As Twitter becomes a functionally different place – with no unpaid blue checkmarks, legacy users bolting, and much longer posts available for those willing to pay up – many are hungry for an alternative. It might just look a lot like the original product: Bluesky, which began as a Twitter initiative and is backed by […]
Top Fashion Trends According to Consumer Data
Fashion in 2023 is all about nostalgia, comfort, and self-expression – here are the current trends you should be expecting in the fashion industry, according to the CivicScience InsightStore: 1. Gen Z has the biggest pulse on fashion, with social media as a growing source of fashion inspiration. More and more Americans are following fashion […]
Discord Favorability Increases, Shows Potential To Win Users Cutting Back on Twi...
Discord, a social messaging platform popular with gamers and fan communities, has recently become the focus of national security news. The 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard airman Jack Teixeira was arrested last week for leaking classified documents in connection to the Ukraine war on a Discord server. Given its heightened visibility, CivicScience gauged how American […]
Fast Fashion Is Still Trending in 2023 – Shein and Temu Are Retailers to Watch
In the U.S. alone, fashion is a multi-billion dollar industry. And so one thing is certain – even in times of economic uncertainty, Americans are going to consume fashion. But what kinds of fashion are consumers flocking to? And what does that mean for apparel retailers? In recent years, fast fashion retailers – those who […]
Strong Majority of Americans Support the Biden Administration Gaining the Powers...
Last week, the White House expressed support for the RESTRICT Act (Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology), a new bipartisan Senate bill. This legislation would grant the Biden administration powers to ban TikTok in the U.S., along with tech platforms aligned with foreign adversaries that pose potential national security […]
YouTube Is Still the First Platform for Following Content Creators
From the very first user-uploaded video posted on YouTube in 2005, to the rise of online stars like YouTuber Jenna Marbles and TikToker Khaby Lame, the world of online content creators has exploded into an entire industry which today could be worth more than $100 billion. Content creators are typically considered to be anyone creating […]