Some examples of quantitative information are:
Tv ratings
Video game sales figures
Listener figures for the radio
The number of hits gained on a website
How many people read/buy magazines or newspapers
Number of views of a youtube video
Youtube is a good example of modern media as it has a lot of information on one page as you have the views and the comments from just one page you can find out all the information for the one channel.
when conducting a primary research questionnaire it is closed questions that result in quantitative information such as 50% of the people who responded to the questionnaire where male
Here is a example of quantitative research it is the viewing figures for bbc 3 it shows all the ratings down the side.
In modern social media quantitative research is used quite a lot as people always want to know how many re tweets they have or how many likes on Facebook they have as they like to know how popular they are.