Here are 7 key findings from the the Web Scraping Industry Trends for 2017 Report that will give you quick look inside and help you to understand the current web scraping industry scenario.

1. KEY
From the Web Scraping
Industry Trends Report
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2. 90%
OF THE DATA IN
THE WORLD
TODAY HAS BEEN
CREATED IN THE
LAST TWO YEARS
ALONE.
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3. WEB
SCRAPING
INDUSTRY
IN 2016
The web scraping
industry is growing
rapidly with the
increasing demand for
web data acquisition by
companies across
industry verticals.
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4. SEVEN KEY FINDINGS
FROM THE REPORT
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5. INDUSTRIES
THAT USE
WEB
SCRAPING
SERVICES
ECOMMERCE
RECRUITMENT
TRAVEL
REAL ESTATE
RESEARCH
OTHERS
#1
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6. OTHERS
INCLUDE
SPORTS
HEALTHCARE
SOCIAL MEDIA
GOVERNMENT
AND LEGAL
CLASSIFIED
EDUCATION
AUTOMOBILE AND
MANUFACTURING
EVENTS
BIOTECH
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7. WEB
SCRAPING
INDUSTRY
SHARE
Ecommerce
48%
Others
4%Research
5%
Real Estate
6%
Travel
17%
Recruitment
20%
#2
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8. 48%
With the increasing
number of products
available online on
thousands of
Ecommerce sites,
majority of price
comparison websites
and Ecommerce
companies opted to
acquire data from the
web in 2016.
Having competitive
prices at all times is an
key aspect of the
ecommerce industry.
#3
Is the total market
share of the
Ecommerce industry.
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9. 94M
When it comes to
decision making in
business, any data that
you have about your
competitors can prove
to be crucial.
This being said and
keeping the last year’s
trend in mind,
Ecommerce industry is
steadily expanding and
will witness massive
growth in 2017, with
data being the key
influence.
Is the number of
visitors that Amazon’s
website receives every
month.
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10. 450
Comprised of job boards,
HR consultancies and
aggregators, the main
concern of the industry
is to connect companies
looking for workforce
with the job seekers.
The number of people
who work in the
recruitment industry is
above 103,000 and it is
up by 7% since last year.
#4
Is the current market
size of the Recruitment
industry as per the
report by Koncept
analytics and Forbes.
Bn
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11. With a large volume of
openings, job board
website owners gained
insights about the
market trends and
opportunities, and also
lured both job seekers
and employers to try out
their services.
This is why many
companies from the
recruitment industry
choose to crawl job
listing websites across
the globe.
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12. 956
With the rise in online
travel and hospitality
offerings, travel industry
is transforming its
services by leveraging
data aggregation
services.
The industry is
strategically using big
data to take smarter
business decisions.
Many T&H companies in
2016 witnessed strong
momentum for
continued success.
#5
International tourists
visited various
destinations world
wide in 2016
UNWTO World Tourism
Barometer
M
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13. New technologies and
increasing digitalization
are generating more data
than ever before.
Using web scraping
services allowed the
companies to easily
gather hotel reviews,
prices and other relevant
information from
multiple travel portals at
the same time and build
business intelligence on
top of it.
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14. 17%
For a real estate
business, relevant
information comes in
the form of real estate
listings, details of plots
and buildings, buyer and
seller profiles and
detailed information
about real estate agents.
Which is nothing but
high quality and
actionable data.
#6
Is the total market
share of the Real
Estate industry.
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15. Considering the recent advancement in
the field of Augmented Reality (AR)
and Virtual Reality (VR), the real
estate business will see lot of new
channels to grow their business in
2017.
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16. #7
Apart from the main
industries, there were
other emerging
industries like Sports,
Healthcare, Social
Media, Legal, Classified,
Education, Automobile
and Manufacturing,
Events and Biotech, that
leveraged the power of
data by using web
scraping services in
2016.
Automobile industry
started extracting data to
shorten design cycle,
reduce development cost,
and design innovative
models which are more
innovative, sustainable,
and consistent.
Journalism Industry has
started finding potential
stories online from
various data sources,
including the
government websites
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17. Web scraping reduces
cost while making the
data acquisition a lot
quicker and hassle-free.
It is easier to track
competition with web
scraping technologies
and build cutting edge
strategies to beat them.
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18. Application of data is becoming
crucial for business survival.
Hence, there’s no ignoring of data
anymore, especially in the coming year.
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19. To know more about
the web scraping
industry and it’s trends
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20. THANK
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