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Macro Trends

Anti-authenticity Marketing

Tales of authenticity and heritage are leaving a bad taste in consumers’ mouths as brands mercilessly misappropriate these values and divest them...

Macro Trends

The Synthocene Era: Merging Human and Machine Intelligence

As AI redefines our understanding of intelligence, we begin to enter The Synthocene Era, an age in which the lines between what is natural and what...

Technology : Artificial Intelligence : Society

Macro Trends

Homedulgence

Consumers across the globe are looking at new and innovative ways to maintain the good life they’ve come to treasure, without the expense of going ...

Home : Entertainment : Home Induglence

Macro Trends

Gen Z Now and Next: From Vision to Contradiction

Gen Z are stepping into adulthood carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. Without the tools or role models to help them enact the chan...

Generations : Gen Z : Demographics

Big Ideas

Milan matters

Milan Design Week reflects consumer thinking, showcases innovative ideas and agenda-setting philosophies, and is an exhibition about the direction ...

Lifecycle : Kiki Van Eijk : Lights

Communities

China’s New Emerging Affluents

Ambitious and hard-working, China’s New Emerging Affluents (NEAs) want lifestyles to match their new, higher salaries. They want the latest technol...

BMW Mercedes : Migration : Microblogging

Communities

Lagonistas

The trendsetters most likely to influence people and brands around the world are the fashionistas in Lagos. Or, as we call them, the Lagonistas.

Louis Vuitton : ARISE : Victoria Island

Markets

Mobile apps and future profits

Addressing the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s (IPA) 44 Club, IPA president Rory Sutherland made the point that mobile applications are...

Smartphones : Apps : Iphone

Macro Trends

The Flat Age Society

Something exciting is in the air. Forget everything you thought about being old, or age, even. In the society of the future, age isn’t just a num...

Baby Boomers : Age : Agelessness

Communities

Kindred Diners

This community is on a quest to make eating convivial, pleasurable yet thoughtful, building local communities around – and inspired by – food and d...

Food : Drink : Social

Macro Trends

Futuretainment

As audiences flock to immersive, convivial experiences, entertainers are blurring the distinctions between spectator and performer, digital and phy...

Gaming : Third Rail Projects : Immersive Theatre

Macro Trends

Symbiotic Branding

Collaboration used to be optional for brands that want to create buzz or a one-off product range. Now it is a rule not the exception, as brand-jack...

Symbiosis : Branding : Collaboration

Design Directions

Fairphone

The principle of transparency has spread to clothing, beauty and even jewellery, with companies disclosing where their products come from and how t...

Transparency : Bas Van Abel : Worker Conditions

Macro Trends

Home Eatertainment

Changing dining dynamics have created a new convenience culture focused on elevating the experience and enjoyment of eating and drinking at home.

Food : Convivial : Convenience

Viewpoints

AOI’s Ocean of Ideas Crafted to be Collected

Farah Marafie discusses how her luxury label AOI is not catering for clients or consumers but for collectors of wearable artworks.

Luxury : Fashion : Art And Design

Macro Trends

The Great Wealth Transfer

Wealth ownership, distribution and the politics that influence cross-generational spending are all in flux, according to the latest findings of The...

Luxury : Gen Z : HNWI

Markets

Technology update

Internet tv, 3D programming, downloaded content, gesture motion gaming and the arrival of first-generation smartbooks are among the many technologi...

Internet TV : 3d Programming : NPD Group

Markets

AI Optimism Market

Pushing back on doom, dive into the AI boom’s potential to make consumers healthier, more productive and equal.

AI : Creativity : Technology

Big Ideas

Covid-19 Contingency Planning

Learn the immediate impacts of Covid-19 across key sectors, and discover best-in-class case studies and future considerations for your organisation.

Covid-19 : Society : Health

Communities

New Millennials

Riotous youth who have grown up into righteous adults, the New Millennials are rewriting the rules about how they expect people, institutions and b...

Freelance : Recruitment : Neighborhood

Macro Trends

The E-motional Economy

A new wave of sophisticated emodiversity is ushering in an era in which people are increasingly obsessed with how everything makes them feel.

Empathy : Artificial Emotional Intelligence : Mood Manipulation

Macro Trends

New Bricolage Living

Identity used to be something that you were born with. Age, race, gender and nationality were firmly fixed and determined your place in the world....

Third-stage Globalisation : Life-lodging : Connectivity

Markets

Retail report

It feels as though retailers the world over are breathing a collective sigh of relief, as the Great Depression didn’t materialise. But the sobering...

Deloitte : Recession : PIIGS

Macro Trends

Faction Marketing

Desensitised to authenticity, and spoiled by the know-everything, see-everything transparency culture of the web, consumers are once more suspendin...

Fact : Fiction : Fake

Macro Trends

Future Media Landscapes

In the land of the brand and the media, there have always been kings, ever since media magnate Sumner Redstone declared ‘Content is king!’ way back...

Media : Technology : Transmedia

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