Demographics by ZIP code: the free federal data B2C founders use instead of Experian
The paid demographic-data industry – Experian Mosaic, Claritas PRIZM, Nielsen Segmentation – is worth over $10 billion a year. B2C brands can access similar data from the government’s data source for free. Most of what these tools sell is one dataset in a nice wrapper: the American Community Survey. The ACS is the deepest public … Read more