyte, about...
EWDCI Member Spotlight Q&A: Smartproxy
Launched in 2018 as a self-service-based proxy infrastructure, Smartproxy now serves over 50,000 users—from Fortune 500 companies to solopreneurs. We caught up with Smartproxy CEO Vytautas Savickas to discuss the rise of artificial intelligence, the value of...
EWDCI Member Spotlight Q&A: Oxylabs
Founded in 2015, Oxylabs is a market-leading web intelligence collection platform that puts ethics and good business practices first. With over 102 million ethically-gathered proxies, Oxylabs serves over 3,500 clients worldwide to become the fastest-growing web...
EWDCI Member Spotlight Q&A: NetNut
Founded in 2017, NetNut now operates a network of over 85 million premium proxies, leveraging a hybrid mix of ISP and dynamic residential proxies across more than 200 ISPs globally; and is trusted by thousands of companies worldwide. NetNut’s Impact Data Initiative...