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“No data scientists, no problem,” DataSift tells agencies as it launches Media Strategies API

San Francisco, May 11, 2017 - DataSift today unveiled its new Media Strategies API, enabling marketing agencies to instantly access actionable intelligence from social data to inform their marketing strategy, media planning, and campaign development. The Media Strategies API is...

LinkedIn and DataSift Join Forces to Provide Data-Driven Marketers with Advanced Insights into the World’s Largest Online Professional Network

San Francisco, January 18, 2017 - DataSift today announced a strategic partnership with LinkedIn and unveiled PYLON for LinkedIn Engagement Insights to provide marketers around the globe with advanced insights into the activities and interests of over 467 million professionals.

DataSift Makes Machine Learning Accessible to All with VEDO Intent

Today, we’re launching VEDO Intent, a new technology that significantly simplifies machine learning, helping developers to place it into the hands of people across the business. For the first time, organizations will be able to harness the full potential of...

DataSift Partners with Facebook to Bring Facebook Topic Data to Marketers

It is with great excitement that we’re announcing our partnership with Facebook to give marketers a deeper understanding into the topics that people are engaging in on the world’s largest social platform.

Over the last seven years, we’ve built an...

DataSift Adds Disqus and Edgar Online to Its Growing Ecosystem of Social Networks and Content Publishers

SEC filing and 20 million comments now available on its Human Data Platform

San Francisco, CA, December 11, 2014 - DataSift, the leader in Human Data Intelligence, today announced the expansion of its fast-growing ecosystem of social networks and...

DataSift Receives Ventana Research Business Technology Innovation Award

Company honored for innovation in 'social media' category

SAN FRANCISCO – September 23, 2014 – DataSift, the leading social data platform, announced today that it has received a Ventana Research Business Technology Innovation Award in the Social Media category....

DataSift Named to JMP Securities Hot 100 List of Best Privately Held Software Companies

Evaluation based on financials, products and services, quality of leadership, customers and market potential

SAN FRANCISCO – September 23, 2014 – DataSift, the leading social data platform, announced today that it was named to JMP Securities 2014 "Hot 100:...

DataSift Works with the United Nations to Analyze Social Data for Humanitarian Missions

United Nations' Global Pulse initiative partners with social data provider DataSift to analyze worldwide opinions on vaccinations, poverty, and other humanitarian topics.

UN Global Pulse & DataSift Announce Data Philanthropy Partnership

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - July 2, 2014 - United Nations Global Pulse and DataSift, the world’s only independent provider of social data, today announced a global partnership that will allow the UN to gain real-time insights into the...

DataSift Works with the United Nations to Analyze Social Data for Humanitarian Missions

Social data provider DataSift and the United Nations Global Pulse today announced a partnership to pursue the “social good of the highest order,” as Rob Bailey, DataSift’s chief executive, put it.

DataSift Wins Best B2B Startup Category at Prestigious The Europas Awards

DataSift Wins Best B2B Startup Category at Prestigious The Europas Awards

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 13, 2014 - DataSift, the leading social data platform, announced today it received The Europas Award for the "Best Enterprise, Software as a...

DataSift Recognized for Innovation in Social Data

San Francisco Business Times Names the DataSift Platform ‘Best Service or Application’ of 2014

SAN FRANCISCO – May 22, 2014 – DataSift, the leading social data platform, announced today it has been named the winner of the 2014 San Francisco Business Times...

Jason Rose Joins DataSift as Senior Vice President of Marketing

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON – May 6, 2014 - DataSift, the world’s only independent provider of social data, today announced that Jason Rose has been named to lead DataSift’s marketing efforts.

“Social data is clearly transforming decision-making across enterprises...

Alteryx and DataSift Unlock the Power of Social Data Analytics For Every Analyst

Partnership Unifies Social and Enterprise Data to Drive Advanced Analytics for Data Analysts

Irvine and San Francisco, Calif. - March 19, 2014 – Alteryx, Inc., the leader in data blending and advanced analytics, and DataSift, the leading enterprise social...

WPP Uses DataSift to Evolve Its Data Strategy

The WPP group of marketing services companies has added a partnership with text data filtering and aggregation company DataSift.The deal means WPP companies – such as GroupM, Wunderman, Kantar, JWT and Cohn & Wolfe – can access social data from...

DataSift Founder Mulls IPO

Nick Halstead, DataSift CTO and Founder, speaks to CNBC European Closing Bell's Louisa Bojesen about the rapid growth of the company and future plans for an IPO.

WPP’s Data Alliance Partners with DataSift for Unified, Global Social Data Access

WPP operating companies will gain access to DataSift’s rich social data through a single interface

NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2014 – WPP’s (NASDAQ:WPPGY) Data Alliance and DataSift today announced a global data partnership enabling WPP companies to access data from...

DataSift Unlocks Data Access to World's Second Largest Economy with Sina Weibo

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON – Dec. 19, 2013 – DataSift, the platform that powers the social economy, announced today the addition of Sina Weibo (NASDAQ: SINA) as a new data source, further enhancing the ability of brands, agencies and...

DataSift Announces Industry’s First Intelligence Engine for Unstructured Social Data

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON – Dec. 12, 2013 – DataSift, the platform that powers the social economy, today announced the availability of DataSift VEDO, the next generation processing engine for the DataSift platform, featuring Programmable Intelligence. Whereas conventional big data...

DataSift Extends Market Leadership With Automattic/WordPress Global Partnership

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON – Dec. 5, 2013 – DataSift, the platform that powers the social economy, announced today a global partnership with Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, to further enhance the ability of brands and businesses to curate and...

