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Browse different trend categories to see macro patterns shaping entire industries, plus the emerging micro trends within them.
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Identify growing niches within your broad market.
Browse Trends by Industry Category
Navigate top trend categories like AI, Wellness, Technology, Beauty, and DTC to quickly find meta trends relevant to your business.
See Macro and Micro Trends Together
Click into any meta trend to view a visualization of the top related emerging trends within that category. Get a picture of how individual micro trends connect to larger market movements, so you can decide where to focus first.
Get Expert Analysis and Context
Every meta trend includes a Background & Analysis section written by the Exploding Topics research team. Understand the "why" behind the trend, key growth drivers, and what makes it different from passing fads.
Explore Related Trend Opportunities
Each meta trend shows you related trends worth exploring. Find adjacent opportunities you might have missed and understand how different trend categories intersect.
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How We Find Trends
We track topics across the internet to identify under-the-radar trends before they go mainstream.
Analyze
Our trend identification process begins with a comprehensive data collection from a variety of online sources.
- Social media platforms
- Search engines
- Online forums and communities
- News articles and blogs
- E-commerce websites
- Podcasts
Identify
Our proprietary machine learning models are designed to detect the absolute earliest signs of an emerging trend.
- Analyze historical data to identify growth patterns
- Predict future trends based on current data trajectories
- Detect sudden spikes in interest or activity around specific topics
Curate
While our algorithms are powerful, human expertise is crucial for contextual understanding, ensuring quality topics.
- Review the top-scoring trends identified by our models
- Validate the authenticity and relevance of these trends
- Filter out fads (movies, TV shows, celebrity gossip, etc.)
- Provide qualitative insights to complement quantitative data
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Everything you need to know about using our features and getting the most out of them.
What are meta trends?
Meta Trends are macro-level trend categories manually curated by the Exploding Topics research team. Each meta trend represents a broader market movement—like "AI-Powered Content Generating Tools" or "Functional Pet Food"—and shows you all the related micro trends within that category. This helps you see both the big picture and the specific emerging opportunities driving growth in that space.
How are Meta Trends different from the regular Trends Database?
The Trends Database contains 1M+ individual emerging trends you can search and filter. Meta Trends organizes the most significant macro trends by industry category, showing you curated collections of related micro trends. Instead of searching for specific keywords, you browse by category to discover broader market patterns and the emerging trends within them.
How do I use Meta Trends for my business?
Start by browsing the category most relevant to your industry. Click into meta trends that interest you to read the Background & Analysis, see the visualization of related micro trends, and explore related macro trends. This helps you identify growing niches, understand market patterns, and spot opportunities before competitors catch on.
Meta Trends: See the Big Picture and the Opportunities Within It
Meta Trends shows you both expert-curated macro trends shaping entire industries, plus the specific micro trends driving that growth.
Browse categories like AI, Wellness, Technology, or DTC to find relevant macro trends. Click into any trend to see a visualization of related emerging opportunities, expert analysis explaining what's driving growth, and related trends worth exploring. For example, "Functional Pet Food" shows you emerging brands like Butternut Box and Petlab—all capitalizing on the broader shift toward health-focused pet products.
Whether you're planning product development, identifying content opportunities, or researching market expansion, Meta Trends gives you curated intelligence from the Exploding Topics research team. Use that intelligence to understand market patterns and identify niche opportunities before your competitors catch on.
Stop getting lost in data. Start with the trends that matter.
Meta Trends is included with all Exploding Topics Pro plans starting at $39/month.
For more on using trend intelligence strategically, check out How to Find Trends (Super Early).