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# January 2026 Release Notes

| Release Name | Dataset Version | Publish Date |
| :----------- | :-------------- | :----------- |
| January 2026 | `v33.0`         | 01/20/2026   |

**Welcome to our January 2026 release notes**

We've got some exciting updates and announcements to share to kick off the new year with you!

Here's what's new:

* **<Icon icon="mail" /> Using Email Data for Outreach?** We've got a [new guide on our docs](#announcements) you'll want to check out!
* **<Icon icon="download" /> Free, Easy Direct Data Deliveries**: We've also got a [new guide](#announcements) on getting set up with our new **Direct Downloads** delivery method for Data License Customers
* **📊 Freshness Updates**: This past quarter, we [verified 315M+ jobs](#freshness) and [detected 5M+ job changes](#job-changes) across our global dataset.

## Announcements

<Note>
  **Using Email Data for Outreach?**

  Check out some helpful guides and resources our team has put together to ensure you're using the right fields and following our recommended best practices!

  [Email Data for Outreach](/docs/email-data-for-outreach)
</Note>

<Note>
  **Data License Customer? You might be Interested in Direct Downloads**

  We have some updated guidance to help you get setup with our newest and easiest delivery method, Direct Downloads! (Did we mention it's free?)

  Check out the guide here: [Data Delivery Using Direct Download](/docs/data-delivery-using-direct-download)
</Note>

## Data Updates

### Freshness

**Quarterly (v32.0 → v33.0)**\
*Freshness updates over the past quarter.*

| Dataset | Geography     | Field        | Records Updated |
| :------ | :------------ | :----------- | :-------------- |
| Resume  | Global        | `experience` | 315,108,297     |
| Resume  | Global        | `location`   | 514,707,343     |
| Resume  | United States | `experience` | 86,553,879      |
| Resume  | United States | `location`   | 125,806,442     |

**Monthly (v32.2 → v33.0)**\
*Freshness updates over the past month.*

| Dataset | Geography     | Field        | Records Updated |
| :------ | :------------ | :----------- | :-------------- |
| Resume  | Global        | `experience` | 21,810,615      |
| Resume  | Global        | `location`   | 21,373,234      |
| Resume  | United States | `experience` | 13,978,217      |
| Resume  | United States | `location`   | 13,980,193      |

### Job Changes

*The number of person records where the primary job experience changed in our Person Dataset (based on the `job_last_changed` field).*

**Quarterly (v32.0 → v33.0)**\
*Freshness updates over the past quarter.*

| Dataset | Geography     | Records Updated |
| :------ | :------------ | :-------------- |
| Resume  | Global        | 5,004,469       |
| Resume  | United States | 1,993,090       |

**Monthly (v32.2 → v33.0)**\
*Freshness updates over the past month.*

| Dataset | Geography     | Records Updated |
| :------ | :------------ | :-------------- |
| Resume  | Global        | 1,668,966       |
| Resume  | United States | 788,439         |

## Coverage

(Full Stats: [Person](/docs/datasets), [Company](/docs/company-stats), Job Posting, [IP](/docs/ip-stats))

**Monthly (v32.2 → v33.0)**

**[Resume Dataset](/docs/resume-stats)**

| Linkage                         | Coverage in v32.2 | Coverage in v33.0 | Increase (%) |
| :------------------------------ | :---------------- | :---------------- | :----------- |
| Total Records                   | 784,364,545       | 784,969,022       | 0.08%        |
| job\_company\_twitter\_url      | 157,333,050       | 125,560,908       | -20.19%      |
| experience.company.twitter\_url | 260,164,776       | 225,070,842       | -13.49%      |
| experience.location\_names      | 221,117,701       | 238,976,142       | 8.08%        |

**[API Dataset](/docs/stats)**

| Linkage       | Coverage in v32.2 | Coverage in v33.0 | Increase (%) |
| :------------ | :---------------- | :---------------- | :----------- |
| Total Records | 2,438,045,577     | 2,438,436,297     | 0.02%        |

**[Email Dataset](/docs/email-stats)**

| Linkage       | Coverage in v32.2 | Coverage in v33.0 | Increase (%) |
| :------------ | :---------------- | :---------------- | :----------- |
| Total Records | 586,941,833       | 586,865,405       | -0.01%       |

**[Mobile Phone Dataset](/docs/mobile-phone-stats)**

| Linkage       | Coverage in v32.2 | Coverage in v33.0 | Increase (%) |
| :------------ | :---------------- | :---------------- | :----------- |
| Total Records | 479,506,898       | 479,691,773       | 0.04%        |

**[Company Dataset](/docs/company-stats)**

| Linkage       | Coverage in v32.2 | Coverage in v33.0 | Increase (%) |
| :------------ | :---------------- | :---------------- | :----------- |
| Total Records | 74,745,952        | 74,672,539        | -0.098%      |

**[Job Posting Dataset](/docs/jp-stats)**

| Linkage                | Coverage in v32.2 | Coverage in v33.0 | Increase (%) |
| :--------------------- | :---------------- | :---------------- | :----------- |
| Total Records          | 20,815,990        | 22,291,965        | 7.09%        |
| Total Unique Companies | 44,631            | 45,421            | 1.77%        |
| Total Active Postings  | 2,425,730         | 2,410,753         | -0.62%       |

## Commentary

* **Person**
  * We saw a large decrease (\~20%) over the past month in the fill rate for `job_company_twitter_url` and `experience.company.twitter_url` as a result of removing some legacy sources of company social profile information (see [Improvements](#improvements) below)
  * We saw an increase of 8% in the fill rate for `experience.location_names` as a result of a bug fix (see [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes) below)
* **Company**
  * We saw a small decrease in the number of total companies over the past month (\~0.1%) as a result of removing several legacy sources of company social information.
* **Job Posting Data**
  * This month, we added another 1k unique companies to our Job Posting dataset.

## Improvements and Bug Fixes

### Improvements

* **Linkedin URL 404s**
  * We added a condition to compare our `profiles.last_seen` date to our last url verification date to determine if a url was no longer active. This resulted in dropping \~100k `linkedin_urls` from the top level url field.
* **Removed Historical Company Data Sources**
  * We removed 10+ historical sources of online social profile information which reduced the rate of Frankenstein (false positive merged) records and records with out of date LinkedIn URLs.
  * This resulted in a decrease to the number of company records with a non-null Facebook URL, and records with a non-null Twitter URL.

### Bug Fixes

* **Experience Location Names**
  * We fixed a bug that was causing unexpected drops in `experience.location_names`.


## Related topics

- [June 2026 Release Notes](/changelog/june-2026-release-notes-v342.md)
- [February 2026 Release Notes](/changelog/february-2026-release-notes-v331.md)
- [April 2026 Release Notes](/changelog/april-2026-release-notes-v340.md)
- [May 2026 Release Notes](/changelog/may-2026-release-notes-v341.md)
- [March 2026 Release Notes](/changelog/march-2026-release-notes-v332.md)