Micro Trends

Specific shifts in consumer behaviour that are changing the business environment in the short term.

Content Commerce

Consumers are watching and scrolling their way through a blended media landscape where streaming services, social media and gaming carry more seamless commerce opportunities than ever

Micro Trends

Matrescence

The concept of matrescence highlights the profound physical, emotional and neurological shifts experienced by new mothers, presenting brands with a unique chance to engage and support parents during this transformative life stage

Micro Trends

Scent Retail Futures

Luxury fragrance retail is turning to AI and immersive experiences to provide bricks-and-mortar customers with curated and personalised scent discovery

Micro Trends

Spirited Synthesis

Through creative and unexpected collaborations, food and drink innovators are redefining alcohol as a culinary flavour, appealing to a new generation of sober-curious, snack-happy consumers

Micro Trends

Eau de Climate Change

As more flora and fauna become extinct every year, perfume innovators are becoming activists by attempting to encapsulate the authentic smell of Mother Nature in a bottle

Micro Trends

Care Collectives

With collectivism on the rise, new spaces informed by traditional ideals of kinship are turning care into the next pillar of wellbeing.

Micro Trends

Psychophysical Identities

A new wave of designers are exploring how familiar physical feelings can be translated into visual sensations and mood-lifting branding.

Design : Culture : Branding

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Digitised Favelas

A symbol of economic inequality in Brazil, the favelas are becoming the focus of technology projects that aim to minimise stigma and boost opportun...

Technology : Brazil : Favelas

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Betterverse Bites

Restaurants and chefs are leaning into Betterverse values, using virtual realms as positive places to provide access to and education about food.

Food And Drink : Metaverse : Betterverse

Micro Trends

Pet Hospitality

After the pandemic pet boom, new owners are ready to travel again and looking for animal-friendly spaces to ease their pet-ernal anxiety.

Pets : Hospitality : Retail

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Budget Bots

With consumers financially challenged due to global inflation they are turning to financial apps and services that automatically streamline their s...

Finance : Technology : Retail

Micro Trends

Neo-wealth Wears

Luxury brands are setting their sights on the crypto elite, designing accessories that allow people to flaunt their riches in the offline world.

Luxury : Cryptocurrency : Web3

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Synaesthesia Scents

Olfactory-meets-auditory experiences are providing people with physical and psychological grounding as an antidote to hyper-connectivity.

Beauty : Fragrance : Wellness

Micro Trends

Auto Entertainment

The car sector is drawing from virtual platforms, extended reality and even cryptocurrencies to create immersive and entertaining in-vehicle experi...

Mobility : Entertainment : Technology

Micro Trends

Retail Therapy

Stores and retail experiences are leaning into mental healthcare in order to de-stigmatise, elevate and boost the accessibility of conversations an...

Retail : Health & Wellness : Society

Micro Trends

Re-engineering Indulgence

Treat foods are being redeveloped – and redefined – by biotech brands who are using science to create better foods without foregoing flavour and pl...

Food : Drink : Technology

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Social Learning Networks

The edtech industry in Latin America is evolving away from academic structures to align with modern students’ preferred UX interfaces: their social...

Youth : Education : Technology

Micro Trends

NFT-ainment

The emergence of animated NFT characters is generating profit for owners through entertainment productions that bring their investments to life.

Technology : Media & Entertainment : Finance

Micro Trends

Biomimicry Hotels

Giving back to the land they have historically taken from, these regenerative hotels are being built by their natural environments – rather than vi...

Sustainability : Travel & Hospitality : Luxury

Micro Trends

Next-door Commerce

Having re-engaged with their local communities, neighbours are inspiring new retail models based on hyper-local trading and sharing of goods.

Retail : Placemaking : Local

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Streetwear Brokerages

A series of new platforms are transforming fashion’s resale market into a bona fide investment arena, cementing garments as tradeable assets.

Fashion : Finance : Streetwear

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