Deliver intelligence earlier, backed by real data
Spot emerging markets, consumer shifts, and competitive threats 12+ months before they hit industry reports. Deliver real trend data your clients can act on immediately.
Deliver insights to clients faster
Common Issue
By the time you've conducted surveys, analyzed data, and compiled reports, markets have already changed, leaving clients with outdated reports.
With Exploding Topics
Identify emerging markets and trends in hours, not months, using real-time trend signals from millions of data points across the web.
Predict market shifts earlier
Common Issue
Most data sources are backward-looking, showing trends that have already peaked.
With Exploding Topics
Spot emerging opportunities 12+ months before they hit mainstream industry reports, so your clients can move early.
What’s Included in Exploding Topics Pro
Everything market researchers need to stay ahead of the game.
Spot Emerging Markets Early
Search emerging trends across tech, consumer goods, healthcare, finance, and more to identify opportunities months or even years before they appear in traditional industry reports. Pinpoint where demand is building to give your clients the upper hand.
Get Granular with Startup Tracking
Monitor high-growth startups and emerging competitors multiple different factors. Filter by growth rate, funding stage, industry, employee count, and more to identify competitive threats, acquisition targets, or partnership opportunities quickly.
Back Recommendations With Expert-Level Data
Get growth metrics, search volume trends, and channel-level performance data on any topic. Provide data-backed strategic recommendations instead of hunches.
Forecast Market Trajectories With 87% Accuracy
Predict where trends are headed over the next 12 months using machine learning models trained on millions of data points with 87% backtested accuracy. Explore related trends, startups, and products to understand the full ecosystem around any market opportunity.
Exploding Topics Pro is trusted by 1,200+ teams worldwide.
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
Spot Market Shifts Before Your Clients' Competitors Do
With early-stage trend intelligence at your fingertips, you can deliver strategic recommendations that give your clients the advantage.
Market Reports Miss the Window: How to Spot Opportunities Faster
Market researchers have a tough job: clients or in-house teams need forward-looking intelligence, but traditional research methodologies take weeks or months to complete. By the time you've fielded surveys, analyzed data, and delivered insights, the market has already changed.
This creates a credibility problem. When your reports describe a market that clients can see playing out in real-time, you're just providing confirmation rather than a competitive advantage. The biggest wins, though, are predictive—identifying shifts before they become obvious to everyone watching the same industry publications.
The Early Intelligence Advantage
The most valuable market intelligence you can deliver to clients or your team identifies patterns months before they hit mainstream awareness. This timing gap is your strategic advantage. When you can tell clients "this consumer behavior is building momentum" before their competitors notice it, you're delivering genuinely actionable intelligence.
Early-stage trend detection works because it captures signals when competition is still low. Multiple data points—search volume, social conversations, startup activity—confirming the same growth provide the evidence needed to make confident recommendations.
Traditional market reports aggregate data everyone already has access to. Predictive trend intelligence surfaces patterns that won't appear in industry publications for months. That's the difference between reactive reporting and strategic foresight.
How to Build Credibility Through Prediction
The best market research forecasts what's coming rather than describes what's currently happening. When you can show clients emerging opportunities with real growth trajectories, you're positioning yourself as an indispensable strategic advisor.
Exploding Topics Pro tracks 1.1M+ emerging trends across industries, identifying growth patterns months before they become obvious. Filter by timeframe, category, and growth rate to surface opportunities relevant to your clients' markets. Machine learning forecasting projects where trends are headed over the next 12 months with 87% backtested accuracy.
Monitor related trends, startups, and products to understand full market ecosystems. See which platforms are driving conversations—LinkedIn for B2B adoption, TikTok for consumer products, Reddit for community-driven movements—to turn individual data points into comprehensive market intelligence.
Deepen your client relationships (or guide your team to big wins) with recommendations that consistently predict market shifts before they happen.
Get started with Exploding Topics Pro today to deliver intelligence that leads to real growth.
From One-Time Projects to Ongoing Strategic Advisory
Most market research operates on a project basis: a client asks a question, you conduct research, deliver findings, and the engagement ends. This transactional model limits both your value and your revenue. Clients get a snapshot of market conditions on a specific date, but markets don't stand still after you deliver the report.
Three months later, the intelligence you provided—no matter how thorough—is already outdated. Clients need continuous market intelligence to make ongoing strategic decisions, but they can't afford to commission new research projects every few weeks. You want deeper client relationships, but project-based work creates natural endpoints that make retention difficult.
The Strategic Advisory Model
The most successful market researchers transition from delivering reports to providing continuous intelligence. Instead of answering discrete questions, they become the early warning system that helps clients navigate market evolution in real-time.
This shift requires infrastructure that traditional research can't provide. You can't manually monitor hundreds of trends and thousands of competitors continuously—not while serving multiple clients and maintaining research quality.
Building Retainer Relationships Through Ongoing Value
Exploding Topics Pro provides the data for continuous market monitoring without a ton of resource investment. Set up customized trend tracking for each client based on their industries and strategic priorities. Configure alerts to notify you when tracked trends accelerate or new competitors emerge. This will transform you from "researcher we hire when we have questions" to "strategic advisor who keeps us informed."
The Projects feature lets you organize trends by client, creating dedicated intelligence feeds you review during regular check-ins. Instead of starting from scratch each meeting, you're discussing what's changed since your last conversation.
When you provide monthly trend briefings, quarterly competitor reports, and real-time alerts about market shifts, you're delivering recurring value that justifies retainer relationships. Clients pay for ongoing access to your insights, not just one-off deliverables. And the relationships deepen because you're embedded in their strategic planning rather than brought in for occasional questions.
Get started with Exploding Topics Pro today to build strategic advisory relationships that last.