We're also going to take a look at Toronto, Ontario based Trend Hunter, a company started in 2006 to track trends in pop-culture, advertising and design.
We’re going to pay particular attention to the scary suggestions the company predicts corporations should focus their marketing efforts around, after covid.
We’re going to pay particular attention to the scary suggestions the company predicts corporations should focus their marketing efforts around, after covid.
Sources cited during the episode include the following:
- The November 9th, 2020 CTV News post, “Aylmer, Ont. deals with fallout, losses of weekend protest.”
- The November 8th, 2020 Al Calder You Tube video “Aylmer March. November 7th, 2020.”
- The November 10th, 2020 Rebel News post, “HUGE lockdown protest in small Ontario town — aggressive counter protesters disrupt the rally."
- The November 9th, 2020 BlogTO post, “2000 anti-maskers held a bizarre protest in an Ontario town this weekend.”
- The 2020 Future Festival World Summit Virtual, which was held online from November 10th - 12th, 2020.
- The “Trend Hunter 2021 Trend Report.” Pages referenced include:
Page 5: Up-cycled root (cannabis or hemp root) for skincare products. Maximize that marijuana farm investment by making use of the parts of the plant you can't smoke.
Page 11: Appointment retail shopping. In-person shopping goes upscale with personalized assistance, coffee and croissants plus far, far higher costs. For the proletariat, there's always Amazon.
Page 17, the Virtual Marketplace and Page 71, the Virtual Crowd – Anything once done in person and involving a crowd will now goe online. Concerts, parties, nightclubs etc. Far harder to hookup, but also far harder to become a super-spreader event.
Page 29: Model Free Runways. Fewer people connecting equals fewer points of contact for disease transmission so models are expected to soon go the way of the dodo. No word on when the first coat hanger and/or manikin will make the cover of Vogue, Glamour or Cosmopolitan.
Page 33: Face masks integrated into trendy, fashionable coats and outerwear. for the fashion conscious germophobe.
Page 77: Skincare products designed to combat the acne which often develops because of mask wearing. Yum...
Page 43: Solutions that address the absence of physical touch we’re all going to be feeling as long as the pandemic continues.
Page 107: Protest Security. Solutions designed to hide your identity when protesting or just walking about. Works best when combined with the trend described on Page 103.
Page 103: New technologies for in-store (and outdoor) monitoring of others for when you want to know the identities of all those people protesting and walking about...
- The September 18th, 2020 Healthy at UH post, "What To Do About Skin Problems Caused By Face Masks."
- The IMBD listing for the 1993 action sci-fi thriller Demolition Man.
- Spy Vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook Paperback. Retrieved November 10th, 2020.
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