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Macro Trends

Community Commerce

A new wave of decentralised retail concepts are transforming e-commerce as consumers look for alternative ways to access and exchange products and ...

Retail : Media : Entertainment

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.

China : Global Fashion And Style : Moncler

Macro Trends

Alternet Economies

A technological counter-culture is decentralising capitalism, reforming the internet and powering new value frontiers for creators, consumers and b...

Technology : FinTech : Internet

Communities

Fastronomic Foodies

For Fastronomic Foodies, food must be convenient and high quality. Meet the tastemakers who prepare, replace and source the best ingredie...

Convenience Culture : Fast Food : Soylent

News

Netflix brings shows to life with cannabis launch and other stories

In today’s daily digest: Leela Kids makes podcasts accessible, Aloe is a friendly self-care app, the healthy baby food revolution and other top sto...

Fashion : Media : Wellness

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

Micro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Pop Culture & Media

From immersive experiences to creator-driven content and innovative storytelling, pop culture and media innovators are reshaping how audiences enga...

Pop Culture & Media : Immersive Experience : Creator Economy

Big Ideas

Pop Culture Pilgrimages

From Netflix-inspired itineraries to immersive action adventures, pop culture travel is reshaping how younger generations explore the world.

Media : Travel : Hospitality

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

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

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

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

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

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

Behaviours

Gen Z in Australia

Amid fractious global politics, national housing shortages and looming recession, Australia’s youth are connecting via grassroots activism and new ...

Australia : Gen Z : Loneliness

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

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

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

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