Startup Idea: Comprehensive Media Content Database

Startup idea to create a vast, updated database of all types of media content, including newspapers, magazines, and television shows. This platform would enable researchers and content analysts to access needed data easily for their analyses. Additionally, the database would involve crowd-sourced updates by encouraging users to upload fresh content.

I am a student researcher who loves to content analyze magazines and other types of media content. However, I ALWAYS struggle to find access to data when doing a textual analysis or content analysis.

For example, I wanted to do an analysis of a specific type of ad in a specific magazine. To do this project, I wanted to have access to every magazine issue from the years 2010-the present. You'd think that access to this content would be easy. However, it is incredibly difficult to find a database that has gives access to this content.

I propose a software or creating a huge database of ALL types of media content. For example, every time a new issue of a newspaper or magazine or television show is introduced and sold, it should be logged onto a giant database. This obviously would take a lot of time and effort, so I propose that there are volunteers that receive small incentives to record their media and log it onto a database. For example, if there is a worker who subscribes to Cosmo magazine, they can simply upload a copy of this magazine onto the database.

Researchers would pay SO MUCh money for access to this kind of content. If I could have a database that gave me every issue of magazines such as Elle, Vogue, or Cosmo, I would pay a ton of money just to be able to have this software, and I would also work to maintain that it is updated as well. I buy individual magazines, or try searching on multiple databases. There is really no solution to this problem except for how it addressed in the box above.

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