- Africa (foreign investment and development in)
- Antibiotic backlash
- Assisted marriage
- Beijing 2008
- Blue replacing green as the environmental movement’s color du jour
- Brain exercises
- British actress Keira Knightley
- Carbon tax
- Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang
- Classical musician Gustavo Dudame
- Climate sightseeing
- Continuation of comebacks (Indiana Jones, The Cure, etc.)
- Cooperative consumption
- Couch surfing
- Country branding (Oman, Indonesia, etc.)
- Designer Phillip Lim
- De-teching
- DJ Tiesto
- DNA-based exercising
- E-clutter (and e-clutter consultants)
- Eco-fatigue
- E-mail etiquette
- Facebook suicides
- Fashion label Vena Cava
- Foreign government investment (e.g., China, UAE) in U.S. companies
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy
- Game 3.0 (gamer-generated global gaming)
- Google’s Android
- Gossip Girl
- Gphone
- Green weddings
- Higher education online
- Hip-hop’s Retro Kids
- Humbling of the hedge fund manager (anti-excess post sub-prime)
- Hybrid taxis
- Indian actress Deepika Padukone
- Intellectual luxury
- Investigating ingredients
- Japanese designs (Tsumori Chisato, Uniqlo, Muji, etc.)
- Kitchen appliances as new power tools
- Lifestyle curators
- Lipstick trumping lip gloss
- Manga-inspired clothes
- Mobile technology explosion
- Mobulimia
- Music as awareness driver; concerts and other residuals as cash cow
- Musicovery (music tailored to moods)
- Myanmar
- Nollywood (the rise of Nigerian cinema)
- Outsourcing to Ukraine (and other Eastern European countries)
- Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto
- Pantone’s 18-3943 (blue iris)
- Pets in the office
- Prius homes
- Radical transparency
- Radiohead repeats (name-your-own-price music)
- Recycling into fashion (Nau, Gary Harvey, etc.)
- Selfless as the new selfish
- Sex and the City, the movie
- Shiny Toy Guns (the band)
- Skiing in novel spots (Kashmir, Japan, Greenland, Russia, Korea)
- Single men saying no to sex
- Skype sex
- Smart Cars in American cities
- SNS (social network service) brand communities
- Spanish actor Javier Bardem
- Staycations
- Sturking
- Tequila as the new wine
- The N-11
- Third screen (the mobile screen) rivaling the first screen (TV)
- Trans-ertainment
- U.S. gymnast Shawn Johnson
- U.S. presidential election
- Vicarious consumption
- (Video) Gaming Olympics
- Virtual gifting
- Wannabe young Internet entrepreneurs (a.k.a. Mark Zuckerberg copycats)
- Weak dollar/strong euro
- Women juggling men
Alyson Valpone
JWT Department of Trendspotting
alyson.valpone@jwt.com
908-902-3535
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