A listing on Datarade, a data marketplace, describes a data product; it is not the product. Datarade publishes a provider profile, a listing for each product and a sample, while the provider keeps the data and delivers it. This guide reads Datarade's own provider pages for what a data lead needs before applying: who is accepted, what a listing must say, which policies bind it, how buyer interest arrives and what the plans cost as Datarade states them. Every statement about Datarade was checked against the pages linked here on 4 October 2026.
The Fokals hiring data, Job Postings and Hiring Activity, appears below as a worked example of how documented facts fill the listing form.
What a listing is, and what it is not
Datarade's Publishing Policies define a listing as content that describes a product, and they state that the products themselves are not available through the platform. A provider must give users access by sharing the product securely outside Datarade, and the underlying data is hosted by the provider and is not shared on Datarade. The one exception is the sample preview, a subset of the data that logged-in users see as a table. The provider help centre makes the same point about the Datarade Marketplace: the data supplier handles delivery and fulfilment.
Provider Studio is the provider's working console. According to the application page, a provider uses it to write and publish listings, take in leads, work deals through to a close, reply to buyers' data requests and read analytics on impressions, clicks and leads. The help centre adds that Provider Studio also publishes to a provider's own storefront and to four marketplaces run by cloud and data platforms, and that a product flagged as restricted is removed from all of them.
The consequence is practical. Before you list, the licence, the delivery route and the documentation have to exist, because the listing carries none of them.
Applying: who is accepted
The application page describes three steps. You complete a short application about your company, datasets and target customers. Datarade's team reviews it for quality and marketplace fit, and the page says most applications are reviewed within one to two business days. You then receive an invitation to onboard into Provider Studio.
Its FAQ limits providers to legally registered businesses that hold the rights to commercialise their data and comply with regional and international data protection law, and it says individuals without a registered business are not onboarded. The page rules out sensitive personal data that has not been anonymised, illegally scraped datasets and data intended for non-compliant uses.
The profile is a second document. The Publishing Policies require a company description, a logo, the headquarters country, the data offering with its categories and its historical and geographic coverage, an account of how the data is sourced and collected and why that is lawful, the provider's differentiators, intended and forbidden use cases, a privacy policy and an explanation of how data protection rules are met. Certifications are published only after Datarade's data protection team has verified them.
What a listing must say, with a worked answer
The Publishing Policies list the fields of a listing, and the help centre says the form begins with a sample or, if none exists, a data dictionary entered by hand. The primary category matters most, with up to four secondary categories. Titles run from 30 to 150 characters and short descriptions from 80 to 300. The table sets each field beside the answer the Fokals documents give for the hiring data. It shows how documented facts fill the form.
| Field | What Datarade asks | Answer from the Fokals documents |
|---|---|---|
| Source | The origin of the data, with web sources named | First-party company sources: what companies publish on their own careers pages, processed in-house |
| Geographic coverage | The countries the data covers | The company index: equity listings in 79 countries, their brands and verified private companies |
| Temporal coverage | How recent the data is and how far back it goes | Every posting and every daily count carries its date; tables are written once and never revised |
| Quality | Accuracy, precision and completeness | Labels produced under named, frozen versions, with a breaking change shipped as a new version on at least 90 days' notice |
| Attributes | The fields, with no personal data | The fields of Job Postings and Hiring Activity in the data dictionary |
| Delivery and frequency | Method, format and update cadence | REST API and bulk export as JSON, JSON Lines or CSV; each daily table is written once, after its day closes |
| Pricing | Pricing models; exact numbers optional | No public price list; licensed by written agreement |
| Terms of use | A link to terms stating the licence grant | Internal use, embedding in a product or redistribution, by written agreement |
Read as a whole, the form asks for the contents of a data dictionary, a methodology note and a licence. A provider that has written those can answer most of it from them. One that has not will find the form asking for them.
The rules a listing is held to
Personal data is the first rule. A listing may not contain personal data unless the provider is legally authorised and holds valid consent, can document how the data is collected and used, and says in the description that it is present. Sensitive categories, which the policies list as health, payment and credit information, communications, data on minors and precise location among others, are allowed only if the data is aggregated or anonymised so that no individual can be identified.
Web data is the second. It must come from publicly available sources. It may not be collected in breach of a site's terms of service or from behind a login, and it may not be protected by intellectual property rights the provider does not own. The listing must name the sources, and a listing is removed when the documentation that proves compliance on personal data or web data is inadequate.
Samples, descriptions and use cases come next. A sample must be representative of the product and anonymised, and Datarade automatically redacts columns that may hold personal data. A listing may not claim attributes the product lacks, misrepresent quality or use keyword stuffing to raise its ranking. The profile must state forbidden use cases, and the list in the policies includes reselling the data as a standalone product to third parties. A provider whose licence allows redistribution should read its terms against that list before publishing.
How interest reaches you
The help centre sorts leads into two kinds. A contact request comes from a user who wants to engage; accepting it opens a deal and a message thread in Provider Studio, and depending on the plan the conversion may carry commission. A sample view comes from a user who was given the sample preview in exchange for contact details and may not yet be ready to buy.
