Where Can You Spot New Awesome Trends?
Gijsbertus J.J. van Wulfen
Innovation keynote speaker, Number One Thought Leader Design Thinking 2024, LinkedIn Top Voice helping you and your organisation, to become amazing innovators with keynotes, workshops, and a proven innovation method.
You need to look ahead and prepare your organization for the future. It's not an easy job, knowing the world is changing at an increasing pace. What’s going to happen? How will my market evolve? What new technologies are out there? How are target groups changing? It all comes down to the question: "Where can you spot new awesome trends?"
Belgian websearch professional Marc Heleven, probably the best websearcher in the world, of www.7ideas.net, just updated his 'best 15 International trend sites' for a new edition of The Innovation Expedition. I love to share his 15 best trend spotting sites of 2014 here on LinkedIn.
1. Springwise
Springwise scans the globe for the most promising business ventures, ideas and concepts that are ready for regional or international adaptation, expansion, partnering, investments or cooperation with 17.000 Spring spotters in over 150 countries.
2. Trendwatching
Trendwatching.com is one of the world’s leading trend firms. They scan the globe for emerging consumer trends, insights and innovations with a network of hundreds of spotters in 90 countries.
3. Trend Hunter
Trend Hunter has with an online community of 153.000 trend spotters the world’s largest, most popular collection of cutting edge ideas.
4. MoreInspiration
MoreInspiration lets you discover innovative products and technologies from all possible domains. You can search their database of more than 4600 innovations.
https://www.moreinspiration.com/search
5. Trends@alltop
This site will provide you at one glance latest news and interesting stories of all the renowned trend sources.
6. NOTCOT
NOTCOT is a visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusements. It's a real source of inspiration for creatives all over the world
7. CoolBusinessIdeas
CoolBusinessIdeas.com is a blog about brand new promising business ideas around the world. You can do industry searches in their database.
https://www.coolbusinessideas.com/
8. PSFK
Over 1,000,000 readers from the design, digital, marketing, media and technology industries come to PSFK to read and share the emerging ideas. They are known for their beautiful trend reports on actual themes.
9. Cassandra Daily
Cassandra Daily (formerly known as Trendcentral) focusses on “what’s new and what’s next" in the realms of lifestyle, fashion, entertainment and technology.
10. World Future Society
WFS is a renowned international network of future thinkers and scenario planners share an informed, serious dialogue on what the future will be like.
11. JWT Intelligence
JWT is focusing on identifying changes in the global zeitgeist so as to convert shifts into compelling opportunities for brands. An awesome compilation of their trends you can find at https://www.slideshare.net/jwtintelligence.
https://www.jwtintelligence.com/
12. TED
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Their site contains thousands of inspiring Ted Talks.
13. Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
The objective of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies is to strengthen the basis for decision-making in public and private organisations by creating awareness of the future and highlighting its importance to the present.
14. Cool Hunting
Cool Hunting is synonymous with seeking inspiration. A global team sift through innovations in design, technology, art and culture to creating their awesome publications and updates.
15. Mashable
Mashable is the largest independent news source dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Mashable’s 20 million monthly unique visitors and 4 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged online news communities.
Wishing you wonderful trend hunting!
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Assistant Manager at CIC Agribusinesses (Pvt) Ltd
10 年Thanks for sharing this Gijs
Sup
10 年Very helpful list. In general, I have to use an R and D3 data visualization set of tools to scan the Twitter and Mention data feeds. Too much out there. Must be filtered for Trend watching.
HR & IR Consultant
10 年Information and beautiful thinking systems.
Head of Cultural and Consumer Insights at CAA Brand Consulting
10 年I'd like to add my CultureLab Trends to your list! https://www.slideshare.net/KillerKW/culturelabs-10-trends-to-watch-in-2014
Operations Manager | Service Provider | Multidisciplinary | 15+ yrs of IT + Business + Global experience | in Transition
10 年What an informative and interesting article, thanks for sharing.