64% of American adults wear prescription eyewear. Most plan to spend about $173 on each glasses purchase and need replacement glasses every 1-3 years. Oftentimes, glasses frames outlive their lenses. If you’re a consumer looking to save money or preserve your style, you might consider buying replacement lenses next time your prescription changes. Lenses need…
Author: Brian
The Difficulties of Remote Work: Digital Workspaces Can Help
Digital work comes with a lot of benefits. Workers save on time, money, and well-being. However, remote work is also fractured. Employees use an average of 9 apps per day to do their work. Frequent task switching adds up to a 40% loss in productivity. In addition, 5 in 6 employees say they spend a…
Women’s Health and Probiotics
A probiotic works to solve digestive issues, but it does so in a way that not many digestive solutions do. Instead of simply improving the immune system for a short duration, or feeding positive bacteria to the digestive system, probiotics work to colonize the digestive tract as a whole. This means that the growth of…
Relatability: How Generation Z is Changing Brands
Generation Z has been dubbed the most disruptive generation, as the impact and effect that people in this age group have on all facets of our society is becoming increasingly significant. Studies show that by 2031, Gen Z’s income will increase by 5x, surpassing millennial income, reaching over a quarter of global income, and growing…
Screens Increasing Influence on Adolescents
COVID caused the sharpest increase of screen time in adolescents ever seen. Screen time, already at a high of 3.8 hours per day in 2019, increased to 7.7 hours per day in 2020. Although this is certainly due in part to things like online schoolwork, music, or even reading, a lot of this time is…
Exploring the Energy Drink Business
In the United States, energy drink sales reached $14 billion in 2021, up from $11 billion in 2017. Red Bull accounted for nearly a quarter of all energy drink sales, and Monster Energy has a nearly equal market share. While pandemic shutdowns caused a hiccup for the energy drink market, they surged in popularity as…
The Future of Web Analytics
Ever since Google’s purchase of Urchin in 2005, Google Analytics has been the dominant software behind web analytics. Approximately 28 million active websites use Google Analytics. Many of these sites harness the power of Universal Analytics, which enables tracking of users across multiple devices and platforms by assigning user IDs. By adding demographics, richer consumer…
In Economic Uncertainty, Go for the Gold
Since 2020, the world has been “on fire” it seems. We’ve gone from one global crisis to another beginning with the COVID pandemic, which threatened our health on a basic level, but also our livelihood on an economic level. Now that we’ve essentially been able to move past COVID, we’re still facing massive inflation simply…
Why are Colleges Going Out of Business?
Did you know that 53 colleges closed permanently in the 2019-2020 school year alone? Colleges across the country have been experiencing drops in enrollment, especially in recent years. In fact, undergraduate enrollment decreased by almost 8% between 2019 and 2021. In 2022, colleges have seen 1 million fewer students enroll compared to before the pandemic. …
Helping to Stop Domestic Violence
The COVID-19 pandemic saw a significant increase in intimate partner violence throughout the United States. New York City experienced a 10% increase in domestic violence reports while San Antonio, CA saw a 18% rise in family violence calls. Minority groups who were the most affected by higher unemployment and likelihood of infection caused by the…