Nielsen Ratings
- Communication & Mass Media Complete Search within the publication "Broadcasting & Cable." Type in "Nielsen" in the first search box, and "ratings" in the second search box.
- Current Weeks' Nielsen Ratings
Industry Statistics
- International Television & Video Almanac Industry statistics by year.
- State of the News Media: An Annual Report on American Journalism Annual report on American journalism with charts and statistics. Covers 2004-present.
- Advertising Age's Advertising Fact Pack, 2007 Data on the advertising and media industries.
- Newspaper Industry Newspaper Association of America's web site.
- IBIS World America's largest business collection of Industry MarketResearch Reports. Industry reports contain key statistics and analysis. Each report is 25-30 pages in length.
- Forrester Technology and market research from Forrester Research, Inc. focusing on the business implications of technology change.
- S&P NetAdvantage Business, investment and financial information including industry surveys.
- Investext Plus More than 11,000 U.S. and international companies and 53 industries are covered.
Demographic Statistics
- Editor & Publisher Market Guide Demographic and market data for 1600 cities in the U.S. and Canada.
- ComScore Press Center Internet audience measurement data, including details of visitation, demographics and online buying power for Web site audiences across U.S. and global markets.
- Nielsen Net Ratings Evaluates web site audiences. Click on "Press."
- SBDC Demographics Links to demographics, computer and internet statistics, etc.
- InfoNation Can compare country statistics for telephone lines, internet users, television receivers, and newspaper circulation.
- Hispanic Fact Pack 2008 U.S. Hispanic Media market.
General Statistics Sources
- Statistical Resources on the Web Nice collection of statistics links. Click on 'Science' to get telecommunication and television stats.
- Social Science Statistics Key resources for statistics in the social sciences.
- Lexis Nexis Statistical Universe
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- ICPSR Inter-university consortium for political and social research
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics Culture and communication statistics.
- TableBase A database of statistics and tables drawn from a wide range of trade publications and business news sources. In many cases the full text of the source article is included with the statistics.
- Statesman's Yearbook Online Brief statistics by country in communications and culture.
- World Development Indicators Annual compilation from the World Bank of statistical data about development, covering over 200 countries. Under 'topic,' select "Development framework" and then "Communications."
SRDS
- SRDS Advertising rate data and subscriber data for magazines, newspapers, tv/cable.
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