Dag Holmen
Co-Founder & CMO, ContactLevel
Guides and comparisons
B2B advertising platforms.
Honest 2026 ranking of B2B ad platforms by channel (LinkedIn, Meta, Google, Reddit, X) and the audience layer that makes them reach your actual list.
6sense Alternatives & Competitors: 7 Honest Options (2026)
6sense costs $60-200k+/year. 7 honest 6sense alternatives and competitors compared on price, intent data and contact-level activation. Written by a vendor.
Demandbase Alternatives & Competitors: 7 Options (2026)
Demandbase runs $40-150k+/year. 7 alternatives and competitors (6sense, RollWorks, Terminus, ContactLevel) compared on price and contact-level activation.
DemandSense Alternatives: 2026 Pricing and Review
DemandSense pricing on its credit meter, what its visitor ID names inside and outside the US, how it compares with Fibbler, and the alternatives, one of them free.
Fibbler Alternatives: 2026 Comparison and Pricing
Fibbler's September 2026 tiers, what company-level attribution can and cannot tell you, the real alternatives, and the one option that is actually free.
RollWorks Alternatives, Pricing & Review: 6 Options (2026)
RollWorks (NextRoll) runs $12-60k/year. An honest review of its pricing, where display-first ABM stops, and 6 alternatives with contact-level activation.
Terminus Alternatives & Competitors: 6 Options (2026)
Terminus is ABM display advertising at $30-100k/year. If your B2B buyers ignore display ads, these 6 alternatives cover where they actually pay attention.
ZenABM Alternatives: Pricing, Review and 2026 Comparison
ZenABM's four tier prices with dates, what account scoring means, the contact-level claim against what LinkedIn's API returns, and seven honest alternatives.
Fibbler vs ZenABM vs DemandSense: 2026 Comparison
Fibbler vs ZenABM vs DemandSense for LinkedIn Ads analytics: prices checked 17 September 2026, trials, CRMs, attribution, and what each one cannot do.
Best ABM Software & Platforms in 2026: 8 Tools Compared
ABM software is three categories: orchestration, advertising, data. Honest 2026 comparison of 8 platforms, from 6sense and Demandbase to HubSpot and Clay.
B2B intent data providers.
10 B2B intent data providers compared (Bombora, 6sense, ZoomInfo, G2, Cognism): what each measures and whether the signal is account- or contact-level.
LinkedIn ads cost.
LinkedIn ads cost $5-10 per click, $30-50 CPM and $100-400+ per lead in 2026. Benchmarks by seniority, format and industry, and how to cut cost per result.
LinkedIn thought leader ads.
How LinkedIn thought leader ads work: setup and approval in Campaign Manager, specs, cost, examples that work, and how to run them to a named contact list.
Website visitor identification.
Website visitor identification puts names on the anonymous people browsing your site. How company- and person-level ID work, plus 5 tools compared.
AudienceLab Alternatives: 2026 Comparison
AudienceLab's published numbers, why it is a US consumer identity graph rather than a B2B tool, and an answer to its own ContactLevel comparison page.
Dealfront Alternatives: 2026 Comparison
Dealfront became Leadfeeder on 24 March 2026. What that means for your contract, what the platform still does, and the alternatives for European GTM data.
Factors.ai Alternatives: 2026 Comparison
What Factors.ai identifies (accounts globally, contacts US-only), what its four tiers cost, why it publishes two identification rates, and alternatives.
Leadfeeder Alternatives: 2026 Comparison
Dealfront became Leadfeeder again in March 2026. What changed, what it identifies (companies, not people), current pricing, and the alternatives.
Warmly Alternatives: 2026 Comparison
Warmly's own published match rates, what its three tiers actually cost, the alternatives worth shortlisting, and where an activation layer fits instead.
Can 6sense identify anonymous website visitors?
6sense resolves anonymous traffic to companies, and states on the record that it does not resolve WebTag data to an individual level.
Can Clearbit identify anonymous website visitors?
Clearbit Reveal resolved visitor IPs to companies, never to people — and no longer exists standalone. What replaced it, and what actually names a visitor.
Can Demandbase identify anonymous website visitors?
Demandbase Account ID unmasks the companies behind anonymous traffic, not the people — plus a genuinely free tier up to 25K monthly visitors.
Can HubSpot identify anonymous website visitors?
HubSpot identifies the company behind an anonymous visit via reverse IP. It names an individual only if that person is already a known contact.
Can Marketo identify anonymous website visitors?
