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Markets

Chinese Outdoor Fashion Market

Propelled by Covid, China's surging interest in local outdoor sports hints at new opportunities worth billions of yuan for the fashion industry.

Markets

Symbiotic Storytellers

Harnessing advancements in AI, data and decentralisation, film-makers are creating new relationships of exchange between audiences and creators.

Media : Streaming : Web 3

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

Big Ideas

Frieze London 2016: Top 10

Artists at Frieze London 2016 explored the links between third-stage globalisation, new forms of media technology and political turmoil.

Frieze London 2016 : The Dislocated World : Turbulent Teens

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

Macro Trends

Enlightened States

The experience economy is pivoting towards personal transformation as the public imagination looks inwards, favouring self-discovery over shared sp...

Experience : Wellness : Leisure

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

Trend Tracker

The Just Nots

Meet the Just Nots, first identified by LS:N Global in 2011. They pay their taxes, work hard and do all the right things. But from Leicester to...

Squeezed Middle : Low Income : Middle Income

Micro Trends

Growable Futures

Bacteria cultures, lactose proteins and biopolymers may read like science textbook terminology, but they are rapidly becoming essential design tool...

Bacteria Cultures : Lactose Proteins : Biopolymers

Big Ideas

Four ways retail is becoming a phygital playground

Innovative applications of established technologies are creating multi-layered, mixed-reality retail experiences that merge digital and physical to...

Retail : Phygital : Fashion

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

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: June

This month, we uncover the next 10 names to watch as part of our Futures 100 Innovators Awards, highlighting the brands, businesses and people inno...

Design : Retail : Food & Drink

Micro Trends

Audio to Watch

Moving music to new frontiers, platforms including Spotify, TikTok, Twitch and YouTube have educated consumers into developing a unique sensitivity...

Music : TikTok : Social Media Platform

Communities

FABs

Today’s FABs – 50-plus affluent businesswomen and professionals – were born into a time of unprecedented economic growth and new-found peace. These...

FABs : Luxury : Baby Boomers

Communities

Deprogrammers

Rejecting traditional education, this global youth community are using digital platforms, virtual tools and DIY content to educate, teach and liber...

Youth. : Youth : Media

Communities

Brazil’s New Emerging Affluents

Hard-working, fun-loving, mall-shopping and quality-conscious, Brazil’s New Emerging Affluents are getting the most out of their economy’...

Brazil : São Paulo : Facebook

Communities

Party-totallers

Tired of a culture that normalises inebriation and places alcohol at the centre of every event, Party-totallers are shunning the shots, beer and ...

Party-totallers : The Optimised Self : Non-alcoholic

Macro Trends

Neo-Tolkienism

There is a something afoot, a cultural shift that has been rumbling in the undergrowth of society for the past 10 years and is finally roaring to ...

Futuretainment : Storytelling : Fantasy

Markets

Live Commerce Opportunities in the US

Live-stream commerce may not have followed the same trajectory of popularity in Western markets as it has in China but its potential as a service-o...

Retail : Media & Entertainment : Technology

Macro Trends

Uncoupled Living

Being in a couple is becoming a less prevalent way to structure society, as more adults embrace the single life.

Family : Culture : Lifestyle

Macro Trends

No-Frills Affluents

They have been one of the prime drivers in UK retailer Morrisons’ return to profit. Once driven by impulse and indulgence, they are now driven by v...

No Frills : Austerity : Value

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2024: Pop Culture & Media

A saturated media environment has left consumers tired of old news formats. Instead, they want new forms of stimulation and entertainment that can ...

Media : Pop Culture : Entertainment

Micro Trends

AI Edu-play-tion

Meet the innovators using generative artificial intelligence to re-imagine screen-free educational play time for children.

AI : Gen Alpha : Education

Futures 100

Futures 100 Innovators: March

We look at 10 more innovators to watch as part of our Futures 100 Awards highlighting the brands, businesses and individuals innovating for a bett...

Futures 100 Innovators : F100 : Beauty

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

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