What market intelligence teams track
Market intelligence sits a level above a single study: it is the ongoing practice of turning public signals into a clear picture of your category, your competitors, and your customers. Most of those signals are localized, so an accurate picture depends on seeing each source from the right place.
- Competitor pricing, promotions, and product assortment across regions.
- Category and demand trends visible in public marketplaces and listings.
- Share-of-shelf and merchandising differences between local storefronts.
- Public sentiment, reviews, and messaging as they appear in each market.
- How your own brand and content surface to buyers in target locations.
Why residential IPs and geo targeting matter
Websites routinely tailor prices, stock, offers, and search results to a visitor's location and network. Requests from one office IP, or from a datacenter range, return a skewed and sometimes blocked view that quietly biases every metric built on top of it.
Residential proxies route your requests through real consumer devices, so a public page renders the way a genuine local visitor would see it. Adding country, state, or city targeting lets you line your sample up with the exact market you are analyzing, which is what makes competitive comparisons trustworthy rather than accidental.
Nefo features that fit market intelligence
Rotating sessions assign a new IP per request, which suits broad, stateless sampling where you want many independent looks at public pages. Sticky sessions hold the same IP for up to around 24 hours, which suits multi-step reviews, such as stepping through a public checkout preview or capturing a consistent regional snapshot across several pages.
HTTPS and SOCKS5 are both available on every plan, so you can wire proxies into a browser, a headless crawler, or a data pipeline without switching plans. A dashboard with usage analytics and API access lets you script credential generation and watch bandwidth as jobs scale.
- Rotating IPs for high-volume, independent public-page sampling.
- Sticky IPs for consistent, multi-step regional snapshots.
- HTTPS and SOCKS5 on every plan for browsers, crawlers, and pipelines.
- Dashboard analytics and API access to manage jobs and bandwidth.
Localized coverage: country everywhere, city and state in most countries
Country-level targeting is available across 227 countries and territories through a country token, which is enough for most national comparisons. When your analysis needs finer resolution, city and state targeting is available in most countries, more than 22,000 cities in all.
That granularity matters when a competitor prices differently by metro, or when a local promotion, assortment, or search result only appears to buyers in a specific state or city. Matching your requests to that location keeps regional comparisons honest.
How to start from 5 GB
Bandwidth is pay-as-you-go from 5 GB ($4.50, or $0.90/GB) and does not expire, so you can scope a pilot, for example one competitor in one region, measure how much data it consumes, and then buy more in whatever amount you need. There is no minimum commitment forcing you to over-size a study.
You can pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Alipay, Binance Pay or crypto. Fast human support can help you choose session modes and targeting for your first jobs, and keeping collection lawful is part of the setup: respect each site's terms, honor robots directives where they apply, follow applicable law, and avoid personal data you are not permitted to process.
- Buy any amount of non-expiring bandwidth, starting at 5 GB.
- Generate credentials with country, or city and state where supported.
- Choose rotating or sticky sessions to match each workflow.
- Keep collection compliant with site terms, robots directives, and law.
Frequently asked questions
Market research is often a one-off study, while market intelligence is continuous monitoring. Both depend on seeing localized public sources accurately. For one-off studies see market research.
Country targeting covers most national comparisons. If a competitor prices or merchandises differently by metro, use city or state targeting, available in most countries across 22,417 cities.
Use rotating sessions for independent sampling of public pages and sticky sessions when a task spans several steps from one location. Both are available over HTTPS or SOCKS5.
It depends on how many pages you sample and how often. Plans start at 5 GB for $4.50 and never expire, so run a small pilot, measure consumption and scale. Larger plans cost less per GB, down to $0.53/GB at 10 TB.
Collecting publicly available data is common, but you must respect each site's terms, robots directives and applicable law, and avoid personal data you are not permitted to process. See the acceptable use policy.