Vendor comparison

Foundry vs. TechTarget

A strong pipeline starts with legitimate engagement. See how Foundry stacks up against TechTarget to deliver more highly engaged leads backed by rich buyer intent data.

Only Foundry captures & activates intent across the full buyer journey.

Foundry

Digital engagement and seamless activation of global intent data

Foundry supports marketing and revenue teams around the world with martech backed by rich intent, and lead generation tools to build strong sales pipeline. Decision-maker insights from activity on our award-winning editorial ecosystem fuel 150M+ proprietary records with qualified intent signals and a contact-level view of buying team activity within our owned & operated (O&O) environment and beyond. Foundry Intent data powers our 100% digital demand generation programs to deliver organically engaged prospects and qualified ABM leads that reveal purchase intent.

TechTarget

Display ad publisher model retrofitted for the intent era

TechTarget began as a tech publisher “for the internet-era” and over the last decade has moved beyond a primarily programmatic advertising model to service marketers in the upper funnel with contact-level intent insights from known visitors to their owned and operated sites. TechTarget also offers leads as a service derived from search results to its 650K indexed topic pages matched against its database of 29M global opted-in contacts. Its Priority EngineTM product produces high-level account insights based on activity on these O&O sites and topic pages.

Here’s how Foundry stacks up against TechTarget

Data volume & coverage

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RecordsGlobal reach
Foundry

150M+ contacts

  • 69M – North America (45%)
  • 43M – APAC (28%)
  • 32.6M – Europe (21%)
  • 6.7M Latin America (4%)
  • 3.7M MEASA (2%)
TechTarget

29M+ contacts

  • 13.3M North America (46%)
  • 8.4M Europe (29%)
  • 6M APAC (21%)
  • 1.2M Latin America (4%)
Foundry TechTarget
Records

150M+ contacts

29M+ contacts

Global reach
  • 69M – North America (45%)
  • 43M – APAC (28%)
  • 32.6M – Europe (21%)
  • 6.7M Latin America (4%)
  • 3.7M MEASA (2%)
  • 13.3M North America (46%)
  • 8.4M Europe (29%)
  • 6M APAC (21%)
  • 1.2M Latin America (4%)

Why we win: With a 5x larger database of engaged IT decision makers (ITDMs), strategic technology professionals, and business leaders across the buying team, Foundry’s data gives B2B marketers access to more decision makers within a specific account than TechTarget. Foundry data also reaches deep into the European and APAC markets to engage B2B buyers at global scale.

Intent Data

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Data sourceContact levelActivation
Foundry Intent
  • Award-winning editorial properties
  • Public web signals
  • Marketer’s own site visitors
  • Human verified
  • Foundry events
  • Audience relationships
  • Yes
  • 100% digitally engaged leads
  • In-house activation through Foundry’s multichannel services
  • Contact-level MAP & CRM integrations
Priority Engine™
  • Owned properties (including indexed topic pages)
  • Registration data
  • Marketer’s own site visitors
    • Using Foundry technology
  • Confined to O&O properties
  • Content syndication
  • Display ads
  • MAP & CRM integrations
Foundry Intent Priority Engine™
Data source
  • Award-winning editorial properties
  • Public web signals
  • Marketer’s own site visitors
  • Human verified
  • Foundry events
  • Audience relationships
  • Owned properties (including indexed topic pages)
  • Registration data
  • Marketer’s own site visitors
    • Using Foundry technology
Contact level
  • Yes
  • Confined to O&O properties
Activation
  • 100% digitally engaged leads
  • In-house activation through Foundry’s multichannel services
  • Contact-level MAP & CRM integrations
  • Content syndication
  • Display ads
  • MAP & CRM integrations

Why we win: Why capture intent just on TechTarget properties? Foundry Intent monitors and captures intent signals where buyers are naturally engaged along the entire path to purchase—both on our trusted owned & operated properties and beyond. With an average of 57 data points per contact, Foundry Intent offers B2B marketers a more complete and nuanced view of the buyer journey and the entire buying team. Plus, Foundry’s in-house multichannel lead generation programs and contact-level integrations give demand generation marketing teams more options to activate and digitally engage quality, in-market leads.

