Mass Media & Communication

Online library of multimedia advertising content. Contains over 50,000 advertisements from over 90 countries. Coverage includes television, print, interactive, radio, cinema and outdoor campaigns.

The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

A database of over 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the U.S.

The Smithsonian has preserved advertising campaigns for several familiar companies, such as Marlboro, Alka-Seltzer, Federal Express, Cover Girl, and Nike.

The CLIO Awards is the world's most recognized global awards competition for creative advertising in package design, print, radio and television. Includes recent winners and past winners.

Digital archive from Duke University. Includes thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Search for brand names or specific commercial advertisements.

Online library of multimedia advertising content. Contains over 50,000 advertisements from over 90 countries. Coverage includes television, print, interactive, radio, cinema and outdoor campaigns.

Provides data-driven news based on US and world polls, daily tracking and public opinion research.

The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does so by conducting public opinion polling and social science research; by reporting news and analyzing news coverage; and by holding forums and briefings.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, located at Cornell University, is one of the world’s leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from public opinion surveys. The Center’s mission is to collect, preserve, and disseminate public opinion data; to serve as a resource to help improve the practice of survey research; and to broaden the understanding of public opinion through the use of survey data in the United States and abroad.

To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

Provides access to Network Primetime Averages by week for ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN, and WB), a weekly Top 20 Network Primetime Report, Nielsen's Daily Headlines/Daily Overnight Rankings, season-to-date Top 20 Primetime Series by Households, etc.

The Research Central portion of this site contains weekly television program ratings and national ratings reports by specific demographics. Most data is for the current year; some data goes back to 2003. Some information is members-only.

Provides theatrical market statistics and other scholarly information

The RAB provides an extensive selection of “Radio Research Reports”. Free registration may be required to view some documents.

Exhaustive list of films. Click on "external reviews" to find quality reviews.

Offers an archive of speeches, movie speeches, and audio figures of speech.

Nonprofit investigates and exposes public relations spin and propaganda, and promotes media literacy and citizen journalism, media "of, by and for the people."

From the Pew Center.