Track Trends Like A Futurist

Track Trends Like A Futurist

How do Futurists see what's coming before it has arrived? Partially, it's by subscribing to feeds and resources known for being the first to discover new and potential trends.

I have compiled over 100 of my favourite resources for discovering the future that include everything from an AI that analyses culture (Sparks & Honey) through to the team working on what the world might look like up to 10,000 years from now  (The Long Now Foundation). There's also a bunch of tastemakers and aggregators worth following for some of the industries I track.

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RESOURCES BY TYPE:

General Trends

IBISWorld
(note some countries have their own subsection of IBISWorld, use the country of interest for most relevant data)

Wunderman Thompson Intelligence

Stylus

Sparks & Honey

WGSN

WARC

Institute For The Future

The Long Now Foundation

World Economic Forum – Strategic Intelligence

Canvas8

Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Economist

New Scientist

Springwise

Think with Google

Google Trends

Answer The Public

Also Asked

Thing Testing

Trendwatching

Matt Klein

Nielsen

Exploding Topics

Hubspot

Subreddit Stats

Food Trends

Food+Tech Connect

Food Dive

Restaurant Dive

Eater

626 Night Market

Bompass & Parr

Mold

Sugar & SPACE

Foodlosofia

Eatelier

The Counter

Cannabis Trends

Hemp Health & Innovation Expo

Cannabis Club Australia

Green Market Report

Herb

High Times

Kush Queen

Cannasexual

High Cuisine

Cannaisseur Series

Cannabition

Grassfed

MedMen

Tech Trends

Tech Crunch

This Week In Creative Technology

IFTTT

Nvidia AI

Digital Trends

Within

GitHub

Now This Earth

Futurism

Future

Moz

Social Media Examiner

Social Media Today

Litmus

Really Good Emails

Awwwards

Product Hunt

Futurepedia

Daniel Eckler

Karen X

Cloudflare Domain Rankings

Creative Trends

Daisie

Twitch

Pinterest Trends

BuzzFeed

Reddit

Shower Thoughts

Fuck Jerry

Colossal

Designboom

It's Nice That

Jessica Walsh

MSCHF

Meow Wolf

Preen.Me

Popsugar

Wellness Trends

Global Wellness Summit

Insight Timer

Lonely Lingerie

Sober Girl Society

Apartment Therapy

Mental Floss

Freelancing Females

Shan Boodram

Esther Perel

Lanserhof At The Arts Club

Nikki Gonda

Modibodi

Hims

Sephora

Future of Sex

Museum of Sex

Pink Bits

Intimate Ecology

SeedLabs

Census Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Census India

Eurostat

National Bureau of Statistics China

Statistics Canada

Stats NZ

UK Office for National Statistics

Union for African Population Studies

United States Census Bureau

 

I analyse trends daily as part of what it takes to design disruptive businesses that will open wallets as much as shape the future. This enables me to have an always-on landscape of opportunities for my clients. In addition to tracking shifts in culture, I do micro analysis of the following consumer facing industries most relevant to my clients: tech, food, beauty, petcare, health, wellness, makers, marketing, AI, gaming, sex and cannabis.


Trends are a measure of cultural attention. If you want your attendees to see the future of your industry, book Melissa as a speaker for your next event.
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