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a year ago

October 2025 Release Notes (v32.0)

We launched some major updates this month that you don't want to miss!

Here’s what’s new:

  • ✉️ Email Deliverability Improvements: Starting this month - lower bounce rates and higher match rates for our top-level emails.
  • ⚡ Daily Job Posting Data: Fresh job posts. Every day.
  • 💸 Job Posting Salary and Skill Fields: Standardized fields for compensation ranges and associated skills from job posts
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 313M+ jobs and detected 19M+ job changes across our global dataset

Check out the October 2025 Release Notes (v32.0) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

September 2025 Release Notes (v31.2)

This month, we’re rolling out some fresh updates and exciting features across our products.

Here’s what’s new:

  • 🏭 New Industry Field: Introducing the new industry_v2 field for our company dataset, providing the most recent industry classifications for over 60M+ company records.
  • 🚀 Self-serve Pro Plan Trial: Explore PDL’s premium APIs and field bundles with no upfront commitment required.
  • 📈 Job Posting Growth: This month our Job Posting Dataset grew another 14% and we added 16% more companies to our coverage!
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 111M+ jobs and detected 1.7M+ job changes across our global dataset.

Check out the September 2025 Release Notes (v31.2) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

August 2025 Release Notes (v31.1)

This month, we’re rolling out some fresh updates and exciting features across our products.

Here’s what’s new:

  • ➕ More Office Insights (Beta): Four new fields in our company records to give you richer company location context.
  • 🛝 API Playground: A streamlined tool to build API requests and view live data directly from your dashboard.
  • 📈 Job Posting Growth: Another month of continued ~20% growth in our Job Posting Dataset.
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 65M+ jobs and detected 984K+ job changes across our global dataset

Check out the August 2025 Release Notes (v31.1) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

Feature drop! Introducing the API Playground

We just launched the API Playground in the API Dashboard! You can now send API requests, explore endpoints, and instantly view results in tables or JSON making it easy to find the right data and start building fast.

Why should I use it?

  • Not technical? No problem: View live data with a single click
  • Zero setup: No more navigating outside of the API Dashboard to view live data
  • Dual views: Searchable tabular view plus raw JSON
  • Instant code snippets: One-click copy for various languages and SDKs
  • Product descriptions & use cases: Easily find the right data or endpoint
  • Built-in usage awareness: Clear credit consumption metrics and request cost

What’s changing?

We are deprecating and removing the following tools to reduce confusion and streamline the API Dashboard experience.

  • Docs-based API Explorer Tool is deprecated and will be removed on 11/30/25
  • Query Builder is deprecated and will be removed on 11/30/25
  • Explore the Data Tool has been removed effective immediately

Where can I get help?

  • Check out the Help Center article to learn more about the API Playground
  • Find a bug? File a support ticket
  • See a missing feature? Request it



Avatar of authorKade Beem
a year ago

July 2025 Release Notes (v31.0)

This month, we’re rolling out some exciting and important updates across our data products.

Here’s what’s new:

  • 🏢 Office Insights (Beta): These new premium fields offer visibility into all associated company locations.
  • 🆕 Job Posting Insights (Beta): These new premium fields provide an aggregate summary of the open and filled job postings at a company.
  • 🏫 School Canonicalization Improvements: We made significant improvements to our canonicalization and cleaning of schools.
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 342M+ jobs and detected 1.3M+ job changes across our global dataset

Check out the July 2025 Release Notes (v31.0) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

May 2025 Release Notes (v30.1) + Job Posting Data Beta Launch

Big news this month: we just launched a brand-new dataset ✨

Check out the details along with the other updates from this month's release:

  • 🧪 Job Posting Data (Beta): It’s here! Our new Job Posting Dataset is live in beta, and ready for work.
  • 📂 New COMPLETED File = Happier Pipelines: Flat file deliveries now include a top-level COMPLETED file so you can reliably trigger workflows once your dataset is ready.
  • 📍 Smarter, Cleaner Locations: We’ve improved how we handle tricky abbreviations like “St.” and “Mt.” (Street? Saint? Mount? Montana? We’ve got it sorted.)
  • 🪄 Fresher Than Ever: This month, we verified 206M+ jobs and detected 235K+ job changes across our global dataset.

Read the full May 2025 Release Notes (v30.1) to learn more about the launches, improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements from this month!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

April 2025 Release Notes (v30.0)

This month, we’re rolling out some exciting and important updates across our data products.

Here’s what’s new:

  • 🏢 New Company Insights Fields: We just launched a whole batch of exciting new Company Insight fields!
  • ❄️ Snowflake Single Listing Migration: We’ve completed the migration of Snowflake customers to a unified, single listing for their data. 
  • 🥷 Sunset of Skill Enrichment API: The Skill Enrichment API is now officially removed.
  • 🆓 Free Job Title Enrichment API Plans: Free & Pro users now have access to the Job Title Enrichment API 
  • 🎓 Better School Tagging: Academic institutions are now more accurately labeled in our Company dataset using the `educational` company type.
  • 📊 Freshness Updates: This past quarter, we verified 296M+ jobs and detected 9M+ job changes across our global dataset

Check out the  April 2025 Release Notes (v30.0) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

March 2025 Release Notes (v29.2)

This month, we’re excited to roll out some key improvements to make our data more accurate, comprehensive, and easier to use!

Here’s what’s new:

  • 🌎 Smarter Location Data: We updated our Location Cleaner to improve location details across our datasets.
  • 🏢 Enhanced Company Coverage: Better coverage for industry classifications, follower counts, and founding dates.
  • 📊 Consistent Sorting for Person Data: We’ve introduced a default sort order for array fields, making it easier to work with Person records.
  • 🔍 Fresher Insights: We verified 201M+ jobs and detected 282K+ job changes across our global dataset this month.

Check out the  March 2025 Release Notes (v29.2) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements in this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

February 2025 Release Notes (v29.1)

We've got some exciting updates to make our data fresher, cleaner, and more actionable than ever.

Here’s what’s new:

  • 👋 Goodbye, Legacy Taxonomy! The final removal of the Legacy "Role" / "Sub Role" Taxonomy is now here.
  • 🧑‍💼 Improved Person Records. Headline coverage increased 61% alongside improvements to our summary field quality.
  • 🌎 Global Data Refresh. We verified 47M+ jobs and detected 3.6M job changes across our global dataset this month.

Check out the February 2025 Release Notes (v29.1) to learn more about all the improvements, bug fixes and other important announcements that came out with this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur
a year ago

January 2025 Release Notes (v29.0)

We've got some exciting updates to share with our January 2025 Release (v29.0) to kick off the new year!

Here are the highlights: 

    • ✨ A new Targeted Profile Updates service launched into beta
    • 🔁 Reminder about our newly released Person Changelog API
    • 💼 Over 300M jobs verified and 17M job changes detected globally across our person dataset this month

Check out the January 2025 Release Notes (v29.0) to learn more about all the new products, improvements and bug fixes that came out with this release!

Avatar of authorVinay Rajur