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Gen Z Dating Futures

As consumers experience dating app fatigue, in-person social spaces, sports, and college communities are emerging as popular alternatives, making w...

Youth : Dating : Identity

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The Big Idea: Next-gen Dating

Gen Z’s approach to relationships is changing, with users increasingly interested in exploring new app formats that go beyond endless swiping to fi...

Youth : Media & Entertainment : Society

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The latest innovations in a growing wellness industry

With over 400 delegates from 50 countries in attendance, some companies chose to use the Global Wellness Summit stage as a launch pad, announcing n...

Health : Wellness : Technology

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Walmart coordinates grocery needs for ageing relatives

The retailer is partnering with senior-care app Avanlee Care to help families remotely coordinate grocery orders.

Food : Drink : Retail

Markets

Food Austerity Innovators

Global events are causing widespread disruption to the food sector, with innovators and start-ups helping to assuage rising prices and abating supp...

Food : Drink : Society

Micro Trends

Provocation Platforms

A societal resilience has led people to step out of their comfort zones in favour of dissenting perspectives. Now, this search for discomfort is fi...

Social Media : Media & Entertainment : Technology

Big Ideas

Five fintech innovations for young home-buyers

As younger people strive to break away from being Generation Rent, a wave of fintech services are taking them from temporary tenants to first-time ...

FinTech : Mobile Money : Mortgages

Big Ideas

The Gen Z messaging apps of tomorrow

Forget Snapchat and WhatsApp. Today’s youth are taking it upon themselves to create fluid social apps that nurture their multimedia friendships.

Youth : Media : Gen Z

Viewpoints

Placesonas: the new imperative for brands’ smart assistants

Smart assistants are breaking out of the home – so businesses must consider the new contexts and opportunities for people to interact with them on ...

Retail : Technology : Marketing

Big Ideas

The digital evolution of neighbourhood stores

With Covid-19 bolstering spending in local stores, new platforms are emerging that digitise independent retailers and boost access for remote shopp...

Retail : Technology : Food

Micro Trends

Whisper Networks

Luxury brands are focusing on invitation-only, experience-led micro-communities to uphold an aura of exclusivity in the

Luxury : Media : Technology

News

A text-based daily paper combatting news fatigue

The New Paper is a text-based news services that curates concise updates into a single daily message.

Technology : The Focus Filter : Apps

Markets

Food Waste Innovation

From food-sharing to upcycling, the growing need to create innovative and sustainable solutions to food waste presents a range of opportunities.

Food : Retail : Sustainability

Viewpoints

TikTok is the future of global marketing

Influencer marketing expert Alessandro Bogliari examines how TikTok can be used for self-expression, values-based marketing and political conversat...

Youth : Media : Technology

Big Ideas

Interactive listening

Technology devices are becoming central to the listening experience, with interactive apps and AR tools revealing greater meaning behind the music.

Media : Technology : Music

News

Stat: WeChat becomes the world’s fastest-growing brand

The all-in-one China-founded app has grown 1,540% in terms of brand value in the past five years.

Retail : WeChat : Apps

Viewpoints

Diving into Lush’s phygital experiments

Charlotte Nisbet talks about the brand’s phygital retail experiments, from packaging-free stores and recyclable shop fit-outs to machine learning r...

Retail : Beauty : Technology

Big Ideas

Five key themes from Web Summit 2019

Web Summit shifted its focus to people and the planet, and the ways in which technology can be a force for good at a time when citizens are warier ...

Technology : Web Summit : Web Summit 2019

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Web Summit 2019: Music streaming gets personal

Show4Me is a burgeoning streaming platform that lets artists connect directly with their fans.

Entertainment : Music : Apps

Viewpoints

Obsess is upending the e-commerce interface

Neha Singh, founder and CEO of experiential e-commerce platform Obsess, on the power of discovery to shape the future of retail.

Retail : Youth : Technology

Viewpoints

Phoneless focus

Maths Mathisen, co-founder of productivity app Hold, explains how gamifying smartphone screentime can build positive brand relationships.

Workplace : Apps : Technology

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Frolo is a social network for single parents

The new networking app seeks to alleviate isolation among solo parents by providing a platform for them to connect with each other.

Youth : Society : Digital

Viewpoints

Will AI take the fun out of fashion?

For an industry that thrives on change, the use of AI might mean homogenisation over innovation, says futures researcher Sabrina Faramarzi

Fashion Futures : Immaterial Fashion : Artificial Intelligence

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Thought-starter: Can the sharing economy transform childcare?

With the sharing economy disrupting many of the core pillars of adult life, brands are now turning their attention to the ways it can positively im...

Youth : Sharing Economy : Housing

News

Dating app Hinge wants to be less addictive

The app has rebranded to make its interface less appealing for daters.

Youth : Dating : Relationships