Data requests work the other way. Buyers post what they are looking for, a request stays open for 21 days, and a provider answers with one proposal that names a product. The buyer has 14 days to accept, and until then the provider can neither withdraw the proposal nor follow up on it. The requests a provider can open may depend on the posting budget limit of its plan.
Datarade's home page states that the service is free to buyers and that the provider pays when a buyer purchases. The buyer's side of the same marketplace is covered in Datarade for data buyers, and the way a buyer compares providers in how to evaluate company data providers on Datarade.
What it costs, as Datarade states it
The application page listed four plans on 4 October 2026: a commission-only plan with no annual fee, two plans with an annual fee and a lower commission, named Bronze and Silver, and Gold, which is priced by agreement. The fees and rates are Datarade's to change, so read them on that page and not here.
| What differs between plans | How it differs |
|---|---|
| Annual fee and commission | None and the highest commission on the commission-only plan; a fee and a lower commission on Bronze and Silver; by agreement on Gold |
| Listings | A small number on the commission-only plan, more on each plan above it |
| Contact requests | Limited on the commission-only plan, unlimited above it |
| Data requests a provider can answer | Capped by the buyer's posted budget on the lower plans, uncapped from Silver |
| Proposals | A limit that rises with the plan |
| Extras | A storefront on every plan, with a custom domain from Silver; CRM integration from Bronze; dedicated support on Gold |
A worked example: ten rows that stand for the table
The sample is the part of a listing that a buyer judges. The help centre says a CSV sample can be up to 5 GB, that buyers preview only its first ten rows, that it should use the same attribute names and types as the product, that personal and sensitive data stay out and that it should stay useful for at least six months. For a daily table such as Hiring Activity (company_hiring_daily), described in the data dictionary, ten rows that happen to sort first may show only one kind of company. The query below takes one company from each tenth of the distribution of open postings on a closed day.
-- Illustrative: ten rows spread across the size of hiring on one closed day
with banded as (
select *, ntile(10) over (order by open_postings) as band
from company_hiring_daily
where day = date '2026-10-01'
), one_per_band as (
select *, row_number() over (partition by band order by company_id) as rn
from banded
)
select company_id, company, day, open_postings, new_postings, closed_postings,
by_function, by_country, median_salary_usd
from one_per_band
where rn = 1
order by band;Choose the day you publish rather than a day picked for its look: the policies say a sample may not be manipulated to give a misleading picture of quality. Keep the header identical to the product, and leave by_function and by_country as JSON in a single cell, as the real files do.
Where a listing stops
A listing starts a conversation. It does not deliver data or grant a licence, and the help centre places the discussion of delivery, pricing and terms in the chat that opens when a buyer accepts a proposal. The help centre describes buyers searching by use case, keyword, data attribute and budget, so Datarade is built for a provider that wants to be found that way. Direct delivery by REST API and bulk file is the other route, described in how Fokals is delivered. The comparison of marketplaces and direct licensing sets the two routes side by side.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to list a data product on Datarade?
Datarade's application page listed four plans on 4 October 2026: a commission-only plan with no annual fee, two plans with an annual fee and a lower commission, and one priced by agreement. The plans also differ in the number of listings, contact requests and the size of data requests a provider can answer. The fees and rates are Datarade's to change, so read them on its application page.
Who can list on Datarade?
Datarade says it welcomes legally registered businesses of any size that hold the rights to commercialise their data and comply with regional and international data protection laws. Individuals without a registered business are not onboarded. A team review for quality and marketplace fit follows the application, and Datarade says most applications are reviewed within one to two business days.
Does Datarade host or deliver the data I list?
No. Its Publishing Policies say products are not available through the platform and that providers must share them securely outside Datarade, and the provider help centre says delivery and fulfilment stay with the data supplier. A listing carries a description, metadata and a sample preview, which only logged-in users can see.
Can I list web data on Datarade?
Yes, under conditions. The Publishing Policies allow web data only from publicly available sources, never from behind a login and never in breach of a site's terms of service, and they require the listing to name its sources. Datarade's application page also excludes illegally scraped datasets. A listing without adequate documentation of how web data was collected can be removed.
How do buyers contact a provider on Datarade?
Interest reaches a provider in three ways, according to the help centre: a contact request, a sample view in which a user receives the sample preview in exchange for contact details, and a buyer's acceptance of the provider's proposal to a posted data request. Accepting a contact request opens a message thread with the buyer in Provider Studio.
What should the coverage and refresh fields of a Datarade listing say?
State the countries or set of companies the data covers, the period it spans and how often it is refreshed, in the terms your data dictionary uses. The Publishing Policies forbid claiming attributes the product lacks and misrepresenting quality, so write each field from documentation you can show a buyer. A refresh cadence such as daily, with each table written once after its day closes, is a precise answer that a buyer can test against the sample.
The queries and code on this page are examples to adapt. Test them in your own environment before you rely on them.
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