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BrightLocal declares 50 subprocessors in its subprocessor list, which we last checked on Nov 11, 2026 (evidence). They include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and OpenAI. No published changes since we first read it on Sep 22, 2026. 1 tracked vendor, WebFX, names BrightLocal as a subprocessor.

Subprocessors CSV of BrightLocal's subprocessors · Atom feed of BrightLocal's subprocessors DORA draft CSV of BrightLocal's subprocessors as declared by BrightLocal what's this? · 

50 third parties.

NamePurposeLocationListed since
Agorapulse Social media managementFrance
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud PlatformDublin, Ireland
Anthropic Claude AIAI integrations available on customer accountUSA
Ask Nicely Customer NPS feedbackUSA
Atlassian Collaboration and project managementDublin, Ireland
Avalara Tax management for customer paymentsUSA
Awesome Screenshot Taking screenshots and screencastsUSA
Bitly URL shortening serviceUSA
Braintree PCI compliant processor for customer paymentsUSA
Canny A feature voting and changelog toolUSA
ChartMogul Analytics platform, providing information about subscription lifecycle, MMR, churn etc.Frankfurt, Germany
ChatBot Pre-sales live chatUSA
Chili Piper Lead scheduling, pipeline management, custom deal managementUSA
Cloudflare Performance and security platformData may be held in the USA or Europe.
CloudTalk International calling and recording platformFrankfurt, Germany
CookieBot Cookie bar management toolUSA
Crazy Egg Understanding customer usage – snapshots, screenshots, and recordingsUSA
Debounce Email validation serviceGermany
Digital Ocean Colocation (SaaS application) & hosting (corporate website) providers.Corporate site (USA) and VPN servers (US, UK and Singapore).
Dovetail.AI AI integrations available on customer accountUSA
DropBox Sign Contract signing and managementUSA
FullView Screen recording user journeys for troubleshooting and customer supportGermany, Frankfurt
Gong.io Video calls, transcribingUSA
Google Analytics Analytics help us understand how customers interact with the BrightLocal website.USA
Google Workspace AIEmail provision for brightlocal.com. Office applications and file storage, and use of Google GeminiDublin, Ireland
HubSpot Marketing CRM platformFrankfurt, Germany
Learnworlds Learning platform, powers BrightLocal AcademyFrankfurt, Germany
Mailchimp Marketing automation and email marketing platformUSA
Mailgun Email sending servicesUSA
Open AI AIAI providerUSA
PayPal PCI compliant processor for customer paymentsUSA
Planhat CRM and customer success platforms
Postmark Email sending servicesUSA
Profitwell Churn and delinquent payment managementUSA
RapidSwitch Colocation (SaaS application) & hosting (corporate website) providers.UK
Recruitee Recruitment systemAWS – Dublin; Google – Germany
Sharesale Affiliate management platformUSA
Simplecast PodcastsUSA
Streamyard StreamingUSA
Survey Monkey Website and platform surveys + customer and market research. Used for both marketing and product purposesUSA
TicketTailor Ticket and payment siteDublin, Ireland
Twillio SMS sending serviceUSA
Typeform Customer Service contact-us formUSA
UltimateAI AI driven chatbox feature for ZendeskFrankfurt, Germany
Userpilot Software to provide in-app messagingEU
Xero Company financial management and reportingUSA + New Zealand
Zapier Automated workflows and service connectionsUSA
Zendesk Customer support/ticket managementUSA
Zoho Email provision for brightlocal.phDublin, Ireland
Zoom Video conferencing platformUSA

Web TechnologiesCSV of BrightLocal's web technologies · Atom feed of BrightLocal's web technologies

BrightLocal's homepage made 119 requests to 25 domains, 8 services controlled by another company, and 2 domains not identified.