5 Budding Social Data Startups To Watch

The other darling from this busy week, DataSift, announced a $42 million funding round on Tuesday, pushing the company's financing total over $70 million.

How Businesses Can Make The Most Of Social Networking Data

DataSift CEO Rob Bailey on how the company helps businesses utilize data from social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

DataSift Raises $42 Million to Fuel Continued Growth & Platform Innovation

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON – Dec. 3, 2013 – DataSift, the platform that powers the social economy, announced today it has secured $42 million in Series C financing led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Scale...

DataSift Raises $42 Million

Software company DataSift said Tuesday that it has secured $42 million in funding – triple the amount the company raised last year – for a total of $70 million to date.

DataSift Grabs $42M To Grow Its Social Data Platform

Big data startup DataSift has closed a fresh $42 million round of funding, the company announced today. DataSift's platform allows businesses and other organizations to extrapolate social data from across many popular social networking sites.

DataSift Founder and Chief Technology Officer to Address Dublin Web Summit

DUBLIN – Oct. 30, 2013 – DataSift, the platform that powers the new big data economy, today announced founder and CTO Nick Halstead will take the stage at the Dublin Web Summit.

In just three years, Halstead has led a...

Big Data and Marketing: An Inevitable Partnership

Big data has the potential to transform marketing – but making sense of it is a challenge. In principle the benefits are huge, not just in targeting and relevance, but in ease of use for the consumer.

Twitter's Data Firehose Is Its Secret Weapon Against Facebook

According to Rob Bailey, CEO of DataSift, one of the few companies with direct access to Twitter's firehose, ‘I am absolutely amazed in the sea change around the understanding of Twitter at the corporate level.’ Bailey says he believes that...

Twitter's Data Business Proves Lucrative

"The economic impact of Twitter is massively bigger than whatever lies in their IPO filing," says Rob Bailey, chief executive of DataSift.

DataSift Now Offering Historical Social Data Analysis Across Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Bitly & More Combined

DataSift launches new API that performs historical analysis across Twitter, Tumblr, and Bit.ly "firehoses", as well as data pulled from forums, blogs and public Facebook data.

Tumblr Inks Firehose Deal With DataSift

Tumblr has inked a deal with DataSift to provide a firehose of Tumblr data - including both real-time and historic data — to power consumer engagement analytics. In our increasingly ad-tech-fuelled world, this is essential data for brands and their...

DataSift Now Grabbing Tumblr Data, as Well

DataSift, one of the two companies (along with Gnip) granted real-time access to the Twitter firehose, now offers real-time and historical analysis of Tumblr data.

DataSift Powers Real-Time and Historic Analysis of Consumer Engagement on Tumblr

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON – Sept. 16, 2013 DataSift, the platform that powers the social economy, continues to advance the way enterprises capture the business value of social data with the addition of Tumblr as a data source.

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Social Data Week Announces New Speakers, Sponsors and Media Partner

SAN FRANCISCO - August 5, 2013 Social Data Week 2013, a global summit that will explore how the use of social data is revolutionizing enterprise strategy and decision making, today announced an impressive roster of new speakers, along with...

DataSift Announces Inaugural Social Data Week

SAN FRANCISCO – July 18, 2013 DataSift, the leading big data platform for social businesses, today announced its founding sponsorship of the inaugural Social Data Week event. Social Data Week will bring together industry leaders, influencers, experts and brands...

Social Media Analytics: Are We Nearly There Yet?

Businesses have been trying to crack sentiment analysis and social reach metrics for years, but how close are they to turning social analytics into the gold mine it was always meant to be?

Social Analytics Has Come Of Age

DataSift is one of the more exciting British start-ups at LeWeb. It is looking to help organisations mine information not just from within their own network, but across all their related networks, especially those in the social space.

Tableau and DataSift Join Up to Show How Social Sentiments Affect Business

DataSift is bringing the Twitter firehose, Google+ and other social streams to Tableau Software in a new partnership. The deal will help more people gain insight into connections between business and social media.

DataSift Adds Three New Data Sources, Partners with Tableau Software

The integration with the business intelligence and analytics service Tableau gives DataSift greater exposure as it now becomes available to 10,000 companies.

DataSift Ignites Social + Big Data Revolution In The Enterprise

Announces Big Data Partnership with Tableau Software and Addition of Facebook Pages, Instagram and Google+ Data Sources

SAN FRANCISCO, LONDON – June 4, 2013 -DataSift, the leading big data platform for social business, continues to change the way companies...

DataSift Announces Strategic Alliance with Splunk

Enables Organizations to Analyze Operational, Business and Social Data Together in Splunk Storm and Splunk Enterprise

SAN FRANCISCO, LONDON – April 18, 2013 DataSift, the leading social insight platform company, today announced a strategic alliance with Splunk. Integrating the...

Nick Halstead, DataSift Founder and CTO interviewed on Tech Weekly Podcast

In a recent Tech Weekly Podcast, listen to Nick Halstead, DataSift Founder and CTO, in conversation with Charles Arthur, The Guardian's Technology Editor, as they discuss how social networks are making big data sets so powerful

DataSift Query Builder Powers the Next Generation of Social Business

Democratizing Access to Social Data Signals Shift in How Enterprises Gain Critical Business Insights

SAN FRANCISCO – February 14, 2013DataSift, the leading enterprise social data platform company, today announced the Open Source embeddable version of Query Builder, the visual...