Brand to demand

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ServicesApproachChannels
Foundry
  • BrandHub brand-to-demand programs
  • ABM targeting
  • Qualified digital lead engagement
  • Sales development
  • Digital advertising
  • Foundry events portfolio
  • Trusted audience relationships—both on and offline—are the foundation for relevant tech buyer engagement
  • Dedicated hubs on Foundry premium editorial lend third-party credibility & drive legitimate engagement from strategic professionals
  • Robust, contact-level intent data fuels digital activation & content syndication across Foundry’s multi-channel services
  • Leads qualified by 100% digital, substantial engagement with your brand and content—guaranteed
  • Dedicated hubs on Foundry editorial sites
  • Contextual advertising
  • Extended display network
  • Email marketing
  • Social media
TechTarget
  • High-Quality Leads™
  • Confirmed Projects™
  • SEO model drives traffic to topical pages where leads are “exposed to your content”
  • Newsletter-style content syndication & display ads promote your content among similar brands in TechTarget-branded environments
  • No guaranteed engagement with your brand or content
  • Leads delivered based on confirmed projects or topical alignment
  • 650K+ indexed topic pages
  • Display ads
  • Email marketing
Foundry TechTarget
Services
  • BrandHub brand-to-demand programs
  • ABM targeting
  • Qualified digital lead engagement
  • Sales development
  • Digital advertising
  • Foundry events portfolio
  • High-Quality Leads™
  • Confirmed Projects™
Approach
  • Trusted audience relationships—both on and offline—are the foundation for relevant tech buyer engagement
  • Dedicated hubs on Foundry premium editorial lend third-party credibility & drive legitimate engagement from strategic professionals
  • Robust, contact-level intent data fuels digital activation & content syndication across Foundry’s multi-channel services
  • Leads qualified by 100% digital, substantial engagement with your brand and content—guaranteed
  • SEO model drives traffic to topical pages where leads are “exposed to your content”
  • Newsletter-style content syndication & display ads promote your content among similar brands in TechTarget-branded environments
  • No guaranteed engagement with your brand or content
  • Leads delivered based on confirmed projects or topical alignment
Channels
  • Dedicated hubs on Foundry editorial sites
  • Contextual advertising
  • Extended display network
  • Email marketing
  • Social media
  • 650K+ indexed topic pages
  • Display ads
  • Email marketing

Why we win: Supporting the full B2B marketing funnel and sales pipeline with brand to demand solutions, we leverage our rich buyer intent data to provide B2B marketing and sales teams a range of demand generation strategies to generate decision-maker leads that are engaged with your content, showing relevant buying behavior, and convert to opportunity. Unlike TechTarget services that only deliver general datasets based on topical search interest or BANT criteria, Foundry’s intent data-driven programs are fueled by strong audience relationships and designed to progress buyers from brand awareness through to qualified lead via meaningful engagement with your content across multiple online channels.

Why marketers choose Foundry

Premium Audience Communities

Technology buying teams have relied on Foundry for nearly 60 years to deliver relevant content and peer-to-peer connections in premium online and offline settings. Because we’re built to serve these strategic professionals in an era-agnostic way, we continue to earn the trust of this buying community and can offer the unparalleled data insights that B2B marketers need to influence decisions.

  • Established brand destinations—not SEO sites
  • 800+ must-attend global events annually
  • Rich digital and analog buyer intent data built on trust
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Intent Data

Buying doesn’t happen all in one place, so why only capture intent signals on TechTarget’s sites? Unlike TechTarget and other publishers, Foundry Intent captures and processes over 100M signals weekly—from our digital properties, events, public web activity, and marketers’ own sites—to deliver a truly comprehensive and unmatched view of the buyer journey.

  • Multi-source intent data from our properties and beyond
  • Buying team insights and contact-level data
  • Digital and human-verified intent signals

Digitally Engaged Leads

Because TechTarget’s leads are derived in part from topical search activity, the leads they sell aren’t qualified exclusively by clients’ owned content. Foundry delivers qualified leads backed by intent and proven digital engagement with your assets. The result is leads that are compliant and ready to nurture, drive stronger pipeline, and are more likely to convert.

  • Proven digital engagement with your content
  • Reporting on content trends and against each qualified lead
  • Delivered compliantly, at scale, on time, and ready to nurture
ABM Buyers

Integrated ABM & Orchestration

Intent data is most valuable when it is also actionable across channels, which is where TechTarget’s Priority Engine™ falls short. Foundry offers its clients multiple activation channels—including managed service and self-service options—to seamlessly orchestrate and personalize ABM campaigns that keep prospects on the path of engagement.

  • Foundry Intent data incorporated directly into advertising and demand generation campaigns
  • Fully managed, self-serve, or hybrid activation available
  • Designed to work with B2B marketers’ and sales teams’ existing tools and processes

I am very pleased with the opportunities Foundry provided to us. Our marketing campaigns blew away the projected lead generation goals and produced a far more qualified lead than other marketing channels.

Kristy Slimmer, Director of Marketing, Galileo

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