Adobe Marketo Engage tracks anonymous visitors as cookies, not people. Only a form fill, an email click or an API merge turns one into a name.
Can ZoomInfo identify anonymous website visitors?
ZoomInfo WebSights matches a visitor IP to a company, then offers decision-maker contacts who may not be the visitor. The distinction matters.
6sense pricing.
6sense publishes no prices. Here is what buyers report paying in 2026 — a $62,440 median per Vendr — what drives it up, and what the contract includes.
ABM metrics that actually mean something.
The ABM metrics worth reporting, the vanity ones to drop, account vs contact-level measurement, and what B2B attribution honestly cannot tell you.
Audience minimums and filler accounts.
Every ad platform has a floor. Here is what each one actually publishes, how 1:1 ABM vendors pad small lists to clear it, and what that padding costs you.
Bombora pricing.
Bombora publishes no prices — its pricing URL redirects away. Here is the $25,000 median buyers report, what drives it up, and what account intent buys.
Contact enrichment.
What contact enrichment adds to a record, what the tools cost as of July 2026, how waterfall enrichment works, and where every tool in the category stops.
Deanonymizing website traffic.
How B2B website traffic deanonymization works, how much of it actually resolves, what GDPR and CCPA require in 2026, and where the honest limits are.
Demandbase pricing.
Demandbase publishes no prices, only its pricing model. Here is that model, the $68,591 median buyers report, and what sits outside the platform fee.
Google Customer Match for B2B.
Google Customer Match for B2B: the identifiers Google accepts, the $50,000 gate on Targeting, why work-email uploads match badly, and the landmine play.
Influ2 pricing.
Influ2 has no pricing page — the URL 404s. Here is what prospects report paying in 2026, and how the per-contact, annual-contract model works.
Leadfeeder pricing.
Leadfeeder publishes real prices — €0 to €599/month across four plans. What each tier includes, what the credits do, and what it does not buy.
Signal-based advertising.
What signal-based advertising is, which buying signals are real, which are noise, and what you can actually act on. A working guide to signal ads.
Who is visiting my website?
What you can actually see about your website visitors: what Google Analytics won't tell you, company-level vs person-level ID, and what each tool costs.
Influ2 Alternatives: Honest 2026 Comparison
Influ2 is a managed ABM ad service — you hand over the list, they run the campaigns and deliver mostly on their own display network. ContactLevel hands you control. An honest comparison of placements, tracking, and cost.
Primer Alternatives: Honest 2026 Comparison
Primer builds large, filter-based ad audiences for demand generation. ContactLevel lets you see and pick every contact by name for accurate, full-funnel targeting. An honest competitor comparison: volume vs accuracy.
Vector Alternatives: Honest 2026 Comparison
Vector identifies anonymous website visitors and turns them into ad audiences. ContactLevel builds higher-accuracy ad audiences from your contact list. A direct competitor's honest take on what each does and what it costs.
6sense competitors.
A research-first look at 6sense competitors in 2026 — Demandbase, ZoomInfo, RollWorks, Bombora, Influ2, ContactLevel — what 6sense does, who actually competes with it, and where each one fits.
Account based marketing strategy.
What account based marketing is, how to build the strategy, and how to make ABM targeting precise enough to reach the actual buying committee.
Contact level advertising.
Use enriched identity data to get your content in front of specific named contacts.
Contact level demand capture.
How to find contacts already interested in your product category, target them with contact-level advertising, and convert that existing interest into pipeline.
Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: The Real Difference
Demand gen plants the seeds, lead gen harvests the crops. Learn the real difference between demand generation and lead generation, when to use each, and how to balance both for B2B growth.
Clearbit Alternatives After the HubSpot Acquisition (2026)
Clearbit became HubSpot Breeze Intelligence. What that means for enrichment and Clearbit Reveal, and what to use now — picked by job, from a B2B operator.
RB2B Alternatives: Honest 2026 Comparison
RB2B puts names on your US website visitors and pushes them to Slack. Here's where it's strong, where it falls short, and the best alternatives — from a direct competitor.
ZoomInfo Alternatives: 6 Honest Options for 2026
ZoomInfo is the biggest B2B data platform — and one of the most expensive. An honest 2026 review of 6 alternatives by job: ContactLevel, Apollo, Cognism, UpLead, Clay.
6sense is account-level intent, not person-level.
An honest review of 6sense intent data: what it is, reported pricing, how its predictive intent works, and where account-level prediction falls short.
ABM campaigns: 10 examples you can copy.