Advertising (3): Google Cloud, Microsoft, X Corp.Analytics (3): Crazy Egg, LinkedIn, MetaMarketing automation (1): HubSpotCookie compliance (1): Cookiebot

8 third parties by category: Advertising 3Analytics 3Marketing automation 1Cookie compliance 1

Third parties 8 · 65 requests
Google Cloudsubprocessor DoubleClick Floodlight Google Analytics Google Tag Manager 18% of the page's requests 21
Microsoft Microsoft Advertising 11% of the page's requests 13
HubSpotsubprocessor HubSpot 10% of the page's requests 12
Cookiebotsubprocessor Cookiebot 3 4% of the page's requests 5
Crazy Egg Crazy Egg 3% of the page's requests 4
LinkedIn Linkedin Insight Tag 3% of the page's requests 4
Meta Facebook Pixel 2.9.419 3% of the page's requests 3
X Corp. Twitter Ads 3% of the page's requests 3
Unknown 2 · 16 requests

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First party 1 · 38 requests
BrightLocal Alpine.js 3.17.4 BrightLocal Cloudflare HSTS HTTP/3 Kinsta Laravel Livewire Microsoft Clarity MySQL Open Graph PHP PWA Priority Hints WordPress Yoast SEO 28.6 core-js 3.32.2 32% of the page's requests 38

3 tracked companies loaded by the homepage are not in BrightLocal's subprocessor list. A website can use a service without it processing customer data.

Subprocessor of (1)CSV of the companies listing BrightLocal · Atom feed of the companies listing BrightLocal

1 company
  • WebFX webfx.com Local Analytics; Used to monitor and analyze location performance.

Incidents reported by BrightLocal's subprocessorsCSV of incidents reported by vendors BrightLocal lists · Atom feed of incidents reported by vendors BrightLocal lists

286 reported incidents in the last 30 days, by 18 of the vendors BrightLocal lists as subprocessors.

A subprocessor list names a company, not the service an incident touched. This does not show that BrightLocal was involved.

DateCompanyIncidentImpactLasted
SurveyMonkeyPROD-TEST - THIS IS A TEST - PLEASE IGNORE, no impact stated1 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to Turkcell Turkey minor3 h 54 min
TwilioRetroactive Incident Impacting Twilio Usage APIs no impact stated1 min
AnthropicElevated errors on Fable 52 and Mythos 52 no impact stated1 min
TwilioIssue resolved minor1 h 43 min
ZoomService Degradation Affecting Zoom Conference Room Connector Services Endpoints in the AMS region. minor2 h 35 min
SurveyMonkeyTEST INCIDENT #2 major4 min
SurveyMonkeyTEST INCIDENT #1 no impact stated22 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Receipt Delays from Twilio Phone Numbers to Movistar Venezuela minor3 h 26 min
HubSpotSome HubSpot tools may be unavailable for some users no impact stated51 min
TwilioGateway API (Lookup API) Failure Increase on Verizon in United States minor10 h 23 min
OpenAIIncorrect cost data in Costs API exports no impact stated2 h 20 min
ZoomService Degradation Affecting a subset of users with ZVA and ZoomMate no impact stated1 min
XeroGlobal: Xero Partner Hub - Some slowness or unable to access pages in Partner Hub major1 h 7 min
OpenAIElevated Errors On API minor42 min
Chili PiperCRM actions stuck in processing major44 min
TwilioWhatsApp Business API Message Send Failures minor16 h 29 min
XeroUK: HMRC connected services - MTD IT and MTD VAT minor14 h 32 min
OpenAIElevated ChatGPT Conversation Errors minor52 min
TwilioVoice Call Failures from a Subset of Twilio Phone Numbers to Chile minor19 h 20 min
TwilioVoice Call Audio Quality Degradation, Silent and One-Way Audio between Twilio and Multiple Networks in United Kingdom minor5 h 18 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Delays and Failures from a Subset of Twilio Alphanumeric Sender IDs and Long Codes to Multiple Networks in Italy minor3 h 14 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Delays and Failures from Twilio to Spusu United Kingdom minor3 h 26 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Receipt Delays from Twilio to Bouygues Telecom France minor13 h 31 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Failures from Network Subscribers in Germany to a Subset of Twilio Long Codes minor8 h 40 min

And 261 more. All of them: CSV · Who is around them.

ChangesCSV of BrightLocal's changes · Atom feed of BrightLocal's changes

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None since tracking began.

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