As part of Fluent Research’s 20th anniversary, we’re continuing to highlight the people whose experience, ideas, and perspectives have helped shape Fluent. This week, we’re featuring Amber Gonzalez, a quantitative researcher who helps turn complex datasets into clear, compelling stories. Amber's work spans the research...
“When it comes to achieving challenging goals, grit is necessary but not sufficient. The situation also matters — and to an astonishing degree.”— Angela Duckworth “What Dilla created was a third path of rhythm… a new, pleasurable, disorienting rhythmic friction.”— Dan Charnas, “Dilla Time” Lately, I keep...
As part of Fluent Research’s 20th anniversary, we’re continuing to highlight the people whose experience, ideas, and perspectives have helped shape Fluent. This week, we’re featuring Mary Meyn, Chief of Staff. Mary was immediately drawn to Fluent’s work at the intersection of technology, education, families, and...
When clients ask us to evaluate an educational product, they begin with practical questions. Can students complete the task? Do teachers understand the feature? Is the interface intuitive? Will people who work in the field of education use it? These questions matter, yet the answers rarely...
As part of Fluent Research’s 20th anniversary, we’re continuing to highlight the people whose experience, ideas, and perspectives have helped shape Fluent. This week, we’re featuring Stefanie Cousins, Vice President, Marketing and Communications. Stefanie’s connection to Fluent began with a familiar project. Having worked on the U.S. marketing...
To celebrate Fluent Research’s 20th anniversary, we’re highlighting the people who have helped shape the organization along the way. This week, we're featuring Dana Markow, PhD, Fluent’s Vice President, Research. Dana wears many hats at Fluent, including leader of our quantitative, survey-based research and driver of...
Twenty years is a long time. Long enough to fill a lot of shelves, queue up a lot of podcasts, and dog-ear a lot of pages. As we mark Fluent Research's 20th anniversary, we wanted to share something more personal than a milestone — the...
Fluent Research marks its 20th anniversary with a reflection on how children’s media research has evolved from the formative testing of Blue’s Clues to today’s fast-moving streaming and digital landscape. The piece argues that as audiences fragment and production speeds up, rigorous, child-first research is...
We're proud to announce that our research study on Dicey Escape, a PBS Kids digital math game, has been accepted to the International Communication Association (ICA) 2026 Conference — one of the leading global forums for communication research. ...
“When it’s real, you’re doing this even without a record contract.”— Nas “Sparks — when illuminated and nurtured — give young people joy, energy and direction.”— Peter Benson When I was in graduate school, I taped to the wall in my office an image of Nas (from a...