Reports for 2016
#2023
111
#2022
103
#2021
88
#2020
65
#2019
67
#2018
67
#2017
43
#2016
39
#tech
144
#consumer
160
#culture
79
#design
34
#marketing
144
#innovations
65
#data
56
#content
47
#social
55
#email
4
#creative
30
#business
66
#blockchain
6
#ecom
8
#health
17
#retail
23
2016
- Power Play
- Demographic Shakeup
- Last Habitat For Humanity
- Equity
- Privacy and Security
- Tech Transformation
- Reemergence of the Tribe
- Prime Time AI
- Culture Shock
- Marketers begin adopting beacon proximity signals
- Mobile audience modeling and prospecting get more sophisticated
- Advertisers dig into physical and emotional signals from wearables
- Creative agencies turn to data science to optimize campaigns
- Cross-device marketing becomes even more prevalent
- Messaging platforms will trump broadcast social networks
- Marketers will realize that Snapchat isn’t social — it’s TV
- Ad blocking turns all eyes to social
- The Hotel California effect will change the game
- Social video will get more crowded and complicated
- Blockchain beyond Bitcoin
- Data-driven design takes center stage
- Microbiome makes health personal
- AI saves financial services
- VR medical therapy
- FDA-approved video games
- Human-centered design is automated
- VR breaks down borders
- Film reviews, written by your heartbeat
- AI in special education
- Sensors start to combine&disappear
- Haptic feedback gets real
- Alternative credit scoring
- The open enterprise
- Friendship as a service
- The average American spends more time on tech&media than work or sleep
- Messaging will blow past social networks as the dominant media activity
- The next big winners in streaming audio are already (quietly) here
- The long-awaited cord cutting moment is still far off
- The is a “cable killer” coming, but it won’t look like you expect
- E-sports&wagering will change the game in gaming
- Good luck getting rich in the App Store!
- These companies are grabbing all the money in consumer tech&media
- One simple way to predict what tech&media players will do next to compete
- Movements
- The rise of virtual reality
- AI: Friend of foe
- Talking pictures
- The era of mobile video
- In the name of equality
- Startup scene
- Platform focus: Snapchat
- 3-D printing will disrupt retail
- Offline is the new online
- Audio branding will make waves
- The rebirth of print
- The battle for the home will overtake the battle for the living room
- Packaging will tell a story
- Phone technology will drive car purchases
- Branding goes multisensory
- Packaged food producers will respond to pressure
- Rightsizing will reshape financial services
- Life in the very fast lane
- Hospitality brands will entice Asian travelers
- The dawn of telecom without borders
- Employees as the new marketing campaign
- Powerful women
- LGBT mainstreaming
- Gender identity
- Anti-endorsers
- Saving the planet
- Saving ourselves
- Livestreaming
- Emojis
- Trolling
- Robots
- Outdoor tech
- Bloodvertising
- The new singularity: inclusive beauty, mutable fashion, distilled expression, radical transparency
- Touch enabled world: immersive computing, fabricated performance, multi-sensory storytelling
- Life partnering: corrective centering, intimate AI, life editors, digital daycare
- Closed-loop community: self-supporting cities, product as retail, fan matchmaking, nomadic living
- Algorithmic personality detection
- Bots
- Glitches
- Backdoors
- Blockchain
- Drone lanes
- Quantum computing
- Augmented knowledge
Hyper Island Changes of Tomorrow
- The end of owning stuff
- Agile culture
- Work and life: Integrate or separate
- Health tech goes mainstream
- From blended to virtual reality
- Artificial intelligence and the efficiency movement
- Talent on Tap
- Hybrid Knowledge
- Collaboration as a core competence
- Co-creation: a social desire
- Online relationships
- Globalized culture: The end of nations
- Governance and self-service analytics become best friends
- Visual analytics become common language
- The data product chain become democratized
- Data integration gets exciting
- Advanced analytics is no longer just for analysts
- Cloud data&cloud analytics take off
- The analytics center of excellence (COE) become excellent
- Mobile analytics stands on its own
- People begin to dig into IOT data
- New technologies rise to fill the gaps