A data marketplace (sometimes also called data exchange) is an online platform that helps to facilitate commercial data transactions between data buyers and data providers. Data providers use data marketplaces as a sales channel to reach a larger variety of buyers and grow their data business. Data buyers use data marketplaces to find a large selection of data providers, benchmark their data offerings, and easily purchase their data.

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