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Mitch Holt

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Mitch Holt

Head of Revenue Marketing

Mitch Holt is Head of Revenue Marketing at Zyte, where he helps developers and data teams get reliable, compliant access to the web. With more than three years in the web-scraping industry and over a decade in developer communications, Mitch has led global campaigns, built content strategies for technical audiences, and helped shape how the industry talks about responsible data extraction. Before joining Zyte, he worked across SaaS and developer-tool companies, translating complex technical topics into clear, actionable stories. He’s interested in open-source communities, developer advocacy, and helping teams turn web data into real-world value.

Web scraping finally has a home in the IDE
Product Update

Web scraping finally has a home in the IDE

Discover how web scraping is moving into the IDE. Learn how tools like VS Code and AI-assisted extensions are streamlining scraper development, testing, and maintenance.

Mitch Holt10 min read
Introducing Web Scraping Copilot 1.0: AI-accelerated web scraping inside VS Code
Announcement

Introducing Web Scraping Copilot 1.0: AI-accelerated web scraping inside VS Code

Discover Web Scraping Copilot 1.0, Zyte’s VS Code extension that uses AI to generate, test, and deploy production-ready Scrapy spiders faster while maintaining full developer control.

Mitch Holt10 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
How To

Web scraping for pricing intelligence: how to track competitor prices at scale

Compare the best headless browsers for web scraping in 2026. Learn when to use Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or Zyte API’s managed CDP browser for scalable, anti-ban scraping.

Mitch Holt10 min read
Best Web Scraping APIs for 2026 | Benchmark Analysis
Web scraping APIs

Best Web Scraping APIs for 2026 | Benchmark Analysis

See the best web scraping APIs for 2026 based on Proxyway’s December 2025 benchmark. Compare success rates, speed, cost predictability, and architectural differences.

Mitch Holt10 min read
AI’s legal frontier: What Europe’s privacy regulators say about scraping personal data
Anti-ban

How an analytics platform solved a ‘hard-to-scrape’ site using Zyte API

See how Zyte API automatically unblocked a major e-commerce site, cutting costs and boosting success rates from 60% to 98%.

Mitch Holt10 min read
Unblockers vs Zyte API: What’s the Real Cost of Bans?
Anti-ban

Unblockers vs Zyte API: What’s the Real Cost of Bans?

Not all unblockers are equal. Learn how Zyte API automates unblocking and why predictable success rates save more than cheap bandwidth.

Mitch Holt10 min read
Why the Best Engineers Are Actually Lazy
Anti-ban

Why your spiders keep getting banned, and how to fix it

Learn why scrapers get blocked and how modern unblocking APIs like Zyte API automate ban handling for faster, more reliable data extraction.

Mitch Holt10 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
How To

Best web scraping services in 2026: managed data providers compared

When choosing the best programming language for web scraping, several factors must be considered: ease of use, library support, performance, community size, and flexibility in handling various types of web content.

Mitch Holt10 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
Use case

Global Retailer Enlists Zyte for Data-Driven, AI-Powered Pricing Intelligence

Mitch Holt3 min read
Zyte Blog — field notes from the world of data extraction
AI-assisted data extraction

AI Scraping now available in Zyte API

We’re thrilled to announce to our global developer community that Zyte API now comes out of the box with all the features that power our complete solution for scraping with AI, enabling developers to build and launch spiders, unblock websites and extract data from a single UI three times faster than legacy scraping vendors and proxy APIs.

Mitch Holt5 min read