About Edison Research

From Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, from the United States Government to non-profits, Edison’s team of researchers and thought leaders is trusted in America and around the world to gather exactly the right information and to use it in exactly the right way.   

Edison Research’s The Infinite Dial® research series has been the survey of record for digital audio, social media, podcasting, smart speakers, and other media-related technologies since 1998. The study is now also conducted Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Share of Ear® is a quarterly survey that serves as the only single-source measure of all audio in the U.S., and Edison Podcast Metrics, formerly known as the Podcast Consumer Tracker  measures the reach of national podcast producers and related consumer behavior.   

Since 2004, Edison Research has been the sole provider of Election Day data to the National Election Pool, consisting of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News.  For the 2020 U.S. elections, Edison conducted Election Day exit polls, early voter exit polls, RBS pre-election surveys, and also collected and tabulated the national vote across every county in the United States.  Edison also taps into its 20,000-strong national network of trained exit poll interviewers to conduct place-based research for all manner of digital and traditional out-of-home advertisers. 

Edison Research provides data and analysis to clients including Activision, Amazon, AMC Theatres, Apple, Audible, BBC, The Brookings Institution, Disney, Facebook, Google, Oracle, Pandora, The Pew Research Center, Samsung, Siemens, SiriusXM, Sony, Spotify, The New York Times, Voice of America, and The Washington Post.