Trends


Reports for 2017


#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

2017

Verve

  • Consumers redefine purchase boundaries; mobile marketing, brand partnerships deepen
  • Department stores, mobile marketing partners tackle the ‘Amazon Effect’
  • Programmatic accelerates: brands, tech, marketing continue to invest
  • Technology drives measurement, verification advances
  • Next-generation creative, video redefine mobile engagements

engageSimply

  • The ultimate user interface will be the human body
  • The “why” of marketing hasn’t changed, but the medium will drive the experience
  • Authenticity is a function of “diversity”
  • Turning data into art
  • Trust – not algorithms – must be the power source behind everything marketers do

Springwise

  • Blockchain technology used for green energy
  • Driverless car insurance protects against hacking
  • Wearable ring trains users to sleep better by waking them up
  • In Japan, an artificial intelligence has been appointed creative director
  • Online ratings turned into one reputation score
  • Training people with disabilities to become drone pilots
  • Software uses big data to predict court decisions
  • Could VR representations of news stories replace traditional forms of news media?
  • Energy efficient street lamps are also mosquito traps
  • The Springwise take on Amazon Go

Activate Tech&Media

  • Super-serve the Super-users and Chase the Attention Unicorns
  • Subscriptions will Feed the World (or at least Internet and Media Businesses)
  • Learn to Live with the Discovery Oligopoly
  • The Bot Battles are about Winning the Great Messaging War
  • eSports is the Next Tech Phenomenon
  • You Already Know the New Winners in Pay TV
  • Video Streaming: The Bundle is the Future
  • Audio: Smart Speakers, Gray Music
  • Post-Household America: A New Era of Users

Daniel Burrus’ Top 20

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Machine Learning and Cognitive Computin
  • Adaptive and Predictive Cybersecurity Systems
  • Big Data and the use of High Speed Data Analytics
  • Mobile Banking and Payments
  • Blockchains
  • Wearables and Applications
  • The Internet of Things (IoT) Becomes Increasingly Intelligent
  • 3D Printing (Additive Manufacturing) of Finished Goods
  • Virtualization of Processes and Services (On-Demand Services)
  • Virtualization of Storage, Desktops, Applications and Networking

Panoramix Global

  • Geopolitic Disruption
  • Intersectional Futurism
  • On-Demand Work
  • Dislocation
  • The Next Big Thing
  • Life Sustainable
  • Privacy And Security

Frog’s Tech Trends

  • Superhero-Performance In Autonomous Vehicles
  • Precision Medicine And Big Data Will Drive Health Results
  • Our Spaces Become Participants
  • Next Year’s Best New Artist
  • Synthetic Food And Cellular Agriculture Goes Mainstream
  • Business Bots Will Thrive
  • Tricking The Brain To Do The Impossible
  • Farming The Sea Is The Ultimate “Blue Ocean” Strategy
  • Interface In Our Ears
  • Drones For Good
  • Scalable Automatic Data Processing Is The New Last Mile
  • Buildings Work Smarter, Not Harder
  • VR-On-Demand
  • The Rise Of Soft Robotics
  • Learning From Machine Learning

CES

  • Tech brands as car brands
  • Health meets mobility
  • 2017: The year of voice
  • New vision for marketing
  • “Merged reality” and beyond
  • Experiential wearable tech
  • Maternal tech
  • Tech for tinkering
  • Disability tech
  • Purity tech

Be&Do Brand Guide

  • On-demand expertise
  • Conversational interfaces
  • Be other
  • Open organisation
  • Transparent information
  • Mindful content
  • Replacement brands
  • Controlled consumption
  • Data authenticity
  • Bittersweet honesty
  • Beta products
  • Origins of value
  • Consumer facing pricing
  • Resilient products

Marketing Insider Group

  • Writing will improve
  • More emphasis on content strategy
  • Going mobile. Finally?
  • Return to email marketing
  • Closing word

Wasp Content Trends

  • We’re getting better at content marketing
  • Mobile
  • Facebook
  • Visual content
  • Video content
  • User-generated content
  • Promotion matters
  • Personalization

PSFK Forecast 2020

  • New consumer personas
  • Subordinate surroundings
  • Self-reliant resources
  • Idealized delivery