Common Sense Media
Progress happens when
everyone's at the table
Safer digital childhoods require parents and caregivers, teachers, researchers, regulators, advocates, and industry leaders working together. Diverse partnerships unlock progress across all fronts: better products, stronger policies, smarter parenting, more effective education.
OUR PROMISE
Kids come first.
Everything else follows.
Common Sense Media maintains unbiased ratings, independent research, and fearless advocacy. We are proud to partner with companies committed to putting kids first. Our true north will always be: Before we start working together, we ask ourselves:
Does this help kids?
Partnerships must measurably improve child safety, privacy, or digital well-being.
Can real change happen?
Meaningful influence over products or guidance that affects millions of children is required.
Does our independence remain intact?
Our complete editorial and advocacy independence is non-negotiable.
Partners in this work.
Media
Education
Technology
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What kids watch, read, and listen to shapes who they become tomorrow. We partner with media companies to place our ratings and reviews in the platforms where families are making their decisions. Partners include:
Apple TV
users can find Common Sense Media's ratings and reviews of movies and TV shows across Apple TV experiences (including the TV App on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV), plus a dedicated Common Sense Media room featuring curated lists and collections for families.
Spectrum
is a TV platform from Charter Communications, the second-largest cable operator in the United States. Common Sense Media's ratings and reviews of movies and TV shows are available in the Spectrum TV app and across Xumo platforms.
Common Sense Media's ratings and reviews of movies and TV shows are accessible within Comcast's X1, Xumo Streambox, and Xumo TV platforms, as well as on
Xfinity.com
and the Xfinity Stream app (available online and on phones and tablets). Our partnership also extends to Comcast's syndication partners, enabling our ratings and reviews of movies and TV shows across additional partner platforms such as Cox, Rogers, Shaw, and Videotron.
Common Sense Media's ratings and reviews are integrated in Cox's Contour 2 platform. Since 2017, our parental guidance resources have also helped to power the
Cox Digital Academy
, offering free resources designed to support parents in navigating the digital world as part of Cox's low-cost broadband program Connect2Compete.
Fandango at Home is a leading video-on-demand streaming service, offering more than 300,000 new release and catalogue movies and next-day TV shows, and the industry's best selection of 4K UHD titles with the flexibility to pay as you go—no subscription required. Through our partnership, Common Sense Media's ratings and reviews of movies and TV shows are integrated into
Fandango at Home
, including in a
dedicated hub
with curated collections to help families discover age-appropriate and entertaining content.
Schools are where digital citizenship is taught and practiced every day. We partner with educators, districts, and educational technology companies to embed digital wellness into classroom learning.
The
Apple Education Community
is an online professional learning hub for educators using Apple technology. Through our partnership, select Common Sense Media resources are available, including
tips and training
for practicing digital citizenship and protecting the privacy of students and teachers online. We've also partnered with Apple Education to support the development of free resources to equip educators and their students with the skills to use AI safely and effectively, including a Teachers' Essential Guide to AI Fundamentals with Apple.
Infosec Institute, a leading cybersecurity education provider and part of Cengage Group, partnered with us to launch "K–12 Digital Citizenship," a series within the
Infosec IQ
security awareness training platform designed specifically for K–12 students. This collaboration brings age-appropriate cybersecurity, privacy, and digital citizenship curriculum to classrooms across the nation.
Learning.com provides educators with solutions to prepare their students with critical digital skills. Through our partnership, we offer educators using the
Learning.com
platform an opportunity to access select lessons from our Digital Citizenship Curriculum.
Nearpod
, a Renaissance company, provides collaborative learning experiences for classrooms, schools, and districts. Through
Nearpod's 21st Century Readiness Program
, educators can access our K–12 curriculum as ready-to-teach, interactive lessons that boost student engagement and provide real-time checks for understanding.
Project Zero
, a research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been a foundational partner since we first developed our Digital Citizenship Curriculum in 2007. Their current initiative, Educating with Digital Dilemmas, conducts research with youth, educators, and parents on the real ethical tensions of connected life — and those insights directly shape how we teach digital citizenship today.
Platforms shape how children learn, communicate, and develop. Meaningful change requires engaging directly with the companies that design these experiences.
AT&T and Common Sense Media collaborate on digital citizenship initiatives, providing parental guidance and custom resources like
Digital Connections
, a six-part video series for tweens, teens, and parents developed by Common Sense Media in collaboration with AT&T and the Public Library Association. Common Sense Media's resources are available on
AT&T ScreenReady
, the
AT&T Secure Family
app (via its
Digital Wellness resources
), and
The Achievery.
Aura Parents
is a kids' online safety and wellbeing app that gives parents insight into their kid's digital habits so they can raise kids who thrive online and off. It includes both traditional parental control features and new safety and wellbeing features developed with Aura's team of clinical psychologists. Aura is working with Common Sense Media to bring families meaningful insights into kids' online behaviors, rooted in insights from the Aura Parents platform. Our collaboration shares a common goal: to empower parents with information so they can raise healthy, safe, balanced kids in a digital world that changes every day.
OpenAI
is a prominent AI organization with a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Common Sense Media collaborates with OpenAI on AI guidelines and education materials for parents, educators, and young people.
Common Sense Media partners with TikTok to support safe, age-appropriate content experiences. We provide expert, child development-informed human content evaluation for
TikTok's Under 13 experience
, a separate, curated experience that includes additional safeguards and privacy protections. The partnership has expanded to
TikTok's STEM feed
, where we apply review criteria to help ensure that science, technology, engineering, and math content meets expectations for educational value and relevance for teens and beyond.
We gratefully acknowledge our generous foundation partners whose support over the years has helped advance Common Sense Media’s mission to help kids and families thrive in a digital world.
The Anschutz Foundation
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
Ballmer Group
Bezos Family Foundation
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Craig Newmark Philanthropies
Crankstart
Dalio Philanthropies
Future of Life Institute
Gates Foundation
The Grable Foundation
The Hearst Foundations
Heising-Simons Foundation
The Herman H. Fleishman Foundation
Joseph Drown Foundation
Koret Foundation
Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Foundation
Morgan Charitable Foundation
Oak Foundation
Omidyar Network
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Salesforce Foundation
The Sherwood Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Siegel Family Endowment
Susan Crown Exchange
Valhalla Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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