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Television, Radio, and Film

A Research Guide for students studying TRF (Television/Radio/Film).

Business, Industry and Market Research

Edison Research
This organization offers a large volume of freely available reports and data about American digital media consumers, and is notable for its analysis of the podcasting industry.  This includes access to Edison’s reports called Infinite Dial, studies with commercial sponsors such as Amazon Music, Wondery, and ART19.  Infinite Dial reports track mobile behaviors, internet audio, podcasting, social media, smart speakers and more.  See also, Edison’s full subpage covering Audio Research PLEASE NOTE:  Some of Edison’s data and reports, including election polling data  - at times may not be open access, or otherwise require a direct client relationship with Edison Research.  Edison Research data on numerous topics also is viewable at times within additional third party databases, such as the statistical data aggregators, Statista and Insider Intelligence eMarketer, political polling data available via the database, Roper iPoll (where search results can be filtered to only yield data sourced from Edison Research), or at times, within any number of secondary reporting appearing in news and newspaper sources

  • For even more excellent database options in business and industry research, visit the management librarian's Business Information Guide