Ten ABM campaign examples with the exact targeting setup, the creative angle, and which buying-group member each one reaches. Two are plays we run ourselves.
ABM statistics 2026.
30 account-based marketing statistics for 2026 — adoption, ROI, buying group size, personalization, and the match-rate numbers behind contact-level ABM. Every external stat sourced.
B2B data providers.
How to choose a B2B data provider, what each one is actually good at, and where enrichment beats buying another database.
B2B Facebook ads: how to make Meta work in 2026.
B2B Facebook ads work in 2026 once you fix targeting. Full-funnel structure, real CPL and CPM benchmarks, and the contact-level fix for 70-99% match rates.
B2B intent data.
Most B2B intent data is account-level: it tells you a company is interested, not who. The signals, the providers compared, and the contact-level fix.
B2B match rates.
Why B2B contact lists match so poorly on ad platforms, native match-rate benchmarks for LinkedIn, Meta, Google, Reddit, and X, and how identity enrichment pushes them to 70-99%.
Bombora pricing starts around $25K/yr.
An honest review of Bombora intent data: reported pricing, how Company Surge works, what it gets right, and where account-level surge scores fall short.
Buying group marketing.
What a buying group is, the 6 roles inside it, and how to market to every member instead of betting the deal on one champion.
CAC calculator.
How to calculate customer acquisition cost, with the formula, a fully worked B2B SaaS example, blended vs paid CAC, CAC payback, and the LTV:CAC ratio.
Contact-level intent data.
Account-level intent tells you a company might be in market. Contact-level intent tells you Sarah Chen read your pricing page twice. Here is the difference.
Cookieless advertising.
What cookieless advertising actually means, why B2B is hit hardest, and which targeting methods survive without third-party cookies.
First-party data strategy.
What first-party data is, how it beats second- and third-party data, why the cookie reprieve does not change the case for it, and the gap that wastes it.
G2 Buyer Intent is an add-on, not a standalone buy.
An honest review of G2 Buyer Intent: reported pricing, how the signals work, what it gets right, and where account-level intent falls short.
Ideal customer profile.
A copyable B2B ICP template, three filled-out examples, and a step-by-step way to build your own — then turn it into a contact list you can actually advertise to.
IP targeting for B2B.
What IP targeting is, where it genuinely works, why remote work and shared IPs break it, and how person-level identity matching reaches actual people instead of buildings.
Mutiny Alternatives: 6 Honest Options for 2026
Mutiny costs $40-100k+/year for B2B web personalization. Honest 2026 review of 6 alternatives — ContactLevel, 6sense, Demandbase, Intellimize, and more.
6sense vs Demandbase: Honest 2026 Comparison
6sense vs Demandbase in 2026 — pricing, intent data, display advertising, and activation gaps. Honest head-to-head from someone who pairs with both.
B2B Lookalike Audiences: Why Yours Are Failing (And How to Fix Them)
Standard B2B lookalikes fail because the seed list is garbage. Here's how to build clean seeds, fix match rates, and run lookalikes that actually clone your best customers.
Google Ads for B2B SaaS: The 4 Plays That Actually Convert
Most B2B SaaS Google Ads waste 70% of budget on the wrong people. Here are the 4 plays — search inclusion, demand gen, branded exclusion, pipeline targeting — that fix it.
LinkedIn Ads vs Facebook Ads for B2B: Honest Comparison
LinkedIn captures B2B buyers at work. Meta captures them everywhere else. Here's the cost math, when each platform wins, and why the best teams run both.
Contact-level advertising cost.
What contact-level advertising costs compared to native LinkedIn ads, why the math works differently than you'd expect, and how splitting your budget across platforms changes everything.
Contact-level ABM.
How to map every stakeholder, create role-specific content, and use contact-level advertising to close the deal through contact-level ABM.
Contact level advertising strategy.
Use enriched identity data to get your content in front of specific named contacts.
Contact level demand generation.
How to turn a cold TAM list into interested prospects using contact-level advertising. The content, the ads, the signals, and how it feeds your demand capture campaign.
Contact-level targeting
How identity enrichment turns a 30% match rate into 70-99%, and what that does to your ad budget.
Contact level marketing.
Contact-level marketing targets the specific people inside your target accounts — not just the accounts. Learn how it works and how it differs from ABM.
Demand generation.
Your marketing budget targets 5% of your market. The other 95% has never heard of you. This is the practitioner guide to demand generation: the 95/5 rule, dark funnel, measurement, and how to build a system that compounds.