Macro Trends

Major shifts in consumer behaviour that will dictate our business environment in the long term.

The Synthocene Era

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 is artificial are increasingly blurred – driving humanity into a future when technology will redefine what it means to be human

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New Codes of Luxury: Longevity & Wellbeing Strategies

The Future Laboratory and Together Group have joined forces to release the New Codes of Luxury: Longevity & Wellbeing Strategies report

Macro Trends

The Future of Sports Fandom

By embracing new technologies, geographies and audiences, sport is becoming bigger than ever and offering valuable lessons on nurturing a new era of fandom

Macro Trends

Functional Feasting

As we move past the ‘free from’ era, consumers are increasingly favouring products that do more with less, bringing flavour and fun back into functional nutrition

Macro Trends

New Codes of Luxury 2024–2025

An essential tool, the Five Luxury States define people’s emotional and psychological journeys through the luxury sector, giving rise to a new set of Codes defining the future language of luxury

Macro Trends

Anxiety Rebellion

Instead of numbing their anxiety with substances or indulging in other vices, Generation Z are turning emotions into actions, challenging existing ...

Youth : Health : Culture

Macro Trends

Immaterial Fashion

As the fashion industry grapples with existential questions about supply chain and overconsumption, digitisation offers a new route for consumers ...

Fashion : Sustainability : Digital

Macro Trends

Uneasy Affluence

A collective backlash against ostentatious spending is fuelling new anxiety among luxury consumers. This is forcing luxury brands to rethink the...

Luxury : Hospitality : Finance

Macro Trends

Certified Wellness

The once distinctly separate worlds of health and wellness are converging as consumers seek a new framework for healthy living that prioritises con...

Health : Wellbeing : Certified Wellness

Macro Trends

Algorithmic Beauty

As beauty technologies gain in popularity, social media, artificial intelligence and algorithms are beginning to shape a new beauty ideal.

Beauty : Technology

Macro Trends

Storefront Salvation

Fuelled by an understanding that saving the store relies on a combination of physical touchpoints and digital technology, retailers are reconsi...

Retail : E-commerce : Digital

Macro Trends

Morality Recoded

Our traditional moral frameworks of religion and family are declining. Institutions, brands and consumers are now re-evaluating the power of innova...

Technology : Retail : Mobility

Macro Trends

Post-growth Society

As our obsession with economic growth proves to be unsustainable, brands, institutions and consumers are seeking new metrics of progress.

Post-growth Society : GDP : Economics

Macro Trends

Subconscious Commerce

With Internet of Things technology creating newly immersive brand touchpoints and data analytics allowing businesses to anticipate every desire, co...

Retail : Automation : Technology

Macro Trends

Brand Culture 2020

Responding to an increasingly unstable marketplace, tomorrow’s brands will seek to combine the benefits of automation with the creation of a work...

Workplace : Branding : Culture

Macro Trends

Consumer 2020

In the next decade, brands need to prepare for consumers who are abandoning traditional institutions, seeking comfort in safe spaces and reassert...

Youth : Purpose : Belonging

Macro Trends

Experience 2020

Customer experiences are becoming meaningless. But as we head towards the next decade, brands must ensure that they only invest in experiences th...

Experience : Experience 2020 : Tech

Macro Trends

The American Middle

The American middle class, once the aspirational ideal, is becoming a myth. Brands must learn to speak to this demographic that have felt left behi...

Culture : Advertising : Retail

Macro Trends

Civic Brands

Businesses are increasingly stepping in where governments are failing and acting as forces for good in society. Amid the shift from top-down co...

Brandstanding : Sharing 2.0 : Civic Brands

Macro Trends

The Focus Filter

A race for attention is raging across media, advertising and culture in our era of non-stop digital distraction.

Attention Economy : Workplace : Advertising

Macro Trends

Neo-kinship

As the nuclear family disappears and more fluid and complex forms of kinship take its place, technology is not only helping to run the househol...

Neo-kinship : Artificial Intelligence : Family

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