Media and Consolidation Research and Organization Lab / UC Santa Barbara
A scholarly community, research lab, and online resource about media ownership for instructors, students, journalists, regulators, and citizens.
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What you can get here... |
Box Office Mojo |
Box office totals for movies, typically back to 1970s |
The Numbers |
Film statistics including box office totals (US & International) and production budgets |
ShowBuzz Daily |
Broadcast data for the major TV networks |
SpoilerTV |
Viewership stats for TV shows |
MIP Resource Centre |
TV industry research & reports. |
VGChartz |
Sales figures for video games and devices |
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) |
Digital music report |
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) |
Annual music sales ("shipments"), broken down by format |
Advertising Age: Data Center |
Statistics and reports on advertising across media platforms |
Television Bureau of Advertising |
Statistics and reports on television advertising |
Nielsen Top Tens & Trends |
Up-to-date data on media and consumer trends including TV ratings, smartphone trends and video game purchase intent |
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What you can get here... |
Passport |
Information & data on consumer products and trend forecasting. Especially useful for studying paratexts/licensing, also has reports on consumer behavior online. |
CIA World Factbook |
Demographic & economic statistics on foreign countries; includes data on telecommunication within each country. |
Use IBISWorld to pull up research reports on industries.
TIP:
You don't need to know the industry's NAICS code.
Just search on a company name & choose from the resulting list of matching industry reports.
EXAMPLE:
here are the matching industry reports for Comcast:
