Acronym · Business & Market
TAM (Total Addressable Market)
The full annual revenue opportunity if a product served every possible buyer in its category. It sets the outer bound of ambition and is routinely inflated by loose category definitions.
- Also known as
- Total available market
- Type
- Acronym
- Domain
- Business & Market, Market analysis
Notes
A credible TAM states the unit base and the assumed content per unit rather than quoting a single analyst headline